Apomps the Three-Sided is the creator of the demodand

Demodand

In the fictional worlds of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, demodands are a race of fiends native to the Tarterian Depths of Carceri. The gehreleths worship or honor a patron deity called Apomps the Three-sided One, a renegade baernaloth who was exiled to Carceri for the act of...

 race, also known as the gehreleths, in the Dungeons & Dragons

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Publication history

Apomps was first mentioned in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994), and was further detailed in the Planes of Conflict

Planes of Conflict

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boxed set (1995). Apomps received further detail in the boxed set Hellbound: The Blood War (1996), and in Faces of Evil: The Fiends (1997).

Description

In his true form, Apomps is said to resemble a grossly disfigured baernaloth, though he is said to be capable of manifesting in the form of either a farastu, kelubar, or shator demodand. He is the one who breathes life into the rotting corpses of Carceri, transforming them into farastu, and who transforms the farastu into more powerful demodands as they are needed. According to rumor, he presents each demodand with an obsidian triangle that acts as a personal link to him and possibly allows the demodands access to the memories of their entire race. Some believe that the triangles are the eyes and ears of Apomps, allowing him to see and hear wherever his creations go.

History

Apomps is thought to have been a baernaloth, one of the primal creators of Evil. While the other baernaloths were deliberating on their chosen race, the yugoloth

Yugoloth

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, yugoloths are neutral evil natives of the lower planes of the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna and the Gray Waste of Hades...

s, Apomps went out and created a race on his own, expending a great deal of his own power to do so: the demodands.

The other baernaloths rejected Apomps's creation, claiming they were impure and tainted with Chaos (an ironic charge, as the yugoloths would later be tainted with Chaos and Law as well, and need to be purged). Apomps and his creations retreated to Carceri

Carceri

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Carceri is a neutral evil-aligned plane of existence...

, where they dwell still.

Or so it is said. An alternate myth claims the yugoloths were already created when Apomps made his demodands, and Apomps's creations were only a failed attempt to mimic them.

Relationships

Apomps seeks vengeance against the baernaloths who rejected him and their yugoloth creations. As a result, the demodands attack yugoloths on sight, and inspire mortal philosophers and poets to preach hatred against the 'loths. Apomps's relationship with Nerull

Nerull

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, as well as in the game's default pantheon of deities, Nerull is the Flan god of death, darkness, murder, and the underworld. He is known as the Reaper, the Foe of All Good, the Hater of Life, and the Bringer of...

, who often summons demodands to do his will, is unknown.