Rashid, The Dreamcrusher
Minor God of Brutality, Suffering, Slavery, and Oppression
You should be thanking us! If we hadn't done that whole "skin your family in front of you" business, you'd never have gotten this strong! Strong enough to save your village! Strong enough to stand against us! To kill us! Without us, you'd still be living a happy life of mediocrity! We rescued you! Hah...yes...kill us! As it should be - the strong butchering the weak!Titles: The Tormentor, Dreamcrusher, The Great Oppressor, The Grand Slaver, Father Skinflense Favored Weapon: Sickle, Torturers Tools Alignment: Lawful Evil Church Moniker: Church of the Tormentor Obedience: Spend an hour torturing, beating, breaking, or otherwise proving your dominance over a creature you have beaten or own - or yourself if you lack such a creature. Spend this hour reaffirming your strength, and the truth that all things in this world are made right through strength and strength alone, the only true law in the world. You must constantly remind them of their own weakness while doing this, but they must not die as a result of your actions. Effect: You become capable of assessing the bodily health of living creatures at a touch - gaining a complete knowledge of their overall health, any conditions or diseases affecting them, any crippling wounds or old injuries worth noting, and so on. You may, by spending a full round in physical contact with a willing or helpless creature, force them into a death trance that causes them to appear as dead to all senses and means both mundane and magical(Barring true sight) - you much specify a time for which this trance will remain(Up to a number of days equal to 2x your HD), though the creature can leave the trance willingly over the course of an hour. While in this trance, the creature remains aware of their surroundings but cannot move or speak. By ingesting and swallowing a piece of another living creature's body(Which must be at least 1 square inch, GM Discretion), you can gain a status effect on them with a CL equal to your HD.
Divine Domains
Law(Slavery, Tyranny, Loyalty Subdomains Only), Evil(Fear, Demon, and Corruption Subdomains Only), Strength, Destruction, Healing, Sun
Artifacts
Rather surprisingly for a minor god, Rashid has perhaps some of the most minor artifacts of any other Minor God - entirely too many, in fact, to list here. However, the tradeoff for this overabundance of artifacts is widely considered to be their overall power level - where an artifact of a Minor God such as Jormunganda, The World Serpent might be powerful and rare, Rashid's artifacts are so common as to be tools handed out to high ranking members of the faith; often sickles or torturers tools imbued with special powers.
As such, the only "true artifact" worth the title is a relic known as The Dreamcrusher's Rack - a large bloody table made of sandstone that is said to be able to enact such hideous cruelties entirely autonomously to those strapped onto its bulk that even gods would break and go insane in short order upon it. It serves as an invaluable tool for the faithful to extract information and cause suffering unto others(And even to implant or extract unique magical devices into them, as it doubles as a surgeon's table), yet also serves another purpose - for it is said that those who survive the Rack's ministrations with minds intact gain power beyond their wildest dreams.
Holy Books & Codes
The Oppressive Omnibus
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A metal collar around an open eye
Tenets of Faith
Power above all. Power is the greatest and basest law of life - obey it and enforce it.
Oppression begets strength. Spread suffering and shackle the weak. Hard times will create strong people.
Give no aid. Others must work to survive and become strong or suffer beneath their betters on their own merits.
Suffering is Saccharine. Pain is pleasure and Brutality is Bliss - wield both to purge weakness from the bodies and souls of yourself and others.
Holidays
The Flensing Festival
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To see weakness snuffed out no matter the form it may take.
To see the strong prosper, and to see the weak become strong or die trying.
Suffering is the first and greatest teacher.
Divine Classification
Religions
Alignment
Lawful Evil
Children
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