The Thief God

The god of Thieves has no name. Should anyone discover it, they will steal it back. They have no gender, no race, no ethnicity. Their face is never seen.
They were born of shadow and a changeling child, or of the god of kings and the goddess of darkness, or of the formless void's amusement and curiosity. On the day they were born, they could walk and talk, and they were hungry. They stole a sacrifice to another god and a star from the sky to cook it. They used the sacrifice's leftovers to drug the other god, and help their terrorized followers escape him.
They have never been caught, never has their face been seen. To this day they may be found in the shadows of Death's garden, stealing souls.

Summary

There are few or no known facts about the god of thieves, merely rumors. They are mostly worshiped by orcs under the name Soul Taker or Demon's Cheat and it may be another name for the orcish god of liars, Lutak, or it might be Lutak's sister, Vokagu, who is known to be at least partly responsible for "The Day The Chains Were Missing," or it might be Vokagu's foreign lover.
The oldest form of the myth of the nameless Thief god is a claim that a faceless or shadowed person arrived, stole the entire viciously cursed burial site of King Unkham the Loud, and once more showed their unharmed face, though nobody could describe it.

Historical Basis

The major thieves' guild of Rachis had an appropriately timed disappearance the year all proof of the existence of Unkham's tomb disappeared. Immediately prior to the disappearance of the thief, whose name was the only guild member not recorded thoroughly, the sacrifices in over a dozen local temples disappeared and so did a recorded star. A scratched out name in an old stone record precedes the following sentence: "XXX brags about stealing offerings from the temples nearby for dinner. They were good but I wonder if we will be cursed for it. A star has gone missing from the sky and we can only hope the gods will not throw it at us."

Spread

Everyone in the Rachis mountains knows to curse The Thief when something expensive goes missing. Orcs praise a similar figure, but given the separation between the countries at the time of the first written accounts it is unlikely to be the same nameless Thief.
The theft of sacrifices for other gods is seen as the only sign of direct worship, and it is held more accurately as a hazing ritual than a religious one.

Variations & Mutation

Myths about the Nameless Thief are easy to find because they tend to roll up any local descriptions of uncaught thieves. If the face and details of a thief are not known, it becomes part of the Nameless Thief myth.
It is also possible that someone scratched out the names on purpose, as one very specific name length does appear repeatedly in notes about a prodigious member of a thieves guild that went missing the same year the tomb of Unkham the Loud was robbed.
Some versions give precise parentage but they don't last long. Most conflict is over whether the god kept the star.

Cultural Reception

Orcs have a difficult relationship with most gods outside of their own. They do like the Unnamed Thief, though they think it might be Vokagu.
Everyone else considers the Unnamed Thief either a fun anecdote or someone to curse when things go missing.

In Literature

There are a series of poems, epic and otherwise, usually asking for the return of a stolen object or the theft of a loved one back from death. Someone wrote an excellent play about a deity of justice who chased the nameless thief until the end of the world with a scale to measure them against a truth feather, but while they did catch the thief for a moment, the thief had no name to measure against truth. They jumped on the scale, stole the feather and escaped.

In Art

faceless people holding glowing objects, wall murals that place lanterns on hand shaped shelves, even cloaked people reaching for stars while holding dripping bags in the other hand are all major artistic patterns after the stolen star myth.
An incredible famous ancient mural entirely of gemstones exists where the Nameless Thief is depicted holding out a long chain with many types of valuables hanging off of it like charms with a star made of rainbow diamond in the center which is hit by direct sunlight only on the winter solstice sunset.

Date of First Recording

1 Sectioning Era

Date of Setting

500 Organization Era

Related Organizations

• Society For Creative Reorganization