Editing Fiend

'''Fiend''' is a catch-all name used to collectively refer to any and all of the malevolent entities that could hail from a game's equivalent of the [[Lower Planes]]. It is a nondiscriminatory term that encompasses both races such as [[Demon]], [[Devil]] and [[Daemon]] (or other "Evil Outsiders") as a whole, and the myriad sub-varieties of each of those races.

Fiend was popularized as a catch-all thanks to the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] setting of [[Planescape]]; motivated on the meta-level by the dread [[Satanic Panic]], in-universe, it was a polite term that planars came up with in order to avoid attracting angry "corrections" from either [[Demon|Tanar'ri]] or [[Devil|Baatezu]], who both looked similar and absolutely ''despised'' being mistaken for each other, given their races were locked in the [[Blood War]].

The new 5E edition of Spelljammer features a new type of Fiend: SPACE CLOWNS! These reality-warping monsters come from a system known as Clown Space, formed from 3 Ring Worlds (a pun on "3 Ring Circus"). They're a homage to the cult classic 1988 Sci-Fi Horror Comedy Film "Killer Klowns from Outer Space". Much like the murderous clowns in the film, these guys have reality-warping powers based on clown gags.

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