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|image        = [[Image:Bathym01.jpg]]
|caption      = Bathym, as depicted in ''[[dragmag|Dragon]]'' #360 (2007).
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|title        = The Black Duke
|home         = [[Baator]]
|power        = [[Duke of Hell]], Archfiend
|gender       = Male
|class        = 
|alignment    = Lawful evil
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|alias        = 
|super        = [[Fierna]]
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'''Bathym''' is a [[Duke of Hell]] in the service of [[Fierna]].

==Description==
Bathym has black-hued eyes, black hooves, and black nails. His skin, horns and tail are a dead, fishbelly-white color. Bathym’s forked tail is short and curled like a pig’s; he is most sensitive about it and keeps it concealed. When angry, Bathym hisses like a snake when he speaks.

Bathym is known as "the Black Duke" for the color of the armor he wears. He covers his face with a full horned helm and covers his armor with a voluminous black cloak. His black spiked mace bleeds darkness.

Bathym displays prudent caution and diabolical cunning in battle, letting his mount, the terrible half-devil nightmare Fell Wind, do most of the fighting. 

==Relationships==
Bathym is a duke of Phelegethos and a supporter of Fierna.

Before the [[Reckoning of Hell]], Bathym was an ally of [[Balan]], a fellow duke in the service of [[Belial]]. Disgusted by Belial's cowardice (as he saw it) after that war, Bathym shifted his alliance to [[Fierna]], who he had long coveted from the shadows. Balan, however, remained loyal to Belial, who had long helped him satiate his unspeakable lusts. More than any other [[baatezu]], Balan is now Bathym's greatest enemy; Bathym hopes to increase Fierna's control over Phlegethos and his own position with it, while Balan desires to keep Belial as the power behind the throne. For a time, they were at least civil with one another, but as Fierna continues to assert herself, it looks as if Balan and Bathym may soon come to blows. 

===Vassals===
Bathym commands 30 companies of barbed devils. Each company consists of 333 devils. He has no mortal followers.

== References ==
=== Citations ===
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=== Bibliography ===
*[[Greenwood, Ed]]. "The [[Nine Hells]] Part I." ''[[dragmag|Dragon]]'' #75. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983. 
*[[Robert J. Schwalb|Schwalb, Robert J.]] "Infernal Aristocracy: Dukes of Hell." ''[[dragmag|Dragon]]'' #360. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2007. Available online:[http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drtoc/360]
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