Orcus The so-called Tomb of Orcus, an Etruscan site at Tarquinia, is a misnomer, resulting from its first discoverers mistaking as Orcus a hairy, bearded giant that was actually a figure of a Cyclops. The Romans sometimes conflated Orcus with other gods such as Pluto, Hades, and Dis Pater, god of the land of the dead. The name "Orcus" seems to have been given to his evil and punishing side, as the god who tormented evildoers in the afterlife. Like the name Hades (or the Norse Hel, for that matter), "Orcus" could also mean the land of the dead. Orcus was
Wand of Orcus reclaimed from the looters by its rightful owner, "as Master Blaise knew it would be". The booklet "The Dark of the War" in "" reveals that when Orcus was either deposed or slain by Kiaransalee, his "wand" was locked away in Agathion, the fourth layer of Pandemonium. Game statistics for the aspect of Orcus in the "Miniatures Handbook" (2003) on pages 53–54 state that the aspect "wields a weaker version of Orcus's famous wand". "Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition for Dummies" describes the "Wand of Orcus" as being part of what makes Orcus "the most monstrous evil in the game".