Tharizdun
The Chained God
Tharizdun is the god of Eternal Darkness, Decay, Entropy, Malign Knowledge, Insanity, and Cold. Tharizdun is a long-forgotten god who craves nothing less than the unmaking of the universe, destroying everything—himself included—in the process. During the Dawn War, he created the Abyss, an act for which he was imprisoned by the gods. His followers hope to set him free. Despite his imprisonment, Tharizdun can still grant spells to the mad cultists who work in his name.
With his goal of destruction, Tharizdun is considered Chaotic Evil. Historically, however, he has been considered Neutral Evil. No beings have encountered Tharizdun for over a millennium, and his alignment can only be inferred from that of his insane followers.
Divine Domains
Death. Grave, Trickery
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Black spiral or inverted pyramid
Tenets of Faith
Tharizdun's exact dogma is unknown, as the ages he was imprisoned in the Abyss along with his own growing insanity left him unable to communicate in a meaningful manner. Even when he appeared to his followers, he only spoke to them in the form of a shrieking babble that was impossible for mortals to comprehend. The following are his assumed teachings, followed by his cults.
"Channel power to the Chained God, so he can break his chains. Retrieve lost relics and shrines to the Chained God. Pursue the obliteration of the world, in anticipation of the Chained God's liberation."
"Light must be snuffed, perfection decayed, order dissolved, and minds fragmented."
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Unlike most deities of Oerth, who take humanoid shape, Tharizdun appears as a dark, amorphous form reminiscent of a sentient sphere of annihilation. Contact with the deity brings insanity and death, and no accurate surviving descriptions or depictions of him remain.
Divine Classification
Deity
Alignment
Chaotic Evil
Honorary & Occupational Titles
The Dark God, The Ebon God, He of Eternal Darkness, Lord of Decay, the Ender, the Patient One, He Who Waits, the Anathema, the Father of Elder Evils, the Author of Wickedness, the Eater of Worlds, the Despised, the Undoer, the Chained God, the Lost God
Children
