Need some info on Kyuss

[ArcOfCorinth]

If anyone could answer these questions, I'd much appreciate it. Please do not direct me to Canonfire. That site tends to confuse more than inform me. In fact, I've already dug around it some for Kyuss info and I swear I've read conflicting accounts. Here's what I need to know:

Brief Bio-

Alignment-

Portifolio-

Domains/Suggested Domains- If I remember right, he's only a demigod and can't bestow spells on his followers. I may change this though and allow him to bestow clerical spells and domain powers upon a very small select few of his most diligently faithful. Example: Kyuss has a clergy of 100 clerics. Two receive spells from him.

 

[The Sigil]

With the help of google, I dug up this...

From Sean K. Reynolds:

"Sponsored to godhood by Nerull, Kyuss was a Flan priest in the ancient Empire of Sulm, which now lies buried in the Bright Desert. Escaping from there shortly before its destruction, he fled to the Wormcrawl Fissure near the Rift Canyon and underwent apotheosis.
"Kyuss’ clerics adventure to acquire more undead followers and money to create more undead, discover new or forgotten types of undead, and to discover forgotten holy sites of their patron (such as certain ruins in the Amedio Jungle, where Kyuss once traveled)."

- from Hero-Gods of Oerth, an article by myself, Fred Weining, and Erik Mona, printed in the Living Greyhawk Journal (don't remember which issue).

The link is: http://pub102.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm2.showMessage?topicID=1687.topic

Obviously (by Sean's own admission), not much is known about Kyuss.

--The Sigil

 

[ArcOfCorinth]

Thanks! That link was very helpful.

 

[hong]

Well, clearly Kyuss was a bit of a playa, given how many sons he's got.

 

[Mark Chance]

U don't have 2 be unliving
2 turn me on
I just need your corpse baby
From dusk till dawn
U don't need experience
2 turn me out
U just leave it all up 2 me
I'm gonna show u what death's all about

U don't have 2 be rich
2 be my spawn
U don't have 2 be cool
2 rule the world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your immortal soul 'cause I'm

Kyuss

U got to not talk Infernal, baby
If u wanna worship me
U can't be 2 rotting, mama
I know how 2 undress me (Yeah)
I want 2 be your fantasy
Maybe u could be mine
U just leave it all up to me
We could have a evil time

U don't have 2 be rich
2 be my spawn
U don't have 2 be cool
2 rule the world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your immortal soul 'cause I'm

Kyuss

Yes
I think I wanna dance
Gotta, Gotta
Little girl Wendy's parade
Gotta, gotta, gotta

Undead not living rule my world
I said they rule my world
Act your age, mama (Not your shoe size)
Not your shoe size
Maybe we could do the twirl
U don't have 2 watch cities burn
2 have an attitude
U just leave it all up 2 me
Warm blood will be your food
Yeah

U don't have 2 be rich
2 be my spawn
U don't have 2 be cool
2 rule the world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your immortal soul 'cause I'm

Kyuss

 

[hong]

Slayers lyric post of the week (slightly delayed)

A Maiden's Prayer (trans)
Megumi Hayashibara
Masami Suzuki


To this small girl loving is
Wonderful, my darling

A glistening rouge, a longful dream
A pink peach
I want to reach for it - a maiden's prayer

I float to the night sky - the silver of this happiness
I like to shake the waves of darkness
My heart's beating so fast inside my little breast
Let my heart leap into your origin
I beg you, let me reach, it's this maiden's will
It's all I am, this pretty me

To this small girl loving is
Wonderful, my darling

I'm giddy, that cologne, a beautiful dream
A light blue parasol
I wish it would come true - it's this maiden's will

I float to the night sky - the silver of this happiness
I like to shake the waves of darkness
My heart's beating so fast inside my little breast
Let my heart leap into your origin
I beg you, let me reach, it's this maiden's will
The last kiss is a boomerang
This boomerang is a ticket for a one way trip

It's all I am, this pretty me
I feel like I'm on top of a white pegasus
Delivering the jigsaw of love's last piece

 

[rounser]

Later in his career, Kyuss formed a band...

If you're going to post lyrics on a Kyuss thread, may as well make sure they're actually by Kyuss. (And yeah, they did take their name from the Fiend Folio.)

Interestingly (at least to me) there's a cleaning company in my area called Kyuss Cleaners, who wear t-shirts with that label on them. Go figure...

Kyuss - Demon Cleaner

I've got the demons within
I've got to brush them all away
I feel the demon's rage
I must clean them all away,
Yeah, yeah

Excite to scream them away
Cobwebs in the way
That magic cleaner oh,
Shine his smile on me
Yeah, yeah

I am the demon
Cleaner who saves the day
I get the backwall
And important they'll always stay
Yeah, yeah

If only one thing that you know
Imposters from the show
They'll try to trick you into
Normal treatment
Oh don't you listen to them say
Shush them all away
I am the demon cleaner
Madman so,
I am the freedom cleaner
Standing naked here to say
I'm the only way
I'm the only way
I'm the only way
I'm the only way

 

[grodog]

There are three articles about Kyuss on Canonfire! you can find by typing Kyuss into the search engine.

There have also been several mentions in Dragon and LGJ, too, which this list from Jason Zavoda's Greyhawk index shows:

Kyuss [Deity]
DRG#270 Pg# - 72,75
DRG#276 Pg# - 84,85,88,89
DRG#290 Pg# - 103
LGG Pg# - 31
LGJ#1 Pg# - 23,24
LGJ#2 Pg# - 31
LGJ#3 Pg# - 13,19
LGJ#5 Pg# - 22
PGTG Pg# - 20
TSB Pg# - 67
WGR5 Pg# - 54

Kyuss, Sons of [MON]
COLTM Pg# - 34
FTAA Pg# - 69
LGJ#5 Pg# - 22
RTO8 Pg# - 17
TSB Pg# - 67,70,71
WGR3 Pg# - 27
WGR5 Pg# - 78

Kyuss, Temple of (Brotton)[TMP]
LGJ#2 Pg# - 31

You might also check the Greytalk archives, at http://www.greycitadel.com/greycitadel/greytalk.nsf

 

[Bloodstone Mage]

Re: Later in his career, Kyuss formed a band...

If you're going to post lyrics on a Kyuss thread, may as well make sure they're actually by Kyuss. (And yeah, they did take their name from the Fiend Folio.)

Interestingly (at least to me) there's a cleaning company in my area called Kyuss Cleaners, who wear t-shirts with that label on them. Go figure...

Kyuss - Demon Cleaner

I've got the demons within
I've got to brush them all away
I feel the demon's rage
I must clean them all away,
Yeah, yeah

Excite to scream them away
Cobwebs in the way
That magic cleaner oh,
Shine his smile on me
Yeah, yeah

I am the demon
Cleaner who saves the day
I get the backwall
And important they'll always stay
Yeah, yeah

If only one thing that you know
Imposters from the show
They'll try to trick you into
Normal treatment
Oh don't you listen to them say
Shush them all away
I am the demon cleaner
Madman so,
I am the freedom cleaner
Standing naked here to say
I'm the only way
I'm the only way
I'm the only way
I'm the only way

Ahh...Kyuss. Classic stoner metal. Demon Cleaner's a good one.
By the way, along those same lines, Mondo Generator's new album is coming out, and Queens of the Stone Age's Songs For the Deaf is hitting vinyl on Ipecac Recordings.

As for the actual deity, I'd recommend checking out pantheon.org for some answers on the mythological background of it.

Cheers!

 

[Olive]

Domains/Suggested Domains- If I remember right, he's only a demigod and can't bestow spells on his followers. I may change this though and allow him to bestow clerical spells and domain powers upon a very small select few of his most diligently faithful. Example: Kyuss has a clergy of 100 clerics. Two receive spells from him.

Demigods can give spells to their followers. Anything with divine rank 1 or more (demigods tend to 1-5) can. I think you mean quasi- or hero-deities.