Ulan

"You think he can't hear you? You think we are somewhere that he is not also? Your stupidity will get us all killed! You cannot escape him, you cannot escape chaos itself!"

— Unknown

The Devil on your Shoulder

Ulan is found in the stories half-told and the music that changes when you think you've caught the melody. Not a god of destruction, nor a god of madness, Ulan is the god of uncertainty, of the unexpected, of the things that refuse to fit neatly into place. His domain requires no solemn garden or temple, merely the uproar of street market bargaining or an ornament placed just so in the path of a particularly mischievous cat.
Those who encounter him often find themselves feeling like they've been told a riddle with an answer that lies just barely on the tip of their tongue, not realizing the force of nature that stands in front of them. Ulan takes pleasure in watching the careful plans of mortals across the Eight Lands come undone with the inevitable question of "what could possible go wrong?" hanging in the air like a heavy cloud of perfume. The answer, more often than not, is "quite a lot", but such is the charm of his presence.

The Spark from the Ashes

The ones who follow Ulan do so without their knowledge. They are the ones who chase forgotten ideas or take a left turn because it feels right. They are the inventors who discover something unintended, the storytellers who abandon plots halfway because another tale suddenly seems more urgent. Ulan guides with a gentle nudge, a misplaced word, a breeze that knocks the papers off a desk just when everything seemed in order.
"Order is a lovely thing," he might say, "but have you ever seen a perfectly tied knot that wasn't also a little dull?"
Where other deities may find him inconvenient at best, grumbling at his interference, Ulan simply shrugs. Without chaos, the world would be a book with no surprises, a song with no room for improvisation. All of which poses the most important of questions: where's the fun in that?

Divine Classification

The Unmade, the Unraveled,
the God of Chaos