Panzuriel

Panzuriel is an old and evil sea god.

Description

Panzuriel appeared as a old, hunched-over humanoid male with gills and scaly skin that was green on the ventral side and yellow on the dorsal side. He had shining green eyes and taloned hands, and drug his left leg behind him when he walked, for that leg ended in a crystal foot rather than one of flesh. He wore tattered black robes and carried a staff on which he lean heavily.

Personality

Panzuriel is a vile, hateful deity who is greatly bitter and angered over his banishment from the Material plane. He especially hates sea elves, most particularly Deep Sashelas. Despite his anger, however, he is calculating in his planning.

Divine Realm

Panzuriel is confined to a reeking, fetid, briny pool called Rezuriel in Niflheim.

Activities

He spends most of his time plotting his revenge, seeking to slay sea elves and other servitors of good aquatic deities, and most especially planning on how to torture and kill Deep Sashelas.

Worshippers

Panzuriel was worshiped by scrags, koalinth, vodyanoi, merrow, sahuagin, and krakens, the last of whom were his favorites. For instance, he required his priests and shamans to leave any magical items they found in their depredations as sacrifices to him, except kraken priests, who could keep items they could use for themselves. He also only sent visions to krakens, normally of ships or communities to destroy.

Additionally, Panzuriel's priests had to establish lairs on the seafloor, attack anything that approached their lairs, and always attack and never retreat from sea elves.

Rituals

He loathed the various good aquatic deities, in particular Deep Sashelas.

Although Panzuriel was worshiped on Toril, Umberlee had long ago usurped his name, taking the worshipers for herself and granting spells under his name.

History

Panzuriel had once been more powerful and prominent of a deity, but in prehistoric times a number of good gods opposed him. Eventually, he and Deep Sashelas fought; a battle in which Panzuriel's left foot was cut off by the sea-elf god as Panzuriel fled shrieking into the Abyss, banished from the Material plane. However, he eventually used his foot to reestablish a minor presence on the Material plane. Across the Material plane, legends differed on who it was that had aided Deep Sashelas in banishing Panzuriel, with some believing it was Poseidon or Manannan Mac Lir, though all agreed that it was some sea god worshiped by humans.

Panzuriel

Intermediate deity

Basic Information

Titles

The Writhing One

Pantheons

Astoran

Attributes

Alignment

Neutral Evil

Symbol

Left footprint, kraken head, or squid eye surrounded by nine tentacles

Realm

Gray Waste of Hades/Niflheim/Rezuriel

Portfolio

Confusion, Evil Aquatic Creatures, Krakens, Merrows, Murder, Scrags, Subversion

Favored Weapon

Net, Quarterstaff, Whip

Following

Worshippers

Kopru
Krakens
Kuo-toa
Sahuagin
Scrags
Sea hags

Alignments

LE, NE, CE

Domains

Darkness (-)
Destruction (Catastrophe, Hatred)
Evil (Corruption, Fear)
Water (Oceans)