Nybbas

## Subsidiary Words

Casual Gaming, Doxxing, Memes, Novelty T-Shirts

## Band Attunements

Sometimes, instead of giving one highly competent servant, Nybbas will instead give his servitors a throng of less qualified followers. Players and GMs should decide together at character creation which option makes the most sense.

### Habbalah

Social Media *is* Media, and Nybbas has most definitely taken note. While all manner of demons have made use of the new technology, it has become the new semi-permanent home of his habbalot. Some are still sticking with “psychic friends networks,” but hordes of like minded web-users provide much more cover for the types of emotional waves that Punishers tend to make.

### Rapha (restricted)

Raphaim of Nybbas are voracious consumers of media. Their servants tend to be authors, reporters, comedians, or anyone else who can be expected to churn out large swaths of curated or original content in a very short amount of time.

### Tannean

Tanneanim of Media can add Ethereal Forces to their Precision at each locus within themselves, when operating Media-related equipment.

### Malak

The demon prince of the Media would treat any malak as a celebrity whistle-blower. The angel would be bound by oath to produce a tell-all expose and/or to go on a series of infernal talk shows. As with all of Nybbas’s servitors, the malak would gain a group of sycophantic followers. Most likely literary agents, hacktivists, and religious dissidents.

## Distinctions

### Nabob

Recently Nybbas has been forced to come up with a term for those Media demons who have amassed enough influence that they cannot be cut entirely out of his plans, but whom are not part of the in crowd. These nattering nabobs have been around long enough that they can hold courts of their own, but they are unlikely to ever regain the status of moguls.

Curiously, the servitors of other princes, are far more likely to treat the Nabobs of News, Television, and Radio with respect than they are the higher-ranking moguls of the Media. Basically nabobs are moguls who are in disfavor. Demons in Perdition just see their prince’s disfavor, but everyone else sees a demon who *doesn’t need* Nybbas’ favor to be a powerful figure in the Media.

### Mogul

Nybbas has forsaken the antiquated system of dukes, counts, and marquises in favor of a single greater distinction of mogul. In theory this means they’re all equal and shouldn’t need to jockey for position. In practice it means that they have no indicator of which are most powerful and most favored, so *all* of them are jockeying for positions as the Media’s influencers.

There are two notable exceptions to Nybbas’s ban on nobility: The Dukes of Earl and Hazard. They are the Media’s designated representatives when a member of the peerage is required. They hold the titles but have very little real authority.

#### The Board Room

Nybbas is obsessed with the “now.” His board room is exclusively populated by the demons most closely associated with the current “in” media. If anyone could be considered his “real” dukes, it’s his board. Some moguls who have recently been seen around the board room include:

* The Mogul of Streaming (a shedu)
* The Binge-Watching Mogul (a shedu)
* The Social Media Mogul (a habbalah)
* The Mogul of Live Broadcasting (a balseraph)
* The Mogul of Narrative (a balseraph)
* The Headline Mogul (a balseraph)
* The Mogul of Information Silos (a habbalah)
* The Mogul of the Alt Right (a calab)
* The Post Truth Mogul (a balseraph)
* The Celebrity Mogul (a lilu)
* The Mogul of Spectacles (a djinni)
* The Mogul of Ratings (an impudite)

## Servitors

### Undistincted

#### 8 Forces

* Sitotisk, djinni demon of Novelty T-Shirts

### Unknown Rank

* , djinn demon of Casual Gaming (and possible double agent of Asmodeus)
* Hachamel, habbalah demon of Doxxing
* , djinn demon of Memes
* , lilu demon of Clickbait

## Nybbas Strikes Back

Nybbas, Prince of the Media, was not in a happy mood.

"Those backstabbing bastards! How dare they walk out on us like that. We had a contract! No one, and I mean no one, walks out on Hell like that and gets away with it. It's time we remind these dreamshades who the bosses are around here."

"What are we going to do, boss?"

"We're going to play hardball, that's what. First thing we'll do is cancel *Lord of the Rings*. I don't care how many strings we have to pull, that picture ain't coming to a theater near you. That ought to show those elves the power of the Media. Next, I want a new movie about Camelot made. One that'll drag those chivalrous bastards through the mud. We'll promote it as a gritty, more realistic portrayal of Arthurian legend, that goes for historical authenticity. The critics will eat it up."

"What about Auberon and his crew, boss?"

"That's easy. We've already got that horror picture *Faeries* in the works, for our Unseelie pals. We'll just up the promotion budget and guarantee the sequels. And we'll make another sequel to *Leprechaun* while we're at it. Straight-to-video, of course."

"Of course, boss."

"Good. And let's be proactive as well. I want our people to lean on the August Prosperity Collective, just in case they're getting any ideas. Put the word out that unless they stay on our side, all that juicy anime Essence just might suddenly dry up. That ought to keep them in line. And drop the hint there might be bonuses for any of them who stops another from bolting. Just to give them an incentive."

"Gotcha, boss."

"I'll show those ethereals you don't cross the Prince of the Media. When I'm through with them, they'll never work in this Symphony again!"