"Hm.  Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefits Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannous and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us, in the inner circle, in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner circle in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefits Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannous and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us, in the inner circle, in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner circle in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefits Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannous and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner circle in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefits Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannous and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set Him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner circle in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefits Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma Herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannous and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set Him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner circle in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefits Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma Herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannical and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set Him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner circle in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefit Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma Herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannical and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set Him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner circle in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefit Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma Herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannical and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set Him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner ring in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."

"Satisfactory for someone who was never taught.  Beginner's classroom, but a thinking beginner."

"The primary domains of Asmodeus are tyranny, slavery, compacts, and pride.  Tyranny is not just rulership.  Slavery is not just obedience.  Compacts are not just deals.  Pride is not just having a high opinion of yourself."

"For Zon Kuthon, the object of torture is torture.  For Asmodeus, the object of torture is not only the benefit Asmodeus gains when people obey.  The object of torture is that Cheliax be a tyranny, not just a farm from which Asmodeus extracts a maximum yield of wheat.  Tyranny, as Asmodeus sees it, requires tyrants, not just a single decider at the top, but deciders all through the system who enforce obedience with whip and pain.  He is a Lawful Evil god, the tyrants are there to enforce rules and not just to do as they please, they are subject to rules themselves."

"We are taught - we, Asmodeus's own clerics, not the common people - that Asmodeus holds the key of Rovagug's prison, fitting a lock that Abadar made so that Asmodeus alone could open it.  Why Asmodeus?  Because Asmodeus alone can be trusted by Pharasma that, even after He conquers every plane and every part of reality, Asmodeus will never seek to displace Pharasma Herself.  Pharasma is the one who made the rules that send people to the Hell that Asmodeus governs.  Because Pharasma exists, Asmodeus is just enforcing the rules that She made, when He tortures a soul in Hell, He is being Lawful Evil and not just Evil, He is being tyrannical and not just sadistic.  Asmodeus is the one god who cannot exist as Himself without a Pharasma above Him to set Him in place and define the system He enforces, and that was why He alone is entrusted to hold Rovagug's key.  He, too, is only following His orders, each time He receives a new soul into Hell's embrace."

"The language we are speaking is ill-suited to such distinctions, because mortals are ill-suited to understanding them, and you should not read too much into how we mortals flail for one mortal concept or another.  To Asmodeus, to a greater devil, the shape of the meaning is precise.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would rather hold the whip themselves, than be the one whipped.  That does not make them Asmodean, it makes them selfish.  There are many souls in Cheliax who would enjoy holding the whip, because they are sadists, because they delight in causing others pain and crushing them below.  That doesn't make them Asmodeus's rather than Zon-Kuthon's.  But some souls in Cheliax enjoy holding the whip more when they are doing it to enforce the rules, you might even say that they need there to be rules and need there to be some higher tyrant above them so that they are being more than just sadists.  If those souls have enough potential to be worth empowering, Asmodeus chooses them for His own, to be His cleric, and grants to them His domain of tyranny."

"To delight in tyranny is not mandatory to be one of Asmodeus's own.  The devil you met this day may have had no joy in tyranny, for all we know, he was not a devil who had other devils beneath him.  But when he was mortal he must have already delighted in the compacts that Asmodeus delights in, by which the wheels of Law turn to crush one party or another to the contract beneath them.  He was not just Lawful and Evil, but delighted in Law turned to the purposes of Evil.  And because of that, after his death and through his suffering he was elevated and raised to the status of a greater devil, and kept that part of himself which was pleasing to Asmodeus.  As he was one of us in his mortal life, so he is now part of the inner ring in Hell."

"Tyranny, not just rulership.  Slavery, not just obedience.  Compacts, not just deals.  Pride, not just self-value.  Maybe all of those will appeal to you, maybe only one, but you must have great potential for at least one - if I am not entirely mistaken about the meaning of Hell's translated will of Asmodeus, conveyed to you."