The Lord of Gluttony?

I personally try to avoid pinning the seven deadly sins to Lords of the Nine, I feel that it limits them too much. The most gluttonous is probably Baalzebul (building new cities, being wasteful, and ruining his layer, etc.)

Considering the intense paranoia, constantly changing city layout and city within a city aspect I would say that Dispater is the farthest from the concept of sloth.

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I would say that each archdevil should be asociated with several "sins" that they use as their signature tools in temptation of mortals. Thus giving them some sort of portfolio.

For example: Bel could be asociated both with despair, wrath and hate. Wich sould suit him fine since he is warlord and that sins could be tied to war.

Also they described type of fiend (devil) that look like obese gigants without faces with gapping holes for mouth.
They were asociated with gluttony but I cannot remember source where they introduced them (think it was "Book of Vile Deeds"). They called them Garganthuans or Gargathanzu or something.

EDIT: Ghargatula, they were called Ghargatula.

From Merriam Webster

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I disagree on Sloth being tied to Dispater.

Considering how he's constantly rearranging and managing a layer-sized city and taking countermeasures to thwart (imagined or real) plots and assassination attempts against him, I’d say he’s a pretty productive lord of the nine.
The fact that he doesn't leave his tower doesn't mean he's inactive or lazy – he’s about as vigilant as they come. To me that doesn’t fit with slacking off.

I did read it. I still don't see how sloth applies to Dispater in this context any more than it does to other lords (as you also touch on). In fact, various parts make me think of specific traits that can be attributed to other Lords of the Nine:

This part might apply to Baalzebul when he was known as Triel - the ways of righteousness grew weary on him, and he took the "less hindering" way of tyranny. Dispater, on the other hand, despises "right living" (as in being Good) but it’s not because of a need to be laborious.

This part might apply to Mammon - he's pretty much the opposite of the charitable type, and he proved too unconcerned with preserving his good standing with his superior, that he dared take his (Asmodeus') daughter as consort for a while. As to Dispater, torpor is hardly a defining trait - considering how he spies on allies and enemies alike all the time, he can't really be credited with a lack of energy.

I wouldn't call Dispater productive. All that rearranging and repair of Dis is pointless toil.

That's an awesome link Rip! The theological definition makes a lot more sense for Dispater.

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There was a lengthy discussion on these forums awhile back.

The problem with placing the Torment timeline is that the factions still exist while the Githzerai capital of Shra'kt'lor was destroyed many years ago. It would seem Torment was suppose to be set in the distant future but the existence of the factions as a major influence contradicts the Faction War canon.

Do a search on Torment and you can probably find the old discussion thread.

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The game explicitly takes place in the 127th year of Factol Hashkar's reign, the same year as The Factol's Manifesto.

It's the fact that Dispater never leaves his tower (that is, sloth in the common sense of the word) that clinches the sloth label to me. His minions do all the work for even the most trivial tasks. I don't think he gets credit for forcing petitioners to rebuild the streets or snoop in peoples' windows. He personally is disinclined toward labor, so he delegates it to others. He is certainly disinclined toward doing works of good, though I agree that that in itself doesn't make him stand out among the Nine. It's the fact that he also avoids other obligations due to his habitual avoidance of risk or pain. Dispater is by far the most risk-averse of the archdevils.

Levistus is forced to be even more sessile than Dispater, but this is by curse and not by inclination.

Mammon is greedy, which isn't the opposite of being charitable. Charity is defined as love for your neighbor and the Divine, and isn't absolutely incompatible with avarice, though obviously they don't work together well or Avarice wouldn't be a sin. You can crave material goods and simultaneously feel enough love toward your fellows to care for their needs and desires as well, although obviously Mammon does not. Sloth, however, is the opposite of the charitable impulse.

Anyway, as I said, I don't think the Lords of the Nine map to the Seven Deadly Sins directly. There are nine of them and only seven sins to go around, for one thing. Their personalities are complex enough that you could make a case that Mammon is Pride (only before the Reckoning) and Baalzebul is Sloth, or Baalzebul as Gluttony and Glasya as Sloth, or the Hag Countess as Wrath and Levistus as gluttony or many other possible combinations.

Yes, see this post. It's in a diary you find in the Mausoleum.

Could be. I'm just going by what the encyclopedia said.