Mostly I think Bane and Bhaal are gods who's domains make them focused on humanoids, so they'd probably primarily send cultists after an enemy. Bane might have some devils and Bhaal might have some demons. Other than that, can't really think of any specific monsters that they'd have at their beck and call.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Bhaal's most favored minions are doppelgangers, which is a bit frightening to contemplate. But really any CE monster could do the trick, like demons or gnolls.
Bane obviously likes anything LE, like devils or beholders, and has plenty of organized cultists at his beck and call.
Bhaal is a bit of an odd one, historically. In the first Forgotten Realms novel, Darkwalker on Moonshae, he acted through an avatar that was a shapechanging fiendish tyrannosaurus. In the sequels, if only to make things more confusing thematically, Bhaal's favored minions were an owlbear, a displacer beast and a flock of perytons, and instead of assassins and doppelgangers, he had an army of sahuagin, undead and giantkin. So... Bhaal's kinda gone through some changes! For something a little more... Bhaalish, though, consider fiends and assassins. Before the Time of Troubles and his death, Bhaal's divine realm, the Throne of Blood, was in Gehenna - It serves to reason that he'd have Yugoloths in his service, though demons, devils and hags could easily fit the profile. He was the patron of assassins, which could easily be any humanoid race that sparks your fancy. TSR did walk that back a little back in the height of the 'Satanic Panic', mostly by entirely phasing out 'assassins' as a whole. When Bhaal died, so too did almost every assassin in the Realms, with a few authors having their characters spared by suddenly being Fighter/Thieves (Second edition - They got rebranded to Rogues in third!). More recently, though, redcaps, doppelgangers, assassins and fiends all readily fit the profile.
Bane, before he died, was patron of the Zhentarim, who - at their height - commanded (Or at least had agreements and pacts with) beholders and black dragons. Mileage varies there - The Zhentarim have been scaled back a lot over the last few editions. They rather seemed to have an endless supply of wizards on dragonback, darkenbeasts and beholders, if only for there to be fodder for Elminster and the other Chosen of Mystra to annihilate as random encounters. Anything with a tyrannical outlook and the intention of lording itself over others could readily be a servant of Bane.
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Title post. I know Myrkul would send the undead after you, but what about Bane and Bhaal?
Mostly I think Bane and Bhaal are gods who's domains make them focused on humanoids, so they'd probably primarily send cultists after an enemy. Bane might have some devils and Bhaal might have some demons. Other than that, can't really think of any specific monsters that they'd have at their beck and call.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Bhaal's most favored minions are doppelgangers, which is a bit frightening to contemplate. But really any CE monster could do the trick, like demons or gnolls.
Bane obviously likes anything LE, like devils or beholders, and has plenty of organized cultists at his beck and call.
Bhaal is a bit of an odd one, historically. In the first Forgotten Realms novel, Darkwalker on Moonshae, he acted through an avatar that was a shapechanging fiendish tyrannosaurus. In the sequels, if only to make things more confusing thematically, Bhaal's favored minions were an owlbear, a displacer beast and a flock of perytons, and instead of assassins and doppelgangers, he had an army of sahuagin, undead and giantkin. So... Bhaal's kinda gone through some changes!
For something a little more... Bhaalish, though, consider fiends and assassins.
Before the Time of Troubles and his death, Bhaal's divine realm, the Throne of Blood, was in Gehenna - It serves to reason that he'd have Yugoloths in his service, though demons, devils and hags could easily fit the profile.
He was the patron of assassins, which could easily be any humanoid race that sparks your fancy. TSR did walk that back a little back in the height of the 'Satanic Panic', mostly by entirely phasing out 'assassins' as a whole. When Bhaal died, so too did almost every assassin in the Realms, with a few authors having their characters spared by suddenly being Fighter/Thieves (Second edition - They got rebranded to Rogues in third!).
More recently, though, redcaps, doppelgangers, assassins and fiends all readily fit the profile.
Bane, before he died, was patron of the Zhentarim, who - at their height - commanded (Or at least had agreements and pacts with) beholders and black dragons. Mileage varies there - The Zhentarim have been scaled back a lot over the last few editions. They rather seemed to have an endless supply of wizards on dragonback, darkenbeasts and beholders, if only for there to be fodder for Elminster and the other Chosen of Mystra to annihilate as random encounters.
Anything with a tyrannical outlook and the intention of lording itself over others could readily be a servant of Bane.