Church of the Stranded One

Mythology & Lore

The dark god of the endless tunnels and caverns beneath Valandria, the Stranded One acts as patron to torturers, slavers, and jailers across the realm. His tears of pain and anger carved the pathways under the world, and his realm of imprisonment is a network of deadly caves and manacles where few return. Those who rob others of their freedom offer prayers to him in cellars and other subterranean domains, and other creatures who live in the darkness below worship him and seek his guidance. 
The Sunlord and the Evermistress defeated the Stranded One during the Fracturing by drawing their nemesis above lances of sunlight, and the Evermistress imprisoned him within her serene rays. The tears of suffering and rage the Stranded One shed burned through Valandria, and his faithful fled into these tunnels to escape their enemies' holy light.
The Stranded One is largely rendered as a swollen, malformed worm that slithers through the dark below, a screaming, hairless human head at the helm with three arm carving through the lightless rock.

Tenets of Faith

• Seek and exalt places where no light touches.
• Revel in the pain you inflict upon others, and relish the pain you suffer yourself as an offering to the Stranded One.
• Imprison those who cannot resist you, and drag all life into the darkness.