Torog

The Crawling King, God of Torture

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For more information on all Betrayer Deities, see: Betrayer Deities

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The dark god of the endless tunnels and caverns beneath Iolcus, Torog is the patron of torturers, slavers, and jailers across the realms. His violent tears carved the pathways under the world, and his realm of imprisonment is a network of deadly caves and manacles from which few return. Creatures that wander the desolation of Carceri often construct prisons in his image. Those who rob others of their freedom offer prayers to him in cellars and other subterranean domains, and many creatures who live in the darkness below worship him and seek his guidance.

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Physical Description

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The Crawling King is rendered as a swollen, malformed worm that slithers through the dark below, with a screaming, hairless human head at the helm and three arms carving through the lightless rock.

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Divine Realm

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Torog remains banished within an unknown sliver of the Darklands called the Dead Vault, where the boundaries between worlds grow thin and birth terrible abominations bent on subjugation. Since being sealed away by the Prime Deities, the Crawling King has never truly healed from the wounds he suffered. Every attempt to leave his prison is a torturous attempt on his permanently broken body. As the god of torturers, he takes inspiration from each failed attempt as new ways to inflict pain on mortals.

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Tenets of Faith

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• Seek and exalt places where no light touches.


• Revel in the pain you inflict on others, and relish the pain you suffer yourself as an offering to Torog.


• Imprison those who cannot resist you, and drag all life into the darkness.

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Worshipers

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As the patron god of slavers and jailers, the Crawling King offers guidance to those who rob others of freedom. The Crawling King is a jealous god, and he will seek to destroy any rivals that try to challenge the Crawling King's rule over the domains of torture and imprisonment.

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Contacts & Relations

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Prime Deities

Corellon and Sarenrae defeated Torog during the Dawnspear War by luring their nemesis above ground. Corellon pierced Torog's tenebrous body with ten thousand arrows of sunlight, and the Dawnflower imprisoned him beyond the boundaries of Iolcus. The tears of pain and anger the Crawling King shed burned through Iolcus, and his faithful fled into these tunnels to escape their enemies' holy light.

Divine Traits

General Information

Alternative Name(s)
The Banished God
The Crawling King
God of Torture
The Writhing Worm

Alignment
Neutral Evil

Pantheon
Betrayer Deity

Areas of Concern
Enslavement, torture, underground

Favored Weapon
Warhammer

Sacred Animal(s)
Worm

Sacred Color(s)
Black, white

Symbol
Three pale arms clawing from a dark void

Worshipers
Jailers, slavers, torturers

Worshipers' Adjective(s)
Torite

Plane
Material Plane - Dead Vault, the Darklands

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D&D 5e

Domains
Death, Trickery

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Pathfinder 1e

Domains
Darkness, Death, Earth, Evil, Law, Trickery

Subdomains
Caves, Daemon, Loss, Murder, Shadow, Slavery

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Pathfinder 2e

Domains
Darkness, Earth, Pain, Trickery

Alternative Domain(s)
Abomination, Death

Divine Ability
Constitution or Wisdom

Divine Font
Harm

Divine Skill
Intimidation

Cleric Spells
1st: Phantom Pain
3rd: Agonizing Despair
4th: Painful Vibrations

Divine Boons

• Minor Boon
  ???
• Moderate Boon
  Each morning, during your daily preparations, scars gather into words on your flesh. The scars function as a scroll of a divine spell of Torog’s choosing. After you use the scroll or receive magical healing, the boon fades for the day, though some or all of the scars might remain as a reminder.
• Major Boon
  ???

Divine Curses

• Minor Curse
  ???
• Moderate Curse
  You share the pain of others, and even minor wounds bring you incredible pain. Whenever you see (or otherwise sense) a creature take damage, you take 1d6 mental damage. Whenever you take damage any other way than from the first part of this curse, you take 1d6 mental damage from increased pain and are sickened 1. Mental damage from this curse ignores any resistance you have to mental damage.
• Major Curse
  Torog steals away your joy, leaving you with only pain. You lose that which you cherish the most forever, and lose the ability to feel joy. You can’t gain benefits from emotion effects based on positive emotions. If Torog feels you are ready to renounce, destroy, mutilate, or torture that which you once cherished most, he might return it to you to allow you to do so.