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  Baator (fictional land)
In the Planescape setting, Baator is where people of Lawful Evil alignment are reborn as petitioners after death.
The layers of Baator are configured as a descending cone, with each layer successively lower than the one before it.
Baator seems to be based upon the Hell described in Dante's The Divine Comedy.
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 Baator - TheBestLinks.com - Baator (fictional land), Cone, Cosmology, Dungeons & Dragons, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Baator is also home to the devils, fiendish extra-dimensional creatures of pure Lawful Evil; the most populous variety of devils are the baatezu, a race which effectively rules the plane.
The layers of Baator are configured as a descending cone, with each layer successively lower than the one before it, as opposed to the Upper Planes of good alignment, where one goes higher to enter deeper into the plane.
The topography of Baator is broadly derived from the Hell described in Dante's The Divine Comedy, although the arrangement and names of the layers of Baator differ greatly from the circles of Hell described by Dante.
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 List of Neverwinter Nights characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aribeth de Tylmarande is a fictional character in the BioWare game Neverwinter Nights.
Lady Aribeth appears again as a ghost in the Eighth Hell of Baator, Cania.
Tomi Undergallows is a male halfling rogue from the land of Calimshan.
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 Moloch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Again, you shall say to the Sons of Israel: Whoever he be of the Sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his seed Mo'lech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
In Nethack, the game revolves around the task of recovering the Amulet of Yendor, "the most powerful of the artifacts of the Gods", which was stolen by Moloch and hidden in the dark cavities of Gehennom.
Moloch the Mystic, real name Edward Jacobi, is a fictional character in the 1987 graphic novel Watchmen.
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 Planescape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Planescape is a fictional setting used by the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
It is not a single setting, rather it can encompass most other Dungeons and Dragons worlds, which are linked together by planar gates, also known as portals.
The Outer Planes are basically alignments (ranging from lawful to chaotic, good to evil) personified in the land.
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 Alter Egos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
History: Born in the halfling lands, she was fairly typical of her people, but with a determination to follow her faith.
This led her to a life of adventuring and to meet her travelling partner, Ti, whose own quest was to catalogue all the monsters they met.
She joined the party when she couldn't find anywhere else to sit in the inn, and they were all together when the wererats attacked the festival...
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 Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia - An Interview with Ulrike Ottinger
As relationships develop, we see various cultural confrontations between nomadic and settled cultures, between fiction and documentary, between the period costumes of the Europeans and the lavish traditional dress of the Princess and her retinue.
When you go to Ulan Baator [CORRECT NAME?] for example and you look around the city you see six or eight thousand yurts, the houses made of felt designed for travel.
We had to make the contracts with the Mongolians because it was their land.
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 Wizards Community - Knowledge Skills, Divinations and Progress Levels in D&D
Colonel: Son, that grunt is a force recon commando who could kill you a hundred different ways with his bare hands, the rifle is just his way of being polite.
They research physics how it applies to their trade and the reason why it's not a skill in the PHB is that it would provide a synergy bonus on almost every physical skill in the game.
DandD on the other hand is fictional and based upon an arbitrary set of rules, a set of rules that implicitly states that gunpowder does not function.
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 Beelzebub - All About All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In the manga Sand Land, he appears under the name Beelzeboul and is the son of Satan.
In Dungeons and Dragons, Baalzebul is the lord of the 7th layer of Baator, Maladomini.
In a full-length animated movie under the title Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Girl Revolution Utena or Revolutionary Girl Utena), Adolescence Apocalypse, a phantom character known as Akio is seen as the prince of the world, saving people who need help.
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 Moloch - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Again, you shall say to the Sons of Israel: Whoever he be of the Sons of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives any of his seed lmlk; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his seed lmlk, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
The name also appeared in the Ravnica set as "Torpid Moloch." The Ravnica set takes place within a sprawling city, so perhaps this is a reference to Lang's Metropolis.
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 It’s a Definite Maybe » Rhythmic rhetorics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
There are certain books of a fictional nature which, when read, refuse to relinquish your attention: grimoires, books bound in human flesh or dragon hide or ending in -nomicon.
Every artist hopes and dreams they have something worthy to say, but deep down inside even those who rail the most against complacency, uniformity and "the system" are scared shitless that not only does what they have to say not matter, but that it's both repulsive and trivial.
However, they are classified as a separate minority in the Peoples' Republic of China, partly due to the fact that they have intermingled with the Tibetan and Turkic people.
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 RPGVault - News Archive
Far beyond the realms of the mundane lies a huge, fantastic land where great champions battle awesome monsters and each other for honor and glory, with perhaps a gleaming coin or two in the bargain as well.
Such is the world of Dungeon Siege, the new Fantasy Action RPG that promises to combine in-depth strategy with intense, over-the-top action, all bound together by a solid core of role-playing.
Each update is a historical study of the world of Summoner, authored by a fictional Medevan historian who presents brief excerpts from primary sources as well as some commentary.
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 Vault Network News: Week of September 12, 1999
Of course if I can't land a publisher, I'll probably publish it myself, but I've got to try to get one of the big names to pick it up...
Based on a rules system developed by David, Demise is a 3D single- and multi-player dungeon crawl featuring the ability for players to design their own adventures and to run them with their own computers acting as servers.
The game features a rich science fiction action/role-playing game system, with detailed character generation and growth, inventory and equipping, and several groups of special traits unique to each character.
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 Planewalker.com
One must ask himself what are all these weapons doing on a single, relatively young Prime world, and is there a snowballs chance in Baator that this insane armory of a world could survive past the “relatively young” stage.
This is to say, the primes of this world began turning to insular unbelievers, relying on their “logic” and “rational thought”, and excluding certain aspects of existence as “fictional” and “unrealistic”.
This has not only severely limited their access to the Planes, but also caused the native supernatural beings to emigrate while they still could, the very essence of their being threatened by these new tendencies of (un-)belief.
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 books about: bastard (transmetropolitan bushmasters bosstrology)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This book is a fictional story that brings to life many characters from history who helped to form our destiny long before Charlemagne's reign.
One of the most heartwarming characters is Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer).
Heath Strickland's Bastard of Baator is a twisted mix of R.A. Salvatore and Dan Brown, with just a hint of, let's see, Dave Chappelle thrown in for good measure.
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 The world's top planescape websites
Planescape\ is a fictional campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons; fantasy role-playing game.
Most of the Outer Planes are subdivided into layers, which are essentially sub-planes that represent one particular facet or theme of the plane.
(For example, Baator's geography is reminiscent of Hell as depicted in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.) There are seventeen Outer Planes in total.
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 Baator fictional land - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Baator fictional land - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
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 It’s a Definite Maybe » Voudon iPod zombie lords
Despite the conceit of making the playwright the ostensible main character, the play lacks little in the way of entertainment and even the occasional revelation.
I purchased mainly out of the desire to know what the hell Robert Oppenheimer was talking about.
Some of the best science fiction you have never read is located within these pages.
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 Eastern Europe Travel Stories Archives: BootsnAll Travel Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Tirana is a city full of rubble, but Philip Blazdell also found it full of expectation and hope for the future.
Twenty Dollars Less On the Moldovan-Ukrainian Border11 September 1999 Dear All, After a relaxing day in Moldova, land of good food and wines, I took an overnight train to Kiev, capital of Ukraine.
History, World War II, and the EU seem to conspire to make this strip of land either a future Hong Kong on the Baltic, or an isolated scrapyard.
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 Archive 12-2005 LES DESIRS SOCIALISTES DE JULIEN TOLEDANO
Though the Hebrew Bible is predominantly in Hebrew, it has some small portions in Aramaic.
Rather, Mephistopheles appears in various literary works which tell the tale of the legendary Faustus Faust is the protagonist of a popular tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works.
It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Johann Faust, who summons the Devil, who in the tale is usually called Mephistopheles, and offers to sell him his soul if the Devil will serve him for a given period of time.
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 TGS: Gargoyles / Pendragon -- The Scottish Play
They collided and went sprawling down the edge of the roof, to land in a tangle on one of the false fronts of the building.
Sata was on her feet first, and helped him up; Graeme and Ariana were already scouting the rooftop for some means of egress, but the expressions on their faces told him they were having no luck.
"We could summon an embittered college student, or a demon lord from the ninth pit of Baator." He kicked the chain.
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 Planewalker.com
A Study of the Astral Dreadnaught (Chapter 6) (The Planes)
Consisting of a myriad of stories, theories, and thoughts upon the nature of the ravenous Astral Dreadnaught, Chapter 6 of this volume recounts a small but intriguing (and possibly fictional?) story told by one of the book's primary researchers concerning their possible connection with the fearful Eye Tyrants.
Being a brief description of environmental effects and hazards that may waylay the Traveller in a voyage through the Silver Realm
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 The Codex Forums :: View topic - Feargie talks about WotC morality guidelines in NWN2
Current, real-world religions and religious groups and/or practices will not be portrayed in any way that promotes disrespect for these religions or their participants.
All religions and religious practices in WotC products are purely fictional.
The company does not endorse or promote any specific religion or religious practice.
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 Nessus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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Baator consists of following layers: Avernus Dis Minaurus Phleghetos Stygia Malbolge Maladomini Cania Nessus The layers of Baator are configured as a descending cone, with each layer successively lower than the one before it.
A student who used to fail exams presents a simple 6 step system he used to become an 'A' student.
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