Nope, none of the Dark Overlords that I have met would do that.

It would be very demon like of Talarius to twist the oaths around to force Tom to help him.

I like that, it would be very corrupting.

I rather doubt that. However, I am sure Lenamare would try, as would Exador both are power hungry ego maniacs.

But I also point out that the Concordenax has been missing longer than Antefalken has been a demon, so he is working on Court mythology and preconceptions.

Baiting?

Nah. I just speak my mind.

Speaking truth to power is what jesters are for!

Well, technically I think Vaselle is a groupy.

There may be some others that were at the battle that we haven't seen yet.

I think you've given me a good idea for a new business for Boggy and I, we are always looking for good businesses to start. We are business partners after all. I just need to find some artistic demons and some painting supplies and really tiny brushes...

Probably need to get imps, most of them are small enough that a trading card would be notepad sized....

Well, Estrebrius was scared of being ripped into by a super powered greater demon.

I know Boggy, I and Antefalken come off as cuddly, huggable and lovable, but many demons aren't as pleasant as we are. Particularly the really powerful ones. Exador is a good example; as for that matter the same is true of Lillith. She can be cranky if you barge in on her.

I think that's what he was expecting/fearing when he met Tom.

They will be doing stuff, Vaselle is going to be critical for helping Tom establish connections and get things up. Remember his specialties are Rune Magic and Conjury, so he's going to be the go to guy for making new magic items. Not only cooling necklaces, but portals and things.

The big problem Tom has at this moment is that he brought most all of his link buddies to the Abyss; and thus he had no easy way to return them to their homeworlds/cities. That will have to change; he will need more independent mechanisms to travel the planes.

Yes they do.

They must of learned some secret. There is discussion of this in Book 3.

There are two things that make this difficult

1) finding the right plane out of a infinite number
2) finding the right place on the right plane, when presumably most planes are close to infinite
3) once you get the right planet (assuming there are planets--not the case in the Abyss) you got to find the right continent, the right spot and make sure it is not occupied.

You note how gods and saints always appear to followers? I think they are following the links to those followers and just somehow creating a portal out of nothingness.

As you will see, there are plenty of work rooms and spaces in Mount Doom.

Orcus did have a good number of D'Orc shamans as well as human (and other) animages, rune mages etc.

T-A-G hasn't said; other than there is a good 3 month lag" between the first draft and publication. This is for beta reading/editing and sending it to the editor.

At the moment T-A-G is writing two related books, The Chronicles of Astlan: Into the Wilds which will join up with DoA in late book III or maybe IV. And DOA:AOD. This is to expand on things happening elsewhere that are related/important, but is split off for more detail and less POV swapping.

AOD is further along word count wise, but CoA:ITA will probably come out first since its (in theory at the moment) about half the size of AOD.

Festivus is the only universal holiday that I can think of.

I personally look forward to the airing of the grievances.

Followers of certain demon lords celebrate special events in their overlords history (conquests etc)

I recently discovered that D'Orcs had been observing "The Day" as a very solemn festival, that was the day of "The Incident"

However, this year it was celebrated as "Oath Day" it may end up being followed by "Victory Day" which is the day after when the KoC and Lilith's army were defeated.

They used to take them very seriously (so to speak--party hard), but I am pretty sure the last 4000 years was a bust on that front.

They lost most of their offworld access overtime. From what I've overheard, they had some shamans that might have been able to go off world for a while but after those guys gave up and died, they were stuck in the abyss.

Now, they could have traded with other groups in the Abyss, they said they did; using the mineral wealth of doom, but not sure what the other groups might have had for booze. Plus, I suspect they were fairly sad parties since they were all suffering from massive depression and despair...so I can only imagine all their parties were pity parties.

That might be interesting, I am pretty sure Antefalken could do some interviews to get stories from the interregnum and, of course, I could tell some stories of the Orcus days...at least those that I remember. After a while, I mainly showed up for the parties, and I don't completely remember many of those...as I said they were very good parties.