The Strife Emporer

Alignment: Lawful Evil Blood-drenched armies of brutal warriors oft crush their foes in the name of the Strife Emperor, the evil patron of war and conquest. To serve his will is to accept the call to conflict, seeking lesser people to break and subjugate. War-mongering nations and goblinoid tribes worship the Strife Emperor as they strike out at the world to bend it beneath them. The Strife Emperor twists all living things to his iron will, even forcing nature itself to bow to his whims. A dark reflection of the honorable warrior, the Strife Emperor is often depicted as a brutish ogre-like man clad from head to toe in jagged black armor. Heads dangle from his belt, and the shadow that obscures his helmeted face does not hide his unblinking, piercing yellow eyes. The Strife Emperor’s greatest enemy is the Wildmother, the goddess who defeated him at Rifenmist during the Calamity. The Strife Emperor grew his armies by corrupting noble creatures into monsters and destroying the wilds to fuel his terrible engines of conflict, and the two deities clashed many times during the war before his defeat at Beynsfal Plateau. The emperor’s massive iron armor still litters Beynsfal, and his massive helmet houses the capital city of a ruthless hobgoblin empire.

Divine Domains

Domain: War

Tenets of Faith

• Fear is your ally. Conquer yours, and draw it from your foes. • Disorder and rebellion are to be punished severely. • Combat is the greatest gift, and perfecting your skills to master it is the greatest pursuit.

Divine Classification

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