Tharizdun

Demonlord of Death

Tharizdun, was the mad deity of death. It dreamed the demon into the abyss, and is now among them, as a demon lord.

Characteristics

Physical features

Tharizdun is depicted, if at all, as "a creature of rolling, hungry ink and darkness", a spreading cloud of lightless destruction. It is endless, black, inky, filled with teeth and malice, laughter and hatred. While the other entities in the Pantheon have different interpretations of how they are depicted in artwork, tapestries, and tomes, every recent record of Tharizdun is amorphous and without physical manifestation.
Before its fall, Tharizdun was depicted as a winged woman, long smoky red hair hovering over her slender face, four large and dark wings carrying her, as her four arm were pulling the string over the lives of mortals.

Goddess of death by Ferdinando Adiletta

Worship

Those who are foolhardy enough to follow such twisting destruction are often spurned, hateful, and chaotic souls who fall through the cracks of society. A bit of inherent madness left unchecked opens the door to the creeping Void that draws those who worship this entity. The characteristics of Tharizdun’s influence are bouts of uncontrollable hunger, uncharacteristic aggression, and eventually violent mania. The higher acolytes of Tharizdun, as part of their ritual of ascension and to show their true faith, often remove their eyes so they can peer through shadow and light with its boon.

History

Goddess of death

Tharizdun is an ancient entity. She was the goddess of death long before Neltharion took her spot. Many say, she dreamed of eternal war and slaughter, just for the sake of entertainment. As the goddess with control over death itself, she was incredibly powerful, but had little use for such power with nothing to do.
She imagined the demons into existence, dreaming of them, as a race with an insatiable bloodlust, with envy for destruction and death above everything else, hoping to see what those monsters would bring to the world, how they would entertain her. Yet, the demon were powerless, sealed in the eternal abyss, they honed their skills, and killed each other endlessly, but never could they access the realm of mortals, Toriel.
Yet, after Corellon Loth mistake, a breach between the prime material realm and the abyss was created, and the horde of demon started to poor into Toriel. Tharizdun watched amazed, as the War of the Ancients made more and more victims.
When other gods joined the battle and schemed on their own, she was hateful of their actions. How could they interfere in her plans. Yet, she was amazed by their betrayal, their plot, and their corruption.
Nozdormu was captured by the goddess of death, who could feel her incomming demise. Nozdormu spoke the truth to her, revealing that her downfall was imminent. However, he warned that it would not result in her demise but in a fate worse than death itself.
Neltharion attacked the goddess of death, part of his plan to take over the other dragon-god, and with the help of Vanadon-Necroth they killed the goddess of death.

Twisted form

What was left of the goddess consciousness was sent into the deepest layer of the abyss. Fuming with anger and chaos, the leftover of the goddess's consciousness went insane, a twisting aberration of a body growing around her mind into the horrible form that is known today.
The now Demonlord Tharizdun had been banned from Toriel by Neltharion. Slowly regaining power, Tharizdun influence grew, embedding armies of demons behind it, the newly created demonlord is slowly rising from the abyss, with one clear goal in mind, Killing Neltharion, and destroying everything he touched.

Tharizdun

(Demonlord of Death)

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Titles
Goddess of Death (formely)
Lady death (formerly)
The insatiable maw
The Mad deity
Race
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Sex
Female (formerly)
Alignment
Chaotic Evil