Jakobi, the Hobo King
Minor God of Poverty, Malediction, Information, Pathways, and Potential
Titles: The Hobo King, The Abandoned Aspect, The Cursed Avatar, Poor Man Jakobi, Pauper's Pride, The Wagonhopper, The Maledictor
Roles: Travel the Land, Watch over the poor and the pauper, Catch those that fall through the cracks, Foster the potential of the downtrodden, Create new Diseases and Curses
Favored Weapon: Kama
Alignment: True Neutral
Area of Worship/Followers: The Poor, The Downtrodden, Witches, Poisoners, The Homeless, Wanderers, Adventurers
Main Temple and Location: Roamer's Respite, Extraplanar
Rival/Enemy/Unliked Gods: None/Unknown
Obedience: Spend one hour finding suitable out of the way locations for yourself and others to rest in the future, and mark those places for others to find. While doing so, chart any less-traveled paths or forgotten roads and mark them as well.
Effect: You gain a racial +2 to all saves vs poisons and curses. You cannot become lost through mundane or magical means, and gain Thieves Cant as a bonus language.
Divine Domains
Nobility, Travel, Darkness(Loss Subdomain Only), Death(Plague Subdomain Only)
Holy Books & Codes
Jakobi's teachings are rarely inscribed into actual books, as his followers often either cannot read or lack the ability to buy or maintain books. Instead, his followers take his teachings and memorize them to spread them by word of mouth, or inscribe them on other objects or themselves as words or pictures.
When his followers can aquire it, he has a holy book called "Jakobi's Writ".
Divine Symbols & Sigils
An eye with a walking staff inside
Tenets of Faith
Live simply and own only what you can carry on you. Live a life free of possessions or burdens.
Each person is capable of great things. Ensure others get the chance to achieve those things.
Seek out the forgotten roads, pathways, and hideaways of the world and mark them for the similarly downtrodden to use.
Look out for those at the bottom. Curse those at the top and bring rot and disease to those who overlook or ignore the downtrodden.
Move and Act without notice and Learn what you should not. Take advantage of others' tendency to overlook misfortune and wield information as your weapon.
Holidays
Unknown
Divine Goals & Aspirations
Protect and uplift the downtrodden.
Bring rot and pestilence to the powerful and those who look down on the misfortunate.
Curse those on high and bring them suffering.
To break free of his prison and escape his bonds.
To break the curses places upon him by Vvaal, The Bound Obliterator.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
A Twisted Champion
Jakobi was once the mortal champion for the Minor God The Didact, lauded as the leader of his armies who led with a drive and zeal unmatched by all but the most peerless and radiant of souls. It was he who led the armies of his god during the calamitous time during the end of the Age of Barbarity and The Advent of The Unraveler, leading the forces of good against Hyldrin and all the forces of evil that would seek to destroy it. However, after the battle had ended and Vvaal, The Bound Obliterator broke free of the power of the Divine Trammels which held him, he fell into the hands of Vvaal himself and was corrupted and cursed by The Bound Obliterator into an undying avatar of his unholy might...cursed to lead a tortured existence and warped into a broken, shameful form. Unable to eat food without it turning to dust, unable to own possessions without them disintigrating, and unable to fight with his crippled form, it is believed that Jakobi, warped into the champion of Vvaal, was sealed away with his corruptor after the end of the Age of Barbarity and the formation of The Divine Gate, his new form that was little more than a mockery of what he once was sealed far away within Corexus, battleground of those final battles. Over time, though, as life moved on and he was forgotten, others neared his cage and supped deep of his mutated flesh, their bodies coming down with the diseases and curses imparted to him by Vvaal himself...inheriting his curses, but coming close enough to listen to his cries and learn of his tenets. Thus was Jakobi's faith born anew...
Know all things, and you wield all weapons.
Divine Classification
Alignment
True Neutral
Children
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