Nave - God of Death and Medicine
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Death and Grave Nave, God of Death and Medicine, also called the "Grim Reaper" and "The Ferryman", is one of the two deities generally considered to be the third generation of gods in the Fate. He is the counterpart of Eyr, God of Life and Harvest, and the two gods were both conceived, not by the gods, but by the creation of the new life that sprung forth from the planet after the First children, the fiends, were banished to the Nine Hells and the Abyss. When mortals started walking the earth, so did life and death, and as the birth of new life helped the mortals live and thrive, death closely followed, taking all those souls who's time on the planet were fulfilled. Eyr and Nave exist in harmony, wildly different, but sharing a kinship that few of the other gods can understand. Both Eyr and Nave love all mortal life immensely, and although they prefer to let the souls of the mortals find their own way in life, both are known to curiously observe and sometimes even help mortals, when they are needed. In the mythology of the Fate, Ubris was first gifted the shadowfell, the Plane of Shadow while Lukhas was given what is today known as the Feywilds, the previous Plane of Light. However, when Nave and Eyr were born, and the two reflections of the material plane shifted to reflect this change, Lukhas gave Eyr the feywilds, and Ubris gifted the shadowfell to Nave. However, where Lukhas himself left the feywilds solely to Eyr, Ubris and Nave decided that they would control and govern the shadowfell togheter, and the two have been in close-cooperation ever since. Nave however, also traverses the Ethereal Plane in his duties as god and guide to the dead, traveling the plane and helping souls over to the unknown beyond. Myth has it, that Nave once fell in love with a mortal Veileuxian woman, and that he naively gave her great powers over death. The woman, now known as the Raven Queen, betrayed the god however, and with her powers, she defeated the guardian of Nave; The Raven, and took from him and Ubris apart of the shadowfell for her own. She is still immensely powerful, having gained immortality and divine powers, and is still considered an enemy of the God of Death. Nave however, is passive by nature, and has allowed The Raven Queen to do as she pleases, for now. Depictions of Nave are surprisingly consistent. Most sculpt and paint him as a cloaked skeletal main wearing all black, carrying either a scythe, a cane or a lantern. His face is either an animal or a human skull, and he is silent as the grave as he walks, his dark form partly transparent. Of all the gods, Nave is the most mysterious, feared in some cultures and revered in others. Some view him as a grim bringer of death and disease, while others look to him as a master of medicine and healing, and a kind and gentle ferryman who sheperds the souls of the dead to the beyond. He is most often worshipped by doctors, healers, gravekeepers, ferrymen and assasins, but also by those who worship and harness death for nefarious purposes.
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