Molog

The Angel of Death Molog

Deep under the surface, where not a soul dares trek, lays the tomb of an old god, humiliated and relayed to the shadows. But in the silence and darkness of its prison, the Angel of Death is beginning to awaken from its centuries-long slumber, and it reaches towards the surface once again.
Molog was once a revered divinity. Patron of Death, decay and change, clerics, embalmers, and grave-diggers alike were its servants. Though some societies saw Molog as an evil divinity due to its link with death, many cultures embraced its teachings such that Molog clerics were usually responsible for funeral arrangements and grief counseling.
However, some people of less respectable standing were also known to devote themselves to Molog. Assassins, necromancers, and grave-robbers were among its followers, and their intepretation of the Angel's teachings wildely differed from those dispersed by clerics, painting Molog as a guiding hand for assassins, and a demanding patron for necromancers, both groups asking for its help in accomplishing their nefarious deeds.

Artifacts

Molog's flute, an enchanted artifact, was once said to procure protection from the reach of Molog, effectively bestowing immortality to its owner. There a few recorded sightings of the flute, such that most scholars dismiss as a myth and an old wife's tale.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Molog's symbol is a round crest with a skeletal hand holding a heart through its claws. Some clerics preferred using the wheel, symbol of change, and fungi, symbol of decay, to represent Molog in order to avoid the association with horror and Death.

Physical Description

Identifying Characteristics

In most artistic representations, Molog is seen as a lithe hooded figure, with a skeletal right hand holding a lantern and fungi growing on its robes. Sometimes it will be adorned with wings of feathers and eyes.
Clerics also often depicted it as a handsome blind young man of pale skin, dark hair, thin appearance and comforting smile.

The Banishment

Molog, like all divinities, was eventually exposed as a usurper, an evil spirit manipulating Mortals under the guise of divinity. Like the rest of its kind, Molog was sentenced to Banishment. However, in order to keep the Usurpers apart, different means of banishment were to be used. Molog, because of its sheer power and relation to death, was put to sleep, cut into small pieces, and dispersed throughout an inescapable tomb in the depths of the Material Plane. The means and spells used for this process were kept secret and lost through time, but deep under the Ichor Desert, its tomb remains.

Divine Classification

Banished Spirit

Aligned Organization

Usurpers