The Inhuman Gods
Many are the ancient races of Enzada, and
among them are some very long-lived beastkin, such as the ratkin, the egleppi
and other humanoids that bear as much in common with beasts as man. These
different races and their cultures have a variety of unusual gods.
Hanar the Bloody The Lord of Slaughter
Chaotic Evil; Runes, War, Madness; Duwende
Cthonic God
The duwende dwarves sought refuge under the
earth five thousand years ago to escape the terrible reign of the ancient
Inhuridan Empire. In their long journey into the winding byways of the deep
underworld beneath the Hub of Etyri, the dwarves encountered many ancient
chthonic beings that were at once threatening and benign. One such being was
Hanar the Bloody, who is said to have been a great wyrm that took on dwarven
form and rules the dwarves for a time as a bloody emperor. To this day, though
no one knows what happened to Hanar those thousands of years ago, his memory is
carried on by dedicated warrior cults who revere the Lord of Slaughter,
practicing the dwarven art of berserkergang in his name.
Gold'gatha Lord
of the Great Shiny Heap
True Neutral; Artifice, Earth, Trickery,
Luc; Ratkin God
The stories around Gold'gotha’s manifestation
as as many and varied as there are ratkin to tell them. The best that has been
pieced together is that Gold'gotha is a great device or machine, or perhaps a
massive heap of sentient rubble located deep in the caverns beneath the city of
Uralhat (though some say it is far away, or in the In-Between, so who knows)
that speaks prophetic declarations to its followers. The most popular story is
that Gold'gotha fell from the sky and imbedded itself deep in the earth, where it
has cared for the ratkin who protected it in those early days ever since. Some
even claim it granted sentience to the ratkin, making them what they are today
(and all of civilization thanks Gold'gotha for that).
Yaspa Rukar God
of Frogs
Chaotic
Neutral; Egleppi Deity
This mysterious non-human deity is regarded
as the batrachians creator god for egleppi and other amphibious beings. His
cults are a mystery to most everyone, and their purposes obscure.
Shadan Hatail God of Lizard Men
True Neutral;
Reptillian God (primordial)
The lizard men of Selindar worship this
deity, claiming it is their creator god, a being from beyond the stars that
seeded the land with their kind when the earth was young. They do not attempt
to reconcile this belief with the parallel myth of Pytharos, of the Dasamite
pantheon, though some lizard men in that region claim Pytharos was the first
immortal demiurge of their kind, created as a son by Shadan Hatail.
Azan Serak
True Neutral;
Sholtiric Ophidian Deity
The chief deity of the ophidians is the god
Azan Serak, an ancient deity that they claim was the father of Drod the star
God. The ophidian cults feel that Azan Serak forged the very substance of time
and space as an experiment, and from this weave of the cosmos he sent forth his
spawn, of which Drod was but one, to tunnel through it to see what his
creations had wrought. They feel that all life on Enzada evolved naturally as a
course of the cosmic weaving, and that Pytharos was simply the greatest of an
ancient legacy of their kind, who created humanity and their ilk in a clever
alchemical experiment.
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