Wand of Orcus

The Wand of Orcus is a fictional magical weapon described in various Dungeons & Dragons media. Because of the popularity of Orcus as a villain within the Dungeons & Dragons universe, many different authors have written materials describing artifacts created by or associated with the character. The Wand of Orcus is consistently the most important and most described of these artifacts.

The Wand of Orcus is first presented in the Eldritch Wizardry supplement in 1976, by Gary Gygax and Brian Blume, for the original (white box) Dungeons & Dragons game. There, it is also called "the wand of death" or "Orcus's Wand", and is described as "a rod of obsidian topped by a skull. It was mentioned in the first Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual by Gary Gygax, with an illustration by David C. Sutherland III on page 18. The wand was further detailed on page 162 of the 1979 Dungeon Masters Guide, also by Gygax, in the section on treasure (artifacts and relics). Another illustration of the wand appears on page 101 of the second edition boxed set Planes of Chaos (1994) by Lester Smith and Wolfgang Baur for the Planescape setting, in the section on Pandemonium. Third edition game statistics for the wand appear in the Book of Vile Darkness (2002) by Monte Cook, on page 122. The Wand of Orcus appears in the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide (2014).

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