Odile the Primal Saurian (O-die-ul)

Odile the Primal Saurian. He is part of the Primodrial Green, and Patron and God of the Lizardfolk, also known to be the God of Propagation, Survival and Instincts.

Church of Odile

Worshippers

Mainly and primarily worshipped by the Lizardfolk, but his worship did not take off until long after the fall of Zehir. Then the divided factions of lizardfolk began to worship Odile, who represented the instinct to survive. Thereafter, his worship seemingly declined as the lizardfolk started to spread across the regions.
His priests were all tribal shamans who had little care or any concerns to anything outside of their tribe and had no organised religion. In their tribes, they served as carers, healers and medicine-men. Even as tribal leaders. Like their god, they were typically untallkative. They called for their kin to avoid all contact with all other races, and even to limit contact with other Lizardfolk tribes, except for the purposes of breeding outside the tribe. Shamans were urged to breed every season, if ever they became infertile, they declined over a period of months and most eventually performed ritual suicide.

Orders

Temples & Shrines

Shrines only exist to Odile within the Lizardfolk tribes, and usually built from naturally resources and totems in testament to the Primal Saurian. A place in which the eggs and hatcheries resides within the tribes.

Realm

He resides within the Endless Menagerie within the Beastlands.

Divine Domains

Life - Nature

Holy Books & Codes

There are no written texts, as most Lizardfolk are illiterate. His worship is accepted and taught by the shamans, and passed on through oral tradition.

Divine Symbol

A cracked egg with a reptillian claw and yellow lizards-eye poking out.

Tenets of Faith

• Survive.
• Breed.
• Eat.
• Kill.

Dogma

Survive and breed. These are the only things that Odile wishes. Simply to exist and continue to exist.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

His purpose of his existece is simply to exist.

Personal History

Physical Appearance

Odile appeared as an outsized lizard man, strong and agile in both body and mind. He wore only a loincloth and sometimes armor. He wielded a club studded with razor-sharp fragments of shells. He never spoke except when necessary. Odile focused entirely on matters of survival and propagation, and nothing else. He taught his followers that any deed done in pursuit of these ends was good, and that any other action that was not was irrelevant and not even worth the effort. He encouraged them to reproduce, to live long lives, and to guarantee the safety of themselves and of their race. Neither good nor evil, nor lawful not chaotic, Odile was utterly amoral, uncaring, and unfeeling. He didn't even care much for the struggles of his own lizardfolk worshipers, let alone the issues of other beings, dismissing most of these as irrelevant to his greater concerns. He would not even send omens to his shamans. He would only intervene or send an avatar when a major crisis threatened lizardfolk communities on a massive scale, such as in the event of climate change or a major invasion of hostile forces. Very rarely would he make an appearance in anything less.

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