Deity Profile
VARDAAK– Favored Weapon: Great Axe
Titles: The God Reaver, The Annihilation King
CE- Domains: Chaos, Evil, Destruction, Madness, Fire
Subdomains: Demon, Catastrophe, Rage, Ash, Insanity, Entropy
Mysteries: Battle, Bones, Volcano, Apocalypse
Inquisitions: Conversion, Vengeance, Anger, Heresy, Sin
Blessings: Chaos, Evil, Destruction, Madness, Fire
Areas of Influence: genocide, deicide, devastation, insanity
Known Worlds active on: Al’Terre, Erda, Kana
Divine Realm: The Fourfold Prison (simultaneously Heaven, Hell, Axis, & the Abyss)
Petitioner Traits: the “vicious" are transformed into a monstrous form by Vardaak’s very presence. Instead of the limbs they possessed in their mortal lives, massive spider-legs sprout out; likewise instead of their mortal faces, they possess horrid pits surrounded by fangs, eyes, and twitching chelicerae. The vicious increase their base-land speed by 10 ft., gain a climb speed equal to half their new base speed. In addition, they gain a +4 Racial bonus to Perception checks, and replace their Slam attack for a Bite attack which deals damage based on their size.
Sacred Animal: Bats, Snakes, and Spiders
Holy Symbol: a double headed Axe with a demon’s face for each blade.
Other Info: Vardaak appears in myth and visions always as a massive scaled beast combining features of a Bat, Spider, and a Snake bearing three horrific hydra-like heads. He actively seeks to destroy all of creation and the gods that over see it, and as such only the most insane or blood-thirsty choose to revere him. The only deific ally Vardaak tends to find is from the apathetic Kardest, who calmly awaits the end times, and whose followers occasionally find common cause with Vardaak’s own. Those that fight Vardaak’s dark cults fear that Vardaak may be an ascended Demon, for if it’s possible that one Demon can achieve true divinity, they fear what may follow in his footsteps.
Vardaak is known to be bound within the Fourfold Prison, a place which simultaneously exists within his Abyssal realm and that of his most ardent opponents. Who even to today battle him, his Petitioners and his Abyssal allies, seeking to contain or destroy him. Nonetheless, on very few occasions Vardaak has managed to temporarily escape his prison realm, when he does, kingdoms (if not entire worlds) fall, and from the ashes spring such monsters of myth and legend as the Festering Ulunat, the End-Singer Volnagur, the Monarch Worm Chemnosit, the Firebleeder Xotani; and most feared of all, the Armageddon Engine itself, the Tarrasque.
Special: Secret, city-dwelling cultists to Vardaak will occasionally take the Urban Acolyte faith trait (Heroes of the Streets) so as to take the special Riot(Chaos) Subdomain (Heroes of the Streets) to wreck havoc in established, otherwise peaceful civilizations.