Nergal is an outcast Duke of Hell, one of the Rabble of Devilkin

Rabble of Devilkin

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, "rabble of devilkin" is a term applied to the lesser unique outcast devils dwelling on Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells...

, in the Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

roleplaying game.

Publication history

Nergal first appears in Ed Greenwood

Ed Greenwood

Ed Greenwood is a Canadian writer and editor who created the Forgotten Realms. He invented the Forgotten Realms as a child, as a fantasy world in which to set the stories he imagined, and later used this world as a campaign setting for his own personal Dungeons & Dragons playing group...

's article "The Nine Hells Part I" in Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

#75 (1983).

Nergal was briefly detailed in Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells

Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells

Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells is an optional supplemental source book for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.-Contents:...

(2006).

Description

Nergal, sometimes called "The Bringer of Pestilence and Fever", is a gruesome Duke of very unusual appearance. Nergal is a lion headed toad who sports a pinkish-gray, purulent skin covered in sores that ooze a colorless, poisonous ichor.

Relationships

Nergal is among the most powerful of the Rabble of Devilkin

Rabble of Devilkin

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, "rabble of devilkin" is a term applied to the lesser unique outcast devils dwelling on Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells...

. Exiled to Avernus after being denied the control of Malbolge after the destruction of Beherit

Beherit (Dungeons & Dragons)

In many campaign settings of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game Beherit is the former arch-Duke of Malbolge, the sixth layer of the Nine Hells of Baator...

, he tries to raise more power on Avernus and is in competition with the pit-fiend Kochbiel

Kochbiel

Kochbiel is an outcast Duke of Hell, one of the Rabble of Devilkin, in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.-Publication history:Kochbiel first appears in Ed Greenwood's article "The Nine Hells Revisited" in Dragon #91 ....

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