The Crawling King

Alignment: Neutral Evil The dark god of the endless tunnels and caverns beneath Exandria, the Crawling King acts as patron to torturers, slavers, and jailers across the realm. His tears of pain and anger carved the pathways under the world, and his realm of imprisonment is a network of deadly caves and manacles where few return. Those who rob others of their freedom offer prayers to him in cellars and other subterranean domains, and other creatures who live in the darkness below worship him and seek his guidance. The Dawnfather and the Everlight defeated the Crawling King during the Calamity by drawing their nemesis above ground. The Dawnfather pierced his body with 10,000 lances of sunlight, and the Everlight imprisoned him within her serene rays. The tears of suffering and rage the Crawling King shed burned through Exandria, and his faithful fled into these tunnels to escape their enemies’ holy light. The Crawling king is largely rendered as a swollen, malformed worm that slithers through the dark below, a screaming, hairless human head at the helm with three arms carving through the lightless rock.

Divine Domains

Domains: Death, Blood

Tenets of Faith

• Seek and exalt places where no light touches. • Revel in the pain you inflict upon others, and relish the pain you suffer yourself as an offering to the Crawling King. • Imprison those who cannot resist you, and drag all life into the darkness.

Divine Classification

Deity

Religions