Incabulos

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Greyhawk Deity


Incabulos
Title(s)	The Black Rider
Home Plane	Gray Waste of Hades
Power Level	Greater
Alignment	Neutral Evil
Portfolio	Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, Disasters
Domains	Death, Evil, Destruction
Alias(es)	none
Superior	none

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Incabulos is the god of Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, and Disasters. His unholy symbol is the magic icon called the Eye of Possession.

1 Description
2 Relationships
3 Clergy and Temples
4 References

[edit] Description

Incabulos's appearance is said to be absolutely terrifying: a deformed body, skeletal hands, and a face from the worst nightmare. He rides a nightmare and is accompanied by night hags, likewise mounted.
(World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) Gygax, Winter, Easley, Darlene, Schick (Ed), ISBN 0-88038-344-5. "A Guide To The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting" pg. 70 TSR Inc., Random House Publishing)

[edit] Relationships

Incabulos hates all other gods except for Nerull, the death-god who finishes the work Incabulos starts. Incabulos regards him with total indifference.
Since he is the bringer of plagues, famine, and drought, and because of the immense joy he gets from the suffering these things bring, he is feared by even the Demon Princes of the Abyss and the ArchDevils of Baator themselves.
(World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) Gygax, Winter, Easley, Darlene, Schick (Ed), ISBN 0-88038-344-5. "A Guide To The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting" pg. 70 TSR Inc., Random House Publishing)

[edit] Clergy and Temples

Services to Incabulos feature weird humming and droning chants in near darkness lit only by black candles. Followers perform various iniquities with their clerics and pray for more evils to enter the world. All vessels used in their unholy rituals are made of bloodstone, carnelian, or old bronze.
(World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) Gygax, Winter, Easley, Darlene, Schick (Ed), ISBN 0-88038-344-5. "A Guide To The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting" pg. 70 TSR Inc., Random House Publishing)