According to the Forgotten Realms wiki, they are fine with using seduction for gaining souls, yet are essentially the judges of hell who make sure that infernal contracts are upheld, which confuses me because y'know, seducing people for souls isn't the most lawful thing ever like they are supposed to be. I know that they of course would (probably anyways since they don't really want to obtain promotions) want to gain souls, but it still doesn't make sense to me. I also find it slightly annoying since we have like, at least more than 10 different seductress enemies in D&D.
They started as a 1st edition 70s monster, sort of a mix of succubus, angel, and valkyries. The name was barrowed from Greek Mythology, and they use some of their mythology to design them.
From Wikipedia's entry on the Furies/Erinyes
also known as the Furies, and the Eumenides, were female chthonic deities of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath".[3] Walter Burkert suggests that they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath".[4] They correspond to the Dirae in Roman mythology.[5] The Roman writer Maurus Servius Honoratus wrote (ca. 400 AD) that they are called "Eumenides" in hell, "Furiae" on Earth, and "Dirae" in heaven.
According to the Forgotten Realms wiki, they are fine with using seduction for gaining souls, yet are essentially the judges of hell who make sure that infernal contracts are upheld, which confuses me because y'know, seducing people for souls isn't the most lawful thing ever like they are supposed to be. I know that they of course would (probably anyways since they don't really want to obtain promotions) want to gain souls, but it still doesn't make sense to me. I also find it slightly annoying since we have like, at least more than 10 different seductress enemies in D&D.
They started as a 1st edition 70s monster, sort of a mix of succubus, angel, and valkyries. The name was barrowed from Greek Mythology, and they use some of their mythology to design them.