Pestyl (PEST-ILL)

Commandments of Pestyl

"While you may not actively seek to create disease, should you carry it or spread it, you would be serving her..."
"...bring those who are ill to places of death and decay, watching over them as they depart."
"in places ... of health and wellness, you are to show respect and retain judgment... still your tongue."

— excerpts of the Textbook of the 8 Divine Diseases; interpreted by followers of Pestyl

Domains: Death, Nature, Trickery

Having worked in a medical facility their whole life, it was the early scientific genius of Maiden Albella of the Oakroot clan that would devise the proper burial and rites procedures of fallen elves. Abella was one of six in the Oakroot clan, being one of the newest groups to have been formed during 56PR, breaking off from the massive Rose-and-Daisy-Thorn clan as many had before them. Abella had moved with her clan to southern Ifeszan, where during the early years of modern time, no modern society dared set up or live. Her clan and she were determined to find out what it was that dissuaded so many from settling in the south-- finding only that it was relatively barren and populated by many poisonous insects.

Pestyl would die and be raised by the breath of The Cerillion, hoping she would be able to combat Tethekk, Remorse in the Fallen but Light in those Who Fall, and bring this divine appointed by Death to their knees. Her ascension was botched, however, and she became an underling and confidant to the coterie of gods that Death had started to put together from beyond The Stack. Rather than fighting Tethekk, she aided them in their more nefarious plans, offering to create potions and poisons to prolong the final stages of death. She never took pleasure in doing this, feeling compelled to help as she sensed that this was her purpose for being afforded the status of a divine, and one with ties to Death at that. Due to her being a confidant and aide to Death and his plans on filling the modern pantheon with gods appointed by him, she is known by many as 'the Barren Mother,' or in some circles as 'the Feldoctor.' She is not considered good or evil, as her modern worship aligns with the modern ideology that everything must take its natural path and that some things can simply not be halted or prevented (often in places where she is worshipped, one can hear the phrase 'it cannot be helped,' repeated plenty.) Often in places for terminally ill patients or battlefields post-fight; a priest of Pestyl may wander the masses to ensure that nothing hinders or soothes what a dying life experiences before passing. The relationship between her worship and poisons is rare, as an ancient sect that worshipped her during one of the great plagues of the early first century, covered up and heavily obfuscated her connection with Tethekk in her early rise to divinity.

Phyiscal Form & Icons of Pestyl

Pestyl is not able to alight upon the mortal planes as a physical being, she must in her place send a planetar or have a demi-divine child. Traits that her icons

Divine Symbols & Sigils

- Four arrows pointing towards a sickle: a marking is colloquially known as a mark of 'the Felpractice.'

- A jade orb engraved with the mark of the Felpractice wrapped eight times in silver wire, suspended from a set of three bronze rings: this symbol is typically worn by the higher ranking members of organized sects of Pestyl

Type: New Divine (Death Appointed)

Vestiges: Canchor Sickle

Artifacts:
Scrap of the Cloak of Death



Syringe of the Green Slivers



Glodrop

Holidays:

Allsaint's Day

(6th of Scythe, yearly)


Death's Day of Remembrance

(5th of Tarsakh, cenntenial)

Holy Books & Codes:


Textbook of the 8 Divine Diseases

Code of the Trial of Eight Swords

Divine Classification

New Divine (Death Appointed)