Shaprat
Unknown
The Last City, the End of All Things, the Lost
Symbol: varies
Alignment: NE (?)
Portfolio: Unknown, possibly including entropy
Domains: Destruction, Evil, Travel, Trickery
Favored Weapon: Net
Little is known about this strange entity. It lives on the demiplane of the same name, a realm full of slowly decaying buildings and mostly devoid of people. Or possibly it is the demiplane as a whole. What is known is that Shaprat seems to feed on cities existing in the real world. Its worshippers hold strange rituals and ceremonies in various locales of a city, and their purpose seems to be to allow Shaprat access to this world. It then draws material - people, buildings, entire city blocks - into itself, making the demiplane of Shaprat ever larger. Few people who visit Shaprat ever return, and the adults simply seem to vanish into its urban wastes after a time. Those who don't vanish invariably become insane and begin to utter strange words with a prophetic quality to them. Children seem to be able to resist this, and even survive for many years there, but once they are turning into adults, they too seem to slowly fade away...
So far, all the recorded appearances of Shaprat on the Material Plane have been in cities with nexus towers, leading some to speculate that the rituals of its worshippers are designed to draw power from them (thereallyparanoid wonder just where the Atalan mages got the idea for the nexus towers from...). Yet some of those who have visited Shaprat and come back report buildings built in styles that predate the Atalan Empire...
Its cults scuttle in the corners of the city. Few of Shaprat's clerics seem to be fully aware of they are doing - there are even good-aligned clerics of Shaprat who believe that the rituals are some kind of blessing. Many clerics are completely insane, and delight in sowing chaos and confusion.
