What Is Druaga?

[Khisanth the Ancient]

There's some odd things in Deities & Demigods, like the swapping of Loviatar and Kiputytto's spheres of influence. (In the Kalevala, Loviatar/Lowyatar is disease and Kiputtyto is pain. The OD&D Gods, Demi-gods, and Heroes book had it correct, but somehow it got transposed in D&DG.) Of course, Loviatar got borrowed by Forgotten Realms straight from D&DG, so that version is probably way better known in the English-speaking world now than the original one...

 

[Khisanth the Ancient]

In Dicefreaks, Geryon is the son of Tiamat (and Asmodeus' bodyguard).

Is the old Dicefreaks epic material still available somewhere? My old bookmarks for it stopped working ages ago...

 

[Omeganian]

Is the old Dicefreaks epic material still available somewhere? My old bookmarks for it stopped working ages ago...

There is this:

Dicefreaks archived material : Dicefreaks : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A collection of Dicefreaks D&D homebrew material I've gathered over the years. May be added to/rearranged as I see fit.None of this is mine; this is all...

archive.org

 

[FleshEatingBlackFlutterby]

He is falsehood (Old Persian drauga), "the Lie" of which Darius the Great speaks in the Behistun Inscription. In Asiatic Mythology (Hackin, J. et al.), one of the sources sited in "Appendix 4" of Deities and Demigods, author Clément Huart calls him (it?) the "principle druj" which he seems to place below the div in the hierarchy of "the army of evil" under Angra Mainyu, so I think the ranking of lesser god is appropriate. Jim Ward and/or Rob Kuntz seem to have transposed the first two vowels of his name, perhaps on purpose to differentiate it from that of the drow, and they put him in the wrong mythos. Maybe they were working on a section for the Persian mythos and decided to scrap it but wanted to keep Druaga, so they included him in the Babylonian mythos instead. His appearance seems to have been invented whole cloth, perhaps taken from Jeff Dee's David S. LaForce's drawing rather than the other way around.

Edited to correct the name of the artist.

That's a lot of useful information.
Thank you.