Vargus
Lord of the Central Sea (a.k.a. The One Who Hungers)
O Wharghus! The one who hungers!/Your tongue laps at the beach, drawing the earth into the dark abyss of the sea!/Freely, we give unto you the best fruits of our harvest:/The lamb without blemish, the blood-red pomegranate, and the child who has lived for one cycle of the moons./Eat your fill so that the sea is satiated!/Return our children to us as the albacore and the horse mackerel!
Vargus is the Rexan pronunciation of the ancient Nar sea god Wharghus. As the ancient Nar were a seafaring people, Vargus held great importance in their culture as the avatar of their collective fear of the untameable waters of the Central Sea. Vargus was most commonly depicted as a massive sea-serpent, sometimes with the torso of a man.
Divine Domains
Within the Al-’Ilim, Vargus's sphere of influence is the sea, storms, and chaos. Known by the epithet of 'Lord of Floods and Maelstroms,' the appeasement of Vargus through sacrifice was thought by the ancient Nar to led to the protection of sailors and bountiful catches for fishermen, as satiating his hunger had a direct effect on the favorablity of maritime conditions.
Holy Books & Codes
The Hymn of the Al-’Ilim
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Symbols associated with Vargus include the conch shell and the giant sea-serpent. In addition, the Central Sea was conceptualized by the ancient Nar as the opening of Vargus's mouth, hence its name in the Naric language: Wharghus Tihaamat .
Tenets of Faith
The worship of Vargus revolves around the appeasement of his hunger in order than the waters of the Central Sea are calm. It was believed by Vargus's cult that the children sacrificed to him were returned to the Nar as fish.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
As an agent of primordial chaos, Vargus seeks to cover the surface of Tel with roiling storms and massive tidal waves. Vargus's need to replace order with entropy is a manifestation of madness driven by his eternal hunger. It was only the temporary appeasement of his hunger through child sacrifice that prevented Vargus from flooding the ancestral lands of the Nar before the god was eventually cut off from the mortal realm by Rexan clerics during the Rexan-Nar War a millennium ago. During the time of his absence, the Galotim flood plains on which the majority of Nar civilization was settled became the Morbida Swamp, a brackish salt marsh in which the former glory of the Nar is now buried under layers of peat moss.
