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Everything we know about the 'gruesome' Gargoyle King on 'Riverdale'

"Riverdale" introduced a new threat to the town: The Gargoyle King. Here's everything we know so far about this new threat on the CW show.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for season three of "Riverdale."

With the Black Hood behind bars, a new threat has come to "Riverdale," and it's known only as the "Gargoyle King."

On the season three premiere of the hit CW series, this mysterious being was named for the first time, but as of now, not many details are available. Here is what we know so far.

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Dilton and Ben (Ms. Grundy's music student and drive-in vendor) are playing a game at Pop's that appears similar to "Dungeons and Dragons." When Jughead asks them what they are playing, Dilton tries to answer, but all he gets out is "Gryphons and..." before Ben tells him to shut up.

Later, when Jughead is preparing to go to Archie's trial, Dilton knocks on Jug's door in a panic.

"Ben and I thought it was just a game, a stupid role-playing game, but it's not," he says. "It's so much more. He's real."

"Who? Who is?" Jughead asks.

Jughead starts to leave but then Dilton yells out, "The Gargoyle King."

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Jughead brushes him aside and tells him to wait at the Jones' house and they'll talk about it later, but when he returns home, Dilton is gone. A paper covered in weird symbols and what looks to be a stick creature is left. Jughead deduces that the symbols are drawn over Fox Forest Park, so he heads there.

He finds Ben and Dilton unresponsive and kneeling in front of what looks like an altar with symbols carved into their backs.

Ben starts to choke and Jughead tries to help him as a liquid starts to drip from his mouth. Jughead screams for help as the scene ends. On the second episode, it's revealed that Dilton and Ben consumed cyanide, which ultimately killed Dilton.

The coroner tells Betty that he believes they are looking at "true evil," something worse than what happened to Jason Blossom and worse than the Black Hood.

When Betty and Jughead visit Ben in the hospital, they find a stick figure. Ben's mom mentioned a "nice girl" that left it, which turns out to be Ethel. She said she left the figure to protect Ben because they were dating. She also reveals that Dilton had a secret bunker in the woods.

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Betty and Jughead later find the bunker and discover that the poisoned chalice Ben and Dilton drank from was part of the game they were playing, "Gryphons and Gargoyles."

The game appears to be similar to "Dungeons and Dragons." In the bunker, Betty and Jug find coins with the Gargoyle King on them, drawings of the king, and various knick-knacks from the game.

Betty and Jug find the missing boy from Dilton's troop who was waiting for Dilton to return. The boy tells them that Ben and Ethel were just dating in the game and that she warned him about their visit.

When Betty and Jug confront Ethel at school, she has a seizure and Betty notices that Evelyn is in the room, possibly connecting the Farm and the game, though Evelyn shuts that theory down.

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At the hospital, the two go to check on Ben and find him perched on a windowsill. He tells them that Dilton was afraid of ascending but he's not and leans out the window to his death.

When Jughead stumbles upon the Gargoyle King in the woods, he follows the creature into the woods and stumbles upon a group gathered around a fire. Jughead says there were around 10 people standing around in gargoyle masks standing like they were "worshiping a king."

Archie says Joaquin may be part of it.

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Sweet Pea, Fangs, and Jughead find Joaquin in the woods with a gargoyle mask on him. When they question him, he says he was a "pawn." He also says that Archie was marked for death. He tells Jughead that the symbol burned into Archie's hip means "sacrifice."

Joaquin says that "the man in the black suit" controlled the warden, so Jughead goes to confront Hiram and calls him the Gargoyle King. Hiram denies the claim.

In the abandoned mines by Shadow Lake, there are drawings of the Gargoyle King and his associated symbols on the wall, he attacks Betty and Alice at the Cooper home, and when Betty is thrown into the Sisters of Quiet Mercy, everyone is painting various versions of the king.

Betty learns that the "Gargoyle King" has a "chamber" at the group home and is taken to see him after she is caught looking at her health file.

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While on Fizzle Rocks, Betty sees the Gargoyle King in Sister Woodhouses's office.

Showrunner and creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa described the Gargoyle King as "

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