Kali, The Broodqueen

Risen Goddess of Blood, Heresy, Monsters, Death, and Nightmares

In Life, Death.
Through Death, we find our new normality and need not fear the dark.
Through Life, we shape ourselves in her image and do not survive, but thrive.
In Death, Life.

— First Chant of Kali's Prayer

Titles: The Broodqueen, Mistress of Blood, High Duchess of the Houses, She who Survived, The Unforgotten, Queen of the Vrykus Line, The Night Wind
Favoured Weapon: Bite Attack, Rapier
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Church Moniker: Church of the Broodqueen
Rival/Enemy/Unliked Gods: Tavross
Obedience: Spend an hour in total darkness while you stand or sit within a pool of fresh blood you have recently drained from a living creature. Draw the symbol of Kali within the blood with your finger every 10 minutes while chanting prayers to her glorious name. Once the hour is up, ingest some of the blood and make a loud, verbal proclamation to enslave and extermination the living and mortal races and to see all light extinguished within the darkness.
Effect: You can cast Waves of blood 1/day as a spell-like ability that uses a move action and does not provoke AoO. Whenever you cause bleed damage to a non-undead creature, add an extra 1d4 points of bleed damage.

Divine Domains

Madness, Destruction, Death, Evil, Nobility, Trickery, Knowledge, Weather

Artifacts

Though the lands of the Vrykus Throne are a secretive place where little in the way of information leaks out into the wider world, enough has leaked out over the centuries and millennia since the Skyfall calamity that two artifacts have become well-known superstitions in the lands of the Vrykus Throne and far afield - striking fear into the hearts of mortals and living creatures everywhere.
Firstly, a legendary artifact known as Sunpiercer - an arrow that, when fired, is said to be able to extinguish the legendary Iron Suns that burn above the cities of Tavross, The Iron Emperor and protect The Iron Empire's population centers from the influence of undead and sun-hating monstrosities; ever burning artificial suns that require enormous amounts of fuel that stand as a bulwark against the darkness. This arrow, while only fired a handful of times in millennia, has nonetheless accrued a monstrously terrifying reputation amongst the Iron Empire and other mortal beings across Numiastra, for its arrival heralds a feast of unprecedented proportions.
Secondly, a more esoteric artifact believed to be a technique known among the nobility of the lands of The Vrykus Throne known as The Veinsplitter Mutation - a technique pioneered by Kali herself bestowed unto the immortal heads of the Throne's Noble Houses that is capable of allowing a vampiric being to not only drink the blood of a given creature, but to forcibly mutate them into an undead or similarly unholy form more suited for survival in the lands of the Vrykus Throne. This technique is kept a closely guarded secret of the Houses and is considered a great honor bestowed onto only the most worthy of outsiders, who are typically either kept as low-class slaves or citizens or merely slain and tossed into enormous Blood Vats to be processed into food and turned into undead.

Holy Books & Codes

The Veinsplitter Grimoire

Divine Symbols & Sigils

A human skull held in a fanged mouth, a goblet emblazoned on its forehead

Tenets of Faith

Death is the only path for life. Bestow the gift of death to all who yet live. Only in death can survival become prosperity.

Embrace the outcast and heretical. Welcome that which lurks in the unseen corners, and show them the path to darkness.

True power lies in the self. The self is justice, and your greatest source of power - burn yourself upon the pyre and use its might to bend the world to your will.

Become every nightmare, slit every vein, and feast upon every heart. Spill blood, relish the act, savor the taste, and let it flow freely until life's light is extinguished from this world.

The Industries of Man must be destroyed. They seek the strength of steel to supplant the weakness of their flesh and the sickness of their spirits - tear down the industries and innovations of man wherever they can be found.

Holidays

The Bloodbath - a Holiday taking place on the anniversary of the Skyfall Calamity where the followers of Kali and citizens of The Vrykus Throne engage in enormous, debaucherous, cannibalistic feasts where living beings are hunted for sport in great, sadistic games to celebrate the calamity which showed the world its true nature.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

To extinguish the sun and plunge the world into eternal icy darkness. To kill all living beings and turn grant them new forms better suited to survival.
To see Tavross, The Iron Emperor and his followers exterminated.

Live always evolves - given a new environment, the beings best suited to that new environment will prosper.
That is Kali - that is her truth. This land has changed, and we simply must accept that.
Death is the new life. The new norm. The new standard that this environment favors.
We can fight it with steel and smog, choke the planet and kill it, or become that which can survive upon it unimpeded.

— Foreword of "On the Ecology of Numiastra", by Samael T. Castleton(From the Iron Empire's Outlawed Reading List)

Divine Classification

Minor God

Religions

• The Anathema Gods

Alignment

Neutral Evil

Areas of Concern

Survival, Evolution, Mutation, Undeath, Transformations, Mutations, Vampires, Freedom

Main Temple and Location

Though her main temple was once located in the village of Cinderspire, with the Village's annexation by the Iron Empire of Numiastra and the Ignition of the City's Iron Sun that christened its ascension into a fully fledged city of the Iron Empire Kali's Faith has gone into hiding. The location of her Main Temple is now unknown, but rumored to exist deep in the heart of the nearby Marrowwood.

Holy Animal

Vampire Bat

Holy Colors

Red, White

Holy Number

8

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