Glasya

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In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Glasya is a Princess of Hell (Baator in later editions of the game), daughter of the Overlord of the Hells himself, Asmodeus, and his queen, Bensozia. She is noted to be one of the most powerful and influential of the female devils.

1 Description
2 History
3 Creative origins
4 References

[edit] Description

Glasya is described as being incredibly beautiful. She has copper-colored skin and dark red or black hair. She appears human except that she has bat-like wings, horns, and a forked tail.

[edit] History

Glasya was the chief consort of Mammon (out of his harem of nine) , an archdevil of avarice who rule the third layer of Hell known as Minauros. After the Reckoning of Hell, Asmodeus ended the relationship between Mammon and his daughter by ordering her to come back to Nessus, where she served her father as mistress of the erinnyes.

As of Fiendish Codex II, Glasya is now the Lord of the Sixth Layer of Hell, having taken that position from Malagard the Hag Countess. Her current plans are mainly to get revenge on Levistus, the ruler of the neighboring Stygia, for having dared to murder Bensozia, her beloved mother. In that order, she's constantly spying on him so that she can get evidence of major trangression of Baator's rules. If she can provide that, Asmodeus will grant her the right (and his benediction) to utterly destroy Levistus.

[edit] Creative origins

Like many of the archfiends in the game, Glasya, at least namewise, has her origins in real world myths. Her name seems to be a derivation of Glasya-Labolas, which is another name for the fiend known as Caarcrinolaas. The fact that she is the Overlord of Hell's daughter is a complete original concept written by Gary Gygax.

Glasya made her first appearance in Dragon #75, in an article that served as a preview of the then upcoming first edition Monster Manual II.

In the second edition of the game, Glasya appeared in the supplement Guide to Hell, written by Chris Pramas. In this sourcebook, she is no longer the consort to Mammon but the leader of the erinyes devils.

Glasya made her 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons debut in the sourcebook Book of Vile Darkness.