Lust is to Succubus as Greed is to.. Um.. Greedcubus? Help!

[Anti-Sean]

More fun with the perseus English-Latin word search:

Wrath/Hatred:
saevitas - rage, violence, fury
Servus Saevitas could approximate to Servant of Wrath, Servum Saevitorum to The Servants of Wrath, if there is a loose group/organization of Wrath Demons.
(pedantry forces me to point out, perhaps in penance for the faux Latin, that Classical Latin pronunciation would pronounce the 'ae' dipthong as the 'ie' in tie, and 'v' as a 'w' sound, but you should go with whatever sounds coolest to you)

Envy:
viridis/viriditas - green/greenness (as in green with envy)

Greed:
rapax - grasping, greedy of plunder, rapacious

a few more root words to play around with.

Thanks for the details of the mythology, it sounds very cool!

 

[Gez]

More fun with the perseus English-Latin word search:

Wrath/Hatred:
saevitas - rage, violence, fury

So Saeviomagy is "violent wizard" ?

 

[der_kluge]

I don't have much to add, but after reading the first post, it made me realize that infiltrating Amway as a cult of Devil worshippers would make a pretty interesting modern campaign.

 

[Evilhalfling]

Gorgolator/Gorgulator might work as a faux-Latin name for a demon of Gluttony (replace -ator with -atrix for a female version of the demon). Perhaps modify it to Gorgolith/Gorgulith for a more Tanar'ri-ish feel.

mea maxima culpa, Latin scholars, for corrupting the language like that

There was a 1st ed Dragon Magazine which detailed the Goresti?
a large (or huge) particularly stupid demon, thinking about it I see larger versions of Jackson's Cave trolls.

oh they made it into MoP
Goristo (Huge Tantari) int 5 "kept as living seige weapons by Demon Lords"
Not really gluttony. I always see Fatlings (CC) doing a great job exemplefiying this role. As for temptation, a chef demon wouldn't have enough control over people, perhaps a matrade' devil, whispering you cant get up now, try this course, and then for dessert...
Or a Naked Lunch concept with the demon secerteting something addictive.

 

[Dark Psion]

The problem with DnD demons is that they're more conserned with the Blood War, and less conserned with Tempting Mortals. That, and most of them can fall into multiple sins.

Check out Van Richten's Guide 3, it has the Guide to Fiends.

It has a great section on Transposition, where a devil or demon offers you power. As you use the power, it and you slowly trade places till it enters the Prime Plane and you litteraly find yourself in Hell.

 

[Anti-Sean]

a few more (I'm having *way* too much fun doing this)

Greed:
trahax - that draws every thing to himself, greedy, covetous
Trahaxis, perhaps, for a demon of Greed?

Sloth:
murcidus - slothful

I like the sound of Murcidus just the way it is.

Envy:
livor - Literally bluish color, leaden color, a black and blue spot
Poetic envy, spite, malice, ill-will seems to be used similarly to invidia in a different (later?) time period. Sounds like the Romans described someone as being blue with envy, rather than green as modern English speakers do...

Livoris, Livoratus, Livorilith (Tanar'ri-esque?)

Modify the earlier fastosus (prideful, haughty) to Fastosor/Fastosori singular/plural (or Fastusor/i, reminiscent of Dr. Faustus) for Pride, perhaps?

 

[Anti-Sean]

Goristo (Huge Tantari) int 5 "kept as living seige weapons by Demon Lords" Not really gluttony.

Yeah, I made a connecton to Goring (with their huge horns) and Gorilla (described as having traits of a bison/human mix and gorilla-like arms) from their name - I didn't see much of a gluttony angle there.

I always see Fatlings (CC) doing a great job exemplefiying this role. As for temptation, a chef demon wouldn't have enough control over people, perhaps a matrade' devil, whispering you cant get up now, try this course, and then for dessert...

great, now all I can think of is this scene:

Maitre D: And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.

Mr Creosote: No.

Maitre D: Oh sir! It's only a tiny little thin one.

Mr Creosote: No. Fuzzy Bunnies. (not the actual script, but edited for Eric's Grandma's protection) - I'm full... [Belches]

Maitre D: Oh sir... it's only wafer thin.

I *knew* there was something fishy about that Maitre D!

 

[Sigurd]

The biblical demon for greed as I recall is called Mammon.

Mammon gets his name from a syrian word for money so you can see where the association starts.

see

http://www.occultopedia.com/m/mammon.htm

Sure looks like a demon.

S

 

[Voadam]

Don't restrict yourself to DnD demons/daemons/devils. There's a wealth of evil outthere, waiting to be used.

Outside of official D&D there is plenty of good material for this type of stuff.

the old 1e compatible sourcebook Demons from Mayfair Games had a cool cosmology with tempting demons divided into five orders (heart, blood, soul, mind, flesh I believe) with dozens of lords and lesser lords each with a specific sin they ruled. It was a great series and the first one was very very good. The follow ups, denizens of X each was a folio of a different order and sub plane with mostly stats and sins but not quite enough description and fluff.

I also keep being tempted to get the in nomine books for their diabolic cosmology and orders, particularly the two who's who of hell types. In nomine is done by Steve Jackson games.

 

[Kemrain]

Not sure if you've found this link yet, but www.perseus.tufts.edu has a search function that lets you search for English terms in their compilation of Latin Dictionaries.

I'm having a lot of trouble getting this blasted thing to work. Do you think you could give me a little advice?

Thanks for the details of the mythology, it sounds very cool!

Sure thing. And, thanks. Been working on this for a while, and for the moment we're focusin on building up from what the main character knows. If you're interested, I can throw out some of the suppositions of what Hell is like, but it'll be very difficult to explain clearly. (I can always try, if you're interested, though.)

Even if it's actually not related, I like the similarity between Incubus and incubation.

Well, if my understanding of the translation of Incubus is correct (and I think someone pointed out that it's not, but when you've been told yes and no so many times you wonder), then they certanly share a root. Incubus supposedly has something to do with "To lay upon" and that's exactly what birds do to incubate their eggs, so.. Y'know..

- Kemrian the "How would you say "To Lay Beside" in Latin?"