Tanar'ri

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These are demons, the chaotic evil supernatural badguys, in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition.

Y'see, after TSR got their new CEO Lorraine Williams and Gary Gygax left in disgust, the company decided that nutcases like Jack Chick and Patricia Pulling had to be pandered to, so Williams said "no more demons, or any of that junk. Oh, and get rid of orcs as a playable race, because they're ugly. Ewww." It's marketing genius like this that drove TSR into the ground so that some dinky company whose only product was a card game could step in and buy them out.

In 3e Baatezus Tanar'ri are a subtype of devil demon, although in the (legally) publicly available SRD the word BaatezuTanar'ri is nowhere to be seen. And is one of the differences between the content of the real deal and the SRD. Despite the distinction, "Fiendish Codex II - Tyrants Of The Nine Hells" states that Devils call all demons Tanar'ri for convince, which is strange considering that, in the same book it says that in the language of the devils, Infernal, "Only one correct way exists to construct any given statement in Infernal". And that devils, "Except when in disguise, they find the urge to correct errors in spoken or written Infernal nearly impossible to resist."