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  Fiendish Codex II Excerpts
Dispater, ruler of both the city and the layer, is famous as the most cautious and calculating of the archdukes.
Dispater's overriding goal, as always, is to protect the realm he already commands.
Dispater is reinforcing old territories that reliably send him souls with minimal effort and rewarding the devils that find ways to increase their yields.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20061207a   (2786 words)

  
  Planescape - Planewalking - Dispater
Dispater is the Iron Duke - the lord of the Iron City of Dis.
Dispater is always dressed in regal finery and carries his rod as a badge of office as well as a terrible, macelike weapon.
Dispater is immune to fire and poison, and he has acid resistance 20 and cold resisttance 20.
planewalking.dungeons.ru /denizens/lords_of_nine/dispater.htm   (1640 words)

  
 The Tree of Life--Support For The Book of the Righteous
Some say that one of Dispater’s legs is actually the cloven hoof of a goat, but he is usually shown in robes; his worshippers do not tend to dwell on the veracity of this claim.
Dispater is shown in most icons holding a staff of power in one hand anda massive blood-red tome in the other.
The typical worshippers of Dispater, therefore, are the disenfranchised and bookish members of scholarly society: Those who feel that their brilliant ideas have never been taken seriously; others who feel that they have been passed over because they are clever but lack brute strength.
www.greenronin.com /tree_of_life/index.php?x=churches_lordsofhell.htm   (3589 words)

  
 The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts
In some cases Dispater may have outgrown the serpent symbolism, the serpent being regarded locally as his foe; this assumes that the god with the club is the same as the god with the hammer.
Dispater was a god of growth and fertility, and besides being lord of the underworld of the dead, not necessarily a dark region or the abode of “dark” gods as is so often assumed by writers on Celtic religion, he was ancestor of the living.
Aeracura is also associated with Dispater in several inscriptions.[109] It is not yet certain that she is a Celtic goddess, but her presence with this evidently Celtic god is almost sufficient proof of the fact.
www.worldspirituality.org /gods-of-gaul.html   (6768 words)

  
 Dis Pater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dis Pater, or Dispater, was a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter.
Originally a chthonic god of riches, fertile agricultural land, and underground mineral wealth, he was later commonly equated with the Roman deities Pluto and Orcus, becoming an underworld deity.
In the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, Dispater is the name of ruler of the city Dis on the plane of Baator (the Nine Hells).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dispater   (733 words)

  
 Dispater (Arch-Devil)
Dispater is the ruler of Dis, Hell’s second plane.
   Dispater is evilly handsome, appearing as a 7-foot tall humanoid with baldhead and goatee; only his small horns, tail, and cloven left hoof betray his true identity.
Dispater attacks using his staff, spells and spell-like abilities in combat.
www.enworld.org /cc/converted/outsider/devil/dispater.htm   (504 words)

  
 Kindred - Pilgrims' Progress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dispater claims mortal descent from an ancient Etruscan family once charged with the custodianship of the rites of Magna Saturnalia.
His theology veers unfortunately close to heresy in his reverence for the Holy Mother, and it may be out of some perverse paternal sentiment grown in this tainted soil that he chose to Embrace Guillam as a (distantly) kindred soul.
Dispater may have been the originator of the plot to kill Archbishop-elect Aelfrige in AD959, and is probably most aware that his actions are part of some larger design.
www.goldweb.com.au /~fred/pilgrim/kindred.html   (805 words)

  
 Devils
Dispater is the ruler of Dis, the second layer of the Nine Hells of Baator.
Dispater's domain is populated by Barbazu, Hamatula, Abishai, and Erinyes.
Titivilus is the messenger for Dispater and is nearly legendary in Hell for his talent at negotiation.
hometown.aol.com /amaruakspawn/devils.html   (3828 words)

  
 Prestige Classes - Disciple of Dispater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The disciple of Dispater is a warlike general of evil.
Disciples of Dispater verge on paranoia and are thus distrustful of everyone.
Special: Dispater's sect initiates new disciples in a terrible ritual that involves the sacrifice of an intelligent being atop an altar made of iron.
realmshelps.dandello.net /cgi-bin/prestige2.pl?Disciple_of_Dispater   (236 words)

  
 Dispater - Wikihack - a Wikia wiki
Dispater, and, is one of the demon princes.
A spellcasting monster may summon him in the Gehennom with the summon nasties spell, or a lawful demon (usually a prince; Asmodeus, Baalzebub, or Geryon) can gate him in.
Dispater has a lot of hit points, great magic resistance, and powerful spell attacks.
nethack.wikia.com /wiki/Dispater   (105 words)

  
 MacCulloch's Religion of the Ancient Celts: Gods of Gaul and the Continent
But though this Celtic Dispater was a god of the dead who lived on in the under-world, he was not necessarily a destructive god.
She may have survived as a goddess Berecynthia; worshipped at Autun, where her image was borne through the fields to promote fertility, or as the goddesses equated with Demeter and Kore, worshipped by women on an island near Britain.
She may therefore be the goddess with the cornucopia, on monuments of the horned god, or Aeracura, consort of Dispater, or a goddess on a monument at Epinal holding a basket of fruit and a cornucopia, and accompanied by a ram's-headed serpent.
www.celtic-twilight.com /otherworld/druidism/macculloch/godsofgaul.htm   (7810 words)

  
 Adventure: Printer Friendly
The temple of Dispater in the region was built several years ago by the effort of a thousand slaves and devils, aided by trolls and ogres in the employ of the cult of Dispater.
The temple was financed by one of Dispater's illigetimate sons, a cambion by the name of Bez'Raal, as a monument to his father's glory.
Despoiling Dispater's altar is a simple task - the sprinkling of holy water on it's surface prevents it's use for 1-4 weeks, and striking it with any magical bludgeon will shatter it in two (the percent chance of doing so is equal to the weapon's plus, times ten).
www.rpgarchive.com /adv1.php?advid=115   (5113 words)

  
 Lower World - Mediwikiknightipedia, the free Medieval Knights! encyclopedia
Dispater, an earth elemental (as if it weren't obvious), kept things about the same.
Lucifer Dispater got the burials and Lucifer Polydegmon laughed hysterically at his brothers, because airplanes had yet to be invented.
Polydegmon made a deal with Dispater and became master of efficient storage, building giant columns (so large that they met at the ends) of coffin-sized cabinets in which to store the humans.
s91291220.onlinehome.us /knights/wiki/lwrwrld.htm   (1131 words)

  
 The Religion of the Ancient Celts: Chapter III. The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts
He is thus a Celtic Dispater, an underworld god, possibly at one time an Earth-god and certainly a god of fertility, and ancestor of the Celtic folk.
But if the god is a Dispater, and the ancestral god of the Celts, it is natural, as M. Mowat points out, to represent him in the typical attitude of the Gauls when sitting, since they did not use seats.
Such cults of a Mother-goddess lie behind many religious, but gradually her place was taken by an Earth-god, the Celtic Dispater or Dagda, whose consort the goddess became.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/rac/rac06.htm   (7800 words)

  
 The Pagan Files: THE CELTIC THUNDER GOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In considering the role of Taranis that such comparisons might bring to mind, it should be noted that Miranda Green has talked (2) of Taranis as a Celtic elemental entity before the Roman era and the comparison with Jupiter being made because of the thunder/lightning connection.
Though the comparison with Dispater may have meant that Taranis was viewed as having underworld (god of the dead) connections.
Although the commentaries are talking of the types of sacrifice given to each of these 'major' Gaulish gods, it is still a correlation between the Celtic thunder god and the Norse/Germanic thunder god Thor/Thunor/Donar in that the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries have 'cremation' pots with the swastika on them indicating a dedication to Thunor.
alkman1.blogspot.com /2006/09/celtic-thunder-god.html   (1123 words)

  
 Dispater Made Her Do It.
He is a vassal of Asmodeus and a sworn enemy of Orcus, lord of the undead.
I just went about chasing Dispater in order to be sure I understood this.
I wonder if your Dispater would be quite so kind in his evaluation if he weren't penned by a human.
p081.ezboard.com /fcapriolefrm53.showMessage?topicID=118.topic   (1038 words)

  
 Mistress C - Dex Wiki
The next layer is the burning iron city of Dis, which is ruled by Dispater, the goat-footed lord who rarely leaves his Iron Citadel.
Third is the dire and polluted swamp of Minauros, which is ruled by the serpent-bodied Mammon, who few archdevils would ever trust after a previous betrayal.
Dispater never takes risks and thus rarely ever leaves his Iron Tower, and then, only to the call of Asmodeus.
www.dungeoneternal.com /wiki/index.php/Mistress_C   (3057 words)

  
 Lords of the Nine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dispater is thought to be one of the oldest of the Lords of the Nine.
Dispater's avatar appears as a 108' tall man with yellow skin, a pit fiend's horns, and a fluttering red cape.
Dispater's special defense is to make those attacking him relive their lowest moments.
elvis.rowan.edu /~klassen/gaming/monsters/223LordsoftheNine.html   (4353 words)

  
 A Robed Figure
Dispater is brutally battered by the burning projectiles, taking 46 points of damage!
Dispater is struck by a burning prjectile, taking 29 points of damage!
A bolt of soft white light streaks down from the sky bathing Dispater in it.
members.aol.com /ladydanay/robedfigure.htm   (2051 words)

  
 Dispater (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dispater_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)   (149 words)

  
 Planewalker.com
Why this is, or why one day Dispater commissioned a shoe to be made for it is unknown.
What is known is that when Dispater wore the shoe, he was displeased by how off balance it made him feel.
Rather than wear an elevated boot with his other foot, which he felt would have been silly (though why he thought of a single horseshoe as not silly is sometimes questioned in sagely circles), he removed the horseshoe and cast it away.
www.planewalker.com /entry.php?intEntryID=7698   (429 words)

  
 Baator -- Lawful Evil
The next layer is Dis, also the name of the iron city at its heart.
A rogue pit fiend is said to be secretly marshaling forces to challenge Dispater's forces.
Minauros is the name of the third layer, a horrible place of acid rain and flesh-slicing hail.
www.geocities.com /gradasso/planes/baator.htm   (674 words)

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