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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MancerBear" data-source="post: 129934" data-attributes="member: 855">Re: Re: other optionI'm not looking for a "my god of slaughter is better than your god your god of slaughter" kind of arguement.  I used Erythnul as a template because he was the closest thing I had any details on at the time, but is in reality a bit of a cross between Erythnul and Ares (from the greek pantheon)  Let me give you guys a little bit of the gods history.  Please feel free to use, adapt, change or ignore, at your whim.Virakus: Lesser God (slaughter, bloodeshed, war)Domains: Chaos, Evil, Trickery and WarVirakus is the son of Altus, greater god of creation and rulership, and Inore, intermediate goddess of magic, life and mothers.  Virakus was convinced by his mother to murder her husband and take his place as ruler of the gods, and Inore would rule by his side.  Virakus of course agreed, and with his mother's help, slew his father and dismembered the body.  The murder was hidden for a short time, and then when the body was discovered, Virakus could not be implicated.  Virakus did indeed become ruler of the gods, at Inore's insistance, and he and his mother led a reign of bloodshed and evil.Their reign came to an end when Pyremus, intermediate god of the sun and peace, and Yera, intermediate goddess of war and wisdom discovered that Virakus had killed Altus.  Pyremus used a relic to resurrect Altus, who confronted his son and his wife.  A great war diveded the gods, with those that sided with Altus on one side, and those siding with Virakus on the other.  The war waged for eons, reigning destruction down from the heavens.  Altus saw that this was destroying the world, and called an end to the war.  Although those loyal to Altus tried to end the hostilities, Virakus' troops continued unabated.  Altus saw that the war had gone beyond him, and decided that the only way to end it was to seperate the two warring factions.Altus took Virakus in an enormous battle and defeated him, imprisoning him in a parison "beyond the edge of the world", but Virakus managed to strike a mortal blow against Altus, and the great god's time was drawing to a close.  Drawing upon the last of his power, Altus seperated the heavens.  Those loyal to Virakus and Inore became House Inore with a realm of their own, and those loyal to himself became House Pyremus with a realm of their own.  The world stood between these two worlds, and no gaod could travel from one realm to another without loosing suffering a great drain on their essence.  To seal the new realms, Altus dispersed his essence into the void.Thus, we have a number of gods:Altus: God of creation and rulership.  No longer worshipped nor "alive"Pyremus: God of the sun, peace and rulershipYera: Goddess of war and wisdom, wife of Pyremus and his chief advisorVirakus: God of slaughter and bloodshed.  Imprisoned beyond normal reach, and unable to interact personally in the affairs of man.  As the son of Inore, his blood contains a special property which causes certain monsters (harpies, satyres, giants, minotaurs) to spring forth from his spilled blood.Inore: Goddess of magic, death and deciet.  Insane and powerhungry, she wishes unite the realms sundered by Altus and become the ultimate god.  She is also known as the mother of monsters, as in her insanity, she gave birth to many of the aberations that infest the land.That's about it...the people that worship these gods are drawn heavily from the roman culture of earth, though the nobles of that culture actually worship gods similar to those from the Egyption pantheon.Cheers.</blockquote>

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