I've been trying to put together some information about certain planar topics... many many various planar topics... in an attempt to put together a campaign for the summer. Whether or not I'll succeed in making anything worthwhile is yet to be seen, but I'm hoping to get some info from here without annoying everybody too much (because even I realize that I'm a obsessively annoying lore fiend). I've been going through the 2e books that I own almost religiously, but it seems that Mr. Holmes was right in that after a certain point each new bit of info pushes something else out of the way... or was that Homer Simpson? Anyway, rather than making a new topic every time I get confused, which is bound to happen progressively more often, I decided to just make this one. If anybody is knowledgable and nice enough to clarify my confusion, it would be most greatly appreciated. It might even help others who have similar questions in the future.
Now to my current question... concerning Yugoloths. Shemmy has written loads of stuff about the 'loths (I speak in third person because I haven't seen him on the boards in a long time). I've been reading his first Story Hour (great stuff, by the way) but am nowhere near finishing it. All of his articles in the Chronicles, though, I'm done with. Now, however, I'm confused as to what is really canon and what is Shemmy's campaign. Considering the quality, I'd be happy to think of Shemmy's work as canon, but I'd rather know before I go ripping off other people's campaigns on a whim. My primary concern is the incomplete Tower of Incarnate Pain. I know it's described, to an extent, in Faces of Evil but my version thereof is old and used to the point that the pages do not stay together and not all of them are readable (I'm not responsible, but I got what I could find). So, without further ado-
Who, according to the official 2e lore, is the ruler of the Tower of Incarnate Pain (and has that changed within recent history)?
Also, as a sidenote, is there anybody that could share the picture of the tower, as I only have about half and it seems to have important text.
Thank you for the reply.
In canon, the ruler of the Tower of Incarnate Pain is the altraloth Bubonix (who is also served by the altraloth Cholerix). See 'Pox of the Planes' in Dragon Magazine Annual #2.
A scan of the tower:
I ended up killing Bubonix and Colerix in the backplot of my campaign, and it's likely at some point in the next year or two that I'll write a story detailing some of the particulars of how that happened.