The Raven darkness. The use of the raven—the "devil bird"—also suggests this. This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is "from the Night's Plutonian shore", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld (also known as Dis Pater in Roman mythology). A direct allusion to Satan also appears: "Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore..." Poe chose a raven as the central symbol in the story because he wanted a "non-reasoning" creature capable of speech. He decided on a raven, which he considered "equally capable of speech"
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".