God of the Dead, Wasting, Decay, 
    Corruption, Parasites, Old Age,
    Dusk, Fall, Exhaustion.
NE.
Greater God. 
Hades.
Symbol: A skull |or| skeletal hand

NOTES: This god usually appears as a 
cloaked, animated corpse--skeletal at 
its head, becoming fleshed toward its 
feet, which are gangrenous && rotting.  
Myrkul is said to have a cold, malignant 
intelligence && to speak a high whisper.  
His supernatural servants are 
known as "Deaths" such as that which 
appears as part of the deck of many things, 
DMG, p.143).  He can animate && 
<divine> command the dead, but has no 
power over undead above the level of 
zombies && skeletons.   Myrkul lives in 
the Castle of Bones, located in a moonless 
Land of Always Night (Hades).