Mogis

God Slaughter Mogis

Mogis is the god of slaughter, violence and war. His very presence typically insights violence and bloodlust. Where Iroas seeks victory and honor in battle, Mogis wants a drawn out and merciless bloodbath. He is hatred unrestrained, empathy denied and mercy forgotten.

Divine Domains

Mogis is the god of slaughter, violence, and war. He is hatred unrestrained, empathy denied, and mercy forgotten, an entity whose very presence incites mortals to violence. Soldiers fear succumbing to his blood lust lest they dishonor themselves, but the vengeful and forsaken call to him for the gift of his rage. He is the brother of Iroas, god of victory, and his antithesis in matters of warfare.

Artifacts

Baltas is Mogis's brutal axe that billows smoke and drips molten lava. The axe has a source of sentience or has adopted its master's lust for destruction and chaos. It is also a jealous thing, not allowing the wielder to possess any other weaponry.

Holy Books & Codes

Mogis’s favor isn’t difficult to earn for someone who lacks a moral compass. Mogis demands that blood be spilled in his service, preferably the blood of Iroas’s followers. Would-be champions should realize, though, that the god of slaughter invests in his followers with the expectation of receiving great returns. Those who disappoint, proving themselves incapable of sufficient cruelty or bloodshed, might find themselves on the wrong end of his blade.
To Mogis, the ideal follower is one who sheds all moral compunctions in the course of bringing suffering to the world. He also cultivates grievances and bitterness in those not ordinarily disposed to acts of wanton violence. Over the eons, he has found that the betrayed, the disgusted, and the disfavored are readily turned to a life of murderous service, to be discarded just as easily if they don’t satisfy him.

Earning and Losing Piety

You increase your piety score to Mogis when you expand the god’s influence in the world in a concrete way through acts such as these:

• Defeating a champion of Iroas
• Taking vengeance against a powerful foe
• Burning a polis or a settlement to the ground
• Desecrating a temple to Iroas as an offering to Mogis

Your piety score to Mogis decreases if you diminish Mogis’s influence in the world, contradict his ideals, or make him look weak or ineffectual through acts such as these:

• Failing to carry out a sworn vendetta
• Publicly displaying weakness or compassion
• Rejecting a duel or a challenge out of fear

Mogis’s Devotee

Piety 3+ Mogis trait
As a devotee of Mogis, you have shown yourself to be a brutal combatant. You can call on Mogis’s favor and cast wrathful smite with this trait. Mogis’s blessing manifest as a blood-red glow around your weapon, causing it to shed dim light in a 5-foot radius until the spell ends. You can cast the spell in this way a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Mogis’s Votary

Piety 10+ Mogis trait
You can cast blinding smite with this trait. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Mogis’s Disciple

Piety 25+ Mogis trait
Countless battles and vicious visions have given you focus. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

Champion of Slaughter

Piety 50+ Mogis trait
You can increase your Strength or Constitution score by 2 and also increase your maximum for that score by 2.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

Theros is a canvas upon Mogis paints in blood. His goals are simple. He wnts to unmake the world through savage bloodshed. He wants every polis to fall and the work of the mortals to burn and only the strongest survive. Once the world lies in ruin and his brother Iroas is dead at his feet, Mogis will have accomplished his goals.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Mogis always appears as a huge, four-horned minotaur in spiked bronze armor with a massive ebony greataxe. Looking upon him is to behold the cruelty and violence of war.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Mogis is incapable of loyalty and can be expected to break any pact or agreement after he gets what he wants from the arrangements. Any relation he builds with other gods would be a means to an end in order to undermine and destroy Iroas.

Erebos appreciates the amount of souls Mogis provides for him during his rampages. Mogis is also easily manipulated into inconveniencing Heliod during his slaughters.

Mogis respects the chaos Phenax causes and his talent for inciting conflict.

Mogis despises Ephara and Karametra for attempting to civilize the world and protect the weak. He is pleasently surprised at the ferocity with which either of them will retaliate after he burns a village or field for his entertainment.

Sex

Male

Gender

Man

Presentation

Masculine

Eyes

Red, angry

Hair

Ragged black

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Red Nyx sky