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home=[[Limbo]]|rank         =Slaad lord|
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'''Wartle''' is a [[slaad]] lord, a rival of [[Ygorl]]. Ygorl defeated him and imprisoned him in the form of a meteor, casting the meteor toward [[Mount Celestia]] in the hope that this would destroy him. The chaotic aura of the meteor caused madness and mutations to spring up among the [[celestial]]s around it, on a citadel of the astral [[deva]] Arelsis in the ocean of Lunia. After being contained, he may have been destroyed by being brought to Chronias, the highest heaven, or he may have been sent back to [[Limbo]] to give a lesson to the other lords that Celestia is not to be used as their dumping ground.

==Description==
Although he is a Lord of Chaos, Wartle is not as powerful as [[Ssendam]] or [[Ygorl]]. Wartle appears as a short (five-and-a-half feet tall), bloated toad, colored grayish brown with sickly green spots. His skull is crested with small, backwards-pointing horns. He can also take the shape of a short, pudgy [[human]] with a whiny, raspy-sounding voice. In both forms he is covered in warts. He fights with a magical ''morning star'' that can also fight on its own.

Wartle appears, superficially, to be weak, cowardly, and incompetent, though he is actually a powerful and deadly creature. He has been described as whimsical, flippant, inconsistent, crude, and insulting. He is a notorious liar. He regularly demeans the other slaad lords, and in turn is not well-regarded on his plane, though some lesser slaadi have taken a liking to him.

== Bibliography == 
*Christian, Deborah, ''et al''. ''Tales of the Outer Planes''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1988.

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