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'''Orcus''' is the [[chaotic]] [[god]] of the [[Undertaker]] pantheon in [[SlashTHEM]].

==Origin==
Orcus was the god of the Estrucan and later Roman underworld, and a deity that punished broken oaths. As with Hades, Orcus's name was also used for the underworld itself; in later Roman tradition he was conflated with Dis Pater, who inspired the [[Dispater]] of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.

Like many other deities associated with death and the underworld, his name was used for demons and other underworld beings, including the [[Orcus]] of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' that ''NetHack'' players are more familiar with. According to a side-note in one of [[Tolkien]]'s manuscripts published by his son Christopher, as well as an unpublished letter to Gene Wolfe, Orcus was believed to be the root of the older Anglo-Saxon term "[[orc]]", meaning demon - a notion Tolkien expressed skepticism towards in the latter source.
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 Orcus was the god of the Estrucan and later Roman underworld, and a deity that punished broken oaths. As with Hades, Orcus's name was also used for the underworld itself; in later Roman tradition he was conflated with Dis Pater, who inspired the [[Dispater]] of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
-Like many other deities associated with death and the underworld, his name was used for demons and other underworld beings, including the [[Orcus]] of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' that ''NetHack'' players are more familiar with. According to a side-note in one of [[Tolkien]]'s manuscripts published by his son Christopher, as well as an unpublished letter to Gene Wolfe, Orcus was believed to be the root of the older Anglo-Saxon term "[[orc]]", meaning demon - a notion Tolkien expressed skepticism towards in the latter source.
+Like many other deities associated with death and the underworld, his name was used for demons and other underworld beings, including the [[Orcus]] of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' that ''NetHack'' players are more familiar with. According to a side-note in one of [[Tolkien]]'s manuscripts published by his son Christopher, as well as an unpublished letter to Gene Wolfe, Orcus was believed to be the root of the older Anglo-Saxon term "orc", meaning demon - a notion Tolkien expressed skepticism towards in the latter source.
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