The Devourer
The Devourer Shurkaan (a.k.a. The Expanse)
The Sovereign of Wave and Whelm, The Devourer represents the raw destructive power of nature.
The Devourer lords over the deep and as such sailors of all walks of life often pay him lip service for safe voyages. Aquatic races such as sahuagin and lizardfolk also revere the Devourer. Brother of Arawai and Balinor, the Devourer raped his sister Arawai and fathered The Fury.
The Devourer is portrayed as a human or merfolk with seaweed in his hair and beard, a sahuagin, an enormous shark, or a dragon turtle.
Divine Domains
Domains: Cold, Destruction, Evil, Pestilence, Ocean, Water, Weather.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Holy Symbol: A bundle of five sharpened bones.
Tenets of Faith
Prayers and Rites: Sacrifices to the Devourer involve immersion in water; grim stories abound of living creatures tossed into maelstroms. Vassals entreat the god to cease flooding or drought, and to show mercy when they are lost at sea.
Shrines: Shrines to the Devourer are usually built of wood, and many are roofless, allowing rain to enter freely. Others are built on the water itself, either on lakeside barges or in the cabins of seafaring vessels. They stink of blood and are hung with rotting seaweed.
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