What They Don't Tell You About The Behir - D&D
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In a campaign I ran a while back, the players met a group of exotic dragonslayers one of whom was a Behir named Spaz. He had found a magic ruby necklace when he was young and ate it, which caused the ruby to just stay in his stomach and give him a constant effect of increased intelligence and immunity from natural death (only way to die was through being slain). He didn't know this and such assumed he was immortal and because he was also the smartest Behir in existence, he decided he was a deity whose purpose was to rid the world of all dragons. I RPed him as a cross between a tweaked out drug addict and an overly pompous paladin who thought he was his own deity, and he was a lot of fun!
vidarDJ16starkill That sounds awesome
I appreciate this and will be utilizing this in my own world. XD
This is awesome!
A bit late funny thing is he can become a real god with enough worshipers.
Will you be my DM 😂
me at a party: "i don't even want to behir"
Boo
*Thumbs Up*
Lmao
Take my like and go step on a lego
HAH
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Fun fact: most insects do not have immunity to their own poisons.
@Regular Slime Do it.
And the ones who have, usually only have their stomach imune to the poison, because they eat the poisoned animal. Seriously, snakes can digest their own poison easily, but if they are injected in their veins, they will die. Nature is a bit lame
@@gabrieldossantos1116 That's because snakes have venom, not poison. Poison is dangerous if ingested, venom is not. Venom must be introduced into the bloodstream directly for it to affect the person/creature.
@@mikehanna1981 Yeah so many people think venom and poison are interchangeable but they’re very different.
@@hydraulicwendigo8244 don't forget the third category: toxins
Behir: glutton, in dormant when filled, fat, has a lair that no one should come in, can be bribed with food...
Is this my monster form?
“Behirs never stop growing”
. . .
Imagine if someone used a wish spell to make a Behir immortal, then it wouldn’t stop growing, it would make the deepest part of the Underdark its home, possibly driving a majority of the Underdark inhabitants towards the surface, making this thing a literal “World Serpent”
-Double D
I love it! Then it keeps growing, eventually swallowing the planet, (how do you fight a continent sized behir that comes up from below the ground?) Eventually leading to the end of the multiverse all (maybe) due to a wish spell that used language that wasn't quite precise enough
Whoever casts that spell is the most chaotic evil asshole in history.
Then you guys had better hope your world has a bald superman fellow with a yellow suit, red cape, red gloves, and red boots. I bet he could destroy your "World Serpent" with...
ONE PAAAAAAAANNNCH! 😉
@@KiX-K4T13 Actually Katie, a Titan would have some properties you've mentioned (and hinted at).
He IS the Underdark
i love the behirs new design. it looks so fast and intimidating. like it would be on a perch above a path one second and eating the wizard the next second.
Just so you know the fat thing absorbing poison is 100% possible. Pigs do the same thing.
Pigs are op
Ye, it will not grant general immunity but it massively slows down the rate at which the poison is absorbed, if you don't use a massive overdose they won't get enough at once to have much effect.
Snorlax can do this as well
Do pigs have poison damage resist in their stats?
@@antimatterstudios8395 Depends on the game you're playing. They have poison resistance in their stats in Outside.
I bet the Behir develop their lightning using the difference in charges between the acid in their organs, just like a battery does. If I was a giant trying to emulate dragon abilities, acid poison and frost would be easy; just generate the chemicals (hydrochloric acid, neurotoxin, and niteogen compressed to a liquid state,) in an organ then expel them. Fire would be more difficult, but expelling a gas with a very low flash point under the right pressure and conditions would likely do it.
In the case of lightning though, you need an understanding of potentials and current. Stone giants almost worship the world above, so they would want to do it using the properties of the real world rather than just cheat with magic. By studying the lightning techniques of storm and cloud giants, they'd probably get the idea that charge goes from one thing to the other. Some experimenting with alchemy would reveal materials such as magnets which hold potentials. (remember, they live underground and can ask a storm giant to lightning strike iron, so a magnet would be possible for them to make.)
Then, just like a battery, they find two acids which react at a steady rate and create a current based on the product, and build a creature around it. The battery acid conveniently doubles as stomach acid, so all they need to do is make a creature built to consume large quantities of food and survive with minimal energy expenditure while the energy from digestion resets the acid potentials in its gut. A crocodile and anaconda are perfect for this process, so we combine their traits with a little stone giant psionics and build the organism around our organic battery.
The only thing the creature can't make in-house is the wiring to turn their electrical potential into a discharge, so it eats conductive metals like copper and silver to line its digestive tract with metal filings. Its layered body fat acts as insulation to keep the Behir safe, and when it wants to breathe lightning it triggers electeochemical reactions in its stomach, runs that potential through it's conductor stone (likely some kind of magnet,) and sends the current through the fat-insulated metal filings to discharge from it's mouth.
If the Behir recharges/resets its battery acid through biological energy, it will burn fat to get that energy. This means that if you push a behir to use too much of its fat recharging it's battery stomach, it won't have the necessary insulation and will zap itself when it tries to use its breath weapon. This fat-to-metal current system also explains why the behir is immune to lightning: running a current through the fat will simply direct it into the metal wiring network, and back into the depolarized stomach. The wire goes both ways, and this way recharges the biological battery.
And that's how the stone giants emulated a blue dragon's lightning breath and put it in a creature you can give orders to.
Also, electroshock therapy works in humans because it hard resets your brain and makes it forget the dysfunctional thought patterns. This means that the poor things are chronic amnesiacs. The reason they forget even loving masters after ten years, and why they can't ever learn more advanced speech patterns, is their biology keeps resetting any mind they may have developed. Only basic or fundamental memories and phrases may or may not be remembered, but their instincts to kill dragons and feed will always return. It's only a matter of time before its cursed biology deletes its love for good.
Why is this not more popular?
You say stone giant, the book and block say "Storm".
You see dnd actually has a thing called "magic"
@@user-kx8pu6ys5i Yeah, but just saying that something does what it does "because magic" isn't very interesting.
This analysis is awesome
Interesting fact, Behir's looks to be based on the Beitir from Scottish mythology
from wikipedia: The Scottish Gaelic word beithir has been defined variously as "serpent", "lightning", and "thunderbolt". It is also referred to as beithir-nimh ("venomous serpent") and nathair ("serpent" and "adder"). The word may also mean "wild beast" and may be derived from the Norse for "bear" according to Celtic mythology scholar James MacKillop.
Also I love that you give the artist for 5th edition a shout out
So I could theoretically make a venomous bear snake monster off of the behir template.
@@SolomonCaineReaper that does sound like norse/gaelic myth tbh, so go nuts
I love that my low level party has stumbled across a behir den (in game told them to avoid it by every npc they met as well as having written DONT FIGHT EVERYTHING on a whiteboard behind my head). This video is perfect to help me describe the monster in a way to scare them off
It's oddly hard to make clear that they might kill themselves without saying it to the players out of character. Like, if the city is full of skilled adventurers, but one quest just won't be taken, maybe think twice before taking that quest.
That's why they're seeking it out. The more you tell them that it will slaughter them like sheep, the more they will want to hunt it down and find out.
You should talk about myconids! Not enough content with the cute mushroom people!
Logan's video is good (runesmith)
That's just like your opinion man.
4:30 that thing would definitly be mistaken for a dragon. Maybe not from an outsider's perspective, but if you where a farmer being attacked by one, all you'd see is a scaley maw, a draconian face, and a whole lot of lightning coming at you
I absolutely love your videos! It really helps knowing the history and lore of all these creatures!
I couldn’t agree more!
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Wanna know another scary reptile? Totem barbarian lizard folk who's a vampire. Tanky. Large healing. And is probably grappling the monster
Totem Barbarian Lizardfolk generally are scary. I played one once. Got killed by the party for trying to murder a Red Dragon Wyrmling.
Lizard vs Beihir.
"You thought you would eat me, but I'M GOING TO DRINK YOU!!!"
@@starbomber and eat. Cause why waist a good source of protein?
I was absolutely thinking of dinosaurs when he did the intro...
Broke: Bloodsucking incisors or canines
Woke: Bloodsucking molars
I'm guessing that when they told him to make a new design and tried to describe the horns, someone got something wrong and "backwards curving horns" was interpreted as curving ram horns.
In my last campaign we accidentally walked into a Behir's lair that was meant to be our dead end. We ignored all the warnings and signs the DM gave us. Right off the start of the it knocked out our fighter, luckily for us the DM forgot we found a Scroll of true polymorph 4 weeks earlier. I ended up turning it into a human child with blue hair and we kept him like a mascot/pet for the rest of the campain.
I really like the new design. Now they look like a giant snake/dragon hybrid with a massive snakemaw that looks very able to swallow things even wider than its head. Utterly, bloody, terrifying. The old art is "just" another wingless dragon.
10/10. Pleases the DM's vore fetish... it's bloody scary getting your character swallowed. Always freaks me out. :S
Totally agree! I love that they are taking more creative lengths to differentiate these creatures from the older artwork. It was perfect at the time, but now we like to see everything have it's own personality and not just seem like two other monsters were spliced together haphazardly lol
I like both designs personally. the new one is more unique, but I find wingless dragons scary.
Me too, but there seems less effort put in to keep the lore coherent......still ppl like Mr Rexx fill that void extremely well
I appreciate the amount of detail you go into regarding ecology, loot and its application, and how its anatomy works.
Good timing, i was just brainstorming a man-made dragon-hunting creature for a story arc i had in mind
Question, am i the only one who thinks that the behir is adorable?
At least the 5e version
I don't even want to think in what you find terryfing then
Pepinillo Rick mycanoids, dude. Me no like the fungus who are among us
I mean it's a danger noodle with leggies.
No. I do to, it’s like a snake but with lots of legs.
Behir, aka "the Tobey Kadechi" 🇮🇹
Jokes aside, Behir sound like something dragon hunters would heavily covet, probably with a mutual deal (the Behir will protect a place, and the tamer will protect the Behir during the lethargy moments, probably even getting treated like a local divinity).
As a non-player of DnD, I love your DnD videos! They fill me with such feelings of fantasy that I can't get anywhere else. Keep up the good work!
If you're looking for more topics for videos, can I recommend covering significant locations and the histories of the places?
"You could say that metal is a nutritional requirement for the Behir..."
So... it's a dragon-like creature with an iron deficiency?
EDIT: I said that as a joke, but looking into it, that actually explains the lethargy too, as having an iron deficiency can cause extreme fatigue.
As for the undigested gems, I'm reminded of the movie Flight Of Dragons, and its explanation about how dragons fly. They swallow limestone, which when mixed with the stomach acid, it creates hydrogen that makes them into living blimps.
The reason I'm reminded is that Smergal points out that they have to swallow the limestone in chunks to avoid grinding down their teeth. They swallow gemstones to help grind the rocks up, much like how birds use grit to grind seeds and aid in digestion.
A new video? My excitement is too much to behir! :D
Me: did’t Watch the vídeo yet.
Also me: Best thing I’ve ever seen
Still no "What They Don't Tell You About Humans"? Seriously, it'd be great to see one on vampires and other undead in DND.
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE: *_What They Don't Tell You About MR. RHEXX_* ?
I want to see What They Don't Tell you About DMs too
A creature i knew nothing about... now I absolutely love it! Thank you!
These videos are inspiring me to get back into my dnd writing and homebrew! Keep it up Rex
Our party encountered two behirs on two different occasions. First time we ran. The second time was a grueling battle. The only way I survived was after be healed from unconscious I poloymorphed into a t rex wich leveled the playing field a little.
This is my go-to channel for super interesting D&D content. Your videos, quite often, give me really good ideas for my campaigns! Thank you!
I'd love to see you venture out to other worlds like maybe Eberron or Theros.
Thanks for the really cool and great video, I didn't know about these monsters but they are awesome!
You are definitely my favorite D&D CZcams dude.
Keep up the excellent work and thanks paterons for supporting him!
My dnd barbarian ate the one he killed and got the lighting shits....
Could you do a video on Tritons? I'm playing one right now, and I've found almost no proper lore. I'd love to see your immense research skills applied to that.
John Smith is right, some aquatic lore would be helpful
@@JohnSmith-qq7fm Wow two John Smiths
@@therainbowlyon9980 He is my long lost clone
I don't know for sure but didn't tritons come from another plane/dimension? They were sworn enemies of a bunch of giant behemoths down in the ocean and when a portal opened on the ocean floor and the monsters ran through they said "aight bet, ladies and gentlemen we're going on a road trip" and just hopped through after. Now they're still fighting some big ol spooky deep sea stuff and so if they come up to the surface they're like the meme of the dude not wanting to be at a party. "I'd rather be killing krakens right now. I bet they don't even know the deep sea trenches are dens of horror. Smh they haven't even thanked me" etc etc. I don't remember where I heard this though, so disregard if wrong
Hey MrRhexx,
When you describe the organic circuit the Behir I had a thought about how they are immune to lightening damage. Perhaps this circuit is is not only for generating their electricity, but also acts like a Faraday Cage using their scales. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage#:~:text=A%20Faraday%20cage%20or%20Faraday,a%20mesh%20of%20such%20materials.
I think its quite interesting when you dive into the Biological parts of immunities instead of "Its magic". It really helps them stand out as magnificent animals through evolution rather than the It is because it is stuff in DND.
If the poison is trapped in fat, does a starving Behir risk becoming poisoned?
Proabably, I mean it can happen with us with with fat absorbed toxins so I do not see why not.
Probably depends on how volatile the poison is. If it broke down into harmless compounds while trapped in the fat, it's probably fine.
Every time I watch one of these a brand new adventure for my players is sprouted! Soon I'll have a whole world...soon
I love your videos. Thank you for the hard work you do!!
You know I don’t know why but I want to give these things Chameleon like camouflage
I LOVE YOU MRRHEXX YOUR THE BEST!
Your videos have helped me rethink my world builds and how I DM. Thank you.
Great as always. Good job keep it up, I believe in you.
I feel like the monsters in 5th ed are more organic looking, like they could actually exist.
These creature videos are my absolute favorites in the series of dnd lore videos! Thanks for these lovely gems
i love the idea of a giant caterpillar dragon that gets off from lightning
I see a MrRhexx Video I click like.
Also, some words like Informative, Astounding, Great, Wholesome, and Awesome to appease the Algorithm.
Your content is always informative.
About to introduce Gothyanki into my campaign. Suggestions always welcome :P Love your videos, and always look forward to them. They are the highlight of my week! Anyways keep up the good work, have a good one.
Love your videos! So detailed.
AWESOME vid Rhexx
Hands down my favorite dnd monster. Thanks a ton for this one!
Thanks MrRhexx for another great video xD
I hope you make a video about Liches and others undead someday, but i just love your work
Keep strong man o/
With this video, you've inspired me to create an ancient Behir. I'll power it up a bit. Cover the mountain range in dragon skeletons.
Thank you, Mr. Rhexx
I love how excited Rhexx gets about monsters!
Great video man! Makes me feel like I'm reading the Monster Manual back in 3rd Grade
Wow, You Really do your research, Digging through not just the books but the Dungeon Magazines too!
Thanks for this, Rhexx
Thank you for finally doing this
So now I want to have a blue dragon that keeps a behir and antagonizes/tortures it as a source of entertainment in one of my campaigns.
Do this and subtly let your players know so they can possibly get them to team with the behind against the blue dragon.
One of my favorite monsters love your videos man
loved this video, thank you
Nice work on the video!
Love your videos, wish i could find something like this for pathfinder!
I have some monsters I would like to learn about.
Can you talk about either the Cadaver Collector, Nothic, Oni or Gorgon please, I’ve been wanting to use these for a while and I want to know more about them. Thank you.
Thank you for the great content 🙏
These are one of the first monsters me and my party faced thanks for the awesome video I’ve been dying to know more about them
Also, a Rathalos, because why not?
This is my favorite d&d monster thank you 😁👍
Finally! The Behir is my favorite creature in the MM! Thank you so much!
YES! MY FAVORITE MONSTER!
A group of Kobolds who think that a Behir is a dragon.
Awesome surprise! I love Behirs!
So a defective and twitchy blue dragon with plated scales, no wings, and 8 extra legs for a total of 12. Their bane would be white or silver dragons and cryo / cold / freezing magic.
It's been a long time since I saw one of your videos and I miss watching them
This is a very podcast like vid and I love being able to watch it while I work out þhx for the content
MrRhexx Funny thing,the first illustration of the behir depicted it with ram-like horns...it was the cover of The lost caverns of tosjcanth,which was the very first introduction of this beast....its on the cover.
Mr Rhexx is my favorite lore bard.
To me, Tarrasque and Behir are Kaijus of DnD.
imagine if the lightning bolt charging is visible through its back
*laughs in Gargantua*
Awesome.
One ov the first creatures I ever had to fight, as a "mini boss", protecting a storm giants castle gate.
The folk that we asked about it for info just told us that they had seen a young blue dragon but it had its wings folded down!
Great to see that some things never change :)
We collected lumps ov metals and a few magic items from it after we killed it.
(Learned early on that you always need to check inside large monsters lol)
The external lightning exciting them just makes me think of a Behir sticking a fork in an outlet for giggles and I love this.
The newer version is much more interesting than the typical dragon look
Never heard of behir before, interesting stuff.
Thanks for the content.
I really like these small "Here's what you can do with the body parts after you kill one"-sections you've added tbh.
Behir are one of my favorite creatures in D&D. Just a nice change up from the usual Dragon.
Huh, the behir looks like a flightless version of my first spore creature
21:58 I love the fact is says in the background "Well done if you are reading this" XD.
Also beneath it I think it says "storm helmets" (EDIT: After searching this one up "hilmir" is a name that means "helmsman," meaning king or chief. So in truth it most likely says "storm king" which I find to most likely be true.) and the one to the left, I thought, said "dragon ban giant (jotnar)" but since bani is to unfamiliar to me I searched icelandic and it can translate over to bane, killer, slayer or death, same essentially as old norse. So it might be "dragon slaying giant" or "dragon slays giant." Comment if you have other toughts or a better translation.
God damn I love your channel too much lmao. Hopefully I can help out on patron in the future
As a player who has never reached above level 6 or 7 with any character ever in any campaign, the idea of fighting any of the monsters you cover just blows my mind haha
Never played d and d. Came across two models at a hobby shop. Picked them up to kill some time and paint. Now I’m so hooked on the lore of these two critters I just stumbled across!
YOU JUST SPOILED A QUEST FOR ME is kinda nutty i am proud of you
I like that the valuable parts of the monsters are described. Players usually like to craft their own cool goodies or barter for other items. Cheers!
God I love these vids. Best of its kind.
2:50 They only have this ability so the dragon they're swearing at can understand what they're saying.
I've learned so much about this universe from these videos. Think we could get a video on the greater history of Toril?
I love watching your monster videos such as this one
I bless the day I subbed to this channel
I love your content!!
Thanks for the videos boss. I'm currently working on a campaign which will eventually culminate with Ahriman having backed and manipulated the players through either a gold or silver dragon being his unwitting pawn by assuring over the centuries that they uncover and stop the right evil plots to put the necessary pieces on the board for the Asmodeus' plot. Continuing to cover up what he truly is and keep the Gods distracted while the serpent feeds and heals.
Haven't figured out exactly how but I'm planning on it looking like Asmodeus ( if even the Gods can peel away the lies and manipulations to realize his hand acting in events) instigated a religious war to diminish the gods power by causing them to sacrifice so many followers.
His actual ultimate plan in this scheme is he seeks to discredit the gods and gain more souls for his true purpose of healing when people abandon and condemn their Gods for treating their followers as expendable fodder.
The deep lore you do got me deep plotting brother. Thx again
There are so many dangerous creatures in the world of D&D and so little land, no wonder there are so many clashes.