Showing posts with label gods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gods. Show all posts

Thursday, August 6, 2020

The Herald Of Chaos

The spaceborn peoples know well the dangers of the void. It is a world that does not take kindly to mistakes.

The Herald of Chaos is the sister aspect to Dame-Vide, the Lady of Luck and Mischance. When the Lady's dice roll and you lose, it is the Herald which watches hungrily. Its creeping fingers seeking to spin your world out of control and to utter destruction.

When your habitat leaks, when a solar flare arises to spew radiation across the void, the Herald is there, eagerly awaiting the moment when you truly began to lose tour grip.

It is a god of mistakes and split second decisions and cascade effects.

The Herald of Chaos is rarely depicted in artwork. There are no shrines (no public shrines at least) to it. It is a thing of radiation, solar flares, cancerous growths, and escaping air. In the murals and paintings surrounding icon niches it is only eluded to as dark shadow following the Dame-Vide.

No one but the most utterly desperate and hateful invoke the Herald's will. It's chaos knows no distinctions and once loosed there is little one can do to stop it. 

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Epat-Der, God Of Obstacles, Obstruction, And Boredom

(credit for this idea goes to Ossie over on the Basstionland Discord, here's a link to their Itch.io account)

Art by me

Among the spaceborn cultures there are few gods so universally despised, save perhaps the Herald of Chaos itself, as Epat-Der the god of obstacles, obstruction, and boredom.

Epat-Der is not a neglected god however. Shrines to him may be found on almost every civilized stations and you will hear his name spoken in abundance. For it is Epat-Der who the frustrated curse and blame when an otherwise simple task drags on. 

It is traditional to leave offerings of stationary at his shrines in hopes of appeasing him and staving off his bothersome influence. As well, leaving the signature of someone you despise is supposed to bring obstruction and obstacles to their endeavors. 

Shrines for Epat-Der usually depict him as a multi-armed man in older style suit. Paper chains bind him and he carries an assortment of stamps and forms poised to descend onto some poor soul.

Interestingly despite nominally having his domain extend over boredom, Epat-Der is usually not accredited with the all to common monotony of spaceflight, rather being tied to the boredom of repetitive and meaningless tasks. Whereas the former belongs to the Quiet Black, godling of solitude and the vast of the void.

Update- Ossie wrote an amazing followup to this on the Quiet Black over on their blog, go check it out