Anyone remember "Larva"? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Anyone remember "Larva"? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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ZenZ
05-24-07, 01:50 PM Have the twisted souls, used as food and coin on the evil planes, known as larva returned to D&D 3.0/ 3.5?
Warforged Goblin
05-24-07, 02:09 PM Manual of the Planes and I think the Fiendish Codices
420
05-24-07, 02:38 PM Have the twisted souls, used as food and coin on the evil planes, known as larva returned to D&D 3.0/ 3.5?
In 3rd edition larvae are a special kind of petitioner template for the Gray Wastes of Hades, reserved for "particularly selfish and malicious mortals". Stated in the Manual of the Planes (pgs. 108-109).

-420
Shemeska the Marauder
05-25-07, 12:56 AM 3e MotP only mentions them in connection with the Gray Waste.

However the Fiendish Codex I also has them as the lowest form of petitioner in the Abyss as well (as was the case in previous editions).

The most pitiful souls of chaotic evil mortals come to the Abyss in the form of larvae, sickly yellow Medium worms with distorted human faces.

It goes on to mention how larvae are eaten, or killed, or twisted by the tanar'ri or simply exposure to the Abyss to eventually become least tanar'ri (manes, dretches, rutterkin).

FC:II dances around the subject, and such things as the maggot pit outside of Tiamat's lair and the portal to Dis on Avernus are thinly disguised from their previous version. Prior to FC:II it was full of larvae, FC:II has it full of worms that eat human-like petitioners and make them into lemures). The book doesn't touch upon the trade of larvae from the Waste to Baator as far as I remember. In this case the attempted reinvention doesn't work as much, and FC:I handled the matter better (and with more consistency to prior lore) than FC:II.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
ZenZ 05-24-07, 01:50 PM	Have the twisted souls, used as food and coin on the evil planes, known as larva returned to D&D 3.0/ 3.5?
Warforged Goblin 05-24-07, 02:09 PM	Manual of the Planes and I think the Fiendish Codices
420 05-24-07, 02:38 PM	Have the twisted souls, used as food and coin on the evil planes, known as larva returned to D&D 3.0/ 3.5? In 3rd edition larvae are a special kind of petitioner template for the Gray Wastes of Hades, reserved for "particularly selfish and malicious mortals". Stated in the Manual of the Planes (pgs. 108-109). -420
Shemeska the Marauder 05-25-07, 12:56 AM	3e MotP only mentions them in connection with the Gray Waste. However the Fiendish Codex I also has them as the lowest form of petitioner in the Abyss as well (as was the case in previous editions). The most pitiful souls of chaotic evil mortals come to the Abyss in the form of larvae, sickly yellow Medium worms with distorted human faces. It goes on to mention how larvae are eaten, or killed, or twisted by the tanar'ri or simply exposure to the Abyss to eventually become least tanar'ri (manes, dretches, rutterkin). FC:II dances around the subject, and such things as the maggot pit outside of Tiamat's lair and the portal to Dis on Avernus are thinly disguised from their previous version. Prior to FC:II it was full of larvae, FC:II has it full of worms that eat human-like petitioners and make them into lemures). The book doesn't touch upon the trade of larvae from the Waste to Baator as far as I remember. In this case the attempted reinvention doesn't work as much, and FC:I handled the matter better (and with more consistency to prior lore) than FC:II.