Demogorgon employs Ulu-Thurg, a six-fingered bar-lgura sorcerer, as his master of assassins. [5] Other minions [ ] A monk, sometime in the 4th century, probably misread the phrase demiurge (meaning one of the figures in a Neoplatonic school of philosophy responsible for crafting the universe) and came up with Demogorgon. According to this second legend, Demogorgon once had a single head until a blow from Amoth split it in two. [10] Soon after that battle, Demogorgon defeated the stone primordial Storralk. He kept Storralk beneath his throne, torturing him for eternity through a ritual that created the ettins from Storralk's blood and linked them to his body. Every time an ettin felt pain, that agony was transferred to Storralk. [10] Dr Daniel Kinney, "Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text" linked below. J. François, Le Scoliaste de la Thébaïde de Stace, Mémoire de licence, Liège, 1936, p. 82. R.D. Sweeney (ed., Lactantii Placidi in Statii Thebaida commentarii libri XII (Stuttgart/Leipzig: Teubner) 1997) also indicates that another Placidus, a Christian grammarian, is not to be confused with this Lactantius: "'glossae Placidi (ut uidetur, Christiani) nullo modo auctori nostro sunt adscribendae '" (p. viii).

It was hinted that the falling ash-like spores present in the Upside Down have a possible direct connection to the Demogorgon. [4] Demogorgon’s more powerful allies include Lord Dagon, an obyrith lord who would advise Demogorgon’s heads separately. Their alliance was mutually beneficial as Demogorgon provided raw strength while Dagon provided a more intellectual and cunning mind to complement one another well. Demogorgon also has an alliance of sorts with Zuggtmoy, another Demon Lord and Ilsidahur, the Lord of Barlguras. This commentary on Thebaid is known to have survived until the 1600s, where the name Demogorgon appears in Milton's 1667 work, Paradise Lost:

He appears in the Baldur's Gate II expansion Throne of Bhaal, where he is a level 25 creature. [12] D&D 3rd edition [ ] As Prince of Demons, Demogorgon's armies are truly enormous, and contain demons of countless types. Sylvain Matton, "La figure de Démogorgon dans la littérature alchimique", in Didier Kahn and Sylvain Matton (ed.), Alchimie, art, histoire et mythes. Actes du 1er colloque international de la Société d'Étude de l'Histoire de l'Alchimie (Paris, Collège de France, 14-15-16 mars 1991), Textes et Travaux de Chrysopœia, 1, Paris: S.É.H.A.-Milan: Archè, 1995, p.265-346.

The only reason his plan to annihilate all of creation inside a roiling vortex of entropy and carnage hasn’t already worked is that his attention is split.

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Demogorgon's two heads, Aameul and Hethradiah, are their own worst enemies. While one cannot survive without the other, both have attempted to hatch elaborate plans to eliminate the other. R.A. Salvatore (September 2015). Archmage (Hardcover). ( Wizards of the Coast), pp. 350, 357. ISBN 0-7869-6575-4. Demogorgons seen in later years seemed unable to open temporary gates - even the Soviet-captured Demogorgon, which otherwise seemed to be stronger, faster and more capable than the 1983 specimen, did not wield this power.