The Devourer

The Devourer (a.k.a. “Star-eater”)

The Devourer has no name, no true form, nothing that could be quantified as an existence. It is less a deity than a primal force of the universe - an embodiment of malicious entropy, concerned only with the obliteration of all reality. Heedless of the meaningless existence of life in all its myriad forms, it cannot be reasoned with, delayed, or halted, and it largely ignores the pleas and prayers of even its most devout worshippers.

Divine Domains

• Black holes
• Destruction
• Supernovas

Divine Symbols & Sigils

While the Devourer can be represented by a simple black dot or swirl (representations of the final collapse of space-time) the most common symbol is the Blood Accretion: a swirling black hole often tinged with red in its accretion disk.

Tenets of Faith

• "Do not create."
• "Even you must pass into the void."

Divine Goals & Aspirations

Eons ago, the Material Plane sprang into existence in an instant, and someday it will end just as abruptly, as all creation ceases to exist.
Believed by some to have been born in that same instant of creation, or perhaps even to be the ghost of some entity from a previous cycle of existence, the Devourer seeks to hasten this inevitable end and unmake the entire plane, eradicating all matter and energy until nothing remains - not even the Devourer itself. Every machine that breaks, every living thing that dies, every star that goes supernova, every photon sucked into a black hole, every galaxy that goes dark - all these and more are said to be the handiwork of the Devourer.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Takes the form of a gigantic black hole.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

1. ?DG: Ascended an unknown Cultist into the atrocite herald known as Twinned Echo. According to oral histories in the Cult of the Devourer, this was a reward for the destruction of Damiar and Iovo - the two planets whose destruction resulted in the Pact Worlds' asteroid belt.
2. ?AG: Consumed and destroyed the illithid homeworld (name unknown).

Taboos

The Devourer avoids directly creating at all times, even going so far as to use the shapes of preexisting creatures when creating their heralds.

...some cosmologists and theologians postulate that when the Devourer has consumed everything and the mortal world expires, the Devourer will give birth to a new universe in place of the old, but the crazed cultists who venerate the Star-Eater as a god know this for the foolishly hopeful lie that it is. There will be no rebirth, no second creation - only an immeasurable void of nothingness.

— The Living Void, written 221AG

Divine Classification

Major deity

Religions

• Cult of the Devourer

Alignment

Chaotic Evil

Current Location

Material Plane

Church/Cult

Cult of the Devourer

Known Languages

Telepath of immeasurable power, able to communicate via dreams.