Tharizdun

(a.k.a. Ebon God, the Dark God, He of Eternal Darkness, Lord of Decay, the Ender, the Patient One, He Who Waits, the Anathema, the Father of Elder Evils, the Author of Wickedness, the Eater of Worlds, the Despised, the Undoer, the Chained God, and the Lost God)

The Chained God is darkness unending, entropy given formless shape. Life and death do not exist within Tharizdun, only utter destruction and madness. During the Dawn War the Ebon God rallied the primordials against the gods in an attempt to destroy all of Realmspace and gain dominion over the void left in its wake. The gods banded together and imprisoned Tharizdun in a demiplane fashioned after the nothingness it had hoped to create. In its endless imprisonment, Tharizdun dreams the infinite depths of the Abyss into reality, along with all its demonic legions.

Realm

Tharizdun has been imprisoned in a distant demiplane for longer than anyone can remember. Its location in the multiverse is a closely guarded secret, even among gods. It is speculated that the Dark God floats powerlessly through the Astral Plane, all but dead due to lack of followers. Tharizdun has also been speculated to be the malign entity known to be trapped within the Demiplane of Imprisonment, a massive mile-wide crystal floating through the Ethereal Plane. That plane's prisoner is known to be an insane entity from another reality dedicated to the destruction of all things, his nightmarish thoughts occasionally bubbling through and leaking into the dreamscapes of his worshipers.

Divine Domains

Darkness, destruction, entropy, insanity

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Tharizdun's holy symbol is a jagged counterclockwise dark spiral rune known as the Spiral of Decay. Some of his clerics also use a two-tiered inverted ziggurat, known as the Obex.

Tenets of Faith

Tharizdun's followers are united by a single ancient creed, found inscribed within one of his dark pyramids:

"Light must be snuffed, perfection decayed, order dissolved, and minds fragmented."

The rest of his religion consists of a sporadic collection of terrible holy texts, secretly guarded even from other sects and detailing terrible rituals and extraplanar horrors. The clergy of Tharizdun preach that all things eventually crumble, and in time Tharizdun's victory over the gods will be complete.

Physical Description

Identifying Characteristics

Unlike most deities, who take humanoid shape, Tharizdun appears as a dark, amorphous form reminiscent of a sentient Sphere of Annihilation. Contact with the deity brings insanity and death, and no accurate surviving descriptions or depictions of him remain.

Divine Classification

God

Religions

• The Doomdreamers

Realm

Demi-Plane of Imprisonment

Church/Cult

The Doomdreamers