Zargon
The Devourer/The Returner
The thirteenth and most terrible of the Corrupted was Zargon, the Devourer. He was the first to fall from grace, and dragged many other gods down with him, along with entire civilizations.
Zargon's rise must be told through the story of the kingdom of Cynidicea, where his worship was strongest. Cynidicea was a prosperous country with great scholars, a strong army, and advanced magic. But their prosperity bred decadence and arrogance. His temples bursting with lavish offerings, their grew too fond of the power he held over these people. He began to demand more, driving them to conquer, plunder, and enslave their neighbors. And eventually, he came to enjoy the screams and lamentations of mortals as they were crushed by his followers. He ordered his people to give him sapient beings as sacrifices: first enemy commanders, then criminals, dissenters, and eventually slaves and prisoners of war. The floors and stairways of his temples were slick with blood.
At the very height of his power, Zargon became strong enough to kill Asgorath themself. He found a way into the Architect's hidden demiplane, and he impaled the sleeping god with the massive horn on his forehead. The blood of the Creator sank into the horn and made it indestructible, and when he devoured the dead god's corpse, he gained a fraction of Asgorath's powers of creation. But the heinousness of the act made Zargon ever more twisted than before. He transformed into a one-eyed titan with barbed tentacles in place of his arms and legs, covered in scars and tumors, his too-wide mouth dripping with disgusting brown slime. And instead of the power to create, he gained the power to corrupt. The slime he vomited forth poisoned living things, reducing them to mere sacks of ooze shaped vaguely like the creatures they used to be. The sticky trail left behind by his tentacles spawned slimes and jellies of every awful type.
This murder was the event that set off the Dawn War. It would take the combined powers of the remaining Twelve gods to bring Zargon down. The ensuing battle razed Cynidicea to the ground and turned the already blighted country into an unliveable wasteland. Nothing remains now but dust and ruins, still contaminated by the Devourer's evil sludge and crawling with slime creatures.
Zargon's rise must be told through the story of the kingdom of Cynidicea, where his worship was strongest. Cynidicea was a prosperous country with great scholars, a strong army, and advanced magic. But their prosperity bred decadence and arrogance. His temples bursting with lavish offerings, their grew too fond of the power he held over these people. He began to demand more, driving them to conquer, plunder, and enslave their neighbors. And eventually, he came to enjoy the screams and lamentations of mortals as they were crushed by his followers. He ordered his people to give him sapient beings as sacrifices: first enemy commanders, then criminals, dissenters, and eventually slaves and prisoners of war. The floors and stairways of his temples were slick with blood.
At the very height of his power, Zargon became strong enough to kill Asgorath themself. He found a way into the Architect's hidden demiplane, and he impaled the sleeping god with the massive horn on his forehead. The blood of the Creator sank into the horn and made it indestructible, and when he devoured the dead god's corpse, he gained a fraction of Asgorath's powers of creation. But the heinousness of the act made Zargon ever more twisted than before. He transformed into a one-eyed titan with barbed tentacles in place of his arms and legs, covered in scars and tumors, his too-wide mouth dripping with disgusting brown slime. And instead of the power to create, he gained the power to corrupt. The slime he vomited forth poisoned living things, reducing them to mere sacks of ooze shaped vaguely like the creatures they used to be. The sticky trail left behind by his tentacles spawned slimes and jellies of every awful type.
This murder was the event that set off the Dawn War. It would take the combined powers of the remaining Twelve gods to bring Zargon down. The ensuing battle razed Cynidicea to the ground and turned the already blighted country into an unliveable wasteland. Nothing remains now but dust and ruins, still contaminated by the Devourer's evil sludge and crawling with slime creatures.
Divine Domains
Zargon is the god of corruption, tyranny, destruction, and cruelty. He is also the progenitor of slimes and oozes.
Holy Books & Codes
The only remaining detailed records of Zargon are found in the Cynidicean Codex. These fragmented papyrus scrolls were unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city by cultists over the course of several centuries. They give a lurid account of the history of Zargon and Cynidicea, the rites used in his worship, and supposedly, the conditions for his return.
Divine Classification
Dead God
Alignment
Lawful Evil
Church/Cult
Children
Aligned Organization
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