Tavross, The Iron Emperor
Risen God of Humanity, Anti-Magic, Industry, Light, and Fear
His people no longer remember his visage, yet feel his gaze always; They know longer remember his voice, yet sing his praises in the steel they forge; They no longer remember his touch, yet feel it in their powderpipes and dieselstacks; They yearn for a life beyond his chain, yet welcome the links and the protection they offer; Praise the Iron Emperor, and Humanity shall prevail.Titles: The Iron Emperor, Lord of the Hunter Clans, The Extinguisher, The Arch-Inquisitor, Our Burning Father, The Stakelord, The Inverted Sun, The Iron Luminary Favored Weapon: Stake Driver Alignment: Lawful Neutral Church Moniker: Church of the Iron Emperor Obedience: Spend an hour soaking in pure sunlight(Or the brightest and purest light available) while slowly mixing blackpowder into a mixture of two parts water and four parts human blood. Once finished, offer up a prayer to the Iron Emperor and consume the mixture in a single gulp. Effect: The burning Iron halo of The Iron Emperor forms behind your head, allowing you to shed light as the light spell at-will. For one round per HD you possess per day, you may count this light as sunlight. Add 1d4 untyped damage to all melee attacks you make, as the imbibed gunpowder detonates with every strike.
Divine Domains
Sun, Repose, War, Magic, Artifice, Protection, Community, Evil(Fear Subdomain Only)
Artifacts
There are untold artefacts of The Iron Emperor in circulation amongst his faithful ranging from the notable blackpowder steelsuits of the Iron Hunters to the Burning Iron Suns that hang above the cities and fortresses of the Empire, but none so feared as the infamous Atmospheric Incineration Lance developed in the bowels of Numiastra's most advanced factories and tested in the seas outside the Fortress-Port of Praxes Secundus - a weapon of unsurpassed destructive potential that stands as the mightiest weapon available to The Iron Emperor: a purely technological weapon that, when fired on the orders of the Iron Emperor himself, is said to be capable of burning away the entire biosphere of the entire Planet of Ea if its power is not checked properly with guidance systems and enormous shielding walls to contain the blast.
While only fired once during the legendary siege of the Hive City of Damnadon in retaliation against the Vrykus Throne invasion, the Lance's power instantly obliterated the biosphere of a nearly 50 mile radius patch of land by way of a wildcat ignition of all free-floating oxygen in the atmosphere, triggering a cataclysmic thermonuclear reaction that, if left unchecked, would ignite the entire planet's atmosphere in mere minutes.
However, the lance is not without its critics - even the notoriously zealous Lords of the Hunter Clans, typically fanatically loyal only to the Emperor, expressed concerns over the weapon's repeated usage; as such, it has not seen use since its legendary initial trial run.
Holy Books & Codes
The Iron Luminary
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A downwards-facing stake emblazoned with a diamond beneath a stylized sun
Tenets of Faith
Sow fear and stoke suspicion. Trust no one and suspect everyone - Heresy must be caught before it can spread.
Purge the inhuman and the alien. Give the enemies of humanity no quarter unless they can fall properly into line.
No quarter to the damned. Undeath in any form is to be obliterated, given no quarter, and wiped from the face of this world.
Community and Law above all. An empire divided against itself cannot stand if it is to endure the darkness - stand with your community and obey the laws of the land.
Industry at any cost. We must civilize if we are to survive the coming apocalypse. Further and expand the fetters of industry until the world is shackled beneath its yoke.
Snuff out the light of Magic at all costs. Magic fosters self-interest and corrupts the foundation of the whole with its dangerous lies. Magic and those who practice it can never be trusted nor allowed to commit their selfish atrocities.
Holidays
Iron's Rise - a holiday celebrating the founding day of the empire. A rare day of rest for the Empire and its citizens.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To destroy The Vrykus Throne and their empire of the dead and damned.
To further the industries of Man until the entire planet is covered in mechanized gears and steel.
To destroy Kali, The Broodqueen and end her reign of terror.
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Life's weakness is not a failing. It is what drives us to innovate and create, to supplement our own frailty. It spurns the gears of industry.
Through fear lies the subjugation of the spirit. A weapon to snuff out entire populations without shedding so much as a single drop of blood.
Divine Classification
Alignment
Lawful Neutral
Children
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