The Grimoire of Armadel is supposedly translated from the original French and Latin of a manuscript in the Biblotheque l'Arsenal in Paris. This Christian grimoire contains many of the important seals and sigils of the various demons and planetary spirits.
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Mundus had Mulciber craft the Seven Gates of Hell across the seven continents of the world. The gates in question would act as conduits for the dimensional energy that would run amok through the main plane of reality, which in turn would allow the demons of Hell safe passage through the gates and unto the Earth. Furthermore, each of the princes would be positioned over their respective gates and given that they were across the seven points of the world would offer them more freedom to exert their influence across the planet. Because of the darkness they spread all manner of fiends, creatures of the night, and other abominations emerged from the darkest corners. Kingdoms fell into ruin, religious folk forsook their faith, alchemists went mad and so forth. They garnered the servitude of several humans who would plead to be in their employ, becoming Shaliahs. That particular era was dubbed by authors and scholars as the Dark Age.
5e4e3e2e1eVarious depictions of Orcus.Orcus(Demon lord)Basic information[9][10]Title(s)Lord of the Undead Prince of the Undead[1] Prince of Undeath Blood Lord Lord of Specters Master of Vampires The Shadow That Was[2]The Goat-Horned Demon[3]Aspects/AliasesTenebrous[4][5]HomeThanatos[6][7][8][note 1]GenderMasculine5e4e3e1e5th Edition Statistics[10][11]Power LevelDemon lordAlignmentChaotic evilChallenge rating26Home PlaneAbyssRealmThanatos4th Edition Statistics[12][13][14]AlignmentChaotic evilRealmThanatos3rd Edition Statistics[15][16]Power LevelDemon lordAlignmentChaotic evilChallenge rating28SymbolA black, skull-topped maceHome PlaneAbyssRealmThanatosDomainsChaos, Death, Demonic, EvilFavored weaponMorningstar1st Edition Statistics[19][20]Power LevelDemon lordAlignmentChaotic evilSymbolA horned goat's head[17][18]Orcus, also known as Tenebrous[2][6][22] was a demon prince and purported primordial[23] that served as master of the undead from the depths of the Abyss.[10][24] Returned from undeath but not technically alive, the Demon Lord of Undeath was the multiverse's staunchest advocate for stagnation, seeking to exterminate all life, to darken and desolate all worlds, until all that remained in his static reality were undead moved only by his will.[10][16][11][25] The Blood Lord[10] was believed to be one of the mightiest demon lords, one that inspired dread in the hearts of gods.[13] The Shadow That Was[26] was among the powers of the Abyss most often worshiped as deity by the mortals of the Prime Material plane, and even more than the Prince of Demons himself, was close to obtaining true divinity.[16][27]
Orcus did grant limited powers to the meager mortals that slew others in his name, transforming them into mindless zombies or ghouls.[10] He was said to have made a unique form of undead from among the members of a single guild of assassins.[33] Orcus would also bless some demons with transformation into undeath,[11] the most revered example of which involved the creation of a devourer.[34]
Like many of the most powerful demon lords who struggled for power in the Abyss, Orcus started his existence as a mortal on the Prime Plane. He was apparently a wicked spellcaster of some sort, most probably a priest to some dark deity. After his death, his soul journeyed to Pazunia[22] in the Abyss and Orcus began his afterlife as a lowly larva.Orcus proceeded to climb through the demonic ranks over the next several thousand years, going from larva to mane, from mane to dretch, from dretch to rutterkin, from rutterkin to vrock, from vrock to glabrezu, from glabrezu to nalfeshnee, and eventually in the form of a balor.[29]
By this time in his existence, Orcus achieved some form of actual divinity.[22] He also however had grown indolent and no longer concerned himself with the eternal conflict between himself, Demogorgon and Graz'zt.[16][26] His realm became a hushed desolation of idle undeath, considered a humorous oddity among planewalkers of the multiverse. Orcus' sloth and carelessness made him vulnerable within his Abyssal palace, and he was slain by the drow demi-goddess Kiaransalee.[35][108][109] She then took over rulership of Orcus' realm of Thanatos in the Abyss and reshaped it in her own image. Despite its apparent recent destruction,[42][43] Kiaransalee decreed that the Wand of Orcus be hidden away in Pandemonium and Orcus' name be erased from all recorded existence.[6][35]
At some point after his restoration as a demon lord, Orcus orchestrated a complicated plot to steal power from the Heart of the Abyss and used it to attack the Raven Queen at her palace in the Shadowfell.[116] He was thwarted once again by a band of intrepid adventurers, and unsuccessful in claiming the goddess' divinity.[107] 2ff7e9595c
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