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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1864078" data-attributes="member: 8461">Shade, your deity is supposed to be the death deity right (since no fertility deity I'd know of would have Death as a domain)?I think the best reason to play up the fertility deity being female is that it gives ample reasoning for why some other deities could be the result of mating between that fertility goddess and Hruggek. Likewise, I think the death deity should be a demigod simply because death isn't something that seems like it'd be actively worshipped by bugbears, only placated (or directed at those whom they hate).I think Crahliss would make a great fertility goddess, though the death knell part would have to be altered somewhat.My take on a death god:KIRENOKDemigod (Chaotic Evil)Kirenok is the bugbear god of death. He is known as the "last member of the tribe" because he is said to constantly be in the presence of the bugbears, waiting to take those who are slow, weak, or otherwise unworthy; the tribal member that everyone knows is there but no one wants to acknowledge. Virtually no bugbears actively worship Kirenok, but rather make offerings that he will turn his attention to someone else; usually someone that the one making the offering hates and wishes would die.Portfolio: Death, survival of the fittest.Domains: Chaos, Death, EvilCleric Training: Kirenok's few clerics undertake their training personally by eliminating those who seem to hold the tribe back. This usually includes those who are too old to fight or forage, or those who were wounded grievously in battle. Only exceptionally fit bugbears become clerics of Kirenok, hoping that they can direct their god's actions within their tribe, thus allowing the cleric to "master death" as it were.Quests: Kirenok's clerics do not have quests, per se. Rather, the closest that they have will be to undertake a slaying that is exceptionally difficult. This most often takes the form of a cleric of Hruggek, usually in a moment of weakness after a battle, which not coincidentally allows the Kirenokan cleric to gain greater prestige (that is, fear) among his fellows.Prayers: Prayers to Kirenok are always done in the third person as a symbolic way of not bringing one's self to the god's attention. A typical prayer begins, "He wishes you, the last of us, to know of his strength, and another's weakness..."Temples: Kirenok has no temples dedicated to him. Rather, his clerics sometimes scratch out small shrines in the back of a tribe's cave. These tend to remain remakrably undisturbed, as few wish to draw the ire of Kirenok or those who dare to worship him.Rites: Kirenok's worshippers tend to go through simple rites to direct their god's attention prior to killing someone, and a rite of thanks (or more accurately, justification) after the death blow has been dealt.Herald and Allies: Kirenok's herald is Girzag, a fiendish bugbear barbarian 7/assassin 10. Allies are usually howlers, glabrezus, and nalfeshnees.Relics: sword of life stealing, ring of regeneration.</blockquote>

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