Dis (Divine Comedy) in red-hot tombs. Beyond are rings of those who were violent—to others, to themselves (suicides), to God (blasphemers), to art (usurers), and to nature (sexual perverts). Beyond the ruins of Dis are the frauds and corruptors, and finally the traitors. In ancient Roman mythology, Dis Pater ("Father Dis") is the ruler of the underworld and is named as such in the sixth book of Virgil's "Aeneid", one of the principal influences on Dante in his depiction of Hell (the god was also known as Pluto, a name not used by Virgil in the "Aeneid"). The hero Aeneas enters the "desolate
Orcus (Dungeons & Dragons) to resurrect Orcus was seemingly disrupted, "Orcus returned all the same". The "Book of Vile Darkness" reveals that Orcus has reinstated himself to his former position, once again finding himself in a struggle for dominance with other demon lords. The third edition "Tome of Magic" reveals that part of the godly power that Orcus shed after his death and subsequent resurrection as a demon lord remained intact. Less than a god but still divine, this essence coalsced into the bitter sentience which became the vestige Tenebrous, the Shadow that Was - "a pale reflection of what he once was, a