Zythra, The Calling Entropy
Titles: The Calling Entropy, The Void’s Embrace, The Keeper of Endings
Domains: Grave, Death, Order
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Pantheon: Celestial God
Holy Color: Black and Deep Gray
Overview:
Zythra is the goddess of entropy, death, and the inevitable unraveling of all things. She is not cruel or malevolent—rather, she is the calm, impartial hand that gently ends all things in time. The stars fade, empires crumble, and even gods wither, and in the end, Zythra will call all things home.
To her followers, she is a keeper of balance, a silent guardian who ensures that death is not a punishment, but a release—an essential passage in the cosmic order. She is revered by funerary priests, oracles of doom, seers, judges, and scholars of the end times.
Teachings and Beliefs
Zythra’s teachings center on the acceptance of death as a natural part of existence. She does not promote death or encourage it, but she teaches that all life must eventually return to the void in order for balance to be maintained. To Zythra, the cycle of life and death is sacred, and it must not be disrupted. Her followers believe that death is not an end, but a transition—a necessary process that preserves the cosmic order.
Her doctrine emphasizes the importance of honoring the dead and ensuring that souls are properly guided into the afterlife. To avoid death prematurely is to disrupt the balance of existence, and those who do so dishonor the natural order. Those who seek to escape death or force unnatural immortality are viewed as enemies of Zythra and the cycle.
Worship and Followers
Zythra is worshipped across Zalthera in quiet temples and subterranean sanctuaries, where rites of death, endings, and remembrance are performed. Her followers do not proselytize—they merely wait and prepare the living for their inevitable return to the fold of silence.
Her priests often wear robes of ash grey, deep violet, or star-speckled black, and carry bells, candles, or obsidian relics to guide souls. Silent processions and vigil rites are common in her worship.
Relationships and Lore
- Zythra is said to have birthed Eryndra , from the first soul that ever died.
- Though she rarely intervenes, when the cycle is threatened—by necromancy, undeath, or forbidden resurrection—Zythra’s wrath is silent and absolute.
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