Plague

Imperial Goddess, Plaguebringer, Lady of Pox.

Plague is an imperial goddess that embodiments blight, decay and everything disgusting, considered one of three most malevolent gods of imperial Black Pantheon with exception of Pentagram. Her divine domain makes her both one of the weakest gods of Gehenna while also one of the most feared. She spends time on the highest levels of her small dimension in Gehenna called Tower of Blight, ruling over legions of daemons and the Dead.
 

Tower of Blight

Tower of Blight is described as massive tower of unknown height, reaching diameter of approximately one kilometer, surrounded by vast disease-ridden plains where corrupted blood rains from the skies and rivers are filled with liquids best left undescribed. It is dangerous place, forever littered by sludge and other wastes excreted by living and breathing Tower in its midst, where only the most powerful beings can somehow survive for even a while.   The tower starts as one made from moss-covered stone... but as one ascends it, it soon changes. The higher one goes, the more disease-riden the tower becomes. Soon it is full of mold, fungi, filth and decay. Then stone is replaced by organic matter, and before intruder notices, he walks knee deep in mixture of pus, acidic vomits and disease-tainted blood, with even walls around him distorted by pain caused by everpresent sicknesses, with daemons and Plague's Dead prowling the corridors like microbes prowl veins of body they infected.   On a highest level lie the Throne of Pox, upon which Plague sits, surrounded by her court of unspeakable beings, each of them carrying illnesses so virulent that they make the worst diseases of Light pale in comparison, each of them capable of eradicating most of life simply by being allowed to enter the world of the living. Forever waiting for their lady to let them bring most beautiful pox-ridden death into the Light.
 

Servants

During the Great Game - fought in Dark and Light - Plague commands a vast armies of the Dead and her own servile daemons alike. Most notable of them are:   Harbinger of Blight - Towering daemon wearing a traditional suit of medics during ancient epidemies, with a rusted cleaver and an incense that strenghtens and accelerates diseases of those who smell its disgusting smell. Often seen prowling the street of cities decimated by plagues, attempting to further spread the blessings of their goddess by sabotaging work of the doctors and breaking quarantines.   Plague Handmaiden - Feared servile daemon of Plague. They are her personal attendants, surrounding her diseased throne, ready to act on her every whim. In Light they manifested as either pale women in burial shrouds or humanoidal abominations from rotten flesh and bodyparts wearing similar but barely visible attire. While relatively weak in combat, they spread and accelerate most virulent diseases possible, even bacteries dying around them.   Fly Lord - Elite sorcerer of Accursed Legions from Tower. All of them were once magicians and alchemists of great power, that rather than fight diseases helped spread them or created new. Now their flesh is a nest for flies carrying the sicknesses. They walk surrounded by rotten stench and the insects they can order around, wearing disgusting rags and with staff from bones and still living flesh in their hands.

Divine Domains

Pestilence, Plague, Rot and Mold.

Holy Books & Codes

Variety of legends and books, that were never properly unified. Many of them slightly vary between regions in Imperium.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Rotten apple.

Tenets of Faith

Her chief tenet is seeing diseases as a cleansing flame purifying mortal worlds from the weak, letting the strong thrive without the weak chaining them with their numerical superiority). And spreading them. Her cults mostly grow when overpopulation and general misery hits their peak, making people literally see her diseases as a cure.

Physical Description

Facial Features

She tends to manifest as a little girl (8-12 years old) with a pale skin, and running nose. Sometimes - especially when she wants to show her displeasure - her body is distorted by diseases, covered in boils, with blood mixed with pus dripping from her eyes and nose.

Identifying Characteristics

Often wears shirts with a symbol of rotting apple knitted on it. Sometimes simply carries one in her hand.

Special abilities

Just as all gods, Plague is omnipotent and omniscient, her power over reality limited only by influences of other beings similar to her. She is more than capable of forging completely new reality with but a friction of power - afterall Tower of Blight is practically a world, as 'real' for its inhabitants as 'real' world is for mortals.   As any god Plague isn't limited to 'today', as there is no 'today' for gods. They exist simultaneously in every 'now' of every 'today' from the moment the world is created to the moment of its eventual demise. The only reason they limit themselves to human concept of time is to interact with them without being too 'alien' for them.   Plague is also capable of creating literally unlimited numbers of daemons - not to mention as many types of them as she wishes. She could also create as many species in real life, but never did that... unless one counts all the pathogens she concocted.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

[justify[Plague is a daughter of Deviation - imperial goddess of sex and perversions - and Hedonism, imperial god of self-indulgence. She has one sister - Failure, considered another mostly malevolent (while slightly pitiable) goddess of Gehenna. Following her birth she voluntary exiled herself from the Paradise Halls over which her parents rule, soon creating the Tower of Blight.   Despite this exile she feels no grudge, often cooperating with her mother in her plans to prolong the civil war in Gehenna forever. Not from love, but from simple personal interests, as having someone arise as the overlord of Gehenna might lead to further chaining her ability to spread pestilence throughout the mortal world... while reserving most terrible diseases she concocts to members of her court, her living arsenal awaiting Last War.   Thus, while she often cooperates with her mother, she is ultimately focused on her own well being, doing only as much as ensuing status quo requires while spreading her beloved diseases both in Light and Dark.

Sexuality

Sexuality is ultimately an act that leads to new life being created - while she is only interested in ending lifes. There are no daemons claiming to be her descendants, though she sometimes shows nearly romantic infatuations with some Chosen Ones, especially those most distorted by some prolonged sicknesses like leper. It's hard to say if she is more into them or into bacterias/viruses they carry.

Morality & Philosophy

Plague is ultimately an extreme social darwinist, that sees herself - and her creations - as a power of balance which the world requires to thrive and exist.   Its biggest problem - or at least one of the major one - is overpopulation. With inhabited lands limited to lands without expansive forest complexes covering most of Karadia (inhabited by variety of beasts and daemons) area that can be settled is always limited. When there are too many mortals, overpopulation causes wars, breakdown of societies, economic crises and famines... and this is when Plague comes. With her plagues sweeping through crowded cities, culling the weak and letting the strong rebuild world from ashes.   While genocidal and merciless, she isn't actively evil. Most of the diseases simply are, she is just the one that lets them off the leash to give the civilization a much needed purification, at least on local scale. Prospering and strong countries, able to fund sewers and public baths for its inhabitants and with enough free place to contain its growing population without cities overcrowding, rarely feel her wrath.   She is also, in a way, a goddess of medicine, as she can also take back what she gave. Sometimes, when one is strong enough to fight against her diseases, she can show mercy, seemingly on a whim but with probably some deeper thought indecipherable by mortals.

Social

Family Ties

Daughter of Deviation(goddess of sexual perversions) and Hedonism(god of self-indulgence and hedonism).   Sister of Failure, goddess of misfortune and disasters. Half-sister of a multitude of Deviation bastards, too many to name all of them.

Religious Views

Tends to see religion as all gods do. A sort of contract between mortals and immortals.   Gods provide afterlife and make sure that mortals won't blow up their world to smitherens (or that they won't be wiped out by something). In turn they set up certain rules the mortals should adhere to, that are in long-term good for them even if sometimes hard to follow. They receive veneration as a payment, and use mortals as a pawns in their schemes.
Divine Classification
God
Birthplace
Children
Current Residence
Tower of Blight in Gehenna.
Gender
Female.
Eyes
Vary between manifestations.
Hair
Vary between manifestations.
Height
Vary between manifestations.
Weight
Vary between manifestations.
Known Languages
A all Gods do, she understands and speaks all languages in existence.
Ruled Locations

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