The Vestiges

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The Cadences	The Axioms	The Betrayers	The Endarchs	The Vestiges

Overview
The Vestiges are the Deities thought dead or missing, though what it means for a God to die is largely speculation. Some beliefs hold that they simply no longer exist, where others say their divine souls live on, in an afterlife unknowable to mortals. Others hold that their Gods are merely sleeping, and that with enough worship, they might reawaken. Whatever the case, one thing is certain: the echoes of their influence can still be felt.

Asgorath, the Worldshaper. "A-ZhoRan was the first God. First to arise, and first to die. Apocrypha stands testament to that." Epithets: Aghra'aat, the Creator Dragon. A-ZhoRan. Io. The Iridescent Koi. The Prismatic Wyrm.
Alignment: All.
Domains: Any.
Plane: Apocrypha, formerly All.
Pronouns: They / Them Asgorath is the all-encompassing vestige of all elements and unity; the first and most powerful deity. After leading the gods against the Elemental Lords and shaping Apocrypha, they perished and fell to the planet. Those who revere the Worldshaper follow these principles:

Understand that seemingly opposing concepts are but two facets of a beyond-infinite whole.
Ensure that all forces have a place amongst reality, and reject the hegemony of any one power or ideal.
Accept destruction, and opportunities for creation it yet brings. The Great Wheel turns ever-onward.

Asgorath's Avatar is a serpentine dragon of all elements, with fish-like scales and fin-shaped wings.
Their Aspects are Bahamut and Tiamat, who became fully realised gods upon the Worldshapers's demise.
Exarchs are Sardior, the Ruby Gem Dragon Demigod of knowledge, and Null, Dragon Demigod of death.

The Nameless God, and He Who Was. "The Nameless God is both the timeless edifice, and the sand that wears it away. It simply... is." Epithets: Is. The Light Upon Our Lips. A Name Forgotten. He. The First Sun.
Alignment: Neutral Good, Lawful Neutral.
Domains: Death, Forge, Grave, Light, Life, Order, Peace, Twilight.
Plane: Unknown, formerly Apocrypha.
Pronouns: It / Its (Nameless), He / Him (Who Was). Creator of humanity; now the vestige of life, light, language, time, progress, and existence itself. He Who Was died imprisoning Tharizdun and Asmodeus, though the Asari tell of his divine soul ascending beyond even godhood. A Nameless God, guiding all who walk in its light:

Travel, and share culture. Is gave its name to gift us a common tongue, and lives on in our stories.
Carry history in your heart, but do not cling too tightly to a past that is being buried by time.
The cycle of life and death is sacred - face matters pertaining to it solemnly, and with humility.

He Who Was is depicted as a human silhouette upon a sun. The Nameless God has no set Avatar or depictions.
There are no known Aspects, but worshippers of The Nameless God believe it lives on in the common tongue.
Contemporary understanding is that Pelor and Asmodeus were His Exarchs, prior to the latter's betrayal.

Nerull, the Flesh Reaper. "At this point, I'm beginning to suspect that deicide is a rite of passage for the Gods of Death." Epithets: Bringer of Darkness. Foe of All Good. Hater of Life. King of All Gloom. The True Death-God.
Alignment: Neutral Evil.
Domains: Death, Grave, Trickery.
Plane: Agathys, Carceri, formerly Pluton, Hades.
Pronouns: He / Him. Nerull is the vestige of death, undeath, and necromancy. Ascending from mortality by killing a long forgotten predecessor, he in turn fell to the Raven Queen. His corpse now sealed within Carceri, his worshippers toil in attempts to resurrect him thus:

Slay all who stand before you. The living are but the larval husks of the eternal and unending dead.
Pursue the downfall of the Flesh Reaper's hated foes, and of all who would try to inherit his domain.
Bring the worshippers of false death-gods before him, so their souls might fuel his glorious undeath.

The Flesh Reaper's Avatar is a hooded figure wielding a scythe; a rotting human skull barely visible beneath.
Nerull's Aspects were Kelemvor and Myrkul, who became aspects of the Raven Queen and Vecna, respectively.
Though mostly speculation, it is rumoured that the Raven Queen and Vecna were once his Rival-Exarchs.

Primus, the Supreme Modron. "Duodrone, your questions of the Primus are aberrant. You will be repaired. The Primus is supreme." Epithets: The One and the Prime. The Lord and Lady of the Sequence of Seventeens.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral.
Domains: Order, War.
Plane: Regulus, Mechanus.
Pronouns: She / Her, formerly He / Him. The Primus is the vestige of law, order, and all modrons. Closer to comatose than dead, she telepathically commands modrons across Mechanus. The Primus is routinely 'decommissioned', and replaced by another modron. In the words of a spokesmodron:

We are perfect law. We are perfect order. We are perfect structure. The Primus is supreme.
We maintain the Sequence of Seventeens. As it was, as it is, as it must be. The Primus is supreme.
Two-hundred, eighty-nine. Four-thousand, nine-hundred, thirteen. The Primus is supreme.

Her Avatar is a feminine head and torso of molten gold, connected to countless wires, pipes, and gears.
Modrons acknowledge different iterations of the Primus as the same entity; considered Aspects of one-other.
Exarchs of the Primus are the Secundi, four modrons who each oversee one of the great gears of Mechanus.

Torog, the Crawling King. "Millennia, with barely a rumour of slavery. At least other vestiges had heirs. All the Worm has left is dirt." Epithets: Godworm. He Who Deserved No Less. King Over All Cattle. The Thrice-Straked Sufferer.
Alignment: Neutral Evil.
Domains: Death, Trickery, War.
Plane: Apocrypha, formerly the Far Realm.
Pronouns: He / Him. Torog is the vestige of imprisonment, slavery, and torture; killed by the Ungodlings in the Second War of the Gods. Slavery has been all but eradicated on Apocrypha - twisted into different concepts by his former Slave-Exarchs. His dogma was once as follows:

Burrow ever-deep beneath creation, dragging all that you can into the suffocating depths.
Torture and torment as a tribute to the Godworm, and offer up your own suffering in turn.
Shackle and chain anything which deigns itself to be free, and punish it for its insolence.

His Avatar is a colossal, pale, fleshy-skinned worm with a human face; three spindly arms sprouting around it.
Aspects of Torog were Laduguer, the Duergar Demigod, and Loviatar - who later became an Aspect of Bane.
The Crawling King's Exarchs were Castien, and the Lady of Pain, themselves slaves who hated the vestige most.