Acheron (disambiguation)
Acheron is a river in the Epirus region of Greece, believed in ancient Greek mythology to branch into the underworld.
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Acheron may also refer to:
Places
- Acheron, Victoria, a town in Australia
- Acheron (Elis), a river in the Peloponnese, Greece
- Acheron Island, an island off Queensland, Australia
- Acheron River (Victoria), Australia
- Acheron River (Marlborough), New Zealand
- Acheron River (Canterbury), New Zealand
Fiction
- Acheron (Dungeons & Dragons), one of the Outer Planes in Dungeons and Dragons cosmology
- Acheron Hades, a diabolical villain in Jasper Fforde's book The Eyre Affair
- A main character of the webcomic Inverloch
- The Acheron, a fictional 19th-century French warship in the motion picture Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Acheron LV-426, the planet where the film Alien, and its sequel are primarily set
- Acheron Parthenopaeus, a character in the Dark-Hunter series of romance books
Other uses
- Acheron (band), a Florida death metal band
- HMS Acheron, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
- Acheron-class torpedo boat, a torpedo boat of the New South Wales Naval Brigade
- Acheron language, a language of Sudan
- The earlier name for Abramelin, a Melbourne death metal band
gollark: Hmm. It *is* probably harder to do that sort of thing without that, yes.
gollark: You could use a nether portal, no?
gollark: Couldn't you just move somewhere else secretly?
gollark: There are a bunch of ways I can imagine to track people, and in modern packs it's quite easy to do basically whatever you want to someone's base if it's not claimed.
gollark: I imagine a radiing thing wouldn't have dynmap. But still.
See also
- Charon, ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology
- Hades, Greek god of the dead
- Styx, river between the world and the underworld in Greek mythology
- The Grim Reaper, a personification of death
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