The Illtir are considered the evil gods of Elturia. Small shrines are often kept of these evil deities along side the others as well just to stave off their ire.
Slaemdreki, The Tyrant Flame
Slaemdreki is said to lie sleeping in the bowels of Mt. Igma after fleeing a fight from her brother, Godreki. She sleeps to heal from her wounds and calls followers to her aid in her dreams. The mountain is too hot for any mortal to come near and Slaemdreki's followers guard this place with their lives. Slaemdreki has a loose alliance with Surtym, and though giants and dragons do not often get along they work together to the common goal of eventually subjecting the world to their might. In her true form Slaemdreki appears as a massive dragon with shifting colored scales. It is said that when she exhales the five chromatic breath weapons coalesce into one terrible banefire beam. Slaemdreki is the goddess of evil dragons and those that believe they are right to rule and have the power to show it.
Surtym, Father of Giants
The towering Surtym carved his children from the various elements within this plane and gave them sentience just as the mortals were crawling from the muck. Surtym is the god of giants and rigid tradition. Surtym dictated that each type of his children must appease him in different ways depending on what suited them best, and elevated the storm giants above all others. Surtym holds an unsteady alliance with Slaemdreki, since with the two forces together they believe they can conquer the mortal world when Slaemdreki wakes, and the adult chromatic dragons are the only creatures large enough to carry them into battle...
Nebri, The Shifting Shadow
The Creeping Fog, the Eyes in the Dark, and the Black Knife, Nebri is the god of spiders, snakes, shadows and secrets. Often portrayed as a relief of a snake circling a spider within a black circle, Nebri is revered by assasins, rogues, and serpent-folk. They urge thier followers to gather all secrets that could bring destruction and deposit them into the Black Library. Gifts to their followers often include bits of forbidden knowledge or more efficient ways to kill silently.
Acolytes of Nebri often worship them in secret. Some assassin's guilds contain shrines to them. Prayers often include pleas for aid in their missions, that someone will have an untimely death, or even to protect themselves from the eyes of assassins.
Hraedrek, The Mad Wrym
His name is not widely known, and those that know it often refuse to speak it in fear of having his gaze brought to them. He is often known simply as the Shackled, but other monikers include The Nether Breath, The Shadowed Doom, The Hungering Dark, and more. It is not widely known that Hraedrek is truly the oldest of god in Elturia and older than the land itself. He was once the god of order, stewarding the path of mortals in ways they did not realize. The seeds of Hraedrek's madness were planted when the matron of creation still graced this plane. He remembered something from that time, and before his decent into madness all that Godreki heard him say was, "They are in my head... burn this world!" Hraedrek incredibly powerful and laid waste to large segments of land, and causing the people of this world to be split across large distances. Elturia is just the first region to recover from his rampage some several hundred years later. As a result of this rampage, all the deities banded together to shackle Hraedrek to a place outside of reality where his ravings can cause no more harm. His whispers still reach Elturia however, and he is now patron to the spurned, the outcast, the mad, and those that embrace the shifting truths.
Gorlok, The Butcher
The God Slaughter, Blood Magic, Rage, and Battle, Gorlok is the patron deity to those who crave to prove themselves in battle or to settle a blood debt. The original children of Gorlok are far from the lands of Elturia so he butchered goblinkind's diety to steal his power. Now goblins revere him begrudgingly not knowing exactly where to place their faith. Gorlok pushes the goblin warbands to unify, and wait for his host of children to arrive in Elturia. Prayers to Gorlok often ask for glorious battle, strength in combat, or otherwise death to their foes. Shrines to Gorlok can be found at the sites of great battles, but as he is an evil deity there are not many temples to him outside of goblin encampments, save for the few sanctioned in city centers to stave off his gaze. His adherents and priests are expected to be well versed in the ways of combat.
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