Church of the Hooded Viper

Mythology & Lore

Wanderer in shadow and creator of snakes and serpent-kin, the Hooded Viper is the evil god of poisons, assassins, and darkness. Much of ancient serpent-kin worships him over all other deities, dragging screaming offerings to their temples in his honor. Most of the Hooded Viper's worshipers were annihilated during the Fracturing, 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 Stranded One. But perhaps the Hooded Viper is merely biding his time, waiting for the proper moment to unleash his hidden armies upon the world once more.
The Hooded Viper loathes the Lawbringer and the Wildheart, for he despises life, order, and love above all things. His surviving worshipers relish in using poison and fire to undermine civilization and consume nature, hoping to throw the goddesses into fury and consequently cast Valandria into chaos.
Many forgotten temples were once built to the Hooded Viper, 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.

Tenets of Faith

• 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 worse, make them enjoy it.