| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Horcus" | Greek | Horkos, the personification of an oath, the son of Eris, and the avenger of perjury. Greek |
| Monster name "Limits" | Greek | The Latin Fames, or personification of hunger. Hesiod describes hunger as the offspring of Eris or Discord. A poetical description of Fames occurs in Ovid and Virgil places it along with other monsters, at the entrance of Orcus. Greek |
| Monster name "Ogres" | Europe | Of nursery mythology are giants of very malignant dispositions, who live on human flesh. It is an Eastern invention, and the word is derived from the Ogurs, a desperately savage horde of Asia, who overran part of Europe in the fifth century. Others derived it from Orcus, the ugly, cruel man-eating monster so familiar to readers of Bojardo and Ariosto. The female is Ogress. |
| God name "Orcus" | Roman | A chthonic underworld god |
| God name "Orcus" | Roman | Chthonic underworld god. Modeled on the Greek god HADES.... |
| God name "Orcus aka Hades or Pluton" | Roman | Orcus aka Hades or Pluton, the god of the lower world. Roman |
"Tobo" | Nazorean | A being who conducts the soul of Adam from Orcus to the place of life. Codex Nazaraeus |
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