Hod

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God of Undeath

Description

"Hod is the void."

Opening verse of the Cruxamilon

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

Hod Stirs

The Dthoum'uun (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'uun that are still aware and among us on the mantle's crust.

This fact is undoubtedly related to the loss of the undead army and the subsequent razing of the Crypts of Chuul and the deep exhumations and banishments of many Bonded Followers of Hod. It is even rumored that three Undead Lords were found 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 Undead Realms

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

Khal'Thuul-

Aabaadd-

The Halls of La'abydenn-

The 9 thousand levels of Hexya-

Gamnallon (The Death Gates)-

Csephalanx-neyth-

Tenetour-ulomn-

Dakar'Domyyn (Dark Dominion)-

The Nine Nekromyk Directions

Hunnann (Humanity)-

Koremantle (Underdark)-

Anomyyl (Abysm) -

Mnarr (Monster)-

Illith -

Bhogg (The Morund Seas and Swamps)-

Ethereal'uun (Ethereal and Astral Planes) -

Torrd -

Cryos-

The Dark Elders-

The Carriers of the Eldritch germ

Ga'Hadth (First Defiler)-

Maug'Aarr'Uend-

"The Covent Diplomat" of Temple Thuul.

"Usher of the West Passage" and the "Furth of the Foundary."

Creator of the first Phylacteral Basins-

These artefacts were instrumental in the mastery of a measured connection to specific zones within the Negative Plane. These were the first instruments that allowed for controlled methods of shadow collection. The material used for the first constructions of these were bronze. And it is still the most widely used material for these tools. What might be interesting to some are the engravings that these were sometimes given. Most were inscribed (as they still are) the Nekromyc circles and angles of the Dalamus and Engram. But some powerful inscriptions depicted animals, fantastic and otherwise.

"There was a particular object that I remember hanging from the rail of his (Maug's) quenching well. One with a most peculiar design . It caught my eye not because of the subject, but the design itself.

For it seemed to have its own life.

There in the dark corner of what was then his private rectory. Moving inside the darkness beside the deep well and upon a Grimm emblazoned bronze koracle....

a self seeking snake

that seemed to ..... move on its own.

Perpetually coiling and uncoiling around its own length... and the entirety of this living art, it also moved around the empty space within the centre of the small brazier.

A space that seemed so empty.... it could be seen as the void itself."

Dark Elder Tsa'ath Excerpt from- "Recurrences"

Errtz'ii-Dthou-Jhett-

Tsa'ath-Gorga-Dat'amarr-

Ghoul-Dthok'yyll-

Eimnon'ock (oath to the void)-

Khuur'Kresh -

Khal'Rhun'Kannon-

Dthame'Dtholl'Nineveh"-

Dthame’- “Reaches out” Eludes to the ancient Hobben word “Thame” which means river. From texts contending that the cycle of water from elevated geology flowing / returning back to the sea can be viewed as reaching arms.

Dtholl’- “(Gatherer or Collector) A post within the temple that held the congregation and knew their tithe. The Dtholl ritualised the ceremony after the primes were read. Part of their responsibility was to collect offerings and to maintain and protect the coffers”

Nineveh- “The Ninth” or “The Last” She was the final Elder in the group of nine. Last to know the fate of the Temple Thuul. Last in the procession that the Elders made during the ascension of the excandescent star. Nineveh is known as "The Ninth" or "The Last" She has claim to most of the planes known as "Illith" (ill-ith) which are very difficult existences to describe. They are in-between the others.

Thytallnn Dthoum'uun (The Undead Lords)

Krythenn-

Thothell-

Marrisheth (Guarhg)-

Korgg-

Nnoth-tyrath-

Demi-Liches

Uuliik-Hothoom-

Known as- "The Floating Helm of Hattershoul" and "Collector of Thallos"

Original race- Unknown.

Risen by- Dark Elder Khuur'Kresh

One of the first fervent, obsessive non Hobben followers of Hod.

Ta'ak-Glimdelisur (Rrantazx)

Known as- "The Hidden False Daemon"

Original race- Aamyyra

Risen by- Dark Elder Maug'Arr'Uend

Ackyrak'kel-Ash'etakesh- "The Beyllym of Black Sands"

Creator of- The Alkathbann-Ack'hemm (The Skeleton Dunes)

Original race- Dinn

Risen by- Dark Elder Errtz'ii'Emmnant

First transcend from phelacteral to the Demi state 17 centuries before the Crux regions at the edge of the black desert were formed and the mortal wars known as the Crux Rebellion sent the survivors into his lair.

The reliance on his mortal remains was made unnecessary after strong and devout attempts into deeper connections to the void.

He attained a Deminoulogus status within the his lair, The Khoptyc Crypts located under the Skeleton Dunes.

He then sought out two powerful relics. and acquired what would eventually be known as "The Hands of Etakesh". His expanded existence is Chronicled from the years of his second rising in 153.563 b.p.y. This chronicle is established well before the Undead War and was written by the disembodied Hand of Tsulluun itself.

Remaining transcripts were later transcribed from the walls within the Halls of Chind but the Chronicle copies are savagely sought out and the public copies are largely incomplete.

The Ushers of Hod

The Death Giant Bo'urll (The Blackheart)-

Albloth-x-

Dredtch-

Vhom'iyth-

Hod Servants / Acolytes

Khuul- (Ghoul Witch of the Arcane Sea)-

Gelythid "The Fouling"-

Etchomadt (Current holder of Shadow Chains)-

Kalithor-

Syyren (The Hymn of Epheshkell)-

Rott-Rysour-

Remeesh (The Headless Hierophant) -

Deathrisen