The God Which
Pulses, Quivers, and Collects, or The Grand Stultified Energon –
Few sane beings willingly worship The Grand Stultified Energon,
as few who breathe would dedicate themselves to death and
accumulation. The X’Xul pay grudging obeisance to the Energon, and
he reportedly bestows upon them luck in the accumulation of other
sentient beings. The Surdites (see pp.xx), sentient insect swarms
which animate the dead, serve him absolutely. The Energon’s wrath
is known by the choke of drowning, and his boon by indifference to
suffering. His image is that of an imperious and calcified skull
fossil, and his passage is known by the burn of ozone.
Favor/ Disfavor:
Praying to the Energon allows the supplicant a once per week, 5%
chance to improve their saving throw by one point for one task.
Should the 5% check fail, the supplicant immediately suffers a -1 to
their saving throw for the rest of the day.
Vol-Mak-Dron,
Ascendent Resplendent - (Surdite Guardian of the Sennarit
Descala)
Cues: Hissing
speech, easily bored with the idle chatter of humans, laments his
restraint in the consumption of the dead he guards.
Vol-Mak-Dron shares
that essential trait of all Surdites of referring to itself with the
royal “We.” Unlike its Surdite brethren, Vol-Mak-Dron avoids the
consumption of dead flesh and instead stands vigil over the entombed
corpses at Sennarit Descala. On the orders of the Grand Stultified
Energon, Vol-Mak-Dron remains largely dispersed, existing on a
starvation diet while monitoring the entrance to the Cheery Orchard
Necropolis for the purposes of forward intel. The Energon favors the
tomb-statues of the Descala as well, and commands his steward to
protect them with violence if necessary.
Individuals aware of
Vol-Mak-Dron’s presence often attempt to converse with it. If the
Surdite condescends to engage them, it will usually take the form of
a cloaked humanoid male with a buttery, chorused voice, remaining
largely in shadow. Vol-Mak-Dron quickly bores of interactions with
humans, and will express it with indirect displays of casual violence
and vandalism. Its favorite game is to pretend to be a poltergeist
haunting the area, pranking the horrified elites with all manner of
teasing, taunting, and minor mayhem. Vol-Mak-Dron possesses an
encyclopedic knowledge of the Necropolis, although it is reticent to
share the terrible secret fate of all Gathoxan life with visitors.
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