Juiblex
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Image:Juiblex.jpgIn the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Juiblex, also called The Faceless Lord, is the demon lord of slimes and oozes. Juiblex first appeared in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. He is likely derived from Abhoth, a similar demonic entity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Juiblex's lair is on the 222nd layer of the Abyss.
Juiblex also appears as a monster in the roguelike computer game NetHack.
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Description
Juiblex does not have a physical form as we know it; those who have visited his dark, muddy realm claim he is a slime-like creature who swallows other creatures alive, spits acidic secretions and causes diseases in his victims which can be almost instantly fatal.
Cult of Juiblex
Juiblex is also worshipped as a god by some renegade drow as the god of molds and slimes, although he cannot grant divine spells or divine powers, as he has no divine essence (expressed in D&D 3rd edition as divine rank). In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, Juiblex has been subsumed by and is now an aspect of the Elder Elemental God Ghaunadaur, the deity of oozes and slimes.
Trivia
Juiblex is mentioned in Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God.
While the demon-prince Orcus was presumed dead, Juiblex replaced him as one of the Six Monarchs of Demonium.
References
- Cook, Monte. Book of Vile Darkness (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
- Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual (TSR, 1977).
- Pentney, Campbell. "Caverns of the Ooze Lord." Dungeon #132 (Paizo Publishing, 2006).
- Sargent, Carl. Monster Mythology (TSR, 1992).