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Archfiend
Juiblex
Juiblex, the Faceless Lord, as depicted in Fiendish Codex I (2006).
Title: The Faceless Lord, The Scum God, He Who Slithers, the Unnameable One, the Glistener, Indescribable Darkness, Slick of Foulest Humors, Master of Nothing, Lord of Nothing, the Formless One
Alias(es): Szhublox
Home plane: Abyss
Power level: Demon lord
Gender: Male
Alignment: Chaotic evil
Portfolio: Slimes, Oozes
Superior: None

Juiblex is the demon lord of Slimes and Oozes.

Description

Juiblex does not have a physical form as we know it; those who have visited his dark, muddy realm claim he is a slime-like creature with glaring red eyes dotted all over his body. Juiblex supposedly can swallow creatures alive, spits acidic secretions, and causes diseases in his victims which can be almost instantly fatal.

Relationships

Juiblex is almost universally considered to be one of the lesser demon lords, although some texts hint that his lack of status is by his own choice, and that his vast, amorphous mind holds secrets of the Abyss known to no other, like the true names of all the obyrith lords. Most other demon lords do not take him seriously, according him insulting titles like "Master of Nothing." He hates most everything else, preferring the company of his shapeless minions: slimes, oozes, jellies and puddings. He shares one of his Abyssal layers, Shedaklah, with the Lady of Fungi Zuggtmoy; the demoness rules the surface, whereas Juiblex is confined to below ground. His other layer, Molor, belongs to him alone.

In the past, Juiblex has occasionally allied with the similarly amorphous demon lord Turaglas, though Turaglas has been imprisoned for centuries now. Bwimb II, the daughter of the fallen archomental Bwimb, has been seeking an alliance with Juiblex.

Minions

  • Darkness Given Hunger—A unique colossal black pudding/hezrou fusion. This creature is reputedly the only creature who serves under Lord Juiblex out of desire.

Realm

Juiblex's lair is on Shedaklah, the 222nd layer of the Abyss, which he shares with Zuggtmoy, the Demoness Lady of Fungi. He also controls a layer known as Molor, the Stinking Realm, a land of oozes and slime connected to Shedaklah through many portals, most of them in Juiblex's portion.

Dogma

Worshippers

Juiblex is also worshipped by a few renegade drow as the god of molds and slimes. The aboleths believe Juiblex maintains the integrity of their skins. Most of Juiblex's humanoid cultists are afflicted by disease and madness. Juiblex's avatar only appears to priests using a gate spell. Juiblex does not use omens or send aspects of himself; rather, he will temporarily possess a slime or ooze to communicate his will.

The Fleshless Brethren were a group of vile worshippers of Juiblex who successfully murdered half of the legendary Six from Shadow.

History

There are actually some specific quotes by James Jacobs on Juiblex's origins.

Dragon #359: "The tanar'ri came to be only once the first evil mortal soul entered the Abyss—the interaction spontaneously resulting in the first tanar'ri, Demogorgon. More followed, and as the process soon became commonplace on the Abyss, the tanar'ri shape grew more and more stable. Many of the earliest tanar'ri, like Demogorgon, Juiblex, the alkiliths, and the myrmyxicus had few, if any, humanoid aspects. The raw chaos of the Abyss left them primeval and monstrous. "

Dragon #357: "Succubi formed from mortal lust. Glabrezu from mortal envy. Alkiliths from sloth." Demogorgon, incidentally, formed "from the primal fears of mortal souls."

Since Juiblex is very close to the alkiliths in form, perhaps he formed from sloth, as well. Although shapeless, shadowy Lupercio, said to be a son of Pale Night, is the Baron of Sloth.

And alkiliths don't really seem very slothful from their PSMCII description: "They exist to corrupt all they touch, extending the reach of the Abyss by despoiling anything that comes into contact with it. The alkiliths seek to pollute the world beyond the Abyss physically and morally... the alkiliths work to bring the Abyss itself to any world unfortunate enough to be in reach." Although Juiblex's secondary realm of Molor (described in The Plane Below) is very much a realm of filth, degradation, and apathy. Near the Maw of Eternity, the demons can scarcely be bothered to attack anyone.

Dungeon #188 gives a very different origin for Juiblex. When the Abyss was first created, according to this source, Juiblex was the infection in the stuff of primal Chaos, the pus and disease festering in the wound left by the shard of pure evil that the obyriths brought over from their dying universe. Knowledge of evil and chaos flooded into the amorphous being's mind from the moment of its creation, and rather than take part in the war between the obyriths and Tharizdun over the evil shard, it flowed deeper and deeper into the Abyss, spawning horrors wherever it went.

The Plane Below suggests Juiblex may have entered the Abyss from the Maw of Eternity in his layer of Molor, arriving from somewhere "outside" the known planes of existence.

When Zuggtmoy was imprisoned in the Temple of Elemental Evil, Juiblex took advantage of the situation and went on to conquer all of Shedaklah's underground holdings, and parts of the surface as well.

Publishing history

Juiblex first appeared in the first edition Monster Manual (1977). In first edition, Juiblex rules his own layer of the Abyss, the 528th layer, which is an infinite sea of slimes and oozes feeding off each other's putrid forms. Juiblex's palace, in the adventure Throne of Bloodstone, is said to resemble the biggest pile of garbage in the multiverse.

Juiblex was the chief antagonist of the adventure "Fluffy Goes Down the Drain" in Castle Greyhawk, appearing in the sewer beneath the parody version of Greyhawk Castle with a lost puppy.

In Gary Gygax's Gord novels by New Infinities, Juiblex (alternately called Szhublox in those works) is said to be a kinsdemon and ally of Zuggtmoy. This relationship set by Gygax was carried on to the game's second edition, especially in the Planescape setting, where the two demon lords now share the layer of Shedaklah. In third edition, this relationship became antagonistic.

Juiblex in other media

Juiblex is mentioned in Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God.

Juiblex also appears as a monster in the roguelike computer game NetHack.

Bibliography

  • Cook, Monte, and William W. Connors. The Inner Planes. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
  • Pentney, Campbell. "Caverns of the Ooze Lord." Dungeon #132. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2006.
  • Stark, Ed, Chris Thomasson, Ari Marmell, Rhiannon Louve, and Gary Astleford. Complete Champion. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2007.

    Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index

The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.

Topic Type Description Product Page/Card/Image

Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Book of Vile Darkness, D&D 3.0 134-136
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Deities & Demigods (1st & 2nd printing), AD&D 1e 104
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Deities & Demigods (3rd+ printing), AD&D 1e 90
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Dungeon Masters Guide 1st Edition 164, 197
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, DMGR4 - Monster Mythology 3, 60, 67
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Defenders of the Faith, D&D 3.0e 96
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Dragon magazine #270 68
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Dragon magazine #336 82
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Dragon magazine #AN4 70
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Fiend Folio, D&D 3.0 47
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Legends & Lore, AD&D 1e 90
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Monster Manual 1, AD&D 1e 17
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Monster Manual 1, D&D 5e 52, 240
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Monster Manual 2, AD&D 1e
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Manual of the Planes, AD&D 1e 65, 102
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, On Hallowed Ground 49, 50, 176, 191
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, OP1 Tales of the Outer Planes, AD&D 1e 68
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting, Pathfinder 1e 175
Juiblex {Jubilex} Deity The Faceless Lord (Demon Prince), Worshipped by: Aboleth, Native of: Abyss, Polyhedron magazine #043 27, 30
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