The Old God
The afterlife is a vast, flowing expanse of floating isles, connected with hanging bridges. Each isle is a domain of a god, who governs and conforms the isle to what it encompasses. A goddess of the hunt has a seemingly unending woodland, trees twisting and paths uncertain to any that have not recieved her blessing. Her isle is filled with majestic beasts for her followers to hunt. Sounds of horns, dog barking, and the wild cries of the hunt enraptures those that reside therein. Connected through the bridges are the isles of the harvest, where those favored of the goddess are found tending to crops, or lying by the peaceful streams that flow through the land. Other bridges connect, out of sight's reach, allowing the dead to travel across the pantheon.
The world was plagued by a brutal cold that lasted for years, in the early days when mankind first settled, with little understanding of the gods that watched over them. Crops would not grow, the beasts no where to be seen. The fall of mankind seemed emminent. Seeing the plight of the land, and the despair of the goddesses, the sun god came personally to uncover the reason for the endless cold. His actions brought him to odds against an cultist uprising, seemingly bent on bringing an age of ice upon the world. The god, unleashing his full power slew hundreds of these cultists, tearing apart the unnatural beastst that they summoned, ripping through mortal flesh with divine strength. Having commited the unforgivable, directly interfering with the affairs of the mortals, he fled.
The blood of man and beast stained his cloaks of purity, no longer allowing for his return to the afterlife. Within the pool of the abyss does the god reside, trying to be rid of the filth that keeps him bound to the mortal world.
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