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|caption     = Incabulos, the Black Rider, as depicted in ''[[Dragmag|Dragon]]'' #71 (1983).
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name=Incabulos|
|titles      = The Black Rider, the Evilsent
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|gender       = Male
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|class       = Cleric 18, illusionist 18, thief 13
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|alignment   = Neutral evil
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|portfolio   = Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, Disasters
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|domains     = Death, Destruction, Evil, Dream, Hunger, Madness, Pestilence, (Wrath){{cite dragon|323|65}}
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'''Incabulos''' is the god of Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, and Disasters.  His unholy symbol is the magic icon called the Eye of Possession.
'''Incabulos''' (in-CAB-yoo-lohs) is the god of Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, and Disasters.  His unholy symbol is the magic icon called the Eye of Possession, a green eye in a red diamond.


==Description==
==Description==
Incabulos's appearance is said to be absolutely terrifying: a deformed body, skeletal hands, and a face from the worst nightmare. He rides a nightmare and is accompanied by hags.
Incabulos's appearance is said to be absolutely terrifying: a deformed body, skeletal hands, and a face from the worst nightmare. His skin is tinged a diseased blue. His filthy black robe is lined with sickly orange and trimmed in moss green. He rides a nightmare and is accompanied by [[night hag]]s or [[hordling]]s (but not both). Any who meet his eyes are stricken by nightmares, and he carries a staff that causes seeping wounds and withers flesh.  


==Relationships==
==Relationships==
Incabulos hates all other gods except for [[Nerull]], the death-god who finishes the work Incabulos starts. Incabulos regards Nerull with total indifference.
Incabulos hates all other gods except for [[Nerull]], the death-god who finishes the work Incabulos starts. Incabulos regards Nerull with total indifference.


Since he is the bringer of plagues, famine, and drought, and because of the immense joy he gets from the suffering these things bring, he is feared by even the Demon Princes of the Abyss and the ArchDevils of Baator themselves.<ref>World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) Gygax, Winter, Easley, Darlene, Schick (Ed), ISBN 0-88038-344-5. "A Guide To The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting" pg. 70 TSR Inc., Random House Publishing</ref>
Since he is the bringer of plagues, famine, and drought, and because of the immense joy he gets from the suffering these things bring, he is feared by even the [[Demon lord|demon princes]] of the Abyss and the [[Lords of the Nine Hells|archdevils]] of Baator.


==Realm==
==Realm==
Incabulos's realm, known as Charnelhouse, is located on the first layer of the [[Gray Waste]], Oinos. The whole realm stinks of corpses, and those who enter it find their deepest fears coming to life.


==Dogma==
==Dogma==
Incabulos delights in and feeds on suffering, gaining power from illness, famine, nightmares, and other evils and woes. While some attempt to placate the Evilsent with prayers, this only delays the inevitable.


==Worshippers==  
==Worshipers==  
Incabulos has only a small following, but common folk throughout the [[Flanaess]] give him offerings, usually foul-smelling, guttering black candles, in a vain attempt to appease him or avoid his wrath. More vile individuals will venerate the Black Rider for his power and evil.
 
Incabulos is popular among the [[Tiger Nomads]].{{csb|LGG|114}}
 
Circa [[2000 CY]], "Incabulos is not openly worshipped anywhere in the New Flanaess, but the god seemed to be gaining popularity among the disenfranchised youth of the major cities of the U.C.U. and [[Furyondy]], including the New City of [[Greyhawk]]."{{cite dragon|277|51|{{smallcaps|Greyhawk 2000}}}}


===Clergy===
===Clergy===
Clerics of Incabulos are secretive and paranoid, fearing persecution by those who value their health and well-being. If they reveal themselves, it is only to strike greater fear in those already suffering. They enjoy torturing others and spreading disease and blight. They travel to lands to discover new diseases or to spread them. They wear garb of black and orange.


==Rituals==
==Rituals==
Services to Incabulos feature weird humming and droning chants in near darkness lit only by black candles. Followers perform various iniquities with their clerics and pray for more evils to enter the world.
Services to Incabulos feature weird humming and droning chants in near darkness lit only by fat, black, smoky candles. Followers celebrate various iniquities with their clerics and pray for more evils to enter the world.


==Bibliography==
==Temples==
*Gygax, Gary. "The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #71. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
Temples of the Evilsent are hidden underground or in isolated, desolate regions. There is a temple to Incabulos in [[Erelhei-Cinlu]].
*-----. ''[[World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.


*[[Gary Holian|Holian, Gary]], [[Erik Mona]], [[Sean K. Reynolds]], and [[Frederick Weining]]. ''[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
==Myths and legends==
Long ago, Incabulos cursed a tribe of [[Giant|hill giant]]s, created the diseased, pestilent race of [[rot giant]]s.


*[[Moore, Roger E]]. ''[[Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Incabulos02.jpg
Image:Incabulos03.jpg
</gallery>


*[[Noonan, David]]. ''[[Complete Divine]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2004.
==References==
=====Citations=====
<references />
=====Bibliography=====
*Athans, Philip. "{{smallcaps|Greyhawk 2000}}". ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #277. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.  p48-54.
*[[Brown, Anne]]. ''[[Player's Guide]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
*Clough, C. Wesley, et al. "Creature Catalog VI." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #355. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.
*[[Gygax, Gary]]. "The Deities and Demigods of the [[World of Greyhawk]]." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #71. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
:———. ''[[World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
*[[Gary Holian|Holian, Gary]], [[Erik Mona]], [[Sean K. Reynolds]], and [[Frederick Weining]]. ''[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
*McComb, Colin. ''[[On Hallowed Ground]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996.
*[[Moore, Roger E]]. ''[[The Adventure Begins]]''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
*[[Noonan, David]]. ''Complete Divine''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2004.
* [[Carl Sargent|Sargent, Carl]]. ''[[Ivid the Undying]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1995. Published online. [https://greyhawkonline.com/download/16370/?tmstv=1727302323 PDF by William Allman with maps].  Original RTF archived:[http://web.archive.org/web/20081218001449/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/downloads Wizards.com]. WGR7 or WGRx
*[[Jim Ward|Ward, James M]]. ''[[Greyhawk Adventures]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1988.
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*[[Carl Sargent|Sargent, Carl]]. ''[[From the Ashes]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1992.
*[[Jim Ward|Ward, James M]]. ''[[Greyhawk Adventures]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1988.


[[Category:Dream gods]]
[[Category:Characters of the Gray Waste]]
[[Category:Gods of disease]]
[[Category:Deities of dreams]]
[[Category:Greyhawk deities]]
[[Category:Deities of disease]]
[[Category:Human deities]]

Latest revision as of 06:14, 28 April 2025

Greyhawk Divinity
Incabulos
Incabulos, the Black Rider, as depicted in Dragon #71 (1983).
Names and titles
Alias(es):None
Title(s):The Black Rider, the Evilsent
General information
Portfolio:Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, Disasters
Home:Gray Waste of Hades
Alignment:Neutral evil
Gender:Male
Class:Cleric 18, illusionist 18, thief 13
Superior:None
Rules items
Domains:Death, Destruction, Evil, Dream, Hunger, Madness, Pestilence, (Wrath)[1]
Divine rank:Greater

Incabulos (in-CAB-yoo-lohs) is the god of Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, and Disasters. His unholy symbol is the magic icon called the Eye of Possession, a green eye in a red diamond.

Description

Incabulos's appearance is said to be absolutely terrifying: a deformed body, skeletal hands, and a face from the worst nightmare. His skin is tinged a diseased blue. His filthy black robe is lined with sickly orange and trimmed in moss green. He rides a nightmare and is accompanied by night hags or hordlings (but not both). Any who meet his eyes are stricken by nightmares, and he carries a staff that causes seeping wounds and withers flesh.

Relationships

Incabulos hates all other gods except for Nerull, the death-god who finishes the work Incabulos starts. Incabulos regards Nerull with total indifference.

Since he is the bringer of plagues, famine, and drought, and because of the immense joy he gets from the suffering these things bring, he is feared by even the demon princes of the Abyss and the archdevils of Baator.

Realm

Incabulos's realm, known as Charnelhouse, is located on the first layer of the Gray Waste, Oinos. The whole realm stinks of corpses, and those who enter it find their deepest fears coming to life.

Dogma

Incabulos delights in and feeds on suffering, gaining power from illness, famine, nightmares, and other evils and woes. While some attempt to placate the Evilsent with prayers, this only delays the inevitable.

Worshipers

Incabulos has only a small following, but common folk throughout the Flanaess give him offerings, usually foul-smelling, guttering black candles, in a vain attempt to appease him or avoid his wrath. More vile individuals will venerate the Black Rider for his power and evil.

Incabulos is popular among the Tiger Nomads.[2]

Circa 2000 CY, "Incabulos is not openly worshipped anywhere in the New Flanaess, but the god seemed to be gaining popularity among the disenfranchised youth of the major cities of the U.C.U. and Furyondy, including the New City of Greyhawk."[3]

Clergy

Clerics of Incabulos are secretive and paranoid, fearing persecution by those who value their health and well-being. If they reveal themselves, it is only to strike greater fear in those already suffering. They enjoy torturing others and spreading disease and blight. They travel to lands to discover new diseases or to spread them. They wear garb of black and orange.

Rituals

Services to Incabulos feature weird humming and droning chants in near darkness lit only by fat, black, smoky candles. Followers celebrate various iniquities with their clerics and pray for more evils to enter the world.

Temples

Temples of the Evilsent are hidden underground or in isolated, desolate regions. There is a temple to Incabulos in Erelhei-Cinlu.

Myths and legends

Long ago, Incabulos cursed a tribe of hill giants, created the diseased, pestilent race of rot giants.

References

Citations
  1. ↑ Dragon #323 (Sep 2004), p.65.
  2. ↑ Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), p.114.
  3. ↑ "Greyhawk 2000".  Dragon #277 (Nov 2000), p.51.
Bibliography
  • Athans, Philip. "Greyhawk 2000". Dragon #277. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000. p48-54.
  • Brown, Anne. Player's Guide. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
  • Clough, C. Wesley, et al. "Creature Catalog VI." Dragon #355. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.
  • Gygax, Gary. "The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk." Dragon #71. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
———. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.

Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index

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Topic Type Description Product Page/Card/Image

Blessings of Incabulos Kingdom Reference SEE Incabulos, Blessings of
Charnelhouse (Incabulos' Realm) Planar Plane/Dimension, On Hallowed Ground 166, 180
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Dragon magazine #264 47
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Dragon magazine #298 77
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Dragon magazine #306 100
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Dragon magazine #359 73
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Dungeon magazine #105 47, 49, 64, 65, 66
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Dungeon magazine #148 43
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess 74, 75, 83, 95
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, From the Ashes: Campaign Book 48
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, From the Ashes: References Card #4
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, From the Ashes: References Card #5
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Greyhawk Adventures 3, 12, 74, 75
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Ivid the Undying 20, 82, 139, 148
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Living Greyhawk Gazetteer 114, 122, 172, 177
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Living Greyhawk Journal #1 28
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Living Greyhawk Journal #3 16
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, On Hallowed Ground 166, 167, 180, 184, 185, 188, 191
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Player's Guide to Greyhawk 5, 19, 21, 52
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Polyhedron magazine #129 38
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, SJR6 Greyspace 90
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Slavers, AD&D 2e 90, 94
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil 120
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, The Adventure Begins 108, 109, 120
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, WGA4 Vecna Lives! 60
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, WGR4 The Marklands 65, 66, 81, 95
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, WGR5 Iuz the Evil 6
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) 63, 70
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) 38, 42
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Bastion of Faith 87
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions 33, 56, 71, 77, 89-91
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, The City of Greyhawk: Gem of the Flanaess 87, 93
Incabulos {Incabulous} Deity The Evilsent, Worshipped by: Human, Native of: Hades, Dragon magazine #071 53
Incabulos, Blessings of Kingdom Disease, Dungeon magazine #105 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 63, 66
Incabulos, Shrine of (City of Greyhawk) Building Shrine, The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions 90, 91
Incabulos, Shrine of (City of Greyhawk) Building Shrine, Living Greyhawk Journal #1 28
Incabulos, Shrine of (Midmeadow) Building Shrine, WGR4 The Marklands 65, 95
Incabulos, Shrine of (Suncliff city) Building Shrine, Dungeon magazine #105 64, 65
Incabulos, Temple of (Erelhei-Cinlu) Building Temple, Dragon magazine #298 77
Incabulos, Temple of (Highport) Building Temple, Slavers, AD&D 2e 90, 94
Incabulos, Temple of (Spinecastle) Building Temple, Dungeon magazine #148 43
Plague (LVL4) (Incabulos) Spell Spell (Cleric), From the Ashes: References Card #05
Plague (LVL4) (Incabulos) Spell Spell (Cleric), Greyhawk Adventures 12
Plague (LVL4) (Incabulos) Spell Spell (Cleric), Priest's Spell Compendium Volume 2 449
Plague (LVL4) (Incabulos) Spell Spell (Cleric), Priest's Spell Compendium Volume 3 798
Specialty Priest of Incabulos People Group Religious order, From the Ashes: Atlas of the Flanaess 83
Specialty Priest of Incabulos People Group Religious order, Greyhawk Adventures 12
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