Mammon

Mammon is the archduke of Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells, and the patron of greed and lust. He is a baatezu.

Appearance
Mammon usually appears as a giant with serpentine features such as a brown-spotted lower body. His head is hideous in appearance with a jaw of pointy teeth with serpent fangs and black lips, and white eyes with no features (which do not affect his vision). His upper body was muscular and humanoid, with two arms.

Personality
Mammon is ruthless, greedy and lustful. He is able to use words and magic in a cunning way, establishing a friendship before committing an act of betrayal, often violently.

Mammon invites mortals to his palace and asks them to attend his court, as a test of loyalty, where he grants them riches and power. He prefers to play with mortals, lulling them into a false sense of security, and enjoys seeing them surprised when he turns on them.

Mammon is indirect and venomous. Mammon is known for speaking in riddles, never coming straight to the point even when giving orders.

Equipment
Mammon carries a magic shortspear, and is known to use a number of potions, including oil of invisibility, potion of greater magic fang, and potion of haste. He also wears a ring of protection and bracers of armor.

Relationships
During the Reckoning of Hell, he was allied with Mephistopheles and Dispater, with Glasya was his consort. After his many betrayals, however, no one in the Nine Hells trusts him. He has earned the dislike of Tiamat for his subverting of evil dragons.

Powers and abilities
Mammon has an immunity to fire and poison, and can resist cold and acid. Mammon is infamous for his use of dark magics. He can also assume the form of a pit fiend at will. His touch corrupts, turning otherwise good people into greedy vicious killers who will turn on their friends for their loot.

Mammon is able to speak Celestial, Common, Draconic and Infernal, and is also telepathic. He can see in any amount of light.

Mammon can charm monsters and hurl fireballs, as well as using greater teleport, being able to see invisibility, and having numerous other spell-like powers. He is also able to summon baatezu to assist him. Mammon's limbs, if severed, will regrow within around 5 minutes. He is also able to reattach the stumps of severed limbs almost instantly.

Cults and followers
Mammon's cults on the Material Plane are numerous, and he is popular amongst humanoids and non-humanoids alike, especially amongst the selfish and cruel races. He has illithid and beholder servants, as well as evil dragons, which he considers above the others, although Tiamat looks down upon this.

A temple to Mammon will typically be a grand display of wealth, with traps and guards to protect it. The alter itself is usually covered in gold and jewels, and sacrifices are made with blades adorned with jewels. A cleric of Mammon is typically very wealthy through exploitation and coercion, and will typically wear red robes with gold trim, and as much gold jewellery as possible.

Notable cultists included the dwarf Dorban Smokestone and the illithid Ruulam.

Servants of Mammon
The Servants of Mammon is the name given to Mammon's army, based in Minauros. It consists mainly of osyluths and hamatulas with gelugon commanders.

Symbol
Mammon's symbol consists of an open pair of scaled, red hands above a diamond-shaped black gem.

Background
Mammon's original form, which he can assume at will, was that of a pit fiend, but he was altered by Asmodeus. He betrayed both Dispater and Mephistopheles, his former allies, and as a result, is not trusted by any archdevil.

As a result of the betrayal, Mammon has to plead to Asmodeus to retain his position. Mammon was cursed by Asmodeus and is confined to the city of Minauros. He lusts for more power than he currently has; his ambition is to remove the curse and return to what he considers to be his rightful place, along with Glasya.

Despite the general lack of trust towards Mammon, he has gained influence over the witch-queen Zbavra.

Dogma
Mammon represents greed, lust, and ambition. He is two-faced, sly, deceptive, scheming,calculated, cold, calculating, serpentine,treacherous, treasonous, revengeful,ruthlessness,unexpressive,deceitful,vengeful,cruel,cunning, conniving, spiritless,soulless, nonemotional, deadpan, nonexpressive, emotionless, expressionless, vindictive, and arrogant, always looking for imagined insults. Mammon's servants wage economic warfare on good, prosperous nations in an attempt to collapse their economies, hoping that in their desperation the newly impoverished souls will turn to Mammon for salvation.