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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 2470475" data-attributes="member: 8461">Apparently so. Dagon's only mention in Demihuman Deities is in the beginning of Deep Sashelas's description. It says he opposes evil powers of the sea, including Abyssal Lords such as Demogorgon and Dagon.There is one reference, though it's held against several others. Searching for "Astaroth" in the Dragon CD-ROM Archive turns up five hits (one of those being for the CRPG Ultima V). Two of those are for issue #28's article "The Politics of Hell," where Astaroth is said to be a powerful Devil lord (the Treasurer of Hell). One references various symbology of several heavenly bodies in the solar system; each has an associated devil (and demon, and angel, etc.), and the associate devil for Mercury is Astaroth.As far as Ed Greenwood goes, the last hit is the first time he mentions Astaroth, in Dragon #75, "The Nine Hells Part I." He mentions Astaroth at the end of the description of the first layer, Avernus. He lists him as a powerful devil who may or may not exist, and may be powerful enough to back a powerful challenger to victory against Asmodeus. This mention is specifically called out as being in reference to "The Politics of Hell."However, he then mentions him again in issue #91, "The Nine Hells Revisited." Under Gargoth's entry, he only notes that Gargoth is sometimes misnamed as Astaroth, a demon prince of great power. (This reference escapes the search feature of the Archive, since here "Astaroth" is hyphenated.)While there is that one notation, it doesn't seem to hold against the others. Also, it always seemed weird to me that Gargauth was able to absorb a demon lord...I thought his power functioned specifically against othr baatezu (and wouldn't absorbing a CE creature corrupt his LE nature anyway?).</blockquote>

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