Perched atop this monstrosity are twin baboon heads named Aameul and Hathradiah, their eyes lit from within by smoldering hellfire. Since then, Demogorgon has been named in works that include Milton’s Paradise Lost, Doctor Faustus, and a weird short story by Voltaire called “Plato’s Dream” in which he’s responsible for creating the Earth. Monte Cook (October 2002). Book of Vile Darkness. Edited by David Noonan, Penny Williams. ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 125–127. ISBN 0-7869-3136-1.

Sometimes, the Demogorgon, instead of eating its prey, would capture them in an attempt to breed more Demogorgons, as it did to Will. Demogorgon is credited with the creation of numerous demons and oher monsters which fill his fortress at Ungorth Reddik [2], including the retrievers, the half-fiendish lemorians, the lemorian golems, the orlath demons, the death knights, and the loumaras. [1]Demogorgon is the central character in Voltaire's 1756 short story " Plato's Dream" - a "lesser superbeing" who was responsible for creating the planet Earth. His hatred of life is also all-consuming, and his ultimate goal is to wipe out all other life in the universe. Terrifyingly, it’s an ambition that Demogorgon is almost certainly powerful enough to achieve. Once in the Upside Down, Will managed to evade the creature for almost a week and began attempting to communicate with his mother. Joyce and Will had some success, with Will manipulating the electricity in his home dimension, although these attempts would sometimes attract the monster. In an early attempt, Joyce saw her house wall become warped and distorted as the Monster started to break through, terrifying her. In a later attempt, the Monster broke clean through, although Joyce managed to outrun it. When he returned in 1977's Monster Manual for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, he was bestowed with the title “Prince of Demons” and a hatred of Orcus, creating a long-standing enmity between the two.

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Boccaccio's Demogorgon is mentioned as a "primal" god in quite a few Renaissance texts, and impressively glossed "Demon-Gorgon," i.e., "Terror-Demon" or "God of the Earth". The French historian and mythographer Jean Seznec, for instance, now determines in Demogorgon an allusion to the Demiurge ("Craftsman" or "Maker") of Plato's Timaeus. For a remarkable early text identifying Ovid's Demiurge (1/1, here) as "sovereign Demogorgon", see the paraphrase of Metamorphoses I in Abraham France, The third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch (London, 1592), sig. A2v." [7] In literature [ edit ] Meanwhile, Will's friends Mike, Lucas, and Dustin began investigating Will's disappearance. Mike noted a strange coincidence linking the disappearance with a recent " Dungeons & Dragons" campaign. During the campaign, Will's player character was defeated by the fearsome Demogorgon; hours later, Will had vanished from real life. In addition, Eleven used the game piece representing the character to attempt to illustrate her vision of Will hiding from the creature in the other dimension. Ed Stark, James Jacobs, Erik Mona (June 13, 2006). Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss. ( Wizards of the Coast), p. 73. ISBN 0-7869-3919-2. Gygax described the sources which inspired his interpretation of Demogorgon: [14] "It was the Greeks, in their mythology, who had Demogorgon originally. He was held as the elemental force of earth that which made plants grow, and was thus depicted as an old man covered with moss. Medieval writers demonized him into a terrible ruler of the underworld--a much more colorful depiction for use in a FRPG :-o"Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd, Darrin Drader (July 2004). Serpent Kingdoms. ( Wizards of the Coast), p. 38. ISBN 0-7869-3277-5. This commentary on Thebaid is known to have survived until the 1600s, where the name Demogorgon appears in Milton's 1667 work, Paradise Lost: