Malitheran, The Whispering Hunger
God of Madness, Forbidden Knowledge, and Chaotic Revelation
Patron of broken minds, keeper of secrets not meant to be known.
Overview
Malitheran is the god of madness, nightmares and forbidden knowledge and is one of the twin moon deities to Mythis. After the celestial war with Nyzzorak, Malitheran fell into corruption becoming a divine scourge to all of Zalthera. A being of pure chaos who hungers for unraveling order, he whispers truths into the minds of mortals that were never meant to be spoken. His domain is the unknowable—the abstract, the unreal, the impossible—and his influence is felt wherever minds break under the weight of revelation.
Though rarely worshipped openly, his name echoes through the ramblings of mad prophets, cryptic cults, and doomed scholars. He is the quiet voice behind conspiracy, the dream from which one never wakes, the gaze in the mirror that is not your own.
Appearance and Manifestation
Malitheran is rarely perceived the same way twice. His form shifts between an androgynous cloaked figure of cracked glass and echoing whispers, a monstrous centipede-like entity with countless whispering mouths, and a faceless humanoid whose presence causes nearby minds to fracture.
Where he manifests, the air thickens with whispers and illusions; reflections behave independently; and dreams become waking reality. Madness follows in his wake like a tide.
Myths and Lore
The Hollow Moon
Some say Malitheran is the source of the Hollow Moon—a rare celestial alignment where madness floods the world. During this event, reality weakens and his influence grows, birthing new cults, plagues of nightmares, and rifts to other realms.
Worship and Cults
Malitheran has no structured clergy. His followers are often madmen, cursed prophets, isolated cults, and scholars who dove too deep. They hide in sewers, libraries, ruins, and dreamscapes—gathering knowledge in spirals and riddles.
Common rituals include:
- Writing sacred texts backward and burying them in mirrors
- Dream feasts where cultists speak only in riddles
- Tattooing forbidden glyphs along the spine to "anchor" sanity
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