Orcus represented the punishing aspect of the Roman underworld god, enforcing oaths and destroying the wicked, while Pluto embodied the ruler and wealth-giver. Both merged into a single figure over time.
Orcus held the Underworld as his domain of punishment, his gaping mouth the gateway through which oath-breakers and the wicked were dragged to their doom, his name becoming a Roman word for death itself.
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