The Eldritch Pantheon
The Pantheon of The Eldritch, The Mad, and The Insane
A scattered and somewhat disjointed Pantheon, The Eldritch Pantheon, though small, is a tightly-knit one that is worshiped fanatically by those who call one of its member Gods their Patron. They are a Pantheon that is often said to not get along with each other well at all, but nonetheless the Pantheon is based out of the shared realm of Kos and her twin sister Goddess, Kosm, The Psychotic Spires. Uniquely, though Kos rules over the pantheon as its Matron, it was said to be started by Kosm long ago...though she now holds a mere fraction of the power she once did.
Kos rules the Pantheon from her twisted throne in The Psychotic Spires, wrangling and attempting to control her other half and keep her influence from spreading too far into the world at large...according to her followers, she is said to be locked in an eternal struggle with her other half to keep her unrestrained madness from spreading.
Kosm lurks and hides within the furthest and maddest corners of The Psychotic Spires, skulking about the realm that was once hers and hers alone spreading her sickly eldritch influence to any who will listen to her mad ramblings...she too, is said to be locked in a constant struggle with her other half, Kos...in times when the two Goddesses share equal power, they often battle violently for control of The Psychotic Spires...a struggle which often reflects itself in their followers.
Edoghast, the firstborn and only son of the twin sister Goddesses and said to be one of the dozens of fragments of Azathoth, was said to have once made his home alongside his mothers in The Psychotic Spires, but has long since drifted onto the Prime Material Plane in his eternal slumber, his divine body floating amidst the cosmic flotsam as he left the struggles of his mothers behind to ascend to something greater...so his followers teach. He was said to have been birthed from a divine union between Kos and Sturgeon, though the specifics of this union and how this coupling could have possible produced a child is unknown.
The Golden Duchess came much later to the Eldritch Pantheon then her peers, said to have arrived on Ea much later only in response to her father and creator, The King in Yellow, reacted to other Great Old Ones turning their attention to Ea and thus sent a shard of himself to the far-distant planet, to spread his teachings and investigating what had captured the interest of his kin so much. Now a god in her own right entirely separate from The King in Yellow, The Golden Duchess throws extravagant balls and orgiastic parties with the same morbid and nihilistic outlook that many of her father's followers have, using her divine planar realm, The Great Ballroom of Carcosa, to throw elaborate parties for both her fellow divinities and her greatest mortal followers to celebrate the meaningless of life. Unlike her father, she encourages her followers and those she meets to find their reason for living...to seek out greater decadence and debauchery to find meaning in this otherwise hopeless and meaningless existence, and to decorate their lives with color, passion, and friendly competition in an effort to make their lives even the slightest bit bearable. She is perhaps the only member of the Eldritch Pantheon to get along with the insane and deadly Goddess Kosm, and the only one who holds her attention and can speak with her, but otherwise she gets along quite well with her fellow Eldritch Divinities...though many believe that her father has grown displeased with her rather coddled attitude towards her followers.
Zemnis is unique within the Eldritch Pantheon, as he is easily the oldest and most ancient Divinity within its ranks, but one who rarely associates with it and who sits at the fringe of it, watching with annoyance. Said to be even more ancient than Kosm or any of the older Divinities, he is believed to be the founder of the Pantheon, but due to his unique outlook on the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, he has long since ceded the throne of the Pantheon to Kos for reasons known only to him. His origins are mostly unknown, but many stories told and shared by his fellow eldritch gods and followers alike share a commonality in that many credit him with having once been a Mortal Man, obsessed with the power of the Great Old Ones, who created a perfect device to summon a Great Old One so that he might be granted a shard of its power...and through his bottomless genius, he summoned and bound a shard of Yog-Sothoth, the all-knowing...who is said to have bound and twisted the form of the mortal so arrogant to have summoned him, binding him to its unfathomable intellect and forming another being so powerful as to be a god in his own right. Having been uplifted and bound by the all-knowing Yog-Sothoth, he is said to perpetually oppose his 'father', working eternally to craft a the perfect device to seal him away for eternity. He is known to actively oppose the Great Old Ones, and actively works to keep them sealed and kept far distant from Ea...a belief which has put him quite distant from his Eldritch Brothers and Sisters...and though many of his followers and even those of the other gods in the pantheon see him as the true, if estranged, ruler of the pantheon, he is happy far distant from his kin, creating and inventing new contraptions and devices to keep the Great Old Ones sealed and far distant.
Type
Religious, Pantheon
Leader
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