Hod

God of Undeath

Contents 1 The Void 2 Hod Stirs 3 The 9 Undead Realms 4 The 9 Necromyk Directions 5 The 9 Dark Elders 6 The Undead Lords 7 The Ushers of Hod 8 Servants & Acolytes of Hod

The Void

"Hod is the void."

Opening verse of the Cruxamilon

Hod is who found, claimed and mastered the powers within the Negative Plane. Also known as the Plane of Death or The Void.

Hod Stirs

The Dthoum'yyn (undead) have been unseen in recent history and for the most part lost to time.

Barring the ignominious events surrounding the Mourrah'Crowl resurrections and then the subsequent hunt and cull of the beings known as "Crowler Wights", there has been very little believed Necromyn activity reported for an entire ocean of time.

The slowest slithering glaciers have since picked up great boulders from and across the mantles face and have ground them down to dust. Hundreds of cultures of living beings have been birthed, swelled and have long since gone extinct. Islands have risen, and babbling streams have cut entire valleys as furrows that now lie lower than the level of the great seas.

But these happenings in that ocean of time has been but a single drop that hangs from the end of a nauseous gargoyle's tongue. We here are in that instant before the great retching. Readying ourselves as the leaning gargoyle is poised to purge.

I am sure that you see the limited number of Dthoum'yyn that are still aware and among us on the mantle's crust.

This fact is undoubtedly related to the loss of our loss during the Undead Wars and the deep exhumations and banishments of many bonded Followers of Hod. It is even rumored that the remains of three Undead Lords were discovered during the crusaders campaigns and that their whispers have not been heard since.

Hod has not shown interest here and has allowed those that remain to hide, or slowly roam the dark, or to simply lie down and accept a long and rending rot.

But....epochs are where truths are slowly turned into the loam of the earth. And to within the earth be either forgotten or transformed. Such lengths of time can compel the weak to be restored and inviting the darkest secrets themselves to walk confidently among us without our knowing.

The very gait of our own shambling feet and the squeaking grate of our graveyard's gate are themselves the sounds of an epochs end. And another dark secrets beginning. Along with those few others who have become recently ambulant. These are the third and last recognised sign that an elder's age might be resurfacing from its blighted hollowed place.

Long crepuscular fingers are reaching out as the signs themselves. Signs that Hod stirs. And portents such as these are Hods own uncurling dark and raking immortal claws.

But the portents are there for those who would see them.

The first portent is above us even now although few would ever know it exists. It is a pulse of unseen light. Pfecdema-Prime was observed as being peculiarly placed during the vernal equinox. At the apex of its stellar arch there is proof of a hidden body's ecliptic ascension.

The excandescent star has again risen!.

The second portent is below us even now. Through the tumults being reported among the major centers of many living populations. But it is not the shaking earth itself that is the sign but the deep cracks they have caused. Something very old is seeping up and creeps along the low and shadowed spaces under us. These are the most semblant and noticeable symptom. the earths deepest darkened bones have been broken. Their misty murk and wormy marrow rising finally up. A languid sloughed rotting pulp. A heavy spreading and sordid energy from the It of most unknowns. I have seen these things as the second sign of changing times.

And the third portent ..........is you.

And those recently risen like you.

The few that have been risen up against the permanence of death and away from moribundity and limiting mundane existences. Pulled up by the chains of shadow either willing or not.

Seek the void............. and be pulled out by those chains.

Praise Hod

The 9 Undead Realms

Hod is the Ruler of The Void and claiming the realms of:

• 1. Aabaadd - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 2. The Halls of La'abydenn - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds.

• 3. Gamnallon/The Death Gates - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 4. Tenetour-ulomn - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 5. The 9 thousand levels of Hexya - Commonly referred to as Hell. This plane of punishment is the home to many known demons and devils thought the many pantheons of the Material Plane and beyond. Abyssal field of study within this realm birthed the Ba'al 'Krynn strain of undeath. No further studies have been found since the passing of Dakar'keth'ull'kymn'hep'dthom'nyn'keth'kor near the end of the Undead War.

• 6. Te'Bhogg'O'Dthoum - Commonly referred to as the Sea of the Damned. This place is believed to be a sort of purgatory-like realm where time seems to have no actual meaning. Ghostly ships are believed to roam these waters but wether or not they're actual ghost or mere lingering shadows of other travelers passing throughout the centuries is uncertain. The necromyc direction of Bhogg'Murr spawned from here, and any sailor said to shed blood within it's waters and be given burial at sea will be risen as one of the many Draugr that now roam the seas of the Material Plane.

• 7. Dakar'Domyyn - commonly referred to as the Dark Dominion very little us known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's shadowy grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 8. Csephalanx-neyth - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

• 9. Khal'Thuul - although it's name is present through out the deathrisen's history. no information is known about this place in the current era. Archeological studies are still being made to discover which strain of undeath was birthed from this place and which Necromyc Direction is most powerful within it's grounds. Will you be the Deathrisen who rediscovers it's secrets?

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The 9 Necromyk Directions

• 1. The Excandescent Star- Commonly referred to as the study if The Astral Plane. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 2. Huum'ann- Commonly referred to as the study of Humanity. This necromyc direction belongs to Dark Elder Maug'Aarr'Uend. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 3. Koremantle- Commonly referred to as the study of the Underdark. Not much is known about this necromyc direction other than that it's where the remaining Wights fled during the final days of the Undead War. Much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 4. Mnarr - Commonly referred to as the study if monsterdom. This necromyc direction belongs to Dark Elder Gorgas'Dat'amarr'Tsa'ath. much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 5. Anomyyl - Commonly referred to as the study of Abysm. This necromyc direction was historically documented as being synonymous with the 9000 Layers of Hexya themselves spawning the Ba'al 'Krynn strain of undeath and inevitably bringing about the Undead War. Although Abyssal magic was used to preserve the few remaining documents from these eras, the eradication of its strain caused much of it's knowledge to be lost to time. Studies are however being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

• 6. Bhogg - Commonly referred to as the study of seas and swamps, this strain is one of the few fully rediscovered directions of Necromyc study. While much of the origins surrounding it's birth remains a mystery even to it's most notable practicioners, the history of it's rediscovery and reinvention during The Age of Plagues is highly documented, and widely considered the start of the first major resurgence of undead in the current age

• 7. Dakar'Dthamar - commonly referred to in history as the study of the "Dark Tower". much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age.

• 8. Nyth'dranor- commonly referred to in history as the study of plagues. This Necromyc Direction belongs to Dark Elder Khal'Rhun'Kannon and The Lurea'ag are seemingly directly tied to it. however much of it's study has been lost to time after the fall of the mighty Necromancer Nagash at the hands of the Skaven clans. Ongoing research is being done by scholars and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age.

• 9. Illith - Also known as the study of The Ethereal Planes commonly referred to as "The Veil" or "The Unknown". This necromyc direction belongs to Dark Elder Dthame'Dtholl'Nineveh and much of the study of this Necromyc Direction has been lost to time and many studies are being done by scholar and archeologist alike to bring it back to the current age

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The 9 Dark Elders

The Carriers of the Eldritch germ

1. Ga'Hadth

• Necromyc Direction:
• Known as: the First Defiler
• Creator of:
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2. Maug'Aarr'Uend

• Necromyc Direction: Humanity
• Known as: "The Covent Diplomat of Temple Thull", "Usher of the West Passage" and the "Furth of the Foundary."
• Creator of: the first Phylacteral Basins
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3. Errtz'ii'Dthou'Jhetta

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4. Gorgas'Dat'amarr'Tsa'ath

• Necromyc Direction: Monsterdom
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5. Ghoul-Dthok'yyll

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6. Eimnon'ock (Oath to the Void)

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7. Khuur'Kresh

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8. Khal'Rhun'Kannon

• Necromyc Direction:
• Known as: "the Thresh of Lepers" and "Marshal of The Great Hobben Cloud" during the Age of Plagues.
• Creator of:
• Name Derivation:
• Lore: She moves among legend upon layers of writhing pupae. She counts and accounts for every Hobben Kusst. Known as the Thresh of Lepers, Her lessons lie within; "Dark Parable of the Acolytes Hook- The Fallacy of the Absolute"

9. Dthame'Dtholl'Nineveh"

• Necromyc Direction: Illith
• Known as:
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The Undead Lords

• Krythenn:

• Thothell:

• Marrisheth Guarhg:

• Korgg:

• Nnoth-tyrath:

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The Ushers of Hod

• The Death Giant Bo'urll The Blackheart:

• Albloth-x: He who Rules the 9000 Layers of Hexya

• Dredtch:

• Vhom'iyth:

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Servants & Acolytes of Hod

• Khuul Ghoul Witch of the Arcane Sea:

• Gelythid the Fouling:

• Etchomadt Holder of Shadow Chains:

• Kalithor:

• Syyren the Hymn of Epheshkell:

• Rott-Rysour:

• Remeesh the Headless Hierophant:

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Other Relevant Pages and Resources:

• Deathrisen
• The Lost Codex
• Void Trolls
• Gulp Meets Death
• Water Goblyns
• Baulk's Betrayal