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Zehir

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Epithets: The Cloaked Serpent
Master of Poison
Poised-to-Strike
The Coiled Schemer

Tenets: Keep your acts obfuscated and secret. The night is your greatest ally.
Strike quickly and without reason. Blind the target with their own confusion.
Kill slowly. Agonizingly. Or ideally, make them enjoy it.

Domains: Death, Grave, Trickery

If you are trained in religion, you may know the following. 
Wanderer in shadow and creator of snakes and serpent-kin, Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent is the evil god of poisons, assassins, and darkness. Much of ancient serpent-kin worship him over all other deities, dragging screaming offerings to their temples in his honor. Most of the Cloaked Serpent's worshipers were annihilated during the Dawn War and those who weren't are either suspended in self-induced stasis or hunted for sport by the servants of the Spider Queen and the Crawling King. But perhaps the Cloaked Serpent is merely biding his time, waiting for hte proper moment to unleash his hidden armies upon the world once more.

The Cloaked Serpent loathes Erathis the Lawbringer and Melora the Wildmother, for he despises life, order, and love above all things. His surviving worships relish in using poison and fire to undermine civilization and consume nature, hoping to throw the goddesses into fury and consequently casting Nezira into chaos.

Many forgotten temples were once built to the Cloaked Serpent, and within these chambers you would find his image engraved within much of the architecture. A human body with a half-dozen arms that houses a gargantuan serpent head, fanged and frilled in aggression. Strands of thick, dark hair that sprout from the scaled body swirl around to form layers of shadow, obscuring the entire form of the entity.
Isskia - Fangfiend - 1678

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