Nobody knows quite why the ravenous god of chaos, with their acolytes of destruction and devastation, was given the rule of a Pillar alongside the rest of the Monarchical deities, but most people fear their place in the cosmos regardless of why they have it.
Nimhaesh's Doctrine
Nimhaesh is often understood as a harbinger of destruction. While this isn't incorrect, it isn't entirely accurate. Nimhaesh's own goal is almost certainly to destroy the laws of order that govern the cosmos. This is rarely achievable by mortal hands, so their disciples reign destruction in other gods' domains, vexing clerics and temples wherever possible. Their more powerful followers work to unwind the weave itself and break the walls between planes—anything to tear through the God-Queen's carefully crafted order. Many clerics of Nimhaesh wield magic that is difficult even to look at, as it works by warping and breaking the delicate walls of reality.
Chained to the Throne
Nimhaesh does not hate Kairos, but they resent the foundations upon which it is built. They despise what the God-Queen made of the universe, ordered and governed by natural laws imparted to protect and keep it. Nimhaesh reveled in the freedom of a world created for the divines, entirely unbound by rule or law. Even more than the other Monarchs, Nimhaesh is trapped, because the entire concept of the pillars goes against the core of their being. Whatever they were before the Exodus has been warped and changed into a being whose sole purpose is not to destroy the material plane, but to destroy what binds it to order.
The Abyss-Keeper
After the Exodus, the fiends who had been feeding on mortals in The Celestial Age were little more than fodder for more powerful things to kill, and three of the gods capitalized on this. Nimhaesh offered to carve a part of its realm into a place for them to reside, and The Abyss was born under The Pillar of Chaos. Over the years, the demons have built their own horrid layers, and Nimhaesh largely stays out of their affairs, but Nimhaesh is technically the god of the Abyss.
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