Hades three-headed guard dog Cerberus. The Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to Hades and merged into Pluto, a Latinization of Plouton (", Ploútōn"), itself a euphemistic title often given to Hades. The origin of Hades' name is uncertain, but has generally been seen as meaning "the unseen one" since antiquity. An extensive section of Plato's dialogue "Cratylus" is devoted to the etymology of the god's name, in which Socrates is arguing for a folk etymology not from "unseen" but from "his knowledge ("eidenai") of all noble things". Modern linguists have
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".