From the man Ed Greenwood himself. Appropriate insults for the devil you know:
1) If a devil is speaking they might say (in Common), “May your fire be ice” (which is mild) or might make it sting more by adding “and your name forgotten!”
2) More fiery, personal insults include: “Bindworthy!” (meaning: you are weak or wrong or stupid or rash enough to be easily bound by a mortal, and fittingly bound)
3) “Sleer!” (in Infernal) a word that translates roughly as “go f%$# yourself” but with the added connotation that you should also hurt yourself doing so.
If you have any funny ones of your own by all means post below,
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So one time during an adventure our party came across some abishai (devils directly associated with Tiamat) who were arguing with some typical devils. One of our party was a Profane Soul blood hunter who made their pact with a demon, and so he asked his patron for an insult we could toss into the mix. The patron replied, I used Minor Illusion to toss it into the conversation, and the resulting fight got the fiends to kill off half their number before we swept the rest. We later learned that the insult meant dragon’s ahem toy.
Funny, not so much, but I did once have a character who arranged to trap a devil into a kanly challenge which it couldn't accept or refuse... Playing on their lawfulness strikes me a good way to goad them...
var. "We're going to renegotiate with someone else."
"We would like the contract hand-written by you and signed in triplicate using the Material Plane language Common, fully reviewed by no less than nine clerics of Lawful Good Alignment who suffer no madness effects before, during, or after reading the contract, all notarized on the Material Plane by a native of the Material Plane, and the contract kept in a locked safe in an unlit basement of Quillworth's town hall behind a door with a sign that says, 'Beware the tiger.'"
(Writing an Infernal-language contract in Common will take a one-page contract and turn it into 200+ pages, single-sided, double-spaced. Infernal is a very precise language such that a single Infernal word can convey several paragraphs of information. Devils have to be precise when dealing with each other. Their language reflects that.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
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From the man Ed Greenwood himself. Appropriate insults for the devil you know:
1) If a devil is speaking they might say (in Common), “May your fire be ice” (which is mild) or might make it sting more by adding “and your name forgotten!”
2) More fiery, personal insults include: “Bindworthy!” (meaning: you are weak or wrong or stupid or rash enough to be easily bound by a mortal, and fittingly bound)
3) “Sleer!” (in Infernal) a word that translates roughly as “go f%$# yourself” but with the added connotation that you should also hurt yourself doing so.
If you have any funny ones of your own by all means post below,
Check out my Disabled & Dragons Youtube Channel for 5e Monster and Player Tactics. Helping the Disabled Community and Players and DM’s (both new and experienced) get into D&D. Plus there is a talking Dragon named Quill.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPPmyTI0tZ6nM-bzY0IG3ww
So one time during an adventure our party came across some abishai (devils directly associated with Tiamat) who were arguing with some typical devils. One of our party was a Profane Soul blood hunter who made their pact with a demon, and so he asked his patron for an insult we could toss into the mix. The patron replied, I used Minor Illusion to toss it into the conversation, and the resulting fight got the fiends to kill off half their number before we swept the rest. We later learned that the insult meant dragon’s ahem toy.
Funny, not so much, but I did once have a character who arranged to trap a devil into a kanly challenge which it couldn't accept or refuse... Playing on their lawfulness strikes me a good way to goad them...
"No deal."
var. "We're going to renegotiate with someone else."
"We would like the contract hand-written by you and signed in triplicate using the Material Plane language Common, fully reviewed by no less than nine clerics of Lawful Good Alignment who suffer no madness effects before, during, or after reading the contract, all notarized on the Material Plane by a native of the Material Plane, and the contract kept in a locked safe in an unlit basement of Quillworth's town hall behind a door with a sign that says, 'Beware the tiger.'"
(Writing an Infernal-language contract in Common will take a one-page contract and turn it into 200+ pages, single-sided, double-spaced. Infernal is a very precise language such that a single Infernal word can convey several paragraphs of information. Devils have to be precise when dealing with each other. Their language reflects that.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.