Ozha-Ban
His Harvester Maledict (a.k.a. The Doom Lich)
Ozha-Ban is a deity counted among malevolent Unspoken Six. He was once a mortal man but was drawn to the necromancy and the Old Magics. After enslaving large numbers of mortals for his own ends, Ozha-Ban drew the united wrath of the Heavenly Council. After avoiding the Reckoning of Old Temekan, Ozha-Ban managed to ascend to godhood. He was kept from granting all of his followers divinity when the goddess Myurdin sealed away the Old Magic behind the Astral Gates. Ozha-Ban fled the Material Plane to found his own dimension outside the control of the Heavenly Council. Here, in the Doom Caverns, he courts more followers interested in breaking the boundaries between life and death.
Divine Domains
Ozha-Ban's followers consider him to be the god of liches, sin, drow, wrath, unnaturalism, cruelty, necromancy, and the Doom Caverns. His divine domains are Death and War.
Holy Books & Codes
Most of the books that Ozha-Ban's followers consider sacred are explicitly considered illegal or worse, truly evil texts with a malevolent will of their own. Most well known among these is the Prophecy of Soben, a Temekanian-era magical text believed to have been written in a code by Ozha-Ban's followers.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Ozha-Ban's divine symbol is that of a silver skull with ruby eyes. His sacred colors are silver and ruby red.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To unite and rule the Unspoken Six and then break them out into the Material Realm, where they can rule as he once did. He has vowed to destroy the Heavenly Council and erase all evidence of their godhood from the cosmos.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Ozha-Ban was originally a handsome young Temekanian prince. After ascending to godhood, he appeared only in his Black Vizard, occasionally peering through with glinting eyes. More recent depictions of Ozha-Ban show a skeletal man with a silver mask in black robes. His eyes glow red with hunger and are often associated with rubies.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
From Nioa—An Adventurer’s Guide:
The other great Temekanian, and the individual who spelled doom for his people was the great Ozha-Ban. In his youth, the Doom Lich lived life in obscurity, a minor prince in a great Temekanian court. According to legend, at the funeral of his brother in the magnificent Valley of Dusk, when he stumbled upon the hidden workshop of Myurdin. Unlike the Sable Witch, who worked in secret, Ozha-Ban shared his newfound knowledge of the Script with the people of Temekan. He unlocked the secrets not only to mere revivification, but also to immortality. The people of Temekan became obsessed with it, and under Ozha-Ban’s leadership, after of course he killed the rest of his family, the land of Temekan cast off the worship of the Heavenly Council and devoted their bodies, minds, and spirits to the worship of their new god-king, Ozha-Ban, the Eternal. Soon, Ozha-Ban became frustrated. He could do much, but not as much as Myurdin and many of the most tantalizing secrets of the world remained secure in the hands of the Heavenly Council. He began to conspire to gain dark allies, once disparate forces that had troubled the Heavenly Council here and there into a single unified entity that could defeat them. Needless to say, the gods soon learned of this plan and proceeded to destroy the source of their power. Telerashi summoned all the power of the storms and sent wind, and sand, and rain down upon the Temekanians. Standing at the edge of the Mashiq, where the virtuous exiles of the Temekan Empire lived, she washed away their mighty palaces, flooded the grand gardens, and smashed apart all of their treasures and magical tools. Even the mighty Ozha-Ban fell to Telerashi’s wrath. But Ozha-Ban’s powers now gave him reign over both life and undeath. He rose from the ashes of his people’s death and vowed to one day cast down the Heavenly Council whom had destroyed all that he loved.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
To unite and rule the Unspoken Six and then break them out into the Material Realm, where they can rule as he once did. He has vowed to destroy the Heavenly Council and erase all evidence of their godhood from the cosmos.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Despite his recent ascension to godhood, Ozha-Ban is believed to lead the Unspoken Six because of his amiable nature to all of the other five evil gods.
Family Ties
Ozha-Ban killed all of his mortal family before ascending to godhood, effectively ending the Mithril Era's millennia long lineage of Temekanian Pharaohs.
Religious Views
Ozha-Ban views all other gods not as deities but as entities as mortal and flawed as ordinary person.
Divine Classification
God Lich
Alignment
Lawful Evil
Ethnicity
Realm
Church/Cult
Honorary & Occupational Titles
His Harvester Maledict; the Eternal Pharaoh; the Last Pharaoh; the Doom Lich; Soben;
Birthplace
Old Temekan
Children
Current Residence
The Doom Caverns
Aligned Organization
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