In 2002, he was the antagonist for an Adventure Module, Bastion of Lost Souls. Some material published in the official D&D magazine, Dragon, revealed some of his demonic history and his place within the hierarchy of Demons (he's the Prince of Demons because no other demon is strong enough to claim otherwise). "Demogorgon started out as a super powerful creature that you just don't want to mess with, and then evolved into this entire character."ĭemogorgon wasn't an especially deep character in Advanced D&D, and he was hardly in 2nd Edition, but by 3rd Edition, a better sense of who he was started to emerge. "What I find really interesting about how he's evolved over time, Mearls adds. It really isn't much in terms of personality or who Demogorgon is." So, awesome, you beat him, you're going to get a giant horde of treasure. If you make it down to the very lowest level, there's a Demogorgon, you fight him, and you get treasure type X. "He's the monster at the bottom of the dungeon. "It essentially comes across as a super-powerful monster," Mearls says. Regardless, Demogorgon's entries in early Monster Manuals made sure to describe his horrific form, and "five paragraphs" detailing its numerous abilities in combat. "I had been told that in while some D&D demons have real-world names, there was an attempt to make them not resemble the mythology, so as to make it not look like there was anything occult-related going on," Mike Mearls, D&D's franchise creative director, tells SYFY WIRE, admitting that the story may be apocryphal. The appearance, though, is wholly original, as D&D's Demogorgon sports two grotesque baboon heads, tentacles for arms, and a vile reptilian hide. Creators Gary Gygax and Brian Blume borrowed the name, which is believed to derive from a mistranslation of an old Greek manuscript, from a demon who sporadically appeared in Christian literature, including John Milton's Paradise Lost. However, D&D's Demogorgon didn't always have much going for it in the way of characterization.ĭemogorgon (the D&D monster is a singular entity, so there's no need for a "the,") first appeared in 1976, in a supplemental rulebook for the original edition of the iconic roleplaying game. The self-proclaimed Prince of Demons was an iconic D&D monster well before he became a character in Netflix's hit show. When Mike Wheeler and his friends needed a name for the toothy, incredibly dangerous monster that was attacking the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana, in the first season of Stranger Things, there was only one option: The Demogorgon, which they lifted from one of Dungeons & Dragons' most dangerous foes.
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