up. Games In the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, "Cacodemon" is a seventh level magic-user spell. It was used to summon a type IV, V, or VI demon to the player character's location in the game world. The spell was omitted from the early versions of the second edition of the game, and was later revised in the Planescape product line, in which it could summon a variety of powerful tanar'ri or baatezu. The spell was eventually phased out in the third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons game in favor of a more comprehensive creature-summoning spell. In the fantasy video game Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, the BioWare Infinity Engine equivalent of the "Cacodemon" spell is known as "Cacofiend". In the fantasy world Glorantha, Cacodemon is the god of lawlessness and ogres. In the Doom video game series developed by id Software, Cacodemons are an enemy, depicted as levitating, spherical, one-eyed monsters that fire burning projectiles. They have appeared in every game of the series. In Final Fantasy XI MMORPG, the Terrestrial Avatar Diabolos uses a special attack called "Cacodemonia". In Anarchy Online MMORPG, a pet that one of the professions can summon is the Cacodemon. In Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom, Cacodaemons are large red demons encountered on floor 777. In the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, cacodaemons are many-eyed, tadpolish daemons used as pets by greater ones and as familiars by spellcasters. In Smite, there is a set of three Cacodemon skins for the playable God Ymir. In Magic: The Gathering, Dread Cacodemon is a card from the Commander expansion. In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Cacodemons are large, yellow demons who attack with projectiles and hexes. In Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, a "kakodaimon" is part of a pivotal combat encounter. See also Genius (mythology) Greek mythology Ancient Greek religion References Further reading 16th-century neologisms Demons Shapeshifting Daimons