Sheth - Etratia

Sooo... I didn't read the whole first entry of Mainprize's new DM-nastics and thought we were supposed to submit a complete portfolio for one of our own gods. Thought it'd be a shame to waste all that typing, so I moved it over here. And yes, my handle is the name of the big bad evil god in my homebrew.


1) Nevur, High God of Evil, Anarchy and Greed

2) Death, Trickery

3) Represents his soul-devouring mouth. Nevur's Maw is the name for Hell in my setting. The symbols of most deities use simple geometric shapes (triangles, squares, circles...) in various combinations. Nevur has 8 subordinate gods, each represented by the 'teeth,' and each associated with a cardinal sin. The space between them is called one of the Paths to Corruption, and is related to the interplay of the cardinal sins along which it runs.




4) Consume souls, which are the essence of Eloxei (Supreme Deity, cause of all creation), in order to take his place

5) Sew discord among Eunime (High Goddess of Good and Civilization) and her servants

6) Rinse and repeat.

7) Non-worshippers refer to an adherent of Nevvur as a Hollow Contract. Worshippers do not collaborate, and rarely even know of one another's existence.

8, 9) Worshippers have no hierarchy, and thus no titles. Every member operates with complete autonomy.

10) Nevvur's Maw (yes, Nevvur resides within his own mouth, because that's all he is, and his essence occupies the entirety of the infernal planes)

11, 12) Unknown, something for me to work on.

13, 14) No one openly celebrates Nevvur's works. A Hollow Contract sometimes conspires to ruin other churches' celebrations though, and may recognize certain dates as important to his own understanding of Nevvur. The Winter solstice on the solar calendar, and the new moon on the lunar calendar are common.

15) A Hollow Contract is, by necessity, discreet. He requires no sancitified (or rather, desecrated) ground to receive divine guidance or providence. His temple is in his own black heart.

16a) A person can only become a Hollow Contract by committing suicide, and being condemned to Nevvur's Maw for acts so atrocious that Eunime considers his soul beyond redemption. And then, it's uncertain Nevvur would bother spending power to return the soul to the world of Sheth anyway. The suicide does not involve any particular ritual, though if he is capable of contacting Heshala and Emkeril (devils and demons), he may attempt to do so prior to his death, that they might put in a good word for him.

16b) A Hollow Contract may consume the soul of a person through ritual sacrifice in order to prolong his own life.