Dispater

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Dispater, &, is one of the demon princes. He is lawful and has no lair. A spellcasting monster may summon him in the Gehennom with the summon nasties spell, or a lawful demon (usually a prince; Asmodeus, Baalzebub, or Geryon) can gate him in. He is generated with a wand of striking.

Dispater has a lot of hit points, great magic resistance, and powerful spell attacks. In addition, he resists fire and poison. He'll follow you to other levels and try to steal the Amulet.

He will not generally use his spellcasting attacks before he uses up his relatively harmless wand of striking. Therefore it is a very good idea to kill him as quickly as possible.

SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, all demon princes have lairs. Dispater's lair is located between levels 10-15 of Gehennom.

Origin

Dispater is a Dungeons and Dragons demon, it self derived from a Roman God of the underworld. The city of Dis of the encyclopedia, refers to the D&D version.

The D&D Dispater, looks human, 2meters/7feet tall, very handsome, with two small horns, a tail and a cloven(two toed) left hoof (human right leg).

Encyclopaedia entry

Dispater is an arch-devil who rules the city of Dis. He is
a powerful mage.