Incabulos

The Black Rider

Incabulos
Incabulos, the Black Rider, as depicted in Dragon #71 (1983).
General information
Portfolio:	Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, Disasters
Home:	Gray Waste of Hades
Alignment:	Neutral Evil
Gender:	Male
Superior:	None
Rules items
Domains:	Death, Evil, Destruction

Incabulos is the god of Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, and Disasters. His unholy symbol is the magic icon called the Eye of Possession.

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.

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.

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.

Bibliography

• 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.

• Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K. Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.

• Moore, Roger E. Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.

• Noonan, David. Complete Divine. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2004.

• Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1992.

• Ward, James M. Greyhawk Adventures. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1988.