History Characters / CodexEquusTheFourTerrors

* MixedAncestry: The Four Terrors are divine Deer-Draconequus hybrids due to their mother, Ispita, being a Fallen divine Draconequus. Because of their mixed heritage on top of being Evil deities that sow evil in the mortal realms, Belyolen makes sure that they are kept away and protected from the Elternteil pantheon, whose members would've surely ostracized and abused them for existing.

* MixedAncestry: He's half Deer and half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* MixedAncestry: She's half Deer and half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* MixedAncestry: He's half Deer and half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* MixedAncestry: She's half Deer and half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* NotSoDifferent: Temnobog noticed during a fight with a rage-filed Yarost that his son's feelings of hatred, resentment, sorrow, and self-loathing were exactly how he felt when he snapped from the Elternteil Deer Pantheon's emotional abuse and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil genuinely became evil for a time]]. This is what motivated him to have Yarost restrained until his rage cooled, because he didn't want to hurt his son while trying to stop him.

** She was ''furious'' with Stækka for emotionally abusing Hnignun and driving her into self-imprisonment for embodying Death. In her eyes, this made Stækka NotSoDifferent from High King Irminsul, who emotionally abused Temnobog for being born "evil" despite doing nothing to warrant it. In her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards her nephew, she points out that while she lost family members like Stækka did, she never once abused her surviving family for it.

* NotSoDifferent: In her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Prince Stækka, she points out his mistreatment of Hnignun is extremely similar to how Irminsul, his great-grandfather, abused Temnobog for being born "evil" despite him doing nothing to truly warrant it. To hammer it home, she toys with the idea of Irminsul actually ''liking'' Stækka for his fanatical devotion to nature, despite being a self-righteous [[FantasticRacism bigot]] who [[HalfBreedDiscrimination dislikes hybrids]]. This leaves Stækka quite shaken afterwards.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She ''rips'' into her nephew Stækka for emotionally abusing Hnignun and making his twin sister feel utterly unwanted due to embodying Death, [[NotSoDifferent just like how Irminsul abused Temnobog just for being born "evil"]]. It was noted that her words, especially her comparisons between him and Irminsul, his great-grandfather, left him quite shaken afterwords.

* CloseToHome: Her entry notes that she holds a deep grudge against those who break other people's pride, and gives such individuals her most severe punishments upon death. This comes from Pokhot's experiences with Ispita, who became a Fallen goddess and broke her family apart by luring half of her children she had with Temnobog into "careless Evil". Because she resembled Pokhot the most, Pokhot feared being persecuted by proxy by her surviving family and tried resisting her own evil nature to prove she isn't like her mother. Discovering that she became NotSoDifferent to Ispita after all caused her to fall into despair. Pokhot's hatred of pride-breakers is also the reason why she hates her grandfather Irminsul, who abused Temnobog for existing and defiled his unborn son to fulfill his own twisted ideas of perfection. And when she learned of Cudnost's abuse, Pokhot was ''enraged'' to the point where her servants and champions believe that she has dreams of breaking Ispita's pride herself as punishment for her horrific actions.

* HalfHumanHybrid: The Four Terrors are divine Deer-Draconequus hybrids due to their mother, Ispita, being a Fallen divine Draconequus. Because of their mixed heritage on top of being Evil deities that sow evil in the mortal realms, Belyolen makes sure that they are kept away and protected from the Elternteil pantheon, whose members would've surely ostracized and abused them for existing.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Played with. Out of Temnobog's eight children, only the Four Terrors followed his philosophy on evil and suffering as necessary forces to balance out good and happiness. The other four were genuinely evil and were severely punished for it - two were eaten, while the other two were turned into nameless playthings.

* OddFriendship: It's mentioned that during one of his adventures across Equus, Golden Scepter would come across the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon and strike a friendly rapport with Temnobog by treating him kindly, which would naturally endear him to the Four Terrors. Golden Scepter's own sons would find extremely odd due to him being a holy and pure god while his friends are a bunch of Evil gods. This trope is partially the reason why Pokhot enjoys playing "[[SecretTestOfCharacter games]]" of temptation with Golden Scepter's sons - in her eyes, she's being friendly to the children of an ancient god who befriended her father despite their differences. It's also rumored InUniverse that the Four Terrors' friendship with Golden Scepter was what led to them helping him create the first [[SuperSoldier Terran Chapterknights]].

* HalfHumanHybrid: He's half Deer, half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* HalfHumanHybrid: She's half Deer, half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* HalfHumanHybrid: He's half Deer, half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* TheMagicTouch: One of his abilities consist of turning his enemies/victims into beautiful statues of gold and gemstones. He can [[SuperEmpowering bless mortals with this]] as well, either to help them carry out his will or teach them a lesson about unchecked Greed - the latter involved a Deer king whose avarice foolishly led to him wishing for the ability to turn things to gold and other treasures so he could finance his budding kingdom. [[MidasTouch He ended up turning everything into gold, including one of his beloved daughters]].

* HalfHumanHybrid: She's half Deer, half Draconequus due to being a product of an unholy union between Temnobog and Ispita.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: For some reason, the "day-bed" couch in her office is magically enchanted so that whoever sits or lays down on it for too long will [[VisualPun literally turn into a potato]]. Phykti would discover this by accident, which gave her an idea to warn her followers not to be on her couch for too long by setting a timer.

* FacialHorror: Her face underneath her masks is covered in multitudes of hideous scars, either from self-infliction or from getting injured in battle. She does have the option to heal them via her divine healing factor, but she chooses to keep her facial scars as victory trophies, and to remind herself that she's alive.

* NotSoDifferent: In her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Prince Stækka, she points out that his mistreatment of Hnignun is extremely similar to how Irminsul, his grandfather, abused Temnobog for being born "evil" despite doing nothing to warrant it. To hammer it home, she toys with the idea of Irminsul actually ''liking'' Stækka for his fanatical devotion to nature, despite being a self-righteous AbsoluteXenophobe who dislikes hybrids like Stækka. This leaves Stækka quite shaken afterwards.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She utterly ''rips'' into her nephew Stækka for emotionally abusing Hnignun and making his twin sister feel utterly unwanted due to embodying Death, [[NotSoDifferent just like how Irminsul abused Temnobog for being born "evil"]]. It was noted that her words, especially her comparisons between him and Irminsul, his great-grandfather, left him quite shaken afterwords.

'''Prince Stækka:''' Don't you DARE speak of my Mother in that manner!
'''Phykti:''' What, you think I'm being cruel? I have lost loved ones, too, Stækka! I lost my... my 'parent' and four of my siblings because my 'parent' decided to act like a brat and become Evil for real! But did I abuse my remaining family for it? NO...! Look, I get losing your Mommy hurt really bad. You and Hnignun didn't deserve that. You needed to grieve as much as your sister did. But that still doesn't give you an excuse to act like a self-righteous flankhole towards every-creature else. Did you know that Hnignun intended to IMPRISON herself for eternity? You made her believe she was utterly worthless and unwanted because of what she embodied. JUST LIKE YOUR GREAT-GRANDFATHER.
'''Prince Stækka:''' I...! I am NOT like Great-Grandfather! I was trying to do what's RIGHT...!

* SnakesAreSinister: Played with. Her OneWingedAngel form is that of a multi-armed, Deer-headed cobra snake resembling the Naga peoples of Hind, and she's the Bogolenya Deer goddess of Cruelty and Despair who fights with weapons that focus on pain. But she genuinely wants mortal Deerkind to do well, and despite her malicious domains, she uses them to test and motivate heroes, and is the most benevolent, encouraging, and affectionate member of her immediate family.

Here is a list of tropes pertaining to the Four Terrors and their children, the Deti Uzhasov.\\\

* AffablyEvil: Justified. Despite being children of the living embodiment of mortal Deerkind's inner Evil, all members of the Four Terrors have good traits that humanize them and make them well-rounded individuals with thoughts, behaviors, and emotions of their own, despite their own inner Evil. This is because their grandfather, High King Irminsul, tried purging his then-unborn son's flaws in a well-meaning yet foolish and arrogant attempt to make him a GodOfGood, causing his son to split in the womb and be born as Belyolen and Temnobog. As a result, when Temnobog had a family of his own years later, his children's inner Evil would pervert and twist whatever good traits they had. Golden Scepter treating Temnobog and his children kindly during the former's stay in the Bogolenya Deer pantheon would endear the Four Terrors to him, leading to them interacting closely with Golden Scepter's nineteen demi-divine sons years later.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Justified. The Four Terrors practice the philosophy of "constructive" Evil, and because of this, there are certain limits that they adamantly avoid to the point where they even punish their own minions if they cross those limits. The biggest limit everyone avoid is practicing "[[ForTheEvulz careless/destructive Evil]]", since that would lead to not only Equus' destruction, [[EvilWillFail but also itself]].

* WarriorPrince: Bolezn and Yarost are Temnobog's two loyal surviving sons and powerful deities themselves, and are both known to manifest as villains for the heroes to fight. It's prominent with Yarost, who is a BloodKnight that embodies Deerkind's wrath and hatred, and his epithet is "Prince of Murder". And as the sons of one of the Bogolenya pantheon's co-leaders, their standing in that pantheon is akin to royalty.

!!Deti Uzhasov
The Four Terrors themselves are not alone in their love and depravity. The Deti Uzhasov, children of the Four Terrors, were born from their relationships with mortals, other deities, and even [[VillainousIncest among themselves]]. Each of them would inherit aspects of their parents' depraved and evil personalities/philosophy, which in turn greatly affected their own characters and divine domains, for good or ill.
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[[folder:General]]
* AbusiveParents:
** Some parents of the Deti Uzhasov were outright abusive to them growing up, in addition to being wicked in general. While a few redeemed themselves, others were damned for eternity upon death for their behavior. This has led to the children the Four Terrors sired with them carrying psychological issues that took them a long time to heal from, especially since Mentálne was not born yet when they were young.
** Subverted with the Deti Uzhasov themselves. As shown with Prince Stækka and Princess Hnignun's raising of their daughter, Duchess Vyléčit, the Deti Uzhasov are loving parents to their own children despite their inner evil and depravity.
* BastardBastard: Many of the Deti Uzhasov had been sired with different people, both divine and mortal, making them half-siblings. Pokhot's family is the most prominent [[ReallyGetsAround due to her embodying Lust]], resulting in scores of divine and demi-divine. It's subverted as while said children are Evil by nature and are rightly feared by mortals for the things they do, they practice "constructive" Evil and serve as testers of mortals so they could make them strong enough to oppose Evil.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Being [[VillainousIncest Evil deities]], many of the Deti Uzhasov have slept with their own siblings, whether they're male or female. Of course, they're also willing to sleep with [[ParentalIncest the Four Terrors themselves]] (as well as grandfather Temnobog). Many children on Temnobog's side of the family are born from these trysts.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Because of their inner evil, the Four Terrors often find themselves attracted to amoral, villainous, and/or depraved characters. This means that in some instances, the Deti Uzhasov end up suffering in some way, usually through AbusiveParents, which gives them lots of psychological baggage that takes a long time for them to recover.
* DepravedBisexual: Zigzagged. Many of Pokhot's children are Evil deities and, depending on their gender, have entered same-sex relationships with both males and females. While they are depraved and hedonistic by nature, they're {{Noble Demon}}s who practice the philosophy of "constructive" Evil, and often act the way they do to punish the damned shades in their hell-fief for crimes related to Pride and Lust. That being said, outside of work, many of them are generally good and affectionate lovers who treat their partners well.
* EmotionEater: Being children of the Four Terrors and grandchildren of Temnobog, many members of the Deti Uzhasov can empower themselves based on how much sin, evil, and vice is in a given area, becoming stronger than they normally would be as a result.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Despite their evil and depraved natures, the Deti Uzhasov can be just as loving and affectionate as their noble relatives/peers and vice-versa, and are capable of holding long-standing relationships with heroic individuals. Knechten and Stoltur are just two examples, with the former dating a mortal female abolitionist (albeit under a secret identity to keep her from discovering his true nature as a god of Slavery), and the latter being HappilyMarried to Blue Suede Heartstrings/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, the Alicorn god of Music and Humility.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Aside from each other, the Deti Uzhasov are affectionate towards their parents, their infernal relatives, and their infernal grandfather, Temnobog. Their love also applies to Belyolen and his family despite their opposing natures as 'good' deities, as GoodNeedsEvil and the nobility of Belyolen's family tempers their evil nature. And because all of them are descended from a GodOfEvil, they're inherently depraved and lustful, and incest is very common among them.
* EvilNephew: Played with. All of the Deti Uzhasov are [[GodOfGood Belyolen]]'s grandnieces and grandnephews by virtue of being grandchildren of Temnobog, Belyolen's younger identical twin brother and the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon's ruling GodOfEvil. But despite their evil, the Four Terrors' children are {{Noble Demon}}s just like their parents and grandfather, and they practice 'constructive Evil' to ensure the survival of mortal/divine sapientkind. Belyolen also loves his nieces and nephews and treats them all like family the same way he does with Temnobog.
* EvilVersusEvil: Like their parents and grandfather, the Deti Uzhasov are utterly opposed to practitioners of [[ForTheEvulz "careless" Evil]], as it will rage out of control like a wildfire that will destroy everything, including itself, if left to its own devices. Because of this, they are bitter enemies of Hydianites and worshipers of Fallen deities like Ispita, who is their divine grandmother.
* EvilVersusOblivion: As constructively Evil deities and demi-deities, the Deti Uzhasov are utterly opposed to followers of [[ForTheEvulz "careless" Evil]], as their unrestrained depravities would cause the destruction of Good and unnecessary suffering for the sake of Evil and eventually destroy not only Equus, but the surrounding universe and eventually itself.
* GodOfEvil: Zigzagged. Like the Four Terrors themselves, many of the Deti Uzhasov are {{Noble Demon}}s, but are also unapologitically depraved and evil. However, some like Queen Krásná Tradice and Prince Lenost are more moderate in their evil than their infernal siblings/relatives. And then there's how some of them like Stækka are born with domains like Life and Fertility, which are 'good' in concept but can be used to commit evil when pursued to unfettered extremes.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The majority of the Deti Uzhasov are Deer-Draconequui by virtue of being grandchildren of Ispita, a Fallen Draconequus goddess. However, some parents of said children themselves are non-Deer due to the Four Terrors' lustful tendencies, especially [[ReallyGetsAround Pokhot]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Some of the Deti Uzhasov from Pokhot's family who bullied Lenost for [[CatsAreLazy not working as hard as them]] also 'worked' by [[TheHedonist participating in carnal depravities]], thus actually making them NotSoDifferent. Pokhot would furiously chew them out for this, and as punishment, she gave Lenost her blessing to [[PayEvilUntoEvil punish his bullying siblings as he saw fit]]. He did just that by cursing them to be so lethargic and apathetic that they couldn't work or enjoy even the smallest pleasures.
* IronicHell: Much like their parents, the Four Terrors, many of them (especially the older members) own and rule over hell-fiefs that are designed to punish damned shades for certain wicked actions that they did in life. For example, Prince Lenost's hell-fief punishes damned shades who indulged in sloth and avoidance, Princes Cselszövő and Varázsló's shared hell-fief punishes damned shades who abused magic for their own ends and ruined innocents with unfettered scheming, etc...
* LaserGuidedKarma: Some of the Deti Uzhasov who bullied/mistreated their brother Lenost for being 'lazy' would receive a furious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from their mother, Pokhot, who also let Lenost punish them for their actions and hypocrisy. Lenost proceeded to cast a spell on them, leaving the afflicted so lethargic and apathetic that they couldn't muster up the energy to enjoy the carnal depravities they loved. This humiliated Lenost's siblings and forced them to see the error of their actions, and they apologized for Lenost, only for their brother to nurse a grudge against them for a long time. Even after forgiving them thanks to Moon Ray Vaughoof's help, Lenost made it ''very clear'' that he will punish them should they decide to bully him again.
* MeaningfulName: Their group name translates to "children of the terrors" in Russian, literally referring to their status as children (and grandchildren) of the [[GodOfEvil Four Terrors]].
* NecessarilyEvil: Like their parents and grandfather, the Deti Uzhasov follow "constructive" Evil, which has them sowing Evil across the mortal planes so they could weed out the wicked and motivate/test heroes into becoming strong enough to oppose Evil. They see it as their duty to uphold the Balance of Good and Evil that preserves Equus, and those who follow [[ForTheEvulz "diabolical/careless" Evil]] must be destroyed.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Many of the things the Deti Uzhasov do to the damned shades in their parents and grandfather's hell-realms are rightly horrifying by mortal standards. However, as constructively Evil deities, what they do is necessary so they could provide warnings to mortals in regards to what happens when they fall into sin, and the damned shades themselves are almost always unrepentant people who deserved their punishments.
* ThePeepingTom: According to [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/665862165/4872943438 one of the Codexverse writers]], it's common for the Deti Uzhasov of Pokhot's line to magically spy on their own family members whenever they participate in carnal, hedonistic depravities. This is shown with Prince Touha, who in one incident used his Lust-based 'observation' spells to spy on his younger brother Prince Stoltur having [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex consensual, tender, and sweet missionary sex]] with his husband, Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria.
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: Many of the Deti Uzhasov's female members hold the title of 'Princess', and they're very attractive. They're also powerful infernal goddesses who the Erobreseg Deer Herds fear, though they're also respected due to their role as constructively evil forces.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of the crimes that the Deti Uzhasov of Pokhot's line covers. Pokhot's entry notes that gangs and packs consisting of her demonic servants and champions often act like rapists and stalkers seeking to violate the damned shades in her hell-fief, echoing how the damned shades themselves did the same to innocent people in life. Pokhot's children would also join in and use the damned shades to satisfy their own lusts and pleasures at their victims' expense.
* ReallyGetsAround: Many of the Deti Uzhasov from Pokhot's line are often as lustful as her, due to their mother embodying Lust and Sex. And like her, they see little difference between work and play. They are also not above sleeping with [[BrotherSisterIncest even their own brothers and sisters]]. While this mostly applies to Pokhot's family, the children of the other Terrors have also proven to be lustful themselves, to varying degrees.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Many of the Deti Uzhasov are Princes and Princesses by virtue of their parents and grandparent(s) being divine royalty. And as "constructive" Evil deities, they serve as divine testers of mortal heroes and champions, while opposing/punishing those who follow "diabolical/careless" Evil.
* WarriorPrince: Many male members of the Deti Uzhasov hold the title of 'Prince', with the title being more common among Pokhot's sons by virtue of being the children of an infernal 'Empress'. They are powerful and competent gods and warriors in their own right when they're not helping their parents punish the damned shades in their hell-fiefs.
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!!!Pokhot's Children (and Grandchildren)
[[folder:Prince Cselszövő, the Schemer of Fate]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant(?)
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Scheming, Deception, Fate, Hope
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)
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Prince Cselszövő is the Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god of Scheming, Deception, Fate, and Hope, and is the older identical twin brother of Prince Varázsló.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Kairos Fateweaver]] was rendered flightless, wizened, insane, mutated ([[MultipleHeadCase with his head split in two]]) and blind to the present after Tzeentch threw him into the Well of Eternity to gain all knowledge of the future. In contrast, Cselszövő, though somewhat insane, was transformed into an EldritchAbomination during his time in the Well of Eternity yet did not become completely insane because of his HeroicWillpower.
* AlmightyIdiot: Subverted. Despite being thrown alongside his brother into the Well of Eternity and [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow gained knowledge of things that no one should ever know]], he and Varázsló kept themselves from breaking completely with [[HeroicWillpower sheer willpower]] by the time they reemerged from it. The fact that he's still functioning at all is a testament to the strength of his will.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: He and his younger brother Varázsló are identical twins, but that isn't apparent at first because they each embody different domains and bear diferent chimeric animal traits pertaining to their natures. Varázsló has stated that [[TruthInTelevision identical twins can still look different from each other under the right environmental circumstances]].
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god who embodies Scheming, Deception, Fate, and Hope.
* BrotherSisterIncest: It's implied that he and his brother, Varázsló, have an incestuous relationship, which is standard in a family of infernal, depraved deities. One incident had a group of Erobreseg Hydianite cultists making the mistake of summoning Varázsló while they were spending a very intimate moment together. [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm In their true forms]].
--> '''Erobreseg Hydianites:''' '''''[[GoMadFromTheRevelation AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE - !!!]]'''''
* {{Expy}}: Subverted. While he's based on [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch]] from ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', he's more based on Tzeentch's scheming and deceptive aspects. His backstory of getting thrown into a magical plane/dimension called 'The Well of Eternity' by a depraved knowledge seeker, and coming back from it alive and all-knowing yet insane, was inspired by the story of [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Kairos Fateweaver]].
* GodOfEvil: Specifically, he embodies the amoral and unfettered sides of scheming, deception, fate, and hope. It's subverted as he follows [[NecessarilyEvil constructive evil]] and his role is to punish those who schemed and deceived others solely for their own benefit.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Being a god of Scheming and Deception, he has no problem with cheating in a card game... but he'll get ''angry'' if others do the same, as shown with Jasper when the latter not only bypasses his manipulations with similarly underhanded tactics, but also taunts him about it, sending him into a (hilarious) VillainousBreakdown.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Schemer of Fate".
* MeaningfulName: His name translates to "schemer" in Hungarian.
* VillainousBreakdown: Much like Tzeentch from ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', he utterly ''flips his shit'' when Jasper bypasses his manipulations with underhanded tactics during a card game... [[{{Hypocrite}} despite doing the same thing himself previously]]. It's implied Varázsló was counting on this to happen when he suggested to Crimson Star that he beat his brother in a card game in order to BreakTheHaughty, knowing that card games are his weakness.
--> '''Prince Cselszövő:''' You cheated! You shot the coin while it was in the air so it stopped spinning somehow!\\
'''Jasper:''' 'Cheated,' you say?\\
'''Prince Cselszövő:''' That's. Against. The '''''rules!'''''\\
'''Jasper:''' What are rules ''really'', though?\\
'''Prince Cselszövő:''' '''''AN INTERESTING QUESTION, FLANK-HOLE!!!'''''
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[[folder:Prince Lenost, the Sleepy Prince]]
--> See his folder entry [[Characters/CodexEquusAbyssinianPantheon here]].
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[[folder:Prince Perfect Tone]]
--> See his folder entry [[Characters/CodexEquusEquestrianPantheon here]].
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[[folder:Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, the Shield of Perfection]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Pride, Perfection, Potential, Evil
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier II/Lesser)

-> ''"It is often said that anyone can become as perfect as the gods. But for me, only those that'' I ''deem worthy can truly do so. Anyone else who falls short of my standards will simply feel the coldness of my magic, or taste the sharpness of my blade."''
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Prince Stoltur Skjöldur (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-21-811144735 here]]) is the Deer-Draconequus god of Pride, Perfection, Potential, and Evil, and is a joint-member of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon and the Equestrian Pantheon.\\\

Stoltur was born in Cervidia to Pokhot, the Bogolenya Deer goddess of Lust and Pride, and a mortal warlord in Cervidia that Pokhot took interest in during a visiting trip to the Hoyklan Deer Pantheon. As it turned out, the warlord was incredibly depraved in both morals and mentality, which is precisely why Pokhot was attracted to him. After murdering the warlord's sister and taking on her identity, she slept with him and gave birth to a demi-divine son. It is said by both the Erobreseg and Nordskelt Deer herds that the warlord himself became much worse after meeting Pokhot, participating in horrible crimes such as unrestrained cannibalism, physical and emotional rape, and ritual sacrifice to Fallen deities for personal gain. When Stoltur was born, his father expected his son to take after him or perhaps even become greater than him.\\\

Fortunately, such a future would not come to pass. Pokhot eventually decided to do away with her mortal lover by sabotaging him and manipulating things so that the warlord would meet his end at the hooves of his oppressed subjects, who suffered under him for so long. During their rebellion, Pokhot confronted the warlord as he hid in his own castle and dramatically revealed her deceptions, even showing the warlord an image of his real sister's corpse in order to push him over the edge. The maddened, gibbering warlord was left to the tender mercies of both his subjects and, following his death, Armr, the Hoyklan Deer goddess of Death and Judgement who is a friend of Pokhot's oldest sister, Phykti. As for little Stoltur, he was taken to Pokhot's hell-fief, where he was raised with love and taught the philosophy of "constructive" Evil by his mother until he Ascended to true godhood, joining the ranks of his older and younger demonic siblings.\\\

As one of Pokhot's many sons, Stoltur is evil by nature and has inherited his mother's prideful aspects. Like Pokhot, he loves bragging about his own accomplishments and is quite vain with his appearance, either preening himself for hours on end or basking in his own glory when presented with a reflective surface. He is also disdainful and cruel towards those he deems beneath him, and sadistically enjoys breaking the pride of the damned shades in Pokhot's hell-fief as punishment for what they had done to others in life. When insulted, he can fly into a rage as terrible as his mother's. Ironically, perhaps because of his upbringing, Stoltur is very honorable and noble - after hearing of the depravities committed by various individuals, such as his own father and the fallen Alicorn god, Morning Star, he swore never to follow their example. As such, one of his duties is to test mortals by stroking their egos and tempting them with "shortcuts" to power, while hunting down those who practice "careless" evil like Hydianite covens. He is also a loving family man who adores his siblings, mother, and immediate relatives, despite sleeping with them frequently.\\\

Befitting his prideful nature and station as an Evil god, Stoltur embodies Pride, Perfection, and Potential. He is an empath who can detect and stoke people's pride to dangerous levels, and has an indomitable will that makes him both immune to mind control and demonic/spiritual possession, but also empowers him each time his pride is insulted. Stoltur is also a skilled and powerful user of ice magic, and specializes in creating barriers that can both defend his allies and crush his opponents. He possesses peak physical and mental capabilities thanks to his domain of Perfection, and as the god of Potential, Stoltur is a precognitive who can foresee people's potential selves even years ahead, and can even show people images of what they could be. In battle, he wields a divine sword and a mirror-shield, ''Þráspegill'', which can distract and tempt his opponents with images of what they desire most.\\\

Stoltur's portfolio makes him similar to deities like Amour-De-Soi and Luminiferous, but unlike them, Stoltur represents the bad sides of Pride, Perfection, and Potential. He serves as a warning as to what happens when mortals let their own pride get the best of them, or when they try to pursue power to make themselves become "better" by abandoning their morals and compassion. It is because of his role that he is respected and tolerated as much as he is feared even by said deities.\\\

While a vain and cruel god with extremely high standards, Stoltur genuinely means well, and seeks to make mortal heroes and champions as great as him.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In one drabble, Stoltur heard one of his champions - a [[FallenHero heroic warrior turned narcissistic warlord]] whose downfall to villainy he engineered - was defeated by Prince-Regent Shining Armour, who got around his superb swords-skills simply by ''punching him square in the face''. Rather than feeling insulted, Stoltur found it so amusing and hilarious he privately congratulated Shining Armour afterwards, noting that the warlord, Shrewd Slayer, deserved his humiliating defeat very well. This is mostly because the narcissistic warlord, having gave into pride in his moral weakness, was in reality only a prideful pawn Prince Stoltur uses to sow Evil and suffering (constructively), and the warlord was too foolishly haughty to realize his true status in the grander scheme of things.
* AdaptationalBadass: Sigvald the Magnificent in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' is an [[TheAgeless ageless]] mortal whose powers were only made possible by becoming Slaanesh's favored champion. Here, Stoltur, who is based off of him, is born a demi-divine son of an Evil goddess of Lust and Pride through a mortal father, but eventually Ascended to true godhood.
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Sigvald the Magnificent]] is, to put it lightly, an incredibly depraved, sociopathic, cruel, and vain man who became Slaanesh's favored champion because of it. Here, Stoltur is still evil and depraved by nature, but he is a very honorable and noble individual who staunchly upholds the oaths he makes, and tests mortals with his Evil so they could be come strong enough to oppose Evil itself.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Sigvald the Magnificent]] is an incredibly depraved, sociopathic, cruel, and vain individual who only cares about himself, and has pulled DisproportionateRetribution over things like bad wine or someone else having better hair than him. By contrast, Stoltur, while still cruel, vain, and depraved, is leagues more honorable and noble than Sigvald because of his staunch support of 'constructive Evil', and genuinely wants to help heroes succeed in opposing Evil. He genuinely loves his family and [[IGaveMyWord always follows his oaths]], even thoughhe has [[WhatYouAreInTheDark every chance to go back on them]]. He's also a loving husband to Blue Suede Heartstrings/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, and is the loving father of Prince Perfect Tone.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: While they're having missionary sex, he kisses a transformed Blue Suede/Caerulus (who turned into an Earth Pony for the occasion) on the forehead where his Alicorn horn had been.
* AffectionateNickname: Blue Suede Heartstrings calls him "Stolts", even after becoming a Prince and marrying him.
* AlliterativeName: '''S'''toltur '''S'''kjöldur.
* AloofBigBrother: Downplayed. While he can be a bit aloof and sardonic at times, he genuinely loves all of his siblings. It's implied that he's not even the oldest in his family, as older siblings are mentioned.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Deer-Draconequus god who embodies Pride, Perfection, Potential, and Evil.
* BadassCape: He's noted to wear thick cloaks and [[FurAndLoathing pelts]], based on the fashions of Cervidia and his life there. He's also a powerful Deer-Draconequus hybrid god of Pride and Evil, and a competent warrior.
* BastardBastard: Double-subverted. He's one of many products of [[ReallyGetsAround Pokhot]]'s various affairs with both divines and mortals, making him and his brothers and sisters maternal half-siblings. And due to being one of many grandchildren of [[GodOfEvil Temnobog]], he was born with his good traits irrevocably twisted and corrupted by his inner Evil. While he is as depraved, hedonistic, and sadistic as his immediate family and relatives, he practices "constructive" Evil, serving as a divine tester of heroic mortals to motivate them to become strong enough to oppose Evil. Even outside of work, he is a very honorable, noble, and loving individual who follows self-imposed oaths to keep himself from falling into "careless" Evil like his deceased birth father and others did.
* BigBrotherInstinct: His entry notes that while he willingly sleeps with [[BrotherSisterIncest even his own brothers and sisters]], he genuinely loves all of them and is equally willing to protect them if necessary. Because of this, his siblings love him for it.
* BlueIsHeroic: Subverted. His entry describes him as wearing white, silver, and dark blue regalia, due to being one of many Pokhot's sons and a Prince of her hell-fief. While not outright heroic, he's a NobleDemon who practices the philosophy of "constructive" Evil like his mother, immediate relatives, and siblings do, and has a strict, self-imposed code of honor that keeps him from falling into "careless" Evil because [[IAmNotMyFather he doesn't want to become anything like his depraved mortal father]]. That being said, while he's very honorable and noble compared to typical Evil deities, he's still as sadistic, depraved, and hedonistic as his family, and as the god of Pride, he takes pleasure in demeaning and breaking people's pride ([[PayEvilUntoEvil though only towards the damned shades in Pokhot's hell-fief]]). Ironically, he decides to marry his long-time friend, Blue Suede Heartstrings, who plays this trope more straight, after the latter accepts the beneficial aspects of pride and becomes Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria of the Equestrian Pantheon.
* BrightIsNotGood: He's described as a white-furred divine Deer-Draconequus hybrid god who possesses an incredibly handsome yet "cold and unnatural" beauty. He's also an Evil deity who is one of many sons of Pokhot, and is as equally depraved and hedonistic as his mother and siblings. And as the god of Pride, he is a vain individual takes sadistic pleasure in demeaning and breaking people's pride, though he is more of a NobleDemon as he practices "constructive" Evil and serves as a tester of heroic mortals.
* BrotherSisterIncest:
** He sees nothing wrong with sleeping with both his older and younger brothers and sisters, but then again, neither do his siblings or their mother. To his credit, he treats all of them well and [[BigBrotherInstinct is willing to protect them]], so in turn they genuinely love him back.
** Subverted in regards to his own birth. The warlord had Stoltur with who he ''thought'' was his sister, but he later learned that Pokhot [[KillAndReplace murdered her and took on her identity]] after noticing his crimes and other depravities. The knowledge [[GoMadFromTheRevelation left him a maddened, gibbering mess]] even as Pokhot abandoned him to die at the hooves of his rebelling subjects, taking little Stoltur with her.
* DealWithTheDevil: He embodies the bad sides of Perfection and Potential, as while he can do the same things [[BigGood Luminiferous]] can do, he tries to persuade his targets into taking "shortcuts" and accepting his offers by showing them images of what they could become and stroking their egos, while convincing them to abandon their friends, loved ones, and moral restraints so they could become "better". Accepting his offers will lead to eternal damnation, which delights him, but resisting his temptations and becoming as great as the heroic images he shows them delights him even more.
* DepravedBisexual: Subverted. He's an Evil deity of Pride, Perfection, and Potential who often participates in his family's hedonism and sleeps with people of both genders, including [[BrotherSisterIncest his own brothers and sisters]]. However, his entry notes that he genuinely loves all of his partners (and is loved back), and as a "constructive" Evil deity, he sows Evil in the mortal planes and uses his divine domains to test heroic mortals. Canteros even hints that Stoltur might end up falling in love with Blue Suede Heartstrings, his best friend, and hold a steady relationship with the Alicorn god due to their compatibility and closeness as friends, which eventually does happen when Stoltur and Blue Suede (now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria) join the Equestrian Pantheon and marry each other as husbands in a small ceremony.
* DisappearedDad: His mortal father died when he was still a baby. It's justified in that in life, his father was an incredibly depraved warlord who did things like unrestrained cannibalism, physical and emotional rape, and ritual sacrifice to Fallen deities for personal gain. Pokhot took him down by [[KillAndReplace killing and disguising herself as the warlord's sister]], and then secretly sabotaging him after having Stoltur, making the warlord have a VillainousBreakdown by showing him an image of his real sister's corpse before abandoning him to die at the hooves of his own subjects (and following that, the tender mercies of Armr, who is a friend of Pokhot's oldest sister, Phykti).
* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: While he shares his mother's vanity, he takes it even farther by developing the tendency to be distracted by his own reflection. If he comes across a reflective surface, he won't hesitate to bask in his own divine glory. Of course, [[RealityEnsues this has the disadvantage of being vulnerable to enemy attacks if he suddenly decides to preen himself in the middle of a fight]]. He also invokes and weaponizes this trope in battle; both his mirror-shield, ''Þráspegill'', and his armor are made from reflective divine silver, which causes his enemies to get distracted upon looking at their own reflections. How their reflection looks depends on the individual.
* DivineParentage: His mother is Pokhot, the youngest member of the Four Terrors and the Bogolenya Deer goddess of Lust and Pride.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: His husband Caerulus is this for him, on account of him being depraved by nature and Caerulus being a [[BiggerIsBetterInBed big]] and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim incredibly handsome]] Alicorn Prince. He [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/853196348/4871344280 quite admired]] the view of his husband when a magical accident briefly turned Caerulus into a Giant and was the only one who complained about him shrinking back down to normal, much to Caerulus' embarrassment.
* TheEmpath: As an Evil god of Pride, he has empathic abilities that allow him to sense and encourage feelings of pride in people, often to dangerous degrees. His entry notes that he got his empathy from Pokhot, who is an empath herself. He can also psychically rid people of their pride indefinitely, though he hates doing this since it turns them into little more than {{Empty Shell}}s.
* EternalLove: He eventually marries Blue Suede Heartstrings, who changed his name to 'Caerulus Melodia Equestria' after joining the Equestrian Pantheon and being crowned as Prince. Despite being [[OppositesAttract complete opposites of each other]], they love each other very much and being gods, their marriage will last for eternity.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Despite his Evil nature, he genuinely loves his mother, siblings, and relatives, and treats them all well even while he sleeps with them. He is also willing to [[BigBrotherInstinct protect his siblings]] if necessary, and according to his family, he was a "[[MommasBoy Momma's buck]]" when he was younger.
** This applies to those he genuinely considers his friends as well, with [[HumbleHero Blue Suede Heartstrings]] being the most prominent. After helping Blue Suede overcome his trauma and accept his pride by defeating [[EnemyWithin the Colonel]] together, they would join the Equestrian Pantheon and marry each other as husbands in a small wedding ceremony. He also [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/848558436/4865909180 flew into a rage]] when corrupt Canterlot nobles tried assassinating Blue Suede, now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, in their pride and lust for power. In revenge, he proceeded to utterly reduce them to hysterics by showing the corrupt nobles [[DraggedOffToHell exactly what awaited them should they die]].
---> '''Prince Stoltur Skjöldur:''' You must all be so very '''''proud''''' of yourselves, lords and ladies - attempting to usurp your sovereign, starting a civil war, '''''TRYING TO HURT MY BELOVED HUSBAND'''''... all for the sake of your pride and your lust for power.\\\
Allow me to reward you with a little show-and-tell. You deserve to know '''''exactly''''' what you can expect when your time has come.
** He also became the loving father of Prince Perfect Tone, an infant Alicorn-Deer Draconequus. Despite not expecting Perfect Tone's 'birth' at all, he nonetheless welcomed Perfect Tone into his life and has resolved to give him a normal upbringing instead of dumping all of his own expectations onto his son. Being who he is, he is quite proud of how he is taking care of Perfect Tone as a parent.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: What sets him apart from those who practice "careless" Evil is his self-imposed standards, which were heavily influenced by how Pokhot raised him and taught him the philosophy of "constructive" Evil.
** When he grew up and learned of the various depraved crimes that his mortal father committed in life, Stoltur was rightly disgusted, and swore never to become like him. Because of his oath, he treats his male and female lovers very well (including [[BrotherSisterIncest his own brothers and sisters]]), and he completely abstains from meat because of the unrestrained [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] his father partook in. Notably, in regards to the latter, he still refuses to eat meat despite attempts by his mother and his siblings to convince him that eating meat in general won't automatically turn him into his father.
** When he heard of the Fallen antediluvian Alicorn god, Morning Star, and the atrocities he committed during the "[[{{Gotterdammerung}} Twilight of the Alicorns]]" event through [[ImmortalRuler Golden Scepter]]'s stories, Stoltur was so ''horrified'' that he had nightmares about it for a while. He would swear afterwards never to use his divine domains in the way that Morning Star had done with his one.
* EvilCounterpart: His entry notes that because of his nature and role, Stoltur is an antithesis to those deities with similar divine concepts, such as Amour-De-Soi and Luminiferous.
** For Amour-De-Soi, Stoltur represents the bad sides of Self-Love and Self-Esteem by being a narcissistic and sadistic individual who either drives people to sinful excess by stroking their egos, or breaks people's self-worth ([[PayEvilUntoEvil but only those who rightly deserved it]]). Amour-De-Soi focuses on helping people by [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre encouraging people to be more confident and accepting of themselves]], and is enraged by those who indulge in narcissism and abuse people by demeaning them.
** For Luminiferous, Stoltur represents the bad sides of Perfection and Potential, and the consequences of what happens when someone tries pursuing both without the compassion and restraint necessary to truly do it. Unlike Luminiferous, who is a benevolent MentorArchetype towards his students and helps them achieve their full potential through heroic deeds and self-improvement, Stoltur believes that only those who reach his incredibly high standards are "worthy" of [[DeityOfHumanOrigin obtaining godhood]], and will cut down anyone who falls short of said standards. He also tempts the wicked into [[DealWithTheDevil making deals with him]] by showing them images of what they could be and persuading them to abandon their friends and morals, making them likely to take shortcuts to become like the images they're shown.
** He's also this to Humility deities, such as Blue Suede Heartstrings. As a god of Humility, Blue Suede discourages pride and encourages Humility, while Stoltur does the complete opposite. However, it's noted that pride is just as important as humility, as while pride has its benefits, humility can be easily turned into a vice. This in part is what led to Stoltur becoming close friends with Blue Suede, which eventually plays an important role in Blue Suede's emotional/mental development. After nearly becoming a [[FallenHero Fallen Alicorn]] out of low self-esteem, he has to fight [[EnemyWithin the Colonel]] in [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind his own mind]] to prevent it from happening. During his emotional recovery, Blue gradually accepts that it's okay to have pride in himself and grows closer to Stoltur as a result. This leads to Stoltur and Blue Suede, now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, joining the Equestrian Pantheon together and marrying each other in a small wedding ceremony.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: He's an Evil god who embodies the bad sides of Pride, Perfection, and Potential, and is a depraved individual who participates in the hedonism his immediate family perpetuates, while drawing sadistic pleasure from breaking and demeaning the damned shades in his mother's hell-fief. He is also described by his entry as being an incredibly talented user of [[AnIcePerson ice magic]], though not to the extent of High King Kaldr, who embodies Winter, and has a handsome beauty that's also "cold and unnatural". However, as a practitioner of "constructive" Evil, he's a NobleDemon who serves as a tester of mortals and uses his divine domains to sow Evil in the mortal realms so he could separate the wicked from those who are genuinely heroic. He uses his ice magic both to defend himself and his allies, and to kill his enemies, echoing how Pride itself has empowering and corrupting aspects.
* EvilVegetarian: He's a vegetarian who has completely sworn off meat, a self-imposed oath that he still abides by to this day, which is noted by his entry to be rather impressive. He's also an Evil deity who is the son of Pokhot, though he is a very prideful and practices "constructive" Evil and uses his domains of Pride, Perfection, and Potential to test mortal heroes, and teach them the consequences of taking shortcuts in their quest for greatness such as [[DealWithTheDevil cutting deals with malicious entities]]. His vegetarianism has nothing to do with the evils that he sows in the mortal realms, but is part of his attempts to make sure he [[IAmNotMyFather never becomes like his deceased father]], an incredibly depraved warlord who in life committed a ''very'' long list of crimes and other horrific depravities. His staunch adherence to complete abstinence from meat is such that he has a personal garden in Pokhot's hell-fief where he grows his own fruits and vegetables, and has refused to let his mother and siblings convince him that eating meat in general won't automatically turn him into his father.
* EvilVersusEvil: He and his family are bitter enemies of "[[ForTheEvulz diabolical/careless Evil]]", which would destroy everything ([[EvilWillFail including itself]]) if not properly contained. Because his father frequently sacrificed to Fallen deities, Stoltur is a feared enemy of Hydianite covens, whose members have done the same thing.
* {{Expy}}: [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/661463848/4775422684 According to one of the Codexverse writers]], he was based on [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Sigvald the Magnificent]], being incredibly beautiful yet narcissistic and cruel individuals who fight with swords and shields, are closely associated with Evil deities, and have a tendency to [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy get distracted by their own attractive reflections]]. However, whereas Sigvald is an empowered human whose status as Slaanesh's favored champion kept him physically ageless, Stoltur is born the demi-divine product of an affair between an Evil goddess and an incredibly depraved mortal Deer warlord, and eventually Ascended to true godhood. And while their origins are similar, Sigvald was truly borne of incest, killed his own father when the latter became disgusted by [[ImAHumanitarian his growing taste for flesh]], and grew up to become a depraved, hedonistic, and sociopathic narcissist who cared for no one but himself and the glory of Slaanesh. Stoltur was born when Pokhot disguised herself as his father's sister, but spent most of his life being taught the philosophy of "constructive" Evil, which influenced him to be so disgusted by his birth father's crimes (which also included unrestrained cannibalism and ritual sacrifice to Fallen deities) that he swore never to become like him, instead becoming an honorable and noble individual by his immediate family's [[NobleDemon standards]].
* TheFightingNarcissist: Being based on [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Sigvald the Magnificent]], Stoltur is one. Because he inherited Pokhot's prideful aspects, he would spend hours preening himself to make sure he looked perfect, and whenever he came across a reflective surface, [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy he would choose to stop and bask in his own glory]]. However, while appearing vapid and shallow, he's actually very intelligent, cunning, and sophisticated as expected of a child of Pokhot. He is quite skilled in using his beauty and his silver tongue to tempt mortals to their doom, and for a deity of his rank, he's quite a deadly swordsman and [[AnIcePerson ice mage]].
* FurAndLoathing: His entry notes that he wears pelts as part of his regalia as a Prince of his mother's hell-fief, inspired by the Cervidian homelands that he was born in. He's also an evil god of Pride who participates in the depraved hedonism perpetuated by his family, and takes sadistic pleasure in breaking the pride of wicked individuals, though he's more of a NobleDemon in that he practices [[NecessarilyEvil "constructive" Evil]].
* GenerationXerox: Like his grandfather, mother, and aunt/uncles, he would also end up becoming close friends with an Alicorn god who's much older than him - in his case, it's Blue Suede Heartstrings, a "Tier IV"-ranked deity who was born very early in the Second Age. However, Stoltur ended up taking things [[RelationshipUpgrade one step further]] and married Blue Suede - now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria - after the latter accepted his pride and joined the Equestrian Pantheon.
* GodCouple: He and Blue Suede Heartstrings would eventually become this. After helping Blue Suede defeat '[[EnemyWithin The Colonel]]' and supporting him during his psychological recovery, Stoltur would end up dating him, during which Blue Suede would become a student of various deities to explore himself. It's not until Blue Suede is crowned as 'Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria' and joins the Equestrian Pantheon that they marry each other in a small wedding ceremony. Despite their opposing natures and domains, they're HappilyMarried and have become GoodParents to their infant son, Prince Perfect Tone.
* GodOfEvil: It comes with being the son of Pokhot and an extremely depraved mortal Cervidian warlord. However, it's subverted in that despite his Evil nature and lineage, Stoltur grew up being taught the philosophy of "constructive" Evil after his father's death, and uses his divine domains to test heroes and champions, while damning wicked mortals to an eternity of hellish punishment for their sins. Outside of his duties, he's described by his loved ones as a "perfect gentleman" who, while a bit aloof and sardonic at times, treats all of his lovers well and genuinely adores his mother and siblings to the point where he's willing to protect them, even though he often sleeps with his family as much he does with his non-familial lovers. He's also a very prideful and narcissistic, yet honorable and noble individual who genuinely wants to see mortal sapientkind do well against "careless" Evil, and abides by his oaths once he makes them.
* GoodNeedsEvil: Like his family and relatives, he believes that Good needs Evil (and vice-versa) in order for sapientkind to survive.
** He has been teaching [[HumbleHero Blue Suede Heartstrings]] that pride is just as important and beneficial as humility, as Blue Suede has a tendency to [[HeroicSelfDeprecation downplay his own achievements]] even when credit is rightfully deserved. This later helps Blue Suede make a full psychological recovery after defeating '[[EnemyWithin The Colonel]]' together, as Stoltur's teachings helped him realize and accept that being prideful is okay. After being crowned as Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, he marries Stoltur and they settle down in the Equestrian Pantheon together. Even during their marriage, Stoltur has been encouraging Caerulus to take a lead role despite being dominant himself, and they take turns being dominant/submissive during sex so Caerulus can become more self-confident.
** It's believed InUniverse that he had many of his mortal followers infiltrate the Order of the Blue Rose, a religious order of benevolent dark mages, so he could test the moral integrity of Winter Opera and her mortal followers. Many people think he's out to destroy or corrupt them for their power, but Stoltur states that if he wanted to do that, [[IfIWantedYouDead he would have done so already]].
** His beliefs in this have also factored in his decision to have his infernal family, Ascendant champions, and servants monitor the Great Seedling and regulate his activities. Having known of the fallout between his twin cousins Stækka and Hnignun, and the near-disasters they caused over their respective natures of growth/decay, Stoltur wants to make sure that the Great Seedling doesn't cause more disasters like Stækka once did with his 'gifts' of plentiful harvests and other bounties.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Played with him and his husband, Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria (formerly [[Music/ElvisPresley Blue Suede Heartstrings]]), as they're neither strictly 'evil' or 'good', respectively. Stoltur is evil, vain, and depraved, but he has a nobler side and, save for the [[AssholeVictim damned shades]] in his family's hell-fiefs, generally treats his lovers well. Caerulus is good, humble and kind, but he suffered from three Ages worth of abuse-related trauma, and it took him a long time to accept his own flaws in part because of it. After overcoming their respective problems and joining the Equestrian Pantheon, they would become HappilyMarried, and they have a healthy sex life where size differences are a non-issue (Caerulus can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshift]]) and both of them take turns on being dominant/submissive to help Caerulus become more self-confident. This is exemplified in a Codexverse scene where Stoltur and Caerulus have sex (implied to be missionary-style) a few weeks after their wedding - both parties are mutually consenting, and the entire thing is depicted as sweet and tender due to the love, trust, and devotion they have for each other. Having centuries of sexual experience helps, too. Hilariously, Stoltur once provided details about his and Caerulus' intimacy during one interview with ''Codex Equus'' writers/researchers, [[TooMuchInformation much to their dismay]].
--> '''Jade Shell:''' There was one interview where Prince Stoltur happily went into great detail over what this means... I think my boss made me rewrite the entire section to make it more 'kid-friendly'.
* GoodStepmother: Gender-inverted; he became the stepfather of Prince Crystal Clear upon marrying his adoptive father, Blue Suede/Prince Caerulus. Despite being an Evil deity, Stoltur enjoys a good relationship with Crystal and frequently tests his stepson to protect him from moral stagnation. Crystal was initially weirded out by the thought of Stoltur dating his adoptive father ''because'' of the former being Evil by nature, but later accepted him into his life beacuse Stoltur really loves Blue Suede/Caerulus and has proven himself to be trustworthy multiple times.
* HappilyMarried: He would eventually marry Blue Suede Heartstrings, now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, in a small wedding ceremony after helping the latter accept his prideful feelings and joining the Equestrian Pantheon together. Despite their opposing natures, he and Caerulus genuinely love each other very much. They even have matching silver wedding rings on their antlers/horn, respectively. Being a god of Pride, Stoltur is the dominant one in the relationship, but has been helping Caerulus build his self-confidence by encouraging him to be more active and taking turns on being dominant/submissive during sex. Stoltur and Caerulus' love, trust, and devotion to each other is so great that when Touha and his siblings spy on the two having [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex consensual missionary sex]] in private, they're left feeling aroused and giddy from watching. Both Stoltur and Caerulus are also GoodParents to their infant son Prince Perfect Tone, who was 'born' from a positve karmic backlash thanks to their actions, and are raising him together with love and care despite the sheer unexpectedness of his arrival.
* HasTwoMommies: Gender-inverted. He and Blue Suede/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria are the biological fathers of the infant Deer-Draconequus god Prince Perfect Tone, who was 'born' when Caerulus fully accepted pride as a beneficial concept and married Stoltur, creating a [[KarmicJackpot karmic backlash]] that spawned an infant deity with traits of both parents.
* TheHedonist: Much like his mother and siblings, he participates in the same hedonistic depravities that they enjoy at home, such as breaking and humiliating the damned shades Pokhot takes down with her for their own amusement, and the massive orgy-parties that Pokhot often hosts. And just like his family, he, too, sees little difference between work and play. However, those he genuinely loves are treated very well, and when it comes to romantic partners like his husband, Blue Suede Heartstrings/Caerulus Melodia Equestria, he loves and respects them, and any sex he has with them are consensual and fulfilling.
* {{Hell}}: Like his siblings, he used to live in the hell-fief owned by his mother, Pokhot, and participated in the torment and degradation of the damned souls there to punish them for their excessive pride and lust in life. After his marriage with Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria and moving in with him into the Equestrian Pantheon as a joint-pantheon member, he was given jurisdiction over some of Equestrian Pantheon's Hell-Realms on account of being a 'constructive' GodOfEvil. Since then, he's been living there ever since, continuing his duties in damning and tormenting condemned souls who gave into their pride and lust.
* IAmNotMyFather: He is ''very'' adamant about not becoming like his father, who was an incredibly depraved warlord in life. Many of his father's crimes fall under the "diabolical/careless" Evil that his family bitterly opposes, and because of this, he was disgusted enough to swear never to stoop to his father's level. Part of his oath includes treating his male and female lovers well (including [[BrotherSisterIncest his own brothers and sisters]]) whereas his father performed [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil physical and emotional rape]] on his downtrodden subjects, abstaining from meat completely whereas his father participated in unrestrained cannibalism, and furiously hunting down those who worship Fallen deities like the Hydianite covens whereas his father regularly made ritual sacrifices to such entities for personal gain. He is so devoted to following his oath that he refuses to let his mother and siblings convince him that eating meat in general won't automatically turn him into his father. This ironically is one of the things that make him a noble and honorable individual compared to typical Evil deities, despite being Evil by nature himself.
* AnIcePerson: He is an incredibly talented ice mage, though not to the level of High King Kaldr of the Hoyklan Deer pantheon, the latter being a much older, experienced, and powerful deity of Winter. As such, Stoltur can radiate an aura of extreme cold, [[HumanPopsicle freeze his opponents into ice blocks]], and summon blizzards, though he is best in creating [[BarrierWarrior ice barriers]] that can withstand even the strongest attacks. He has been known to even use his barriers offensively, such as [[ShieldBash bashing]] and crushing his enemies, producing ice spikes on his barriers to impale his opponents, and [[BoxingBattler covering his front hooves with small yet hard ice bubbles to enhance his strikes]]. Fittingly, he is also born with a white pelt, and his beauty is described as being incredibly handsome, yet "cold and unnatural", and on top of that he has a natural talent in magic over ice and freezing, which he could use for both offensive and defensive purposes. As his ice magic comes from embodying Pride, it is a reflection of how pride itself can empower and protect, but also corrupt and harm those who have them.
* IfIWantedYouDead: Many people think that he had his mortal followers infiltrate Winter Opera's Order of the Blue Rose religion so he could corrupt her and her followers for his own ends. As a '[[NecessarilyEvil constructively Evil]]' god, Stoltur begs to differ.
--> '''Prince Stoltur Skjöldur:''' If I wanted to kill or corrupt that Order, I would have done it a LONG time ago. But Winter Opera and her followers have proven themselves honorable time and time again, so I won’t do that. And plus, my darling Blue will be MOST displeased with me if anything befell his former student...
* IGaveMyWord: One of his nobler traits, which sets him apart from his depraved father and other typical Evil deities.
** When he learned of the ''very'' long list of crimes and depravities his mortal father committed in life, he was so disgusted that he swore never to become like him. So while he's fine with participating in his family's depraved hedonism, he has treated all of his lovers ([[BrotherSisterIncest including his own siblings]]) very well whereas his father committed physical and emotional rape, and has notably taken a complete abstinence of meat and became a vegetarian, unlike his father who participated in unrestrained cannibalism. He still adheres to this oath even in the present day, which has impressed and frustrated his mother and siblings, despite their attempts to convince him that eating meat in general won't automatically turn him into his father.
** After listening to Golden Scepter's stories of Morning Star's atrocities and being absolutely ''horrified'' by them, he swore never to become like the Fallen antediluvian Alicorn god, either, never using his divine domains in the same way with mortals and divines that Morning Star had done with his own.
* ImAHumanitarian: Defied and averted. Because his depraved mortal father participated in unrestrained cannibalism (among other things), he is adamant in not becoming like him in any way, which influenced him to swear off meat completely and become a staunch vegetarian. This applies to even meat from presumably non-sapient animals; despite his mother and siblings' attempts to convince him that eating meat in general won't automatically turn him into his father, he still managed to keep his word to this day.
* IntergenerationalFriendship:
** His friend, Blue Suede Heartstrings, is a "Tier IV"-ranked Alicorn god who was born very early in the Second Age and thus is much older than him. It later upgrades to InterspeciesRomance after Blue Suede fully recovers from his traumas and learns to accept his own prideful feelings.
** This also applies to Princess Winter Opera, who's roughly the same age as Blue Suede, and thus is much older than Stoltur. Much of their friendship is based on [[CommonalityConnection their shared experience of being born to evil and unrepentant fathers whose legacies haunted them]], and their mutual respect and gratitude towards their role in helping Blue Suede in some way.
* InterspeciesFriendship: He is a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god of Evil and Pride who was born in the cold realm of Cervidia during the Fourth Age. His friend, Blue Suede Heartstrings, is an Alicorn god of Music and Humility, born in southern Ponyland during the early parts of the Second Age. Later on, after helping Blue Suede overcome his issues and traumas regarding pride, he and Blue Suede - now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria - would the Equestrian Pantheon and [[InterspeciesRomance marry each other in a small wedding ceremony]].
* InterspeciesRomance: What his InterspeciesFriendship with Blue Suede Heartstrings later evolves to. During his recovery, he finally understood Pride's beneficial aspects and accepted that it's okay to feel pride, which led to him and Stoltur becoming coltfriends. Later, after Blue Suede is crowned as Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria and they join the Equestrian Pantheon together, both he and Caerulus would marry each other in a small wedding ceremony.
* KarmicJackpot: He became good friends with Blue Suede Heartstrings, the Alicorn god of Humility, and has been teaching him that pride does have benefits. He's eventually rewarded when Blue Suede, after recovering from a huge psychological breakdown, grows comfortable with expressing his own pride and later marries Stoltur after becoming Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria and joining the Equestrian Pantheon. In addition, Stoltur's act of falling in love with Caerulus and marrying him - thus uniting Pride and Humility together - leads to a karmic backlash that 'births' their son, Prince Perfect Tone.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: In battle, he carries with him a silver mirror-shield called ''Þráspegill'', [[MeaningfulName which translates to "Desire Mirror" in Icelandic]]. True to form, while it provides a source of defense in case he can't use his [[AnIcePerson ice magic]], Stoltur can also use it to [[YourHeartsDesire make manifest his enemies' inner desires]] by conjuring illusionary images of what they desire most. His entry notes that should he lose his shield, he starts focusing on overwhelming strength and speed to make up for a lack of defense... though it also makes him vulnerable as he is more exposed, especially if he can't use his ice magic in place of his shield for some reason.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Shield of Perfection", due to being skilled with shields and creating [[BarrierWarrior barriers]] with his ice magic, as well as embodying the bad aspects of Perfection.
* MayDecemberRomance: Technically, his marriage to Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria is this. Stoltur's a "Tier II"-ranked god (maximum age is 1000 years), while Caerulus is a "Tier IV"-ranked god (maximum age is 100,000 years), making him vastly older than Stoltur. Despite this, age doesn't really matter since deities [[StrongerWithAge grow differently]] than mortals, and Stoltur and Caerulus are HappilyMarried.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: His marriage to Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, formerly known as Blue Suede Heartstrings, is this. While Caerulus' family, friends, and peers have accepted his decision to marry Stoltur due to the latter's importance to his self-esteem, many others were appalled that a god of Humility would marry an 'evil' god of Pride. This caused puristic individuals to try punish Stoltur for 'corrupting' Caerulus, though Caerulus' student, Princess Winter Opera, would protect them.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: He forms one with his husband, Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria. Being a god of Pride, Stoltur is vain, bold, and assertive, while Caerulus, a god of Humility, is more empathetic, sensitive, and merciful. However, it's zigzagged as while Stoltur is the dominant partner, he has been helping Caerulus build his self-esteem by taking turns in being dominant/submissive during sex and encouraging him to take lead in general. This is extremely beneficial for Caerulus, who went through a particularly bad TraumaCongaLine that all but destroyed his sense of self-worth by the time he got out of it.
* MeaningfulName:
** His name translates to "Prideful Shield" in Icelandic. He is a divine son of Pokhot and embodies Pride just like her, and is an incredibly vain and sadistic yet honorable individual who can use shields, magical or otherwise, for both defensive and offensive purposes.
** His mirror-shield, ''Þráspegill'', translates to "Desire Mirror" in Icelandic. It has the ability to distract enemies with their own reflections, and make manifest their inner desires by generating illusionary images of what they want the most.
* MetallicMotifs: Silver. His body and wings are described as being white with silver markings, and he wears white, silver, and blue regalia as a Prince of Pokhot's hell-fief. He is a god who embodies Pride, Perfection, and Potential, and is generally a competent WarriorPrince (when he isn't [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy distracted by himself]]) by virtue of his mother, Pokhot, being the "Empress" of her own hell-fief. He also represents the [[SilverHasMysticPowers mystical side of silver]] - he has empathic and precognitive powers, and bears a silver mirror-shield that conjures illusionary images of what his opponents desire the most.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Downplayed; his Draconequus heritage is less pronounced with him as his father is a mortal Cervidian Deer warlord, while Pokhot is half-Draconequus. Because of this, he only has the eyes and wings of a snowy owl, and the canines of an Arctic wolf.
* MommasBoy: According to his family InUniverse, he was a "Momma's buck" when he was younger. Given how incestuous his maternal family can be, his love for his mother grew into [[ParentalIncest something darker]] later on.
* NightmareFuel: InUniverse; when he listened to Golden Scepter's stories about Morning Star, he was so ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]]'' by the Fallen antediluvian Alicorn god's atrocities that he would have nightmares for a while. He would then swear never to misuse his divine domains of Pride, Perfection, and Potential in the way Morning Star had done with his own.
* NobleDemon: He's a very prideful and narcissistic individual, being quite vain and deriving sadistic pleasure in breaking and demeaning others. He also participates in the depraved hedonism that his mother and siblings enjoy. However, his entry notes that as the living embodiment of the bad aspects of Pride, Perfection, and Potential, he tests mortals by swelling their egos and tricking them into accepting his [[DealWithTheDevil offers]] of power by convincing them to abandon their friends and morals. He's also honorable and noble who strives to keep himself from falling into "careless" evil as his birth father and many other deities (such as Morning Star) had done, and always abides by his oaths even if he has every opportunity to go back on them. Outside of work, while he can be a bit [[AloofBigBrother aloof]] and sardonic, he genuinely loves his family and relatives, and treats his male and female lovers well (even if said lovers include [[BrotherSisterIncest his own siblings]]). He's also a loving and supportive husband to Blue Suede Heartstrings, now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, whom he married after joining the Equestrian Pantheon together.
* OddCouple: What he and Caerulus became after marrying. Stoltur's a GodOfEvil and Pride and thus is vain, cruel, and assertive, while Caerulus is a god of Humility who is kind, merciful, and humble. Despite their opposing natures, it's been established that [[GoodNeedsEvil humility cannot exist without pride]], and because of this, they're HappilyMarried, with Stoltur supporting Caerulus and helping him build his self-confidence.
* OddFriendship: Much like Golden Scepter and Temnobog before him, he would befriend Blue Suede Heartstrings, a benevolent, humble, and kind-hearted Alicorn god who's older than him. As it turned out, they countered and balanced each other; as the Alicorn god of Humility, Blue decreases pride so he could redeem mortals and help them [[TookALevelInKindness become kinder]], while Stoltur, the Deer god of Evil and Pride, increases pride to weed out the wicked. Blue also serves as a calming influence on Stoltur because he can [[TheEmpath radiate an empathic aura that lessens pride]], something the latter appreciates. In turn, Stoltur has been encouraging Blue to have a little more pride in himself because he often gives himself too little credit for his own accomplishments, even when it's well-deserved. Canteros predicts that they might become lovers in the future, due to their compatibility and closeness as friends, which later comes true when Stoltur ends up marrying Blue Suede after the latter accepts his prideful feelings, becomes Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, and joins the Equestrian Pantheon.
* OneHeadTaller: Justified with him and Caerulus, as deities [[StrongerWithAge age differently than mortals]] in the Codexverse. Because Stoltur is a "Tier II"-ranked god, he's ''much'' shorter than his husband Caerulus, an older "Tier IV"-ranked deity. Because of his tall height, Caerulus is often mistaken to be the dominant partner, but it's inverted in that it's Stoltur who is dominant. Despite the sheer size difference, both Stoltur and Caerulus don't see it as a problem since the latter can just [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shrink himself down]] so they can match, especially during sex.
* OppositesAttract: Despite their respective natures as gods of Pride and Humility, he and Blue Suede ended up falling in love while the latter was recovering from his issues and PTSD over being abused by various people and witnessing the harm pride can do. Eventually, they marry after joining the Equestrian Pantheon together, with Stoltur helping Blue Suede (now Prince Caerulus) build his self-confidence by encouraging him to take lead himself and taking turns on being dominant/submissive during sex. While Blue Suede's family and friends have accepted this, [[MalignedMixedMarriage others like the Poenan Pantheon were appalled over an 'evil' deity marrying a 'good' one and have tried attacking them for it]].
* PayEvilUntoEvil: As a god of Pride, he can be quite sadistic in breaking and demeaning the pride and self-worth of others - he often joins his siblings, and demonic servants and champions in humiliating the damned shades in Pokhot's hell-fief by elevating those who caught their interest to higher status, only to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness throw them away once they're not of use anymore]]. As noted in Pokhot's entry, this is done as [[PayEvilUntoEvil punishment]] towards the damned shades themselves, who often did similar crimes to innocent people in life.
* PeltsOfTheBarbarian: Despite his feelings towards his mortal father, he still wears the fashions of Cervidia, his homeland, which consists of white, silver, and dark blue regalia with thick clothes, cloaks, and [[FurAndLoathing pelts]]. It's double-subverted in that personality-wise, he behaves more like a prideful and aristocratic, if evil and depraved NobleDemon, given that he and his many half-siblings were [[WickedCultured raised heavily influenced by higher culture]]... but that does not make him any less of a fierce warrior than his father's people.
* {{Pride}}: His entry notes that he embodies Pokhot's prideful aspects, as he inherited his divine domain of Pride from her. Much like his mother, he often brags about his accomplishments to anyone who listens, spends hours preening himself until he looks perfect, and gets incensed at both real and perceived insults to his ego. He also takes his pride farther by developing the tendency to [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy get distracted by his own reflection]], even in the middle of a fight. And as his folder quote shows, he holds extremely high standards in who gets to [[DeityOfHumanOrigin become like the gods themselves]], cutting down those who fall short of his expectations. Power-wise, he is an [[TheEmpath empath]] who can both encourage and strip away prideful feelings in mortals (though he hates doing the latter as it leaves his victims little more than {{Empty Shell}}s), and is an incredibly talented ice mage who can use ice for both defensive and offensive purposes, echoing how Pride can both empower and corrupt people.
* PsychicPowers: He has [[TheEmpath empathy]] and [[{{Seers}} precognition]], both of which he inherited from his mother, Pokhot.
* {{Seers}}: His entry notes that as the god of Potential, he has inherited Pokhot's precognitive abilities, which make him see both the good and bad potential of people, and what they could be even years ahead.
* SemiDivine: He was born the son of Pokhot, an Evil Deer-Draconequus hybrid goddess and member of the Four Terrors, and a mortal Cervidian Deer stag who was an incredibly depraved warlord in life. After Pokhot secretly sabotaged Stoltur's father and left him to die at the hooves of his own subjects, she would take little Stoltur with her and raise him herself, teaching him the philosophy of "constructive" Evil until he grew up and Ascended to true godhood.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: His friendship with Blue Suede Heartstrings had this dynamic - he's the 'Manly Man' who is prideful, cruel, and vain, while Blue Suede is the 'Sensitive Guy' who is sensitive, merciful, and kind. After Blue Suede is crowned as Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria and they get married, they turn into a MasculineFeminineGayCouple where Stoltur is the dominant partner and Blue Suede/Caerulus Melodia is the submissive partner. However, it's zigzagged as Stoltur has been helping Caerulus become more confident by taking turns on being dominant/submissive during sex and encouraging him to take lead in general.
* SilverHasMysticPowers: In battle, he carries with him a [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe mirror-shield]], ''Þráspegill'', which [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy distracts his opponents with their own reflections]] and makes manifest [[YourHeartsDesire their inner desires]] by showing them illusionary images of what they desire most. On a figurative level, his physical appearance is described as having silver markings on his body and wings, and he's a powerful god whose abilities revolve around the concepts he embodies.
* SoProudOfYou: He's very proud of Winter Opera for not only founding an Order that promotes benevolent use of dark magic, but also resisting his attempts to corrupt her and her followers by ensuring her own followers don't become corrupt themselves.
* SuperEmpowering: Much like Luminiferous, he can do this.
** Using his domain of Perfection, he can empower his allies' physical and mental capabilities to their peak, though this does not mean they cannot learn anything new while empowered. As his entry notes, when he uses it on mortals, it's usually to encourage them to improve themselves so they could become the best they ''can'' be.
** Using his domain of Potential, he can [[ATasteOfPower empower people with their future potential]], but unlike Luminiferous, he encourages his targets to take "shortcuts" in achieving their future potential by either [[DealWithTheDevil accepting deals from him]] or searching obsessively for magical artifacts that would likely endanger and curse them.
* SuperiorSuccessor: It's implied that Golden Scepter sees him as this to [[SatanicArchetype Morning Star]]. Both Morning Star and Stoltur are prideful and sadistically cruel beings, except Morning Star had grown so arrogant that he destroyed the Alicorn Civilization and nearly ruined the entire world just to fulfill his own twisted ideas of perfection. Despite Stoltur having similar evil and prideful qualities, his honor code and [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuine love for his family]] keeps him from sinking to the depths of depravity that Morning Star had reached in his time. This once caused Golden Scepter to remark that [[YouRemindMeOfX Stoltur heavily reminds him of Morning Star]] if he became a "constructive" Evil deity and helped the Alicorns prosper by motivating them with his Evil. True to form, when Stoltur listened to Golden Scepter's stories of Morning Star's atrocities, he was so ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]]'' that he had nightmares about it and swore never to become like the Fallen antediluvian Alicorn god.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Much like the rest of his infernal family, hew was this to the entire Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, as he spread Evil to test mortals and punished the damned shades in his mother's hell-fiefs for their crimes in life. After joining the Equestrian Pantheon to be with his husband, Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, he becomes this for the aforementioned pantheon, as Equestria's Hell-Realms needed someone to properly govern it. The same goes for those of his family who left the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon to join him in Equestria.
* VillainRespect:
** As the Evil god of Pride, Perfection, and Potential, he's delighted whenever his victims either give in to their pride completely, and/or accept [[DealWithTheDevil offers]] from him to become as powerful as they could potentially be without going the long way like [[BigGood Luminiferous]]'s students have done. However, he's even more delighted when people resist him and avoid the shortcuts he offers, eventually becoming truly heroic and powerful as he makes them believe they could be.
** He is thankful towards Princess Winter Opera for helping Blue Suede defeat [[EnemyWithin the Colonel]] and saving him from becoming a Fallen Alicorn. The feeling is mutual, as Winter Opera appreciates him for looking after her mentor's emotional/mental well-being. He's also [[SoProudOfYou quite proud of Winter Opera]] for founding TheOrder revolving around benevolent usage of dark magic, and resisting the temptations of power and pride that comes with it.
* WarriorPrince: He is a Prince by virtue of his mother, Pokhot, being the "Empress" of her hell-fief, and is a powerful Evil god of Pride, Perfection, and Potential who is also a very competent and deadly fighter.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Whenever he makes an oath, Stoltur always sticks with it, even when he's at home. A prominent example is his decision to completely abstain from meat, which stemmed from the fact that when his mortal father was alive, one of the crimes he committed was [[ImAHumanitarian unrestrained cannibalism]]. Despite attempts by his mother and his siblings to convince him otherwise, Stoltur still refuses to give in because if he goes back on his word, he'll become no better than his depraved father. His entry notes that this is a rather impressive feat, since most Evil deities often don't stick by their word.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's described as being a white-furred Deer-Draconequus hybrid god with a handsome yet incredibly cold and unnatural beauty. He's also an Evil god of Pride, Perfection, and Potential, and due to his nature, he's an incredibly prideful and narcissistic individual who takes sadistic pleasure in breaking and demeaning others' pride, and sees nothing wrong with participating in the depravities that his mother and siblings enjoy, such as their massive, often incestuous orgies. As his folder quote shows, he holds very high standards for the mortals he tests, and believes that only those who ''he'' deems worthy can [[DeityOfHumanOrigin become gods]] like him. However, it's subverted in that as a follower of "constructive" Evil, he serves as a divine tester for mortals, representing the bad sides of Pride, Perfection, and Potential and the consequences of pursuing all three without compassion and restraint. Outside of work, while he's a bit aloof and sardonic, he genuinely loves his family and relatives, and is a very honorable and noble individual by their standards. He's also a loving and supportive husband to long-time friend Blue Suede Heartstrings/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, whom he married after joining the Equestrian Pantheon, and an equally loving father to infant Prince Perfect Tone.
* WickedCultured: Justified; because Pride (and Lust) is often rooted in higher culture/society, he and his many divine and demi-divine siblings were raised heavily influenced by things like art, music, science, and literature. Stoltur himself is knowledgeable and skilled in these areas, what with being immortal, but he is especially noted to be a wine sommelier who specializes in tasting, analyzing, and pairing wines and other alcohols with certain foods. This makes him an ideal partner for those working under his surviving uncle, Bolezn, the Master of Pestilence, who are themselves skilled chefs.
* YinYangBomb: He is capable of combining his Pride magic with Blue Suede's Humility magic to create a devastating attack, which played an important role in helping Blue Suede permanently kill 'The Colonel', the psychic manifestation of Blue Suede's suppressed traumas and negative traits.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Golden Scepter has once remarked that Stoltur reminds him of [[SatanicArchetype Morning Star]], if he actually used his evil to help the Alicorns prosper by motivating them to stay good instead of making everyone suffer to satisfy his own ego. True to form, Stoltur was ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]]'' by Golden Scepter's stories of Morning Star and the atrocities he had done in life, to the point where he had nightmares about it and swore never to follow Morning Star's example.
* YourHeartsDesire: His [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe mirror-shield]], ''Þráspegill'' has the ability to make manifest people's inner desires by conjuring illusionary images of what they desire the most. Fittingly, ''Þráspegill'''s name means "Desire Mirror" in Icelandic.
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[[folder:Prince Touha, the Prince of Lust]]
--> See his folder entry [[Characters/CodexEquusEquestrianPantheon here]].
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[[folder:Prince Varázsló, the Sorcerer of Knowledge]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant(?)
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Magic, Knowledge, Fate, Hope
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

-> ''"We are all players in the grand scheme of things, whether we like it or not. But in the end, even the smallest action will create giant ripples in the cosmic pool that is the universe at large."''
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Prince Varázsló (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-54-859005115 here]]) is the Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god of Magic, Knowledge, Fate, and Hope, and is the younger identical twin brother of Prince Cselszövő.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Kairos Fateweaver]] was rendered flightless, wizened, insane, mutated ([[MultipleHeadCase with his head split in two]]) and blind to the present after Tzeentch threw him into the Well of Eternity to gain all knowledge of the future. In contrast, Varázsló, though blind ([[EyeScream self-inflicted]]) and somewhat insane, was transformed into an EldritchAbomination during his time in the Well of Eternity yet did not become completely insane because of his HeroicWillpower. Varázsló also has some skill in physical combat, unlike Kairos who is pretty useless in a direct fight due to his condition.
* AlmightyIdiot: Subverted. Despite being thrown alongside his brother into the Well of Eternity and [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow gained knowledge of things that no one should ever know]], he and Cselszövő kept themselves from breaking completely with [[HeroicWillpower sheer willpower]] by the time they reemerged from it. The fact that he's ''somewhat'' insane is a testament to the strength of his will.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: He and his older brother Cselszövő are identical twins, but that isn't apparent at first because they each embody different domains and bear diferent chimeric animal traits pertaining to their natures. Varázsló has stated that [[TruthInTelevision identical twins can still look different from each other under the right environmental circumstances]].
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's an Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god who embodies Magic, Knowledge, Fate, and Hope.
* TheArchmage: Because he was thrown into the '[[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]]' as a young foal, he was given a ''massive'' power boost, turning him into one of the most powerful sorcerers of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon. While his powers and capabilities are the same as Kúzelník's, he leans towards psionic magic and was tutored in Malrègnarian dark magic by Vicearch Iniquitous. And through his other domains, he can do things like mess with people's memories, perceive multiple futures and alternate timelines/dimensions, bind people to fates (or make them immune to fate), and [[RealityWarper warp reality]]. However, because he was never able to properly grow into his power, he's UnskilledButStrong, which both Kúzelník and Golden Scepter are helping him overcome.
* BestServedCold: After spending some time recovering from psychological trauma inflicted by both his childhood abuse and his time in the [[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]], he finally gets his chance for revenge when Pokhot transfers the now-powerless damned shade of the Knowledgeable Sorcerer to his and his brother's shared hell-fief, on whom he proceeds to inflict every horrible fate imaginable.
* BlindSeer: Justified. After surviving being thrown into the Well of Eternity, and finding himself constantly assailed by maddening psychic visions on top of PTSD-fueled nightmares, he [[EyeScream took out all of his eyes]] (one of his chimeric traits is a spider's [[ExtraEyes eight eyes]]) in hopes the visions would stop. They didn't, as being blind ''increased'' his visions. This is what partially influenced him to experiment with alternate timelines and dimensions so he could understand his own existence and find ways to improve his own life. And as a god of Fate, he has extremely powerful precognitive sight and can [[WindsOfDestinyChange manipulate fate]] at will, to the point where he can perceive even alternate realties born from all possible choices a person can make. Unfortunately, his disability makes him literally and figuratively to the ''present'', so anyone who can [[ScrewDestiny defy fate itself]] in some way can throw him off.
* BlowYouAway: One branch of magic granted by his Magic domain is air magic.
* BrotherSisterIncest: It's implied that he and his brother, Cselszövő, have an incestuous relationship, which is standard in a family of infernal, depraved deities. One incident had a group of Erobreseg Hydianite cultists making the mistake of summoning Varázsló while he was spending a very intimate moment with Cselszövő. [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm In their true forms]].
--> '''Erobreseg Hydianites:''' '''''[[GoMadFromTheRevelation AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE - !!!]]'''''
* BrownNote: Justified. Spending time in the [[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]] aged both him and his brother so unnaturally (by divine standards, at least) that they turned into {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. As a result, his mere presence can inflict insanity on anyone who aren't older deities, and his eyes are holes filled with dark space that cause people to feel an existential dread when looked into. As a result, people have to wear 'Perception Filter' glasses for their own protection whenever he's in his true form.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Justified. Being thrown into the Well of Eternity alongside his brother, as well as being irreversibly transformed from the sheer power and knowledge it held, made him GoMadFromTheRevelation (and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation]], presumably). Because of his insanity, he perceives things differently from even fellow deities, and goes into odd, philosophical tangents at random. He's also easily distracted, and his [[{{Seers}} psychic visions]] make it difficult for him to discern the difference between them and reality; it's common for people in his shared hell-fief to hear him muttering and/or screaming prophecies frequently. The fact that he's now ''somewhat'' mad is a testament to his [[HeroicWillpower strong will]]. Mentálne's birth finally gives him the opportunity to overcome, or at least regulate, his worst eccentricities, flaws, and impulses.
* CombatClairvoyance: His precognitive sight allows him to predict when to avoid attacks and when to strike. Unlike Kairos Fateweaver, though, he actually has some skill in physical combat.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Due to spending some time in the [[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]], Varázsló was rendered so powerful and all-knowing that he could easily trounce much of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon in a fight. This proved to be detrimental to his infernal family when they got concerned with his clandestine dimensional/chronal research, but couldn't confront him directly.
** Shortly after, Varázsló himself would be easily subdued by Golden Scepter, who was brought in at Belyolen's behest, by virtue of being vastly older and powerful than even him. This also allowed Golden Scepter to utterly destroy Varázsló's dimensional/chronal research with little trouble in order to snap him out of his obsession with future possibilities.
* CreepyTwins: With his older brother, Prince Cselszövő. They're identical twins ([[TruthInTelevision though that's not apparent at first glance due to various traits that differentiate them]]), but they're also [[EldritchAbomination eldritch gods]] who were driven insane by their horrible childhood and sadistic, depraved individuals who have no problem with abusing others for their sorcerous pursuits or personal amusement. Granted, much of their victims are [[AssholeVictims the damned shades living in their shared hell-fief]], but it still makes their behavior no less horrifying.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He and his older brother, Prince Cselszövő, had an extremely terrible childhood. Their birth father, known only as 'The Knowledgeable Sorcerer' (or not, if the theory of [[HomosexualReproduction Phykti fathering the twins]] is true), was an extremely abusive SorcerousOverlord who forced them to acquire and practice more magical power and knowledge, among other things. When he found an eldritch plane called 'The Well of Eternity', he threw Varázsló and his brother into it so he could learn the Well's secrets without compromising himself. They both later came back powerful and all-knowing, at the cost of being turned into [[EldritchAbomination eldritch gods]] and rendered insane from their experiences. Even after being taken to safety, Varázsló was so tormented that he once ''[[EyeScream ripped all his eyes out]]'' just to make his precognitive visions stop (which only worsened the problem), and later conducted experiments involving alternate timelines/dimensions so he could find worlds where he and Cselszövő lived better lives and learn how to improve his own situation from them. This brought Varázsló into conflict with his family, who were concerned he was going down a dark path, but because he was too powerful for them to fight directly, Belyolen brought in Golden Scepter, who overpowered and destroyed all of Varázsló's research. Varázsló was left a despondent, sobbing wreck, and though things turned up once Golden Scepter introduced him to Dr. Endless Dreams, it took a long time for him to recover in part because Mentálne wasn't born yet.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Maybe. It's unknown whether he and his brother were [[SemiDivine demigods]] or full-blooded divines, but they were aged unnaturally to the point of becoming "Titan"-ranked deities after they were thrown into the [[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]] and coming out of it alive.
* DishingOutDirt: One branch of magic granted by his Magic domain is earth magic.
* EldritchAbomination: Being thrown into the Well of Eternity and spending an unknown time in there before reemerging aged him and his brother unnaturally, to the point of becoming incredibly eldritch. In Varázsló's case, his true form vaguely resembles an Alicorn-Deer-Draconequus hybrid whose body and chimeric traits constantly distort and shift to show bits of what he had been and what he could’ve been, along with everything in-between. His butterfly wings are mirrors that show multiple future visions of the person(s) looking into them, like a crowd staring at a single person from the otherside of a window. His mane and tail frequently break into sparkling orbs that show moving images of various futures and realities, both good and bad. And because he's blind, all of his eyes in his true form are holes that, when looked into, will reveal the dark expanse of space, filling the looker(s) with an existential dread. Anyone who is not an older deity has to wear 'Perception Filter' glasses to protect themselves from insanity when interacting with him while he's in his true form.
* EldritchLocation:
** The hell-fief he shares with his brother Cselszövő, is essentially described as being "extreme weird". [[RealityIsOutToLunch Physics and conventional logic are thrown out the window]], and the environment [[AlienGeometries constantly changes to add new angles and dimensions that shouldn't exist]], which comes with the consequences of the place becoming more or less dangerous depending on the twin rulers' whims. The palace they live in is no better - rooms come and go, and some sections are actually [[BiggerOnTheInside bigger than their appearances suggest]], going on forever in a few occasions. Some Bogolenya Deer gods and goddesses have reported getting lost in the palace, but fortunately for them, it doesn't last. Damned shades, however, get it much, much worse.
** He and Cselszövő themselves once ended up in one as children. After the Knowledgeable Sorcerer discovered the Well of Eternity, an eldritch plane/dimension that (supposedly) holds all knowledge of the universe, he threw the twins inside so he can discover the Well's secrets without compromising himself. This led to Varázsló and his brother being irreversibly changed by the time they reemerged, powerful and all-knowing yet driven insane by their physical and psychological transformation.
* TheEmpath: Being a skilled user of [[PsychicPowers Psionic magic]] automatically gives him empathic abilities. His Hope domain also gives him empathy to sense and encourage hope in others.
* EvilCounterpart: Implied. He serves as a constructive foil to Prince Crimson Star, as they're both Knowledge (demi-)deities with powerful magics/psionics at their command. However, he represents the unfettered pursuit of knowledge and magic.
* {{Expy}}: Subverted. While he's based on [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch]], he's more based on [[DecompositeCharacter Tzeentch's magical and knowledgeable aspects]]. His backstory of getting thrown into a magical plane/dimension called 'The Well of Eternity' by a depraved knowledge seeker, and coming back from it alive and all-knowing yet insane, was inspired by the story of Kairos Fateweaver, another ''Warhammer 40,000'' character.
* ExtraEyes: Because he's part Draconequus through Pokhot ([[HasTwoMommies and Phykti if true]]), he has the eight eyes of a spider. However, he [[EyeScream blinded himself in all eyes]] in a fit of madness when he wouldn't stop receiving psychic visions. This resulted in his eyes becoming holes that show the dark expanse of space when looked at, filling the looker(s) with an existential dread.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Justified; because he's blind, his eyes are always closed. This only applies to his default forms, though - in his [[EldritchAbomination true form]], his eyes are [[EyelessFace holes]] full of space that make people feel an existential dread when looked into.
* EyelessFace: Because he blinded himself in all eyes in a futile attempt to stop receiving psychic visions, his true eldritch form now has holes for eyes that, when looked into, show the dark expanse of space and fill the looker(s) with an existential dread.
* ForWantOfANail: InUniverse; many of Varázsló's experiments involved researching alternate timelines/dimensions where his and his brother's lives became much happier based on different choices that were taken. Unfortunately, his obsession with future possibilities nearly led him down a dark path, and his concerned family was forced to call in Golden Scepter when he [[CurbStompBattle proved himself too damn powerful for anyone to stop]]. Golden Scepter subduing him and destroying his research [[VillainousBreakdown left Varázsló a despondent, broken wreck]], but also forced him to acknowledge that [[ScrewDestiny he can still take charge of his own life/future in spite of what happened to him]], especially after Golden Scepter introduced him to a fellow eldritch deity, Dr. Endless Dreams.
* FreudianExcuse:
** Varázsló's insanity and other eccentricities stem from the fact that when he was younger, he and his brother were thrown into '[[EldritchLocation The Well of Eternity]]' by an extremely abusive SorcerousOverlord, who coveted the plane/dimension's secrets but didn't want to risk himself. His time in the Well granted him so much knowledge and power that it broke his mind, as well as left him extremely traumatized overall; the only reason why he isn't a gibbering mess is because of his HeroicWillpower. Fortunately for all, Mentálne's birth finally presented the opportunity for him to heal his fractured mind, or at least regulate his eccentricities.
** Varázsló initially treated his infernal family coldly (save for his twin brother) because of a horrible childhood full of abuse, scheming, and being thrown into an EldritchLocation that made him learn things that no sapient being should ever learn. And by his own admission, Varázsló resented his mother, Pokhot, for not protecting him and his brother more when they needed it. It's ultimately deconstructed; while his reasons are understandable, it still doesn't excuse how Varázsló had been mistreating his family by emotionally distancing himself from them, and blaming them for things that were out of their control. Golden Scepter intervening on his family's behalf forced Varázsló to have a much-needed JerkassRealization, leading to him trying to reconcile with his family and open up to them about his problems more.
** For a time, Varázsló became obsessed with future possibilities because, during his time in the Well of Eternity, he gained the ability to perceive alternate dimensions/timelines. This led to him conducting clandestine experiments where he tried looking for alternate worlds where he and his brother lived happier lives, solely for the purpose of understanding his current situation and learning how to improve his own life. It's deconstructed as Varázsló's obsession nearly led him down a dark path, and by obsessing over fate, he was unconsciously emulating the Knowledgeable Sorcerer, who horribly abused him and his brother as children in his quest for knowledge. Golden Scepter destroying his research on his family's behalf and introducing him to Dr. Endless Dreams afterwards forced him to realize that he still has a choice to break free from the Knowledgeable Sorcerer's abuse and take control of his own life/future, regardless of the misfortunes he suffered.
* GodOfEvil: Specifically, he embodies the amoral and unfettered sides of magic, fate, knowledge, and hope. It's subverted as he follows [[NecessarilyEvil constructive evil]] and his role is to punish those who pursed magic and knowledge to extremes, and exploited the fates and hopes of others for their own benefit.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Implied to be a factor in his and his brother's insanity. After being thrown into the Well of Eternity, they stayed in there for an unknown amount of time, presumably with just each other for company, before managing to escape, irreversibly changed physical and mentally from their experiences. Others who went before them had died upon entering the place.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He UsedToBeASweetKid who was passionate about learning, but being thrown into the [[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]] aged him unnaturally and left him somewhat insane from the sheer amounts of knowledge and magic he and his brother absorbed into themselves. Now it's common for him to be heard [[MadOracle screaming/muttering prophecies]] and going on odd, philosophical tangents at random, among other things.
* HarmfulToMinors: When he and Cselszövő were young, they were horribly abused by the Knowledgeable Sorcerer, who may or may not have been their biological father. This culminated in both of them being thrown into the Well of Eternity so the Knowledgeable Sorcerer could study its secrets without compromising himself. By the time they came out alive, they became divine {{Eldritch Abomination}}s who are extremely powerful and all-knowing, yet their experiences drove them mad. According to Varázsló, he and his brother were a few years older than Crystal Prism/Page Wheel when it happened.
* HasTwoMommies: It's heaviliy speculated InUniverse that he and Cselszövő are twin sons of Pokhot and Phykti, who disguised herself as a Pony sorcerer named 'The Cruel Sorcerer'. Many clues point to this being the case, such as the Cruel Sorcerer's kindness to Pokhot during the latter's time as a SexSlave, being feared for his unabashed cruelty and sadism, and disappearing shortly before Phykti and the other Terrors showed up to carry out a 'Calling of the Terrors' sanction. Both Varázsló and his brother Cselszövő also work with Phykti in weaving deceptive prophecies and tormenting the damned shades in their hell-fiefs, as their domains can be used for cruelty. However, the fact that Varázsló and Cselszövő are Alicorn-Deer Draconequus hybrids muddles the theory a bit.
* HeroicWillpower: Despite being thrown into a magical plane/dimension that (supposedly) holds all the secrets and knowledge of the universe, he and his brother not only managed to survive, but also reemerge from it as eldritch deities with most of their sanity intact. For context, many magic users of various professions have tried entering the Well of Eternity over the course of history, but very few have survived.
* HomosexualReproduction: It's heavily speculated InUniverse that he and Cselszövő were born when Phykti, [[GodInHumanForm under the guise of 'The Cruel Sorcerer']], slept with Pokhot while the latter was disguised as a SexSlave for a tyrannical ruling cabal of sorcerers. This would make Phykti both their mother and father if true, but the fact that the twins were born Alicorn-Deer Draconequui muddles the theory a bit.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He believes that fate is a concept that can be defied or even broken, and encourages people to do so. He also has been known to play pranks on fate-obsessed individuals by making someone ImmuneToFate and siccing said person on them. Yet he also has no qualms of binding others to malicious fates that always occur no matter what they do. It's justified; his main job involves punishing the wicked for messing with fate and/or binding others to malicious prophecies themselves, so acting like BecauseDestinySaysSo is part of his job description.
* ImmuneToFate: As a god of Fate, he can [[NoSell break fates]] by 'denying' them. This by virtue makes him immune to fate in general. He can also magically make someone, usually a hero, immune to fate, which grants them protection from certain events. It's one of his favorite ways of playing pranks on malicious individuals/groups that are [[BecauseDestinySaysSo utterly obsessed with fate and prophecy]] (or wield powers related to them).
* InsufferableGenius: One of his flaws is that, owing to him being a divine academic, he can be insufferably arrogant and opinionated at times. Though this is regulated by the presence of his more noble relatives and friends.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Invoked. As a god of Knowledge, he can inflict this on others by editing their mental information. Unlike many Knowledge deities, who are decidedly benevolent, he has no qualms of doing this.
* LifesWorkRuined: He started researching alternate dimensions and timelines, especially ones where he and his twin brother lived much happier lives, so he can find ways to improve his own life after having it utterly ruined by the Knowledgeable Sorcerer's unfettered ambitions for power and knowledge. However, in the process, he alienated his family, who were forced to bring in Golden Scepter after he proved himself to be [[CurbStompBattle too powerful to fight on their own]]. When he's defeated by Golden Scepter and his research is destroyed, he desperately tries to salvage it, only to find Golden Scepter destroyed it ''utterly'' and everything he did was all for nothing. In response, he [[VillainousBreakdown breaks down sobbing]], with a sympathetic Golden Scepter comforting him.
* LivingBattery: According to his demonic servants and champions, mages and sorcerers with particularly powerful magic are used as 'living batteries' to power various technologies in his hell-fief. This might be connected to how amoral/wicked magic users use both non-sapient and sapient creatures as fodder for their own experiments.
* {{Lobotomy}}: Invoked. As a god of Knowledge, he can essentially lobotomize people by scrambling their minds and/or mental processes, inflicting LaserGuidedAmnesia, or making them forget even how to walk or talk. His great power as a deity allows him to do this ''on a wider scale''. Unlike many Knowledge deities, who are decidedly benevolent, he has no qualms of doing this.
* MadGod: After being thrown into the 'Well of Eternity' by the Knowledgeable Sorcerer, he is now somewhat insane. His vast knowledge makes him perceive differently than even fellow divines, which makes him easily distracted and prone to going on odd, philosophical tangents at random. His psychic visions make it hard for him to separate them from reality, and it's very common for peopel to hear him muttering or screaming prophecies frequently. Being forced to bear a large portion of knowledge and magic of the universe also made him incredibly serious and [[TheStoic stoic]]. What keeps him from becoming completely is his strong will, which is likely how he survived being in the Well of Eternity for an unknown time. Fortunately, both Kúzelník and Golden Scepter have been helping him control his powers, and Mentálne is helping him overcome (or at least control) his worst flaws and impulses.
* MadOracle: After being thrown into the Well of Eternity and coming back an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch god]], he now mutters and/or screams any prophecy he receives to the point where it became a common occurrence in his shared hell-fief. This is because, while in the Well of Eternity, he absorbed so much knowledge and power that he was driven insane. The fact that he's not ''completely'' insane is a testament to the strength of his HeroicWillpower.
* MagicHair: The [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair navy-blue]] mane and tail of his [[HumanoidAbomination default forms]] resemble a dark, rippling galaxy with twinkling stars. In his [[EldritchAbomination true form]], his mane and tail frequently break into sparkling orbs that show moving images of various futures and realities, both good and bad.
* MagicStaff: His staff, ''Sorsszövő'', allows him to channel and control his great magical power to finer degrees, as well as [[RealityWarper bend reality itself]] on even larger scales. It also serves as his guiding stick, since he's blind.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Sorcerer of Knowledge", due to being a god of Knowledge as well as an extremely powerful and intelligent sorcerer who holds knowledge of all that could be, all that had been, and everything in-between.
* MakingASplash: One branch of magic granted by his Magic domain is water magic.
* MeaningfulName:
** His name translates to "sorcerer" in Hungarian. He's a god who embodies the horrific, unfettered aspects of Magic, Knowledge, and Fate, and he's arguably considered to be [[TheArchmage one of the most powerful sorcerers of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon]] in terms of sheer raw power InUniverse.
** His MagicStaff is called ''Sorsszövő'', which translates to "fate-weaver" in Hungarian. It's also a [[ShoutOut reference]] to [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Kairos]]' most-known title, "Fateweaver".
* NotSoAboveItAll: Unlike his scheming twin brother, Cselszövő, he's usually stoic and serious because of the burden his vast power and knowledge presents, and at times he can be [[InsufferableGenius insufferably arrogant and opinionated]]. However, he is a bit of a prankster himself, with one of his favorite pranks being making a hero ImmuneToFate and then siccing them on villains obsessed with fate and prophecy.
* NotSoDifferent: At one point, he became so consumed by grief that he started obsessing over future possibilities and alternate timelines/dimensions, while treating his family (save for his twin brother) coldly based on his assumption that they don't understand his troubles. This made him dangerously close to becoming not so different from the Knowledgeable Sorcerer who abused him and his brother as children, and would have damned him later on had Golden Scepter not personally intervened on Belyolen's behest. He eventually acknowledges this after meeting Dr. Endless Dreams and learning of what she and her adoptive children, the Elder Quintumvirate, went through, which leads to him realizing how badly he treated his family and patching things up with them.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Sometime after receiving a hell-fief that he now shares with Cselszövő, Varázsló has a damned shade transferred to his hell-fief by Pokhot for him to torment. That damned shade is none other than the Knowledgeable Sorcerer, who was rendered completely powerless by Pokhot upon death. Despite the Knowledgeable Sorcerer's pleas for mercy, Varázsló proceeds to pay him back for all the years of pain and grief he and his brother endured as children and beyond because of him, such as turning the Knowledgeable Sorcerer into an unwilling thrall to use in his sorcerous pursuits at his own pleasure.
--> '''Prince Varázsló:''' Hello, you pathetic, magic-less swine.\\
'''The Knowledgeable Sorcerer:''' Oh no...!\\
'''Prince Varázsló:''' Remember me? The foal you worked like a dog and then threw into the Well of Eternity alongside his brother?\\
'''The Knowledgeable Sorcerer:''' No no no no no no!\\
'''Prince Varázsló:''' You cannot escape. Not like how I did. You will pay for your crimes, you good-for-nothing.\\
'''The Knowledgeable Sorcerer:''' Please! Please don't hurt me! I-I'll do anything!\\
'''Prince Varázsló:''' I know you will. In fact... you will do everything my brother and I tell you to. '''''Forever.'''''
* PlayingWithFire: One branch of magic granted by his Magic domain is fire magic.
* PsychicPowers: While his Magic domain grants him accessibility to multiple different branches of magic, he has a strong inclination towards psionic magic in general. He's also a strong precognitive, largely due to embodying Fate.
* ScrewDestiny: Thanks to the positive influence of Dr. Endless Dreams and the Elder Quintumvirate, he developed the belief that fate itself can be defied or even broken. Notably, one of his favorite pranks involves making someone ImmuneToFate and siccing them on villains who are obsessed with fate/prophecy. That being said, [[{{Hypocrite}} he has no problem with binding others to malicious prophecies himself]]... though that's because his job is punishing wicked souls who did the same thing in life.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Implied to be a reason why he tried researching alternate timelines and worlds. By finding and studying worlds where he and his twin brother lived different yet happier lives, Varázsló could perhaps find a way to [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife understand his existence]] and improve his own life. It's deconstructed as by tampering with dimensions and timelines, Varázsló became increasingly NotSoDifferent from the Knowledgeable Sorcerer, who abused him and his brother and was responsible for physical/psychological transformation in the first place. When his experiments caught the attention of his family, Belyolen had to bring in Golden Scepter, knowing his friend had the power to subdue his wayward nephew and prevent him from going down a dark path. Golden Scepter succeeds, and though Varázsló was deeply affected from losing his work, he eventually accepts he could still take control of his life regardless of the bad hoof he was dealt, especially after he was introduced to Dr. Endless Dreams and the Elder Quintumvirate.
* SexSlave: His entry notes he has no qualms about magically enslaving others to his will and forcing them to perform degrading tasks, such as pleasuring him when he wants to satisfy his lusts. However, he only does this to punish those damned shades who did the same thing to others in life, and ironically, both he and his brother were born to one (albeit a goddess disguised as a sex slave at the time).
* SilverHasMysticPowers: Subverted. He usually wears silver barding along with scholarly robes, but the barding itself isn't magical. However, he is, owing to him being a god of Magic and a sorcerer powerful enough to rival his great-uncle, Kúzelník, himself a prodigious god of Sorcery.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Some of his punishments for the damned involve the enslavement of others, usually wicked sorcerers and other magic users, for doing the same thing in life. Damned shades are turned into unwilling thralls and forced to serve as either oft-abused and/or sacrificed assistants, test subjects for extremely horrific magical experiments, lowly janitors who struggle to look after his extremely vast libraries (including cleaning up any messes left behind), or {{Sex Slave}}s to pleasure him whenever he wants to satisfy his lusts. Being turned into a LivingBattery to power various magical technologies is not unheard of, especially for the damned shades of particularly powerful sorcerers. Varázsló, being a god of Fate, also has no problem with enslaving damned shades to fate itself, as shown with his punishments of being doomed to suffer horrible fates no matter what they do.
* SorcerousOverlord: He is a Prince and an extremely powerful god of Magic who co-rules his hell-fief alongside his older brother, Cselszövő. And like many of his infernal family members, he's a sadistic and depraved individual who sees nothing wrong with enslaving others to use for his sorcerous pursuits, inflicting existential dread on them, and making them suffer various horrible fates that are certainly worse than death. However, as a '[[NecessarilyEvil constructive Evil]]' god, he only directs this behavior towards the [[AssholeVictim damned shades]] in his hell-fief.
* TheStoic: Justified. Being thrown into the Well of Eternity and forced to bear the knowledge and magic of the universe (or at least a huge part of it) has left him incredibly serious and stoic. Despite this, [[NotSoAboveItAll he has a penchant for pranks, especially when they involve screwing over villains who are obsessed with fate and prophecy]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: On the receiving end. Despite everything he had done, including researching alternate timelines/dimensions, Golden Scepter ends up pitying Varázsló because of the circumstances that utterly twisted him and ruined his and his twin brother's lives, which drove Varázsló to such extremes in the first place. And when Varázsló [[VillainousBreakdown starts sobbing]] after realizing his research had been completely destroyed, Golden Scepter puts a solemn hoof on his shoulder.
* {{Telepathy}}: Being a skilled user of [[PsychicPowers Psionic magic]] automatically gives him telepathic abilities. His Hope domain also gives him telepathy to sense and encourage hope in others.
* TragicVillain: Though a constructive villain like his family, he and his older twin brother were horrifically abused and exploited by the Knowledgeable Sorcerer who raised them (and may or may not be their biological father). Then they were thrown into the '[[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]]' by the Knowledgeable Sorcerer after he started looking into dimensions, which gave them unlimited power and knowledge yet utterly transformed them into insane, eldritch gods. The experiences traumatized him so much that he ''blinded'' himself in a fit of madness to make his psychic visions stop, then started researching alternate dimensions/timelines as well in hopes he could find a way to improve his own life. But in the process, he alienated his family, who were forced to bring in Golden Scepter to stop him since he's too powerful to confront on their own. When Golden Scepter destroys his research, he desperately hopes he could salvage some of it... then breaks down sobbing once he discovers everything was destroyed and all his work had been for nothing. It even gets Golden Scepter to pity him.
* {{Troll}}: Cultura outright calls him this. One of his favorite pranks involves screwing over villains who are [[BecauseDestinySaysSo obssessed with fate and prophecy]], usually by making a hero ImmuneToFate so they can't be bound to any fate or prophecy.
* UnhappyMedium: For him, being a Seer with unlimited knowledge and power just plain ''sucked''. His precognitive sight was so strong that he could even [[FlashSideways perceive alternate timelines and dimensions]], making it hard for him to discern between them and reality. At one point, he [[EyeScream ripped out all of his eight eyes]] just to make his visions stop... only for them to ''increase'' now that he's a BlindSeer. This in part influenced him to conduct clandestine dimensional/chronological experiments so he could learn how to improve his own life based on observations he made of alternate worlds where he and his brother lived much happier lives. But after Golden Scepter intervened on his family's behalf, he gradually learned to live with his power, especially since both Golden Scepter and his great-uncle, Kúzelník, are helping him control it.
* VillainousBreakdown: After he is [[CurbStompBattle subdued]] by Golden Scepter, who destroys all of his dimensional/chronal research with his [[PsychicPowers psionic might]], Varázsló desperately tries salvaging what he could. He gets [[HopeSpot a glimmer of hope]] when he finds a piece of leftover paper... only to discover that it's burnt to the point where he can't read it anymore. Varázsló then sits in the ashes of his work and is breaks down sobbing, upon which a sympathetic Golden Scepter puts a solemn hoof on his shoulder.
* YouCantFightFate: Invoked. As a god of Fate, he has the power to bind people to certain fates, which he uses to punish those who tried shaping the fates of others for lofty goals, no matter how well-intentioned they are. They're put in illusionary worlds where their actions will either lead to their impending fate being hastened, worsened than it originally was, or the occurrence of a completely different yet horrible fate in place of the original one.
* YouDidntAsk: He didn't tell Prince Fanged Paw that the various monsters he keeps sealed in books, scrolls, and tomes are for defense and punishment because he assumed the Terran Prince already knew, since Fanged Paw visited other hell-fiefs owned by his family. It's not until he sees Fanged Paw beating and banishing said monsters that he reveals this, [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/861846716/4887118327 to Fanged Paw's exasperation]].
--> '''Prince Varázsló:''' Please stop attacking my books. I need those to defend my hell-fief and to punish the worthless scum I rule over.\\
'''Prince Fanged Paw:''' Now you're telling me this?!\\
'''Prince Varázsló:''' I thought you'd know already since you've been to my family's other hell-fiefs.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: He has a navy-blue mane and tail.
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[[folder:Princess Cardinal Wing, the Princess of Pleasure]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Love, Art, Pleasure
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier II/Lesser; formerly a demigoddess)
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Princess Cardinal Wing is the Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess of Love, Art, and Pleasure, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Love, Art, and Pleasure.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Princess of Pleasure".
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[[folder:Princess Iron Crown, the Cold-Hearted Tyrant]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Royalty, Government, Power
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier II/Lesser; formerly a demigoddess)
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Princess Iron Crown is the Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess of Royalty, Government, and Power, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's an Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Royalty, Government, and Power.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Cold-Hearted Tyrant".
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[[folder:Princess Tudás, the Lady of Secrets]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Curiosity, Knowledge, Secrets
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier II/Lesser; formerly a demigoddess)
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Princess Tudás is the Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess of Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets, and is a daughter of Prince Varázsló and his older twin brother, Prince Cselszövő.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets.
* GodOfEvil: Specifically, she embodies the amoral and unfettered sides of curiosity, knowledge, and secrets. It's subverted as she follows [[NecessarilyEvil constructive evil]] and her role is to punish those who sacrificed their morals and ethics to satisfy their own curiosity.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's an Alicorn-Deer Draconequus by virtue of her fathers, Prince Varázsló and his older twin brother, Prince Cselszövő, being Alicorn-Deer Draconequui themselves.
* HasTwoMommies: Gender-inverted; Prince Varázsló and [[{{Twincest}} his older twin brother]], Prince Cselszövő, are her biological fathers. Not only that, magical HomosexualReproduction was involved, which isn't considered too surprising by the Erobreseg Deer Herds given how depraved Temnobog's family is.
* HomosexualReproduction: She was sired by Prince Varázsló through [[{{Twincest}} his older twin brother]], Prince Cselszövő, through magical means. InUniverse, this isn't considered too surprising by the Erobreseg Deer Herds given how depraved Temnobog's family is.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Lady of Secrets".
* MeaningfulName: Her name translates to "knowledge" in Hungarian, and she's a goddess of Knowledge. However, she embodies the unfettered/evil aspects of Knowledge, particularly GoMadFromTheRevelation and TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow, as shown with her accompanying domains of Curiosity and Secrets.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: She embodies the wicked aspects of Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets, showing [[GoMadFromTheRevelation what happens]] when her domains are pursued to unfettered extremes.
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[[folder:Queen Krásná Tradice, the Dutiful Queen]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ascendant/Ethereal
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, Prophecy
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate; formerly a demigoddess)

-> ''"It's no use following traditions when all it does is lead you to ruin in the end."''
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Queen Krásná Tradice (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-54-859005115 here]]) is the Deer-Draconequus goddess of Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, and Prophecy, and is one of Pokhot's older daughters.
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* AnimalGenderBender: One of her chimeric traits is a peacock's fanning tail, which is associated with royalty. However, the peacock's fanning tail is exclusive to males of the species. Her lion's mane is also a trait exclusive to male lions.
* AnimalMotifs: Her [[MixAndMatchCritters chimeric animal traits]] are based on animals that are associated with royalty and strength, such as lions, eagles (though a harpy eagle in her case), bears, peacocks, and badgers. Fittingly, she was born a demi-divine Princess in a now-fallen Alvslog Deer kingdom, before she moved on and became a full-blooded divine Queen of her own hell-fief; ironically, her former Alvslog subjects expected her to become a Queen due to being born a Seer, but she fulfilled said expectations in a completely different way.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, and Prophecy.
* AppealToTradition: Deconstructed and played for drama. Like many Alvslog Deer, she grew up a staunch traditionalist, yet the bigoted traditions and attitudes of her society have hurt both herself and her family personally. One of her younger brothers was [[OffingTheOffspring killed]] by their increasingly abusive father, an Alvslog King, for being born a [[HalfBreedDiscrimination hybrid]]. And even after moving to a more tolerant environment, she clung to her fawnhood traditions because they're all she had, driving a wedge between her and her Bogolenya relatives. She eventually runs away to find some justification for her existence, but it's not until she meets Blue Suede Heartstrings that she rethinks her beliefs and instead chooses to focus on punishing those who became obsessed with enforcing traditions and order so more innocents wouldn't suffer like she did.
* BadassCape: As Queen of her hell-fief, she wears a blue druidic cloak with golden patterns and leaves sewn in. She's also a goddess with strong RealityWarper abilities, a powerful Seer and druidess, and is a skilled archer and fighter.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Invoked and played straight.
** Played Straight: She approved of Blue Suede Heartstrings' friendship with her younger half-brother, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, and even foresaw them becoming a couple later on, though she respected Blue Suede enough not to go full-on ShipperOnDeck like her more eager family members. Her vision eventually comes true when Blue Suede marries Stoltur and adopts her after making a full psychological recovery... though their relationship is made complicated and awkward by the fact that Stoltur is technically her 'father' now. To Blue Suede's credit, though, he initially didn't want to adopt her because of that fact, but did it anyway because he felt she deserved better after growing up with an abusive, xenophobic, and traditionalist father.
** Invoked: Part of her punishments revolve around giving [[EvilReactionary stubborn reactionaries]] exactly what they wanted: A return to the 'good old days' as they're actually portrayed, with all the flaws and malicious aspects of the very civilizations and historical periods that reactionaries often romanticize, complete with toxic, harmful traditions that they fanatically upheld in life. One of her favorite punishments regarding wicked, reactionary Deer is to place them in illusionary worlds depicting cruel, dystopian parodies of proto-Alvslog Deer civilizations that lived InHarmonyWithNature in the First Age. Though by her own admission, she had to do quite a bit of research to get it right.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: While she loves all her family members, she's pretty close to Blue Suede Heartstrings. During her time as a runaway, Blue Suede helped her with her bigotry-related issues and encouraged her to protect innocent people from toxic traditions, which later led to her [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Ascending to godhood]] after years of punishing the wicked. While their relationship hit a rough spot when she obeyed Blue Suede's wish to not reveal his problems to his friends/family, [[PoorCommunicationKills contributing to his near-Fall]], she made amends by paying him back for his earlier kindness - namely, being part of the group who [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind psychically entered Blue Suede's mind]] to save him from '[[EnemyWithin The Colonel]]', and helping him psychologically heal once Blue Suede wakes up from his AngstComa. This later leads to her being adopted by Blue Suede, now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, finally giving her a loving and tolerant father-figure... though Caerulus' marriage to her half-brother, Prince Stoltur, makes their relationship complicated and awkward. She does stay in touch with Caerulus and his family after opting to stay in the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon during the exodus to Equestria.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Subverted. She wanted to protect her younger brother from being killed by their father just for being a hybrid, but duty to her kingdom and growing fear of her father prevented from doing so. [[MyGreatestFailure The incident would haunt her for years]], and it partly contributed to her [[TheRunaway running away from home]]. However, meeting [[HumbleHero Blue Suede Heartstrings]] during one of her travels would influence her to become a punisher of the wicked so people like her younger brother wouldn't die senselessly for the sake of tradition and order, and she would receive emotional support from those who genuinely want to help her recover.
* BladeOnAStick: Her main weapon is noted to be a royal spear with an ornate design. She's also skilled in archery by tradition, which she [[BowAndSwordInAccord uses in conjunction to her spear]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Invoked as a perversion to the Alvslog Deer Herds' cultural reverence of prophets and Seers. Having [[{{Seers}} precognitive powers]] might seem good on paper, but it soon gets extremely hard to discern a true vision from mere hallucinations without a filter. To punish those who abused their precognitive sight to either give people false hopes or [[WellIntentionedExtremist do horrible things to secure a good future]], Krásná grants the damned shades unfiltered psychic visions that drive them mad. Either a future ironically manifests thanks to their actions, or whatever future they tried to avoid happens anyway.
* BlueIsHeroic: Subverted. She has a peacock-blue pelt, and she wears dark-blue royal Alvslog Deer robes and a blue druid's cloak with golden patterns. She is by nature an evil and depraved goddess who is seen as a rigid, cruel, and dystopian tyrant by the damned shades in her hell-fief. However, her traditional upbringing has made her more moderate and controlled in her evil, making her a TokenGoodTeammate and WhiteSheep of her family by conventional standards. She was also influenced positively by those who are both associated with blue and genuinely heroic, such as Blue Suede Heartstrings/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, who would later become [[ParentalSubstitute her adoptive father]].
* BowAndSwordInAccord: Her main weapon is a [[BladeOnAStick royal spear]] with an ornate design, but by tradition, she is also a skilled archer who uses enchanted arrows to inflict elemental damage.
* CloseToHome:
** She ''loathes'' child abusers, especially of the [[AbusiveParents familial variety]]. Krásná grew up with a loving yet emotionally abusive, bigoted, and puristic father who imparted many harmful teachings onto her and her siblings, and gradually grew worse under the influence of Krásná's mother, [[HornyDevils Pokhot]]. He also advocated for the persecution of non-Deer and hybrids, which led to one of Krásná's younger brothers being ruthlessly executed after he accidentally revealed himself to be a hybrid. Her father was so monstrous that even after he died and Pokhot moved her children to a more tolerant environment, Krásná took a long time to overcome the bigotry she grew up with because they're all she had. When punishing the wicked, she saves her worst punishments for child abusers, which are so horrible that the Erobreseg Deer Herds avoid talking about them to stay her wrath.
** She also hates stubborn [[EvilReactionary reactionaries]] and [[AppealToTradition traditionalists]]. Krásná had the sheer misfortune of growing up in one of the nastier Alvslog Deer kingdoms, which promoted UndyingLoyalty to tradition and antiquity to the point of staunchly opposing anything that 'threatened' the natural order of things. The Alvslog Deer Herds' intolerant attitudes poisoned her mind, driving a wedge between her and her more tolerant relatives for a time, and directly led to the death of one of Krásná's brothers when he accidentally revealed himself to be a Deer-Draconequus hybrid, which got him killed by their father on the spot. Blue Suede Heartstrings encouraged Krásná to step up and oppose harmful traditions so people like her brother wouldn't die senselessly, making her rethink her bigotry and motivating her to punish the damned shades of those who behaved similarly to the Alvslog Deer Herds.
* CompellingVoice: As a goddess of Sovereignty, she has a 'compelling voice'. She can shout booming orders that compel her listeners to obey them, [[SupernaturalFearInducer terrify her enemies into submission]], and force her subjects to be more orderly.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She had the sheer misfortune of being born in an Alvslog Deer kingdom whose King, her birth father, was an extremely puristic, xenophobic, and prideful individual that punished even the slightest hints of evil and corruption. His toxic beliefs and emotional abuse made Krásná increasingly fearful of acting against him even when it counted, and when one of her younger biological brothers after he accidentally revealed his hybrid heritage, he quickly executed the young Prince regardless of anything he did. Even after the Deer King died a KarmicDeath at the hooves of the Elternteil Deer Pantheon thanks to the manipulations of [[MamaBear an enraged Pokhot]], Krásná's abuse and trauma still lingered to the point where she became a TroubledSympatheticBigot, suffering things like [[IAmNotPretty a poor self-image]] and ExtremeDoormat tendencies yet still clinging to her society's traditions because that is what she was taught.
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: She sees her interactions with the wicked as her giving them advice on the best course of action, but really it's little different from tempting them into darker, more depraved paths. Her traditionalist fawnhood upbringing might have something to do with it.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Justified. She's a constructively Evil goddess and the Queen of her own hell-fief, but in her [[SemiDivine demi-divine]] youth, she was a BrokenBird who was emotionally abused by her father, an Alvslog Deer King, who gave her bigoted, toxicz, and puristic teachings. She was also heavily traumatized by the loss of her brother who was killed by said father for being a hybrid. Yet even after moving to a more tolerant environment, she continued clinging to her fawnhood teachings because she was conditioned to support them. Then she runs away and meets Blue Suede Heartstrings, who treats her with unconditional kindness and encourages her to oppose harmful traditions so more innocent people wouldn't be abused or killed like her brother was. From there, she continues to receive emotional support from various benevolent deities who are sympathetic to her past and genuinely want to help her get better, which influences her to reconsider her bigoted views and devote herself to higher causes instead of clinging to tradition like her father did.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being a constructively Evil goddess who punishes the wicked and '[[InsistentTerminology persuades the morally weak into taking the best course of action]]', she has various people in her life she loves dearly.
** She's a CoolBigSis to her younger full-blooded siblings growing up and this extended to her infernal half-siblings and relatives once she got over her self-loathing and bigotry. She's also a loving mother to all her children. However, she is sometimes frustrated with her infernal family's depraved hedonism and impulses, to the point where she established a rule for them that they can't have sex in their hell-fief unless they do it with someone they genuinely love and away from prying eyes.
** She loves the nobler, virtuous side of her family as well. [[GodOfGood Belyolen]] in particular was able to connect with her during her emotional lows because as a son of [[AbusiveParents High King Irminsul]], he understood what it's like to grow up with harmful, toxic teachings, which are what kept him from speaking up against his family's abuse of Temnobog for years in his youth.
** One of her biggest influences in her life is Blue Suede Heartstrings, now Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria. When Blue Suede encountered her while she was going through a personal dark period, he treated her with unconditional kindness and encouraged her to protect innocents from harmful, toxic traditions. He also helped her reunite with Pokhot, who was hysterical over her daughter running away. This motivated Krásná to rethink her past bigotry and devote herself to becoming a punisher of the wicked like the rest of her infernal family, and she would later pay Blue Suede back during his own DarkestHour by helping him defeat '[[EnemyWithin The Colonel]]' and staying by his side while he recovers. After becoming a Prince and joining the Equestrian Pantheon, Blue Suede decides to adopt her to give her a loving father-figure, though it's hilariously made somewhat complicated and awkward by the fact that Krásná's younger half-brother, Prince Stoltur, is now Blue Suede's husband.
** She's also close friends with Moon Ray Vaughoof, a member of the Trimortidae. Much like Krásná, Moon Ray also grew up with an abusive father and thus understood what it's like to come out trauamtized for it. For her part, Krásná is horrified when she learns what Moon Ray's father, [[TheAlcoholic Sunny Mane Vaughoof]], did to him as a colt. It's noted that they have 'hit it off' because of their shared pain.
* EvilReactionary: Due to growing up in an Alvslog Deer kingdom and seen/experienced the worst aspects of her society's obsessive traditionalism and stubborn, reactionary mindsets, she hates reactionaries in general with a passion. Her hell-fief, which is modeled after a typical Alvslog Deer kingdom, was designed to be a nightmarish dystopia reflecting all the evils of the 'good old days' that were often looked upon fondly, all so the reactionaries could [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor choke on it]] upon death and damnation. Ironically, she was one herself in her youth, clinging to her deceased father's bigoted teachings despite being personally traumatized by them, which drove a wedge between her and her family. It wasn't until she meets Blue Suede Heartstrings during her time as a [[WalkingTheEarth globe-trotter]] that she rethinks her views and chooses to do something productive instead, such as punishing reactionaries.
* ExtremeDoormat: Justified. Because Alvslog Deer society is patriarchal, she was taught to be submissive and deferential to her elders, and [[AppealToTradition slavishly devoted to tradition]]. It's deconstructed as that way of thinking is extremely toxic and made her a "complete pushover" who is reluctant to speak up and/or directly intervene when it counted. Her passive behavior has led to tragedies in her life, such as the death of her younger brother who was killed by her father for accidentally outing himself as a hybrid, and Blue Suede Heartstrings' near-fall when she obeyed his request not to tell anyone about his problems. It also nearly made her the victim of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown when an enraged Princess Tough Love attempted to make her "face the consequences", though Prince Crystal Clear shielded her. She eventually learns to grow out of it after being encouraged to stand up for herself by various people in her life, and is currently seeking therapy with Mentálne and Amour-De-Soi to rebuild her self-esteem.
* FreudianExcuse: Deconstructed, as many behaviors she developed because of her upbringing turned out to be holding her back.
** Because the Alvslog Deer Herds are extremely intolerant towards non-Deer and hybrids, Krásná came to believe that [[IAmNotPretty she's extremely ugly]] due to being born a hybrid, despite being incredibly beautiful even in her true form. This led to her suffering from low self-esteem, which took her a long time to recover from even after moving into a more racially tolerant environment like the Erobreseg Deer Realms. Even Blue Suede Heartstrings telling her that she is beautiful caused her to break down crying. She is trying to resolve this by attending therapy sessions with Mentálne and Amour-De-Soi, who are both helping her develop a better self-image.
** Because she was taught to emulate the ideal traits of Alvslog femininity, she became submissive, obedient, and loyal to her people and elders, even despite her better judgment. Her reluctance to speak up led to a few tragedies in her life, such as the death of one of her younger hybrid brothers and the near-fall of her friend, Blue Suede Heartstrings, with the latter case happening because she followed Blue Suede's wish not to tell anyone about his problems. Fortunately, various people in her life, such as Blue Suede himself and her great-uncle, Belyolen, have been encouraging her to defy tradition if it's genuinely unjust, causing her to develop a more proactive stance.
** Because she was given many harmful teachings by her deceased father, who was an emotionally abusive, puristic, and xenophobic bigot in life, she became almost as bad as her fellow Alvslog Deer, clashing with her Bogolenya family/relatives over differing views on a lot of things and hurting everyone around her with her insensitive, bigoted remarks. However, during a period of globe-trotting, she met Blue Suede Heartstrings, who convinced her to oppose things that encouraged toxic mindsets like hers. She took his advice to heart, and devoted her experiences to punishing fanatically traditional and reactionary bigots so no one will suffer her hardships again.
* GodOfEvil: Specifically, she embodies the bigoted and toxic aspects of societal/cultural traditions, order, and sovereignty, as well as the use of prophecy as an excuse to do [[OmniscientMoralityLicense morally reprehensible things]]. It's subverted as she follows [[NecessarilyEvil constructive evil]] and her role is to punish those who became obsessed with traditions, power, and obtaining 'good' future outcomes at the expense of everything else.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The damned shades who are sent to her for punishment see her as a rigid and uncompromising tyrant who robs them of the capability of choice and free will. However, she's seen as TheHighQueen by her children, siblings, and demonic servants/champions. Ironically, her Alvslog people wanted her to become a Queen of her own kingdom, and she fulfilled it in a completely different direction than they expected.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: She has a lion's mane made of golden Sovereignty energy, she wears divine golden armor with an elaborate design, and her royal Alvslog druidic cloak is dark blue with golden patterns. She's the ruling Queen of her hell-fief, which she designed to punish abusive, tyrannical rulers, stubborn, tradition-obsessed reactionaries, and prophets who used their future sight for amoral/villainous means.
* HalfBreedAngst: Because of the Alvslog Deer Herds' extremely intolerant views on hybrids, she grew up hiding and hating herself for her hybrid heritage, especially after one of his younger brothers was killed by their emotionally abusive father when he accidentally outed himself as a hybrid. She believed that her hybrid nature made her '[[IAmNotPretty ugly]]' compared to pure Deer, which ironically made her almost as racist as her dead father. Eventually, she ran away from the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon in part because of this. Blue Suede Heartstrings finds her and helps her with some of her issues, which goes a long way in her making an effort in overcoming her ingrained bigotry and protecting innocents from people like her father once she reunites with her family.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's a Deer-Draconequus goddess by virtue of her mother, Pokhot, siring her with a mortal Alvslog Deer King. Unfortuantely, her father being a reactionary, puristic, and emotionally abusive xenophobe left her with numerous psychological issues (including HalfBreedAngst) long after his death, especially after one of her younger brothers was killed on the spot by virtue of being a hybrid once he accidentally outed himself as one. It took her a long time to recover from most of her issues due to how deeply ingrained her mindset was.
* HappilyAdopted: She would be adopted by Blue Suede Heartstrings after he made a full psychological recovery and joined the Equestrian Pantheon as 'Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria', which not even she objected to since her birth father was an abusive and hypocritical bigot. But what makes their relationship somewhat awkward is that one of her younger half-brothers, Stoltur Skjöldur, is now Caerulus' husband, which by her own admission she finds a little weird. To Caerulus' credit, he acknowledged this and initially didn't want to adopt Krásná because of it, but did it anyway because she deserved a much better father-figure in her life.
* TheHedonist: Subverted. While she's evil like many of her infernal family members, her traditionalist upbringing made her more moderate and controlled about it. She tolerates her infernal family's sexual forays, but she feels uncomfortable with them doing it wantonly, and has made a rule stating that anyone wanting to have sex in her hell-fief must do it away from prying eyes and with a partner they truly love.
* TheHighQueen: One expectation foisted upon her as a fawn was becoming the Queen of her own Alvslog realm/kingdom, on account of her developing the highly-prized {{Seer|s}} powers. She eventually does become Queen, but of her own hell-fief for the damned, a complete opposite direction of what her former Alvslog herds wanted her to be. While she's still seen as this by her own children, siblings, and demonic servants/champions in the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, the damned shades who are sent to her for punishment see her as [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a rigid and uncompromising tyrant]] who robs them of the capability of choice and free will.
* IAmNotPretty: Due to Alvslog society [[HalfBreedDiscrimination hating and persectuting Deer hybrids for their very existence]], as well as losing one of her younger brothers to her xenophobic father, she came to believe that she was 'ugly' for being born a Deer-Draconequus. This took a toll on her self-esteem and influenced her decision to run away from home after her family moved to the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon. When she met a traveling Blue Suede Heartstrings and saw his true Alicorn form, she ''wept'' at how handsome he looked compared to her. However, Blue Suede was quick to assure her that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre she, too, is beautiful]] upon seeing her true hybrid form and comforted her during her upset. Both Mentálne and Amour-De-Soi are currently helping her restore her self-esteem in regards to this.
* InsistentTerminology: In regards to her interactions with wicked Deer:
--> '''Queen Krásná Tradice:''' I do not 'tempt' the wicked. That would imply something of lesser character. [[DistinctionWithoutADifference I merely persuade and give them advice on the best course of action]].
* IronicHell: Invoked. Like her mother and many of her immediate family and other infernal relatives, she designed her hell-fief to punish those who committed crimes that relate to her domains of Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, and Prophecy.
** Those who were [[AppealToTradition obsessed with upholding traditions]] (especially toxic ones) will be victimized by cruel parodies of those traditions. Any attempts to change them to improve their own lives will be met with severe punishment, much like how they themselves punished innocents for doing the same thing. Alternatively, the damned shades would be put in illusionary worlds that bring out all the horribly malicious aspects of the 'good old days'; one of Krásná's favorite punishments for reactionary, nature-obsessed Deer is to place them in a time period where the world was dominated by pre-Alvslog civilizations... but with all their flaws present and none of their good traits. By Krásná's admission, [[RealityEnsues she had to do quite a bit of research for that]].
** Those who were absolute '{{Control Freak}}s' would be either [[TakenForGranite turned into statues]] as an utter perversion of absolute order through inorganic stillness, or subjected to strict routines that deprived them of their free will and punished them for even slight deviations. Similarly, those who used their sovereignty and political power to become controlling, abusive tyrants will be either reduced to the lowest dregs of society, forced to serve the whims of Krásná's family and subordinates, or placed in illusionary worlds where, no matter what they do, they are subjected to horrible fates, such as having their power, thrones, and identities usurped by more benevolent rulers or having their entire homes burnt to the ground by enemies and/or oppressed subjects.
** Those who used their prophetic abilities to give people false hopes, or [[OmniscientMoralityLicense commit atrocities in the name of obtaining the best future possible]], would be granted the ability to see as many futures as possible... at the cost of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation being reduced to broken, gibbering wrecks]]. Because they can predict the future with perfect clarity and accuracy, it becomes difficult to discern which visions are correct, or which ones are real or mere hallucinations. Any attempts to change the future will have one future ironically occurring or result in another future they're trying to avoid happening to them anyway.
* IronicName: Krásná means "beautiful" in Czech, and like her mother, she's beautiful in both her default Deer form and true Deer-Draconequus form. However, because she grew up in an Alvslog kingdom that [[HalfBreedDiscrimination persecuted Deer hybrids]], she believed that IAmNotPretty for being born a hybrid and hid her true form with glamours so people wouldn't antagonize her for it. Fortunately, there are many people who don't see her as 'ugly' and are quite willing to tell her the opposite, with Mentálne and Amour-De-Soi working on helping her rebuild her self-esteem.
* KingOfBeasts: One of her chimeric traits is the eyes and golden mane of a lion. She's the ruling ''Queen'' of her own hell-fief, and while she's regarded as TheHighQueen by her family, the damned shades see her as [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a rigid, uncompromising tyrant]] who robs them of their free will and forces them to live in a dystopian nightmare. Ironically, when she was younger, she was expected to become a Queen of her own kingdom/realm after developing [[{{Seers}} precognitive powers]], which is a highly prized trait in an Alvslog ruler. She fulfilled said expectations, but in a completely opposite way of what they wanted.
* LadyOfWar: She's intelligent, demure, and feminine compared to many of her half-siblings due to being raised among the Alvslog Deer Herds, and she's the ruling Queen of her own hell-fief. She's also skilled in archery and wielding a spear, and being a goddess of Prophecy makes her an excellent tactitian.
* MagicHair: Due to her divine 'age', her lion's mane is made of [[SupernaturalFloatingHair rippling]] golden Sovereignty energy.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Dutiful Queen", due to her dutiful personality and being a goddess of concepts like Tradition and Order.
* MakerOfMonsters: It's believed InUniverse that she was responsible for creating the Glory Hounds due to having similar chimeric appearances and traits. When Jade Shell asked her about it during an interview, she was left quite stunned and confused, with Blue Suede/Caerulus' medical Glory Hound Sunny looking equally confused and Caerulus himself [[ActuallyPrettyFunny finding it pretty hilarious]].
--> '''Queen Krásná Tradice:''' I... what?
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: ''Exaggerated''. She has lots of younger brothers and sisters from her biological Alvslog family, but later on she would gain even more upon moving to the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, where it's revealed that she has hundreds, if not thousands of half-siblings thanks to Pokhot [[ReallyGetsAround sleeping around]]. After being adopted by Blue Suede Heartstrings/Caerulus Melodia Equestria, she discovered that she has ''even more'' siblings, aunts, and uncles by virtue of her adoptive father also sleeping around (though not as much as [[HornyDevils Pokhot]]) and being connected to the [[DontFearTheReaper Trimortidae]], by itself an extremely large family. Discovering all this immediately led to her {{Fainting}}.
* MeaningfulName: Her name translates to "beautiful tradition" in Czech. Ironically, she grew up in an Alvslog Deer kingdom that was so obsessed with tradition that she suffered for it as a fawn, and grew to hate and punish [[EvilReactionary obsessive traditionalism]] years later.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Being part-Draconequus through Pokhot, she has chimeric traits of animals that are associated with royalty and strength, such as the branch-like antlers of a divine Deer, the eyes and mane of a lion, the wings of a harpy eagle, the fanning tail of a peacock, the left hind leg of a bear, and the right front leg of a badger.
* MyGreatestFailure: For her, it's her inability to step in and protect one of her younger brothers from being killed by their xenophobic, puristic father after he accidentally revealed himself to be a Deer-Draconequus hybrid. Although [[MamaBear Pokhot]] avenged her brother for her, she is haunted by the incident because she wanted to protect her brother, but duty to her kingdom and increasing fear of her xenophobic, puristic, and emotionally abusive father prevented her from acting. What worsened this was the Alvslog Deer Herds' extremely intolerant views on [[AbsoluteXenophobe race]] and [[HalfBreedDiscrimination hybrids]], preventing her from properly grieving her brother's death for years. Fortunately, Cloudy Brush of the Trimortidae would help her open up with her feelings and let her cry.
* NostalgiaFilter: ''Deconstructed and defied''. She has no delusions that the Alvslog Deer Herds' nature-based societies are "better" than the progressive ones the other mortal Deer Herds have developed over time, because in her youth, she grew up in an Alvslog Deer kingdom that was at its worst and suffered personally for it. Even after moving into a more tolerant environment, she continued clinging to her society's traditions because that's all she knew, until she met people who sympathized with her and encouraged her to overcome her bigotry. Much of her punishments in her hell-fief revolve around giving traditionalists and reactionaries [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor exactly what they wanted]], being put in cruel parodies of the civilizations and past time periods that they fondly look back upon.
* OhMyGods: She mutters "By the Father of All Deerkind..." in horror when she learns that Moon Ray Vaughoof gained a nasty-looking permanent head scar courtesy of his drunkard father. She then proceeds to mentally chastise herself for it.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense:
** Deconstructed. In a perversion of the Alvslog Deer Herds' cultural reverence of prophets and Seers (especially precognitive Alvslog royalty), Krásná punishes damned shades who abused their powers and station in life by giving them unfiltered psychic visions, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation turning them into gibbering wrecks that are unable to distinquish true visions from hallucinations. Any attempts to change the future will either have one future ironically occuring, or whatever they're trying to avoid happening anyway. This especially reflects how High King Irminsul selfishly tried purifying his unborn son of his inner evil in-utero to create a 'perfect' and flawless god, thus fulfilling his vision of a great Deer King leading mortal Deerkind into a GoldenAge, but ended up killing/mutilating his son instead.
** Invoked with other benevolent prophetic deities like Moon Ray Vaughoof and Prince Shamrock, the latter whom shares Krásná's domain of Prophecy. Krásná has been '[[InsistentTerminology persuading]]' them to use their foresight to change fate however they saw fit as part of a SecretTestOfCharacter for them. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark They have refused]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: Deconstructed. Because of her fawnhood upbringing, she agreed to keep Blue Suede Heartstrings' growing insecurities and other psychological problems a secret, despite her better judgement. After Blue Suede snaps and nearly becomes a Fallen Alicorn, some of Blue Suede's friends and family were furious, with those like Princess Tough Love attempting to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat her up]] in retaliation. However, others like Prince Crystal Clear protected her and argued that everyone bore as much responsiblity in Blue Suede's near-Fall as she did.
* RealityWarper:
** As a goddess of Order, she has powers similar to Discord's, but can magically make things 'ordered' according to her whims rather than chaotic. A few of her capabilities include making all buildings and other forms of architecture look the same, eliminating anything that can potentially make people inclined to do chaotic, criminal things, and creating illusionary worlds that are cruel, dystopian parodies of past civilizations and historical periods that are often fondly looked upon. She mostly uses the last power to punish those who obsess over the past.
** To a lesser extent, her domain of Tradition grants this power. She can create literally any tradition known to sapientkind, enforce them, and punish those who fail to follow her traditions.
* ReallyGetsAround: Implied. As par the course of being one of Pokhot's daughters, she has slept with many lovers over the centuries and sired children with them. However, she's more restrained about it compared to [[TheHedonist the rest of her infernal family]] due to her upbringing, and wants all sex-related matters be restricted to the bedroom.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Justified. One of her domains is Tradition, which gives the power to create her own traditions and enforce them, while creating punishments for those who fail to follow said traditions. In a twist, she uses these powers to punish those who become [[AppealToTradition utterly obsessed with upholding traditions to the point of harming innocents without reason]], much like the tradition-obsessed Alvslog Deer societies she grew up in as a fawn.
* {{Seers}}: As a goddess of Prophecy, she's a powerful Seer who, while capable of having flashes in the day, receives potent visions at night while asleep. She can grant her visions to others, though she uses this ability to punish damned shades who use prophecies to mislead others or commit atrocities to obtain a 'good' future outcome. In her youth, the fact that she was born a Seer among the Alvslog Deer Herds, who prize Seers highly, caused her people to expect her to become a royal advisor, a mother of powerful, intelligent children, or a Queen of her own realm.
She was born with precognition, a highly-prized ability among Alvslog Deer,
* ShownTheirWork: InUniverse. One of her favorite punishments is to put reactionary Deer in illusionary worlds with cruel, dystopian parodies of proto-Alvslog Deer civilizations that lived InHarmonyWithNature. By her own admission, she had to do quite a bit of research in order to ensure her punishments are historically accurate to the source.
* SilkHidingSteel: Justified. She grew up an Alvslog Deer, and because she was born with [[{{Seers}} precognition]], she was expected to take on traditionally feminine roles such as a royal advisor, mother, or Queen. After moving to the Erobreseg Deer Realms and making huge efforts in overcoming the Alvslog Deer Herds' bigoted, hypocritical teachings, she would become more proactive in ruling her hell-fief and fighting alongside her family.
* SuperEmpowering: As a goddess of Order, she can sense how much order is in any given area and empower herself and/or her allies based on that.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: With her Sovereignty-based CompellingVoice ability, she can use her voice to terrify her enemies into submission.
* TakenForGranite: Like many deities of Order, such as King Issun/Despotic Destiny, she could turn victims into stone or otherwise inorganic statues by touch, a perversion of absolute order through inorganic stillness. Each of these petrified victims could be animated via magic as a LivingStatue that serves her will, unable to disobey thanks to being stripped of their own will.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed. While she's a constructively Evil deity like many of her infernal family members, her traditional upbringing as an Alvslog Princess keeps her from being unapologetically evil and left her feeling uncomfortable with some of the depravities her family participates in. She doesn't like the idea of anyone [[ReallyGetsAround sleeping around]] solely for [[TheHedonist pleasure]], and has made a rule that anyone wanting to have sex in her hell-fief are only allowed to if they do it with someone they truly love and away from prying eyes. She's also merciful enough to send genuinely repentant souls to the Purgatory-Realms governed by her cousin, Princess Vykup. That being said, she won't hesitate to inflict horrifying punishments on the damned such as robbing of them of their free will ([[TakenForGranite literally in some cases]]) or driving them mad with unfiltered prophetic visions.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: She's explicitly classified as such by Cultura, due to her upbringing in one of the nastier Alvslog Deer kingdoms that were obsessively traditionalist, xenophobic and puristic. Despite the trauma she suffered in her fawnhood, she still clung to the traditioins of her homeland because they're all she had, and initially had difficulty getting along with her relatives in the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon because of her reluctance to be tolerant and open-minded as them. Her inability to fit in a more tolerant society led to her running away and becoming a [[WalkingTheEarth globe-trotter]] just to find some justification to her existence. To her credit, she would eventually acknowledge the harm of her bigotry thanks to the kindness of non-Deer like Blue Suede Heartstrings and work hard to change her views, while her family was understanding of her on account of her ultimately being a product of her restrictive and abusive environment.
* TrueBlueFemininity: She's a peacock-blue Deer-Draconequus goddess whose attire as Queen of her hell-fief consists of blue royal Alvslog Deer robes and a druidic cloak with golden patterns. She's also traditionally feminine by Alvslog standards, though initially like many Alvslog females, she was [[ExtremeDoormat submissive deferential]] to her elders and [[BlindObedience slavishly loyal]] to her people's societal and cultural traditions. It's thanks to the emotional support from everyone who genuinely loved her that she's working on overcoming her bigoted upbringing so she could oppose the harmful traditions that poisoned her.
* UnableToCry: She feels horribly guilty for not preventing her emotionally abusive father from executing one of her younger brothers. But because Alvslog society frowns upon and even persecutes Deer hybrids, she had to hide her feelings in accordance to tradition, in part leaving her very messed up later on. Cloudy Brush of the Trimortidae would help her finally achieve emotional closure by letting her cry as long as she wants.
--> '''Cloudy Brush:''' Emotions are not something that can be easily controlled or 'switched off' when it's convenient. Like air, they all need proper ventilation. And there is no bad time to grieve, whether a death of a loved one or a serious wrong that was inflicted upon you. You really need it, so cry for as long as you want.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When she starts crying over how beautiful Blue Suede's true Alicorn form is compared to her true Deer-Draconequus appearance (despite Alicorns also being [[MixAndMatchCritters chimeric deities]] by nature), Blue Suede assures her that she's beautiful and tells her not to listen to bigots who dictate how she should look. Due to her upbringing, she finds it to be such an ArmorPiercingResponse that she continues crying, so Blue Suede hugs her and does his best to comfort her.
--> '''Blue Suede Heartstrings:''' Yer beautiful, Krásná. Yer beautiful an' ya always have been.\\
'''Queen Krásná Tradice:''' But- But I'm not...\\
'''Blue Suede Heartstrings:''' Shhh. Don't let 'em bigots tell ya how you should look or anythin'. They’re all wrong. They're only looking fer excuses ta control yer life an' wear ya down.
[[/folder]]

!!!Bolezn's Children (and Grandchildren)
[[folder:Duchess Vyléčit, the Mad Doctor]]
--> See her folder entry [[Characters/CodexEquusEquestrianPantheon here]].
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[[folder:Prince Chamtivá Daň, the Keeper of Laws and Debts]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Greed, Debt, Law
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate; formerly a demigod)

-> ''"All debts MUST be repaid. And woe to any-creature who thinks they can weasel out of their debts and evade me."''
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Prince Chamtivá Daň (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-50-844421514 here]]) is the Deer-Draconequus god of Greed, Debt, and Law, and is Bolezn's oldest son.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Deer-Draconequus god who embodies Greed, Debt, and Law.
* BrotherSisterIncest: While not as lustful by the standards of his infernal family, he has been noted to have courted his own brothers and sisters in addition to [[KissingCousins his cousins]] and [[ReallyGetsAround multiple unrelated lovers]].
* DarkIsEvil: Subverted. He's described as having a black pelt (with parts of him made of gold and resplendent gemstones), he has the gills and tail of a black koi fish, and his royal attire consists of Roedinian-style furs and cloaks. However, while he's 'evil' like his family and infernal relatives, he serves '[[NecessarilyEvil constructive Evil]]' and acts more like a NobleDemon who punishes the wicked in the afterlife rather than tempting the guilty in the mortal planes.
* KissingCousins: He has courted his own cousins from families of the other Terrors in addition to [[BrotherSisterIncest his brothers and sisters]], and [[ReallyGetsAround his multiple unrelated lovers]].
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Keeper of Laws and Debts".
* MeaningfulName: His name means "Greedy Tax" in Czech, which is appropriate for a god who embodies Greed and Debt, and is Bolezn's oldest son.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Like his siblings and cousins, he is a Deer-Draconequus. In his case, his chimeric animal traits (ironically) relate to wealth and good fortune - he has the tusks of a wild boar, the aquatic gills and tail of a black koi fish, the elytra carapace and wings of an Asian ladybird beetle, the front left paw of a dog, and the right hind leg of an elephant.
* ReallyGetsAround: While not as lustful as the rest of his infernal family (especially those of [[HornyDevils Pokhot's lineage]]), he himself has had many lovers over the centuries, and has even courted his brothers, sisters, and cousins at various points in his life.
* RedeemingReplacement: His entry notes he is one for Kolektor, his uncle. Unlike Kolektor, who was once '[[NobleDemon constructively Evil]]' but sided with Ispita for selfish gain after she became evil, Chamtivá is more diligent, businesslike, and thorough in performing his job as a divine debt collector, and tries his hardest to rein in his own darker urges. He even treats Kolektor with disdain, seeing him as equally accountable for his crimes as are the wicked shades Kolektor stole from Temnobog's Hell-Realms, and has vowed to bring him back for punishment.
* YoureNotMyFather: A variant; he emphatically disowns Kolektor as his uncle after hearing how the latter [[FaceHeelTurn became a Fallen deity]] out of greed and stole many wicked souls from Temnobog's Hell-Realms for Ispita's use.
--> '''Prince Chamtivá Daň:''' That coward Kolektor is no uncle of mine. He let his own greed overtake him, and he broke the laws Grandfather set for him by stealing much of our family's property for that Whore Serpent. As Kolektor's replacement, I will make sure that he is dragged back to Grandfather's Hell-Realms, kicking and screaming, and duly punished for his crimes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prince Stækka, the Master of Growth]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Elemental/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Life, Wealth, Growth, Fertility
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate; formerly a Demigod)

-> ''"Without Death, there would be no space for Life to exist. Without Decay and Sickness, there would be no resources that would allow Life to grow properly."''
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Prince Stækka (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-50-844421514 here]]) is the Deer-Draconequus god of Life, Wealth, Growth, and Fertility, and is one of Bolezn's oldest sons.
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* TheAlmightyDollar: As a god of Wealth, he has powers similar to Bolezn's like transmuting objects into treasures, transforming his foes into precious minerals, and generating wealth from thin air. He an summon storms of sharpened paper money to [[DeathOfAThousandCuts shred his enemies alive]], or avalanches of gems and other treasures to crush/bury his enemies, something often done as punishment for those damned shades who sought wealth to unfettered extremes. He also becomes stronger the wealthier he is; his hell-fief is full of treasure hoards, so he makes sure to hide them in places that aren't easily accessible.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Subverted; he and Hnignun are fraternal twins, so they look nothing alike.
* AnimalMotifs: In contrast to his sister Hnignun, his chimeric traits are based on animals that pertain to Life and Growth, such as bumblebees, monarch butterflies, ants, and adder snakes.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Deer-Draconequus god who embodies Life, Wealth, Growth and Fertility.
* BigBrotherBully: Deconstructed. He's marginally older than Hnignun via being fraternal twins, but Stækka's grief over his mother's sudden death in a genocidal pogrom, combined with witnessing the horrors the mortal Erobreseg Deer Herds suffered, made him increasingly abusive towards Hnignun even in his thoughts - which Hnignun overheard due to sharing a [[TwinTelepathy telepathic link]]. Things culminated when, in a moment of upset, Stækka lashed out at Hnignun during an argument and disparaged her for embodying things like Death and Decay. This pushed Hnignun over the edge and drove herself to seal herself up in a pocket realm so she wouldn't make Deerkind suffer again. This angered Stækka's family members, especially Phykti, who [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chewed him out]] on his puristic, abusive treatment of his sister and [[NotSoDifferent compared him to High King Irminsul]], which shook Stækka greatly. After being shown the consequences of his actions by Bolezn, Stækka apologized to Hnignun, who forgave him after coming to terms with her feelings, and they reconciled.
* BigBrotherMentor: He often serves as a mentor for his younger siblings and cousins in teaching them gardening and cooking. He was responsible for helping his younger cousin, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, start his own vegetable garden to satisfy the latter's vegetarian diet.
* BigEater: Downplayed. Like his father, Bolezn, he also likes gorging on food, and often snacks on the fruit growing on his antlers while working. However, in part because of his domains, he feels more comfortable with growing and cooking things.
* BrightIsNotGood: He's a radiant, white-furred Deer stag with green gradients on his body/face, a pair of Monarch Butterfly wings, and a HolyHalo made of Life energy. He's also a sadistic MadScientist who enjoys turning the damned shades in his hell-fief into his test subjects (though he has skill in creating plagues like his father and twin sister), and hunting them down for sport. That said, his sadistic behavior is directed only towards the wicked and unrepentant, as he represents what happens when people pursue things like life and growth to unfettered degrees.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Following his reconciliation with his younger twin sister, Hnignun, he fell in love and entered an incestuous relationship with her. This led to the birth of their eldest daughter, Duchess Vyléčit, the Deer-Draconequus goddess of Healing, Medicine, and Doctors. It's also implied that many of Stækka's other hybrid children were born this way, as they live with him in his hell-fief. The Erobreseg Deer Herds don't consider this too surprising, since Temnobog and his side of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon embodies Deerkind's lustful aspects to varying degrees, making familial incest quite common.
* ColorMotif: White and green. He's a Deer-Draconequus god with radiant and healthy white fur and green gradients, which makes him resemble a leek onion in coloration. Likewise, he also has fetlocks made of green leaves, and wears a green druidic cloak with leaves sewn into it. This symbolizes his connection to Nature as a god of Life, Growth, and Fertility (albeit the unfettered aspects of them), as well as [[SupremeChef his great skill in cooking]].
* DivineParentage: His father is Bolezn, the Bogolenya Deer god of Gluttony, Greed, and Pestilence. At first, he was SemiDivine due to being sired through a mortal mother, but he eventually [[DeityOfHumanOrigin became a full-fledged deity]] after accepting that both Life and Death had a place in the world and performing his duties accordingly.
* GodOfEvil: Specifically, he embodies the amoral and unfettered sides of life, fertility, wealth, and growth. It's subverted as he follows [[NecessarilyEvil constructive evil]] and his role is to punish those who did things like [[EcoTerrorist hurt innocent people just to 'protect' nature]], perform horrific experiments to 'improve' sapient life, carelessly destroy the environment for selfish reasons, or abuse and treat others like animals to be hunted down.
* GoodNeedsEvil: A major theme he shares with his younger twin sister, Hnignun, who is his opposite. While things like Life, Wealth, Growth, and Fertility are treated as "good" concepts, they cannot properly exist without "evil" concepts such as Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness - without Death, Life would have no room to grow, and without Decay, the soil would be robbed of vital nutrients that would allow Life to grow properly.
* GoneHorriblyRight:
** In his youth, he would [[WalkingTheEarth travel the world]], bringing wealth, life, and fertility wherever he went so he could "protect" people from the pain of death. Unfortunately, as Stækka discovered the hard way, his efforts only led to ''more'' suffering, as overpopulation ensued thanks to increased surplus of food and wealth, and people became complacent and corrupt to the point of overly relying on Stækka to give them what they wanted while forgetting how to acquire food and wealth by themselves. Wars increased as kingdoms and realms tried stealing from others what they themselves already had. Plagues and other unsanitary conditions sprang up because there was too much life and fertility. In addition, Stækka discovered that his puristic views of life and death alienated Hnignun, who embodied Death and Decay, to the point where she imprisoned herself in a pocket realm out of self-loathing. This caused Stækka to [[VillainousBreakdown break down and become extremely depressed for a while]] out of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt]], but Bolezn would help him recover by teaching him and his sister "constructive Evil" and how to do their jobs correctly.
** In general, this is what Stækka's concepts would lead to if left unchecked. While his domains sound good on paper, an overabundance of Life, Wealth, Growth, and Fertility could result in bad things like leaving little room for new life to exist, rampant corruption, and too little resources for things to grow properly. This excess would lead to catastrophic consequences when inevitably confronted with stagnation and decay. It's also the main reason why Stækka is a "constructively Evil" deity, and why both he and his hell-fief have elements of the Alvslog Deer Herds and their forested societies - to protect the natural cycle and balance that his mortal Alvslog kin and divine Elternteil Deer relatives had lost sight of in their extreme efforts to preserve the forests.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: On the receiving end. While his Elternteil Deer relatives grudgingly admit that his domains would make him a good addition to their nature-themed pantheon, they hate him largely for his evil nature and his hybrid heritage. In fact, being compared to them by Phykti in her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech causes Stækka to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize how badly he mistreated his twin sister for embodying Death]].
--> '''Unnamed Elternteil Deer deity:''' I admit, his powers would've made him an excellent addition to the pantheon... if it weren't for his... ''everything else''.
* HolyHalo: Inverted. To contrast Hnignun, who has a baleful halo made of Death energy, he has a radiant halo made of Life energy. He's also an constructively Evil god who punishes the wicked for pursuing things like life, growth, and wealth to unfettered extremes.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Averted; he and Hnignun are fraternal twins, so they look nothing alike.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Subverted; while he is different from Bolezn in some ways, he is similar to his father in others. For example, he can be proud of his work to the point of overconfidence, and is more skilled in making cures to plagues and using biomancy to perform horrific experiments on the damned shades in his hell-fief, but he has also helped Bolezn make his deadly plagues. He also shares Bolezn's BigEater tendencies and likes gorging on food, but he feels more comfortable with growing and cooking things.
* MadScientist: Has vibes of this, like his father and sister. He frequently perform horrific {{Biomanipulation}} experiments on captive, damned shades who earned his ire with their perverted obsessions with growth and life, turning them into monsters and other horrific travesties as punishment for their sins. He also helps his father engineer horrific plagues and pestilences with his sister.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Gender-inverted, as he's the handsome and radiant ''son'' of Bolezn, the diseased, emaciated, and pest-ridden god of Gluttony and Greed. Bolezn is also a talented MadScientist, and many of his children inherited this aspect from him. It's noted that Stækka often helps his father create deadly plagues, but as the god of Life, he's more experienced in creating cures.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Master of Growth", due to embodying Growth and being a master in anything that involved growing, such as gardening or making dead lands burst with life.
* MeaningfulName: His name means "growth" or "expand" in Icelandic, which is appropriate for a god that embodies Life, Wealth, Growth, and Fertility.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Like his father, relatives, and siblings, he is a Deer-Draconequus, though in his case he has chimeric animal traits that pertain to Life and Growth, such as the fluffy tail of a bumblebee, the extra legs of an ant, the giant wings of a monarch butterfly, and the eyes and fangs of an adder snake.
* PsychicLink: He shares a telepathic link with Hnignun due to their portfolios and natures being closely intertwined, which sets them apart from identical twins like Belyolen and Temnobog, who are magically bonded, and Blue Suede Heartstrings and Bossa Nova Heartstrings, who are empathically and now telepathically bonded. Their telepathic link allows them to work together without struggle between them, as they can share plans and strategies extremely quickly. However, it's noted that it's also a huge weakness; whenever one of them is psychically attacked, the other will feel their psychic pain. Being telepathically connected to Hnignun also initially contributed to his sister's insecurities and self-loathing towards her nature as a goddess of Death and Decay, since she was mentally exposed to his increasingly hateful and puristic mindset at the time.
* {{Seers}}: His Growth domain gives him a form of precognition that allows him to calculate the chances of natural and financial success, giving him options to ensure the thriving of natural ecosystems and monetary gain of kingdoms and realms, including his own hell-fief. Many Deer and non-Deer have prayed to him to increase their chances of producing fertile crops and making enough money to survive.
* ShipperOnDeck: What Cultura calls him. He is aware of Stoltur's growing crush on his friend, Blue Suede Heartstrings, and wholeheartedly supports a potential relationship between Blue and his cousin. This is because Blue is not only kind and humble, but is also the Alicorn god of Humility, which makes him [[OppositesAttract the perfect partner for someone as prideful as Stoltur]]. However, he's more enthusiastic about it, while his sister, Hnignun, shares the same views but is more low-key in her support. Stoltur finds this rather annoying. His shipping later comes true, though, when Blue Suede and Stoltur eventually fall in love and get married after the former makes a full psychological recovery.
* SupremeChef: While a BigEater himself like his father and sister, he feels more comfortable with growing and cooking food instead, given his nature as a god of Life and Fertility. He often mentored his children, younger siblings, and cousins on both gardening and cooking, and responsible for helping his younger cousin, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, start his own vegetable garden to satisfy his vegetarian diet. Naturally, Hnignun, who is [[LethalChef a rather abysmal cook]], loves gorging on his food.
* WarriorPrince: It's noted by his entry that his title as Prince is something he chose to take after Ascending to true godhood. He's also a powerful god and fighter who embodies the "good" aspects of Equus' natural cycle/balance.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Princess Hnignun, the Mistress of Decay]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Elemental/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Death, Poverty, Decay, Sickness
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate; formerly a Demigoddess)

-> ''"Without Life, creatures would not be able to survive even in harsh environments. Without Growth and Fertility, there would be no bountiful harvests to enjoy, or hope that creatures can persevere even in the greatest of tragedies."''
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Princess Hnignun (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-50-844421514 here]]) is the Deer-Draconequus goddess of Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness, and is one of Bolezn's oldest daughters.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: She once had an admirer in [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} an extremely nihilistic Deer stag who committed increasingly depraved atrocities to win her love, thinking that she supports the end of Life]]. Disturbed, Hnignun handed the Deer stag over to a furious Stækka, who proceeded to subject him to horrible fates to avenge his sister's honor.
* AffablyEvil: Like her father and brother, she is this. While an Evil goddess who enjoys creating deadly plagues and bacteria, as well as inflicting [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely horrific deaths]] on the wicked, she's rather modest, introverted, and shy when off-duty. She's rather content with what she has despite her hell-fief being an extremely impoverished place of lifelessness, rot, and disease with no material wealth at all, and could often be found studying. She also loves good food like her father does, and [[BigEater gorges herself on them]] when given the opportunity.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Double-subverted. Being a daughter of Bolezn with a diseased, emaciated appearance made her feared among other children. But because she was born in the Erobreseg Deer Realms, which share a [[GoodNeedsEvil very tolerant and constructive view of 'good' and 'evil']], she was also respected. She even had friends of her own growing up, mostly aspiring scientists, chemists, and doctors. That being said, like Stækka, she was subjected to HalfBreedDiscrimination by racial bigots due to her heritage, and lost her mortal mother to a genocidal pogrom when a building collapsed on her and crushed her to death.
* TheAlmightyDollar: Inverted. In a complete opposite to her older twin brother Stækka, who embodies Wealth, she embodies Poverty. Unlike Stækka, who can generate material riches and weaponize them, she can magically destroy wealth and bypass most protective spells/charms designed to protect material riches. She can curse her targets with [[PerpetualPoverty bad monetary luck]], preventing them from making successful profits no matter how hard they try. And unlike Stækka, who is empowered by the presence of wealth, she is empowered by the absence of wealth, which means she's at her strongest in her hell-fief due to it being completely devoid of wealth. She is also an empath whose powers suppresses people's desire for material wealth and makes them accept living in deplorable conditions, unlike the goddess Want, who makes people actively want wealth for themselves.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Subverted, as she and Stækka are fraternal twins, so they look nothing alike. While Stækka is a handsome, radiant, white-furred Deer stag and has chimeric traits that pertain to Life and Growth, she appears as a sickly, emaciated, black-furred Deer doe and has chimeric traits that pertain to Death and Decay.
* AndIMustScream: Invoked as a punishment in her hell-fief. Anyone who tries to cheat Death by becoming unfettered {{Immortality Seeker}}s are transformed into rotting trees after they inevitably die and are sent to her hell-fief, forced to live in complete agony for eternity.
* AnimalMotifs: In contrast to her brother Stækka, her chimeric traits are based on animals that pertain to Death and Decay, such as termites, vampire bats, cockroaches, and death's-head hawkmoths.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness.
* TheAntiNihilist: Despite embodying Death and Decay, things that are usually associated with nihilism, she actually disdains nihilists. This stems from her belief that things like Death and Decay play constructive roles in nature by releasing nutrients and making space for new life to grow. Nihilism is a perversion of that as it preaches that only death and destruction have any true meaning. Many nihilists have tried wooing her on the assumption that she opposes Life itself and wants the universe to die, which naturally gets them punished by being handed over to Stækka, whose domains and hell-fief are the complete antithesis to everything nihilists believe in.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: She's a divine Deer-Draconequus who looks severely emaciated, diseased, and sickly, and she embodies things like Death, Decay, Poverty, and Sickness. She also has a black pelt with brown gradience, antlears that resemble gnarled, rotted, and/or diseased tree branches, has dead, rotting leaves for fetlocks, and wears a black, tattered druidic cloak lined with dead leaves and brown patterns. All which makes her resemble a piece of rotting wood. Her divine armor is likewise made of rusted bronze.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: ''Dánarbróðir'' (the name of Hnignun's SinisterScythe) is a pretty badass name befitting the nature of its wielder, an evil goddess who embodies Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness.
* BadassCape: Like her brother, she wears a druidic cloak, but it's tattered and black with brown patterns in her case. She's also a talented scientist and plague-maker, and a powerful goddess in her own right.
* BigEater: Of her and her brother, she embodies this aspect of her father the most, as Stækka feels more comfortable with cooking and growing things. Because she's a rather [[LethalChef abysmal cook]], she relies on others to cook for her, and loves gorging on whatever they make for her. Unlike most examples, however, she eats out of deep appreciation for the benefits Life offers, and understands how difficult it can be in preparing food itself, such as harvesting plants and killing non-sapient creatures for meat.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Much of her friendship with Princess Daphné Odora Moufette is based on this. Like Daphné, she suffered from insecurities and self-loathing over embodying concepts that people would normally find horrifying, such as Death, Decay, and Sickness. And like Daphné, she was looked down upon by others for her domains and caused her to repress parts of herself, though in her case, it was her brother who hated and resented her for embodying Death, as her domains were actually feared yet respected by the Erobreseg Deer. They're also very intelligent goddesses who share a love for science/chemistry, though unlike Daphné, she has no qualms over using her talents to create horrible plagues.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Following her reconciliation with her older twin brother, Stækka, she fell in love and entered an incestuous relationship with him. This led to the birth of their eldest daughter, Duchess Vyléčit, the Deer-Draconequus goddess of Healing, Medicine, and Doctors. It's also implied that many of Hnignun's other hybrid children were born from incest, as they live with her in her hell-fief. The Erobreseg Deer Herds don't consider this too surprising, since Temnobog and his side of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon embodies Deerkind's lustful aspects to varying degrees, making familial incest quite common.
* ColorMotif: Brown and black. She's a Deer-Draconequus goddess with black fur and brown gradients, and likewise her druidic attire is also black with brown patterns. It's noted she resembles a piece of rotting wood because of this, especially since she has dead, rotting leaves on her cloak, antlers, and fetlocks.
* CommonalityConnection:
** She befriended Prince Fanged Paw, second-born of Emperor Golden Scepter's Terran Princes, over their [[LethalChef extremely bad skill in cooking]], though ironically, Fanged Paw makes really good haggis (and only that) while Hnignun is just bad in general. However, even she was shocked when Fanged Paw managed to summon invading hordes of [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Murlocs]] into her hell-fief.
** She also tends to bond with motherless people due to losing her mother to a genocidal pogrom at a young age. One of said people is Blue Suede Heartstrings, who lost his own mother to sickness in the Second Age while he was away fighting in the 'Second Martian-Tellusian War'.
* DaddysGirl: Unlike her brother Stækka, who was a MommasBoy until their mother's death, Hnignun was closest to their father, Bolezn, due to having similar modest temperaments and love for creating deadly plagues. Nonetheless, she loved her mother, and mourned her after her mother was killed in a genocidal pogrom.
* DarkIsEvil: Played with. She's described as a divine Deer doe with black fur and brown gradients, and wears a tattered black druidic cloak with brown patterns and dead leaves. This gives her the appearance of rotting, diseased wood, which is appropriate since she embodies 'evil' things like Death, Decay, and Poverty, and she is one of [[{{Plaguemaster}} Bolezn]]'s oldest daughters, sadistic in thinking up horrible ways to die and just as capable of creating deadly plagues. However, she's actually an AffablyEvil NobleDemon who practices '[[NecessarilyEvil constructive Evil]]', so while she sows death, decay, poverty, and sickness, she genuinely wants to help sapientkind survive by reminding them of Death's role in the natural balance. That being said, she is still both feared and respected by the Erobreseg Deer Herds for being a creator of plagues and sower of death and decay.
* DivineParentage: Her father is Bolezn, the Bogolenya Deer god of Gluttony, Greed, and Pestilence. Her mother was a mortal Nordskelt Deer immigrant form Cervidia and a botanist.
* EmotionSuppression: As a goddess of Poverty, she can produce an empathic aura that suppresses people's desire for material wealth and makes them okay with living in extremely deplorable conditions. This is in stark contrast to Want, whose empathic aura makes people actively ''want'' material riches.
* TheEmpath: Like the goddess Want, she possesses empathic powers that pertain to her domain of Poverty. Unlike Want, she can produce an empathic aura that suppresses people's desire for material wealth and makes them okay with living in extremely deplorable conditions.
* GodInHumanForm: As a goddess of Death, she usually appears as a lanky, black and brown-furred doe with no antlers when in the mortal planes.
* GodOfTheDead: As a goddess of Death, she has the powers typically associated with Death deities and is automatically very powerful. She can travel between mortal and divine planes easily, [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation summon magical copies of weapons from thin air]], raise and command the spirits of the dead, and free spirits that are stuck in the mortal planes by cutting their "ties". She can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change her own form to blend in with her surroundings]]; when in the mortal plane, she often [[GodInHumanForm appears as a lanky, black and brown-furred doe with no antlers]]. She also has clairvoyance that makes her sense when people are going to die, allowing her to approach them in their last moments. Being a Death goddess also grants her the ability to induce peace and painlessness in those who are suffering in agony, to calm the dying and ensure a smooth transition to the next part of the cycle.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's a divine hybrid daughter of Bolezn, a Deer-Draconequus, and a mortal Cervidian Deer botanist. Many of her own children were born hybrids as well because of her heritage.
* HolyHalo: Like Stækka, she has a halo, except hers is a baleful halo made of Death energy. It's inverted as she is a constructively Evil goddess with cruel and sadistic urges despite having a halo.
* HumbleHero: Inverted. While an 'evil' goddess of Death and Decay, and a skilled scientist and chemist who often helps Bolezn in creating deadly plagues, she inherited much of her father's modest and shy personality. Despite having no material wealth in her hell-fief unlike Stækka's, she's content with what she has, and whenever she's praised for something, she'll blush and nervously shuffle her legs. Her humility sometimes makes it hard to accept praise when it's due, but thankfully her family is helping her overcome this.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Averted; she and Stækka are fraternal twins, so they look nothing alike.
* LeanAndMean: Because she embodies Death, Decay, Poverty, and Sickness, she looks severely emaciated, diseased, and sickly. While she's more AffablyEvil like her father and immediate family, she's still cruel and depraved as is her nature, and is a very creative plague-maker who constantly thinks of ways to make the damned shades in her hell-fief die horribly.
* LethalChef: By her own admission, she's a rather abysmal cook and often relies on others, such as [[SupremeChef Stækka]], to cook delicious meals for her. This led to her befriending [[TheBeastmaster Prince Fanged Paw]], whose cooking skills are similarly terrible. However, even she was shocked when she discovered that his cooking is so terrible, he ends up summoning {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and other monsters every time he tries cooking something, such as an incident where Fanged Paw accidentally summoned hordes of [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Murlocs]] that invaded Hnignun's hell-fief.
* MadScientist: Much like her father and twin brother, she participates in horrible experimentation of the damned shades in their hell-fiefs. In her case, unlike her brother, she takes after her father more by subjecting them to various diseases to research their causes and symptoms. Her entry notes that she is constantly thinking of ways to make the damned shades in her hell-fief die horribly, and is creative enough to make it so. The Erobreseg Deer Herds believe InUniverse that dying is merciful compared to what she usually does to her victims.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Played with. While she's one of Bolezn's oldest daughters, Hnignun's significantly less attractive-looking than her brother Stækka; she embodies Bolezn's diseased and impoverished aspects, and thus resembles an extremely emaciated and sickly Deer doe. However, Hnignun's a DaddysGirl who's completely loyal to her father and loves helping him create new plagues. There's also the fact that many of her siblings and relatives engage in [[VillainousIncest incestuous relationships]], so looks don't even matter to her.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Mistress of Decay", due to being a goddess of Decay and thus skilled with all things related to Decay, Death, and Sickness.
* MakeThemRot: As a goddess of Decay, she has the magical ability to inflict rot and decay on mortal/divine material, as well as speeding up or slowing down the rates of how fast it spreads. She can also make weapons, armor, and even body parts wither with a touch, making her extremely dangerous. Her entry notes that this power is actually important, as decay allows living organisms to release nutrients back into the earth so new things can grow.
* MeaningfulName:
** Her name means "decline" or "decay" in Icelandic, which is rather appropriate for a goddess who embodies things like Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness.
** The name of her scythe, ''Dánarbróðir'', translates to "death-bringer" in Icelandic. She's a goddess of Death as well as things commonly associated with it like Poverty, Decay, and Sickness, though she uses them for constructive purposes.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Like her father, relatives, and siblings, she is a Deer-Draconequus, though in her case she has chimeric animal traits that pertain to Death and Decay, such as the tail of a termite queen, the fangs of a vampire bat, the extra legs of a cockroach, and a gigantic pair of death's-head hawkmoth wings.
* OhCrap: She was deeply frightened when she foresaw the consequences of her daughter Vyléčit continuing to puristically pursue the 'good' aspects of Healing and Medicine, and warned Stækka about it. It led to Stækka confronting Vyléčit and showing her the truth of why she was born with 'good' domains despite being evil.
* PerpetualPoverty: Justified and invoked.
** Because Hnignun is a goddess of Poverty, she's at her strongest in extremely impoverished areas, so unlike Stækka's hell-fief, which has hidden caches of wealth everywhere, her hell-fief has none. Her hell-fief is also described as being a place that's in a perpetual state of decay and death, while Stækka's hell-fief is essentially a verdant paradise. Despite this, she's satisfied with what little she has, and she, her siblings/children who live with her, and her infernal servants/champions are able to live comfortably despite the poor environment.
** It's also used by Hnignun as a punishment. Any Erobreseg Deer who greedily hoarded wealth at the expense of others will be forever cursed to live in extreme poverty after death, unable to earn even slight monetary success no matter what they do. It helps that as a goddess of Poverty, she can magically destroy money and other treasures, and curse victims with bad monetary luck.
* {{Plaguemaster}}: As a goddess of Sickness, she embodies Bolezn's diseased aspects, and is a skilled scientist and plague-maker like her father. Her body can magically generate all kinds of virulent bacteria, plagues, and diseases that she can spread in various ways, whether through touch or as a toxic smog that she breathes onto her enemies. She can turn animals into living disease carriers that infect people upon being bitten by one. Her domain makes her incapable of becoming sick, and she can easily absorb and consume diseases as if they're food. It also allows her to create new plagues by combining the bacteria generated by her with existing samples of other diseases. Because they share similar powers and natures, she [[DaddysGirl feels closer to Bolezn]], who eagerly encouraged her inclinations for plagues and medicine and taught her all that he knew.
* PsychicLink: She shares a telepathic link with Stækka due to their portfolios and natures being closely intertwined, which sets them apart from identical twins like Belyolen and Temnobog, who are magically bonded, and Blue Suede Heartstrings and Bossa Nova Heartstrings, who are empathically and now telepathically bonded. Their telepathic link allows them to work together without struggle between them, as they can share plans and strategies extremely quickly. However, it's noted that it's also a huge weakness; whenever one of them is psychically attacked, the other will feel their psychic pain. Being telepathically connected to Stækka also initially contributed to her insecurities and self-loathing towards her nature as a goddess of Death and Decay, since she was mentally exposed to her brother's increasingly hateful and puristic mindset at the time.
* {{Seers}}: As a goddess of Decay, she has precognitive abilities that predict the chances of natural and financial loss, allowing her to prevent or encourage said losses. Many Deer and non-Deer residents of the Erobreseg Deer Realms have prayed to her to learn how to prepare for future disasters to ensure their own successes and survival.
* ShipperOnDeck: Much like Stækka, she approves of Stoltur's friendship with Blue Suede Heartstrings and genuinely wants them to become a couple, but is more low-key about it, unlike her enthusiastic brother. Stoltur finds this rather annoying. Her shipping later comes true, though, when Blue Suede and Stoltur eventually fall in love and get married after the former makes a full psychological recovery.
* SinisterScythe: She has a scythe named ''Dánarbróðir'', which was carved from the branch of a dead divine tree and thus looks rotting and diseased. She's also an evil Deer-Draconequus goddess of Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness who has no qualms over experimenting on people and making them die horribly in various ways, though she's more AffablyEvil like many of her immediate family and uses her evil for constructive purposes.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Justified. She can summon magical copies of weapons from thin air, which her Death domain allows her to do.
* SuperEmpowering: As a goddess of Sickness, she can empower animals by turning them into living disease carriers, so being bitten by an animal empowered by Hnignun can leave someone infected.
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!!!Phykti's Children (and Grandchildren)
[[folder:Lord Knechten, Overseer of the Damned]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Slavery, Coercion, Imprisonment, Torture
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate; formerly a demigod)

-> ''"Those who subjugate others... should expect to suffer subjugation in turn!"''
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Lord Knechten (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-51-848558436 here]]) is the Cervogriff-Draconequus god of Slavery, Coercion, Imprisonment, and Torture, and is one of Phykti's sons.\\\

Born to Phykti and a Griffon slave trader during an era when chattel slavery was rampant and the international slave trade was booming, Knechten grew up witnessing the evils of slavery from the POV of a perpetrator, and despite his own budding cruelty and sadism grew to despise the immoral institution, especially after his father [[HeelRealization have a change of heart]] following his own harrowing enslavement by other non-Griffon slavers and decides to end their family business as atonement. Knechten, despite eventually ascending as a Bogolenya [[GodOfEvil god of slavery, coercion, imprisonment and torture]], would dedicate his existence tempting, weeding out and punishing those who would enslave others in their greed, cruelty and hatred, swearing to make them suffer by enslaving them in life and in damnation for all the suffering they caused enslaving others.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Cervogriff-Draconequus god who embodies Slavery, Coercion, Imprisonment, and Torture.
* ArchEnemy: Has one in Kleidóno of the Poenan Pantheon. They both share similar domains, such as Imprisonment, but they oppose each other for various reasons to the point of violence between them and their mortal followers. Kleidóno locks up Knechten's followers along with anyone with the ''smallest'' association with them, while Knechten tempts Kleidóno's followers into giving in to their worst flaws/impulses, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters making them enslave themselves to vices like excessive vengeance and moral blindness]].
* AssShove: In one pre-Ascension incident, this is how he murdered a particularly cruel and depraved Griffon overseer who had a habit of '[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring]]' himself with the slaves under his watch, sometimes with the overseer's own beating rod. To punish the Griffon overseer, Knechten took that same beating rod, added several nails and other sharp bits to it, and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath proceeded to inflict the same tortures the former gave to his victims]].
--> '''Lord Knechten:''' Of course, this time, you are the cargo... and I am the guest. ''(takes out a beating rod full of sharp bits and nails)'' Recognize this beating rod? You must have wondered where it went for so long... ''([[OhCrap Griffon overseer starts to sweat]])'' I made some modifications. It’s just the right size for tonight’s '''''opening''''' act... It’s called 'Point Penetration'... And it would have your repurposed tool in a truly '''''unforgettable''''' starring role!
* AutomaticCrossbows: One of his primary weapons, named ''Onontkoombaar'' ('Inescapable' in Dutch), is a ''Repeating Tribow'' that allows him to fire burst-fires of three bolts (which could then magically separate into even more bolts that could [[FlechetteStorm spray a whole area with deadly bolts]]) or single, powerful bolt shots which could home in on their targets. Knechten uses this to hunt down escaped damned shades/slaves like sport ([[PayingEvilUntoEvil mirroring sadistic overseers and slave-hunters who do the same]]) and thanks to divine enchantments involving 'BagOfHolding' magicks to its compact matchbox-sized munition clips allowing a hundred bolts per reload, [[BottomlessMagazines had never been observed to run out of ammunition in the heat of battle]]. His bolts are also enchanted to various effects, mostly painful or deadly, and could be used to launch his enchanted capture-net ''[[MeaningfulName Vanger]]'' ('Catcher' in Dutch).
* BatmanGambit: When Knechten believed he had done enough in the 'Abolition Wars', he decided to end his participation pulling a spectacular one of these on the slaver nations, [[spoiler:telling them where he and his bases, docks, fortresses and whatever else his faction is using to raid, attack and terrorize the slaver nations during the conflict, knowing they couldn't resist sending an armada against him after all the damage he caused them, allowing him to demoralize, wear down and cripple a substantial amount of the slaver nations' remaining military forces as well as taking out many of their best commanders and generals]]. The success of his ploy is believed to have accelerated the slaver nations and factions' defeat by two years.
* BattleThrall: Knechten has a habit of using these during the 'Abolition Wars', turning the enslaved soldiers and slavers of the slaver nations and factions back to fight and die against their fellow degenerates, and is implied to still use them en-masse after his ascension to godhood, using the damned as cannon fodder. He also supplied Yarost and his scions with enslaved, damned warriors and soldiers for their GladiatorGames, which earned him special combat training from his uncle, cousins and nephews.
* TheChessmaster: Has shades of this, which correlates with his heritage to Phykti, who was known to be deeply intelligent and cerebral as a GodOfEvil and is in friendly competition with her younger brother Bolezn in scheming and masterminding great evils and suffering upon the mortal world.
** As the spectacular finisher of his campaign/rampage against slaver forces during the 'Abolition Wars', the then demigod Knechten plotted an elaborate BatmanGambit that ended up significantly weakening of the Slaver nations' and factions' military forces and eliminating of many of their most capable generals and commanders, accelerating the Abolitionist powers' victory by an estimated two years and causing great amount of suffering upon the slaver forces in the process.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Knechten felt conflicted over having to betray his father eventually if he refused to realize enslaving others is wrong and change his ways. This is because despite him being a slave trader, [[SympatheticSlaveOwner Knechten's father still loved his family dearly and was a good parent]]. Naturally, when his father had a HeelRealization after being enslaved himself and enduring two years of hellish treatment from the Thraceans, Knechten was both relieved he won't have to turn on his father and enraged by his father's ordeal, to the point he would dedicate himself to punishing those who practiced slavery in all forms.
** He's also dating a mortal female abolitionist, and he loves his girlfriend dearly. It's implied that he's keeping his true nature as a god of Slavery and Imprisonment a secret from her because he doesn't want their relationship to end over it, and to protect her from his enemies.
* EvilCounterpart: As an evil god of Slavery and Imprisonment, Knechten serves as a constructive foil to deities and demi-deities like Prince Red Blade, Prince Knight Shade, and Moon Ray Vaughoof, all who oppose him and bear the ability to free those who were enslaved either by others or themselves. Moon Ray in particular contrasts Knechten the most, not only in upbringing and parentage, but also in powers and domains; Water, Temperance, and Forgiveness can help purify poisons and free people from wrongful punishment/enslavement, while Moon Ray's psychic powers in general are able to interfere with Knechten's reality-warping and break his geases.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Prince Red Blade: Both are sons of divine royalty and despise slavery of all kinds. But while Red Blade embodies Freedom and prioritizes the liberation of oppressed serfs/slaves, Knechten embodies Slavery, yet prioritizes the tempting/punishing those who participate and/or condone slavery due to his nature as a constructive evil deity, usually by [[PayEvilUntoEvil enslaving them back]]. When they are not a FriendlyEnemy to each other, they are working with each other to take down even worse villains who enslave others.
** To Moon Ray Vaughoof: Both grew up with fathers who indulged in slavery, except Knechten's father enslaved ''others'', while Moon Ray's father enslaved ''himself'' to [[TheAlcoholic alcohol]]. While Knechten's father eventually redeemed himself, Moon Ray's father did not, which impacted their sons - Knechten grew to despise slavery of all kinds and [[PayEvilUntoEvil tormented anyone who participated in it]], while Moon Ray [[HistoryRepeats suffered from addiction just like his father]] later in life. Knechten is a cruel and sadistic god whose domains give him powers that allow him to enslave, torture, and coerce people, while Moon Ray is a merciful and forgiving god whose domains revolve around freeing people from slavery and addiction. Knechten also Ascended during the "Abolition Wars" by enslaving those who participated in the slave trade, while Moon Ray Ascended by letting go of his vices and forgiving those who wronged him in life, including his abusive father. Knechten is feared and hated for his sadistic and depraved nature, and revels in it, while Moon Ray is a beloved musician who is rather embarrassed by how people worship him and put him on a pedestal.
** To Prince Knight Shade, the Soul Liberator, noting that having been an actual victim of enslavement and exploitation himself, Knechten respected him for likely understanding the horrors and evils of slavery and coercion ''even better'' than Knechten himself, who watched and experienced it from a distance and never really enduring it himself. They actually collaborate from time to time to free those who had been cursed and enslaved to the will of warlocks/witches, demons and evil/fallen gods or are devoured and imprisoned inside the innards of villainous, titanic beings such as Giants and Dragons, with Knight Shade being the 'Good Cop' to Knechten's 'Bad Cop' in these partnerships.
** To Kleidóno, the Hellish Warden of the Poenan Pantheon, who both share the domain of Imprisonment among other things. While both admired each others' methods in keeping the damned souls being punished in line, both disagree and oppose each other on everything else due to their opposite allegiances and natures, resulting in violent clashes between them and their followers, with Kleidóno trying to lock-up and punish Knechten's worshipers and minions (and just about anyone else remotely associated with him) whenever they are found while Knechten tempts and encourages Kleidóno's followers and subordinates' worst flaws and impulses until they became enslaved by them and descend into full-blown [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity moral blindness]] and [[RevengeBeforeReason vindictiveness]].
* FollowInMyFootsteps: His mortal father, a Griffon merchant who participated in the slave trafficking of individuals from non-Griffon races such as Ponies and Deer, and expected his children - Knechten, especially - to take after him. Despite loving his father (and being loved in turn), Knechten never joined the slave trade because his mother, Phykti, ensured he and his siblings develop empathy for their fellow sapient creatures and see the concept of slavery as the horrific, self-destructive evil it truly is. Ironically, he later ended up following in his ''mother'''s footsteps as a slaver... except he [[PayEvilUntoEvil goes after those who willingly participated in the slave trade and punishes them for their evil by enslaving them in turn]].
* FriendlyEnemy: Despite being an incredibly sadistic and cruel god, Knechten follows "constructive Evil" and thus shares no hard feelings towards those who oppose him. This especially applies to benevolent individuals who counter him in some way, such as Prince Red Blade, Moon Ray Vaughoof, and Prince Knight Shade. Moon Ray Vaughoof in particular isn't really affected by Knechten's horrific cruelty towards slavers and the damned, having seen his adoptive cousins do the same thing to damned shades in Malus Manes' Hell-Realms many times in his efforts to redeem sinners. Each of these individuals understand and accept Knechten for what he is and what he does, and oppose him out of necessity as he intended.
* GodOfEvil: Is this like his other siblings and kin among the Four Terrors, embodying the evils of slavery, coercion, imprisonment and torture and is noted to be sadistic, depraved and evil even by standards of many dark/evil deities as a result.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Knechten murdering a particularly cruel and depraved Griffon slaver for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping his own slaves]] by sodomizing him with his own 'modified' beating rod is depicted as extremely brutal and horrific, even though said Griffon slaver [[AssholeVictim deserved it]]. By contrast, Knechten's cousin, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, has consensual missionary sex with his husband Blue Suede Heartstrings/[[MeaningfulRename Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria]], and the entire thing is depicted as sweet, tender, and loving. According to [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/665862165/4872943438 a Codexverse writer]], the contrast was intentional. It's zigzagged, though, as Prince Stoltur is similarly evil and depraved like Knechten yet has a nobler side, while Blue Suede/Caerulus is a kind and humble yet flawed person who took a long time to accept his own flaws due to then-untreated trauma; being HappilyMarried brought out their better sides while tempering each other's flaws.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Both he and his siblings disguised themselves as normal Griffons for much of their mortal lives to avoid being on the receiving end of anti-hybrid bigotry that was rampant in their homelands at the time. With his Ascension to true godhood, he no longer has to hide his mixed racial heritage.
* HalfHumanHybrid: He was born a demi-divine Cervogriff, as his mother is a Deer-Draconequus hybrid and his father was a mortal Griffon, though he and his siblings disguised themselves as Griffons for much of their mortal life to avoid [[HalfBreedDiscrimination discrimination]]. When he ascended to godhood and became a Cervogriff-Draconequus, he no longer had to hide his heritage.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He revealed himself to be actively trying to invoke this with the Poenan Pantheon with their overzealous obsession with punishing the wicked by infiltrating their divine and mortal ranks and pushing them towards greater levels of extremism. The reveal of this made the Poenans paranoid and becoming even more zealous and hardline - [[BatmanGambit which may be what Knechten had in mind as well]].
--> '''Lord Knechten:''' You know what they say about Evil. That it's a 'disgusting' thing that needs to be destroyed for the 'good' of sapientkind. '''''I enjoy watching creatures enslave themselves to the very Evil they try to destroy.'''''
* ItsPersonal: While Knechten already despised slavery due to his exposure to his mortal family's trade, what drove him into full-blown animosity and dedication to punishing slavers whenever they are found was his slaver father being enslaved by others and enduring torturous ordeals for nearly two years (which resulted in a HeelRealization and a HeelFaceTurn). It was especially personal with his father's slave trader rival Grootbruto, who set him up to be captured and enslaved to begin with, and Knechten made sure Grootbruto, most of his family, his overseers/mercenaries and his entire business are utterly broken in the most spectacular and horrific revenge he and his minions are capable of at the time, sparing only those who are not involved in Knechten's father's enslavement or the slave trade in general.
* TheJailer: Serve as this for the damned as well as one of his mother's best torturers. His epitaph is that of the 'overseer of the damned'.
* KnifeNut: As a god of Torture, he can transmute his wing feathers into wicked knives, which means he is never out of means to torture his victims, or ammunition to fire a FlechetteStorm on his foes.
* LastStand: He and his faction made one against the armada the slaver factions and nations' sent after him during latter years of the 'Abolition Wars', which took out all his other bases and fortresses one after another until they eventually cornered them in their last stronghold where he had based himself and his operations throughout the conflict. [[spoiler:This suits him fine, as [[ILetYouWin it was all an elaborate ploy to lure, demoralize, wear down and eventually break a substantial portion of the slaver nations' military forces]], [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu weakening them enough]] that by the time he and his remaining forces withdrew from the conflict, the slaver forces were crippled beyond repair and too weak to survive their subsequent battle with the Abolitionists' own armada sent after them and him. It is estimated [[TheChessmaster Knechten's ploy]] accelerated the slaver nations' defeat in the war by two years]].
* MeaningfulName:
** Knechten means to "enslave", "subjugate", "made to submit" or otherwise "subdue" in Dutch. [[TruthInTelevision Incidentally, the Dutch were also quite involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade in real life]].
** The names of his weapons are also in Dutch - ''[[WhipItGood Wreedheid]]'' translates to "cruelty", ''[[AutomaticCrossbows Onontkoombaar]]'' translates to "inescapable", and ''[[InescapableNet Vanger]]'' translates to "catcher".
* MixAndMatchCritters: Like his mother and siblings, his ascension turned him into one of these on account of his Draconequus side. He have animal parts corresponding mostly to species known to enslave or parasitize others (and thus enslaving those lifeforms for their ends) as part of their life-cycles or habit, as well as those who chases or restraints their prey in their hunting behaviour. Among other things, he had wings of a cuckoo bird (brood parasites), an Anaconda python-like tail and smooth serpentine eyes and scales (as anacondas coils and strangles their prey in an inescapable death-grip), a Dragon’s claws to complement his other original Cervogriff Buzzard claw, as well as a draconic horn to his other Deer antler and draconic teeth in his Buzzard-like Deer/Griffon maw (given Dragons' tendency to subjugate and dominate where they don't burn, crush or eat), a stalking Lion's hind-leg to complement his cervine one (like slave-hunters chasing escaped slaves), a pair of antannae from Slave-Making Ants (shaped like itself) above his Cervogriff face.
* OppositesAttract: He is rumoured to have fallen for a [[{{Irony}} mortal Abolitionist]] and is presently dating her, although it's left ambiguous whether she knows who he is, or even who she is.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His preferred method of punishment, especially regarding his domain of slavery: namely, he enslaves those who enslaves or coerced others in their wickedness, subjecting them to every form of the same torture and degradation they inflicted upon others.
** He once captured and bound a particularly cruel and depraved Griffon overseer who had a fondness for raping his own slaves, sometimes with his own beating rod. To punish the Griffon overseer, he took the latter's beating rod, modified it with nails and other sharp things, and sodomized his victim with it until he died. The Codex scene in which it took place noted that Knechten was seething with barely-controlled rage even as he enjoyed punishing the Griffon overseer.
* PsychicPowers: He's a Psyker as a result of his domains over torture and coercion, allowing him to either inflict emotional and mental pain and suffering on his targets or geas them into doing his bidding against their own will. However, he is countered by [[Music/StevieRayVaughan Moon Ray Vaughoof]], whose psychic powers are not only stronger than his, they can also interfere with his reality-warping and break his geases.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Certainly is of this opinion, and shows no hesitation in [[PayEvilUntoEvil doing this unto the perpetrators as punishment for their carnal debauchery]], especially those who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil coerced or enslaved others]] to be forced upon. A scene-insert heavily implies in his youth he ''[[AssShove sodomized]]'' a Griffon overseer who has a habit of forcing himself young and/or female slaves with his own beating rod (which Knechten modified with many, ''many'' sharp bits) as the opening act of a torturous, karmic death Knechten inflicted upon him. After ascending to godhood, he sold repugnant, carnally-depraved damned souls, male and female alike, to Pokhot and her scions, demons and followers for their harems and seraglio to be violated and degraded for all eternity as payback for their lustful wickedness, and is implied to have his way with them himself, whether personally with his own damned souls of the depraved or during his vacations in Pokhot's hell-fief as a VIP guest.
* {{Sadist}}: Had an innate cruelty and sadism when he and his siblings are still young, thanks to their heritage from their mothers' side, though their mothers' loving upbringing caused them to turn their dark nature only on those who deserved it, sparing the slaves being shipped by their father's business, targeting his [[AssholeVictim overseers and clients]]. After his ascension into godhood, he and his domains caused him to be this even by standards of evil gods. Nothing ''thrills'' him than to see his victims ([[AssholeVictim who he made sure]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil all had it coming]]) squirm as he mercilessly put them to work as slaves, packed like sardines in tiny cells, helplessly made to do his every whim and bidding, and [[TortureTechnician break in agony and despair in his torture racks]].
* SemiDivine: Because he was sired by Phykti through a mortal Griffon merchant slaver, he was born a demigod. His deeds in going after wicked and unrepentant slavers, which culminated in him creating an extremely horrific slaver's empire that reflected the worst aspects of the slave trade towards the end of the Abolition Wars, eventually led to him Ascending to true godhood.
* SexSlave: Is said to have helped his maternal aunt, Pokhot, and her scions and demons set up their [[RoyalHarem debased seraglios and harems]], supplying damned shades of repulsively decadent and perverted males and females to fill them for their enjoyment. This nets him VIP status in Pokhot's hell-fief whenever he visits as a guest to participate in their hedonistic depravities.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Despite being a literal god of that domain, Knechten himself ironically despise the immoral institution and dedicates himself to punishing those who participate or enable it, as well as any form of wickedness that involved coercion or subjugation of others.
* SlaveLiberation: Despite being a god of slavery, Knechten hated the immoral institution himself and went on a prolonged liberation crusade/rampage against slaver nations and factions during the 'Abolition Wars' while he was still a demigod, freeing those they had enslaved and offering him either a chance of freedom by fleeing to free lands, or a chance at justice/vengeance against those who enslaved them. Just as many are said to had joined him in his campaign as those who chose to leave as freed people.
* SympatheticSlaveOwner: His father, a Griffon slave trader, is portrayed as one, as despite being deeply involved in the slave trade at the time he loved his family dearly and was more apathetic to the slaves' plight and the immorality of his profession than actively cruel or hateful. That being said, it is not portrayed as exempting him from his crimes in anyway, and he was only considered forgiven and redeemed when after a HeelRealization following being enslaved for a time himself decided to take his family out of the slave trade and [[TheAtoner spent the rest of his life trying to reverse the damage he caused]], buying back the freedom of those he sold and revealing details of his business associates to abolitionist heroes and groups.
* TortureTechnician: One of Phykti's best. His domain of torture allows him to pinpoint with unnerving accuracy the most vulnerable points of a target's physical, emotional and mental constitution and inflict maximum damage and pain. He had been compared with his Fallen aunt Hrůza, the High Duchess of Hysteria in that regard, though he applies it more broadly and with greater versatility.
* WarriorPrince: Knechten's official title is 'Lord', but he is technically a Prince by virtue of his mother Phykti owning her own hell-fief, and his grandfather Temnobog being a co-ruler of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon (which makes Temnobog a King despite lack of a title). Knechten participated in the 'Abolition Wars' of the Fourth Age which saw many slaver nations and trade networks demolished, including the one which his father had previously profited from as an independent element, fighting apart from the Abolitionist realms and forces (knowing they would likely be not comfortable and even hostile to his presence) to cause as much damage and suffering to the slaver nations and factions on his and his forces' own accord. For years they crusaded/rampaged, demolishing entire slaver groups and kingdoms, enslaving the slavers, overseers and traffickers as punishment for their wickedness and freeing those they had enslaved with the choice to flee to safe havens or join their side exacting justice/vengeance at their enslavers. He became a major thorn on the slavers' side, and his own operations to fund his war effort became so large his faction ended up out-sizing the slaver nations and factions individually.
* WhipItGood: Has a whip made of both tarnished leather and serrated metal as one of his signature weapons, named '' Wreedheid'', which he could drip with poison, psychic energy and Hellfire to inflict pain and damage to his foes and damned shades. Even the smallest scratches could leave a target on fire, paralyzed in utter agony or overwhelmed by illusions invoking their deepest emotional pain and shame.
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!!!Yarost's Children (and Grandchildren)
[[folder:Princess Odveta, the Howling Justice]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Death, Justice, Revenge
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a goddess who embodies Death, Justice, and Revenge.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Howling Justice".
* {{Revenge}}: One of her domains is ''Revenge''. She likely represents the vindictive and unfettered aspects of Justice.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vykup, The Princess of Repentance]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Mercy, Repentance, Redemption
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate; formerly a demigod)
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Princess Vykup (her [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-52-853196348 here]]) is the hybrid Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess of Mercy, Repentance, and Redemption, and is one of Yarost's daughters.
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* AllLovingHero: She's noted as loving everyone, even sinners, as while she accepts they must face the consequences of their actions if they don't repent and change, she feels sorrow instead of anger when that happens. She genuinely doesn't want to see anyone be condemned if there's a chance they can be saved.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Mercy, Repentance, and Redemption.
* ArmorPiercingResponse: Gives one to her great grandfather Irminsul during a conversation with him when he asks why she'd even care if he dooms himself. Irminsul is left so dumbstruck he can't react long enough for her to hug him before departing:
--> '''Vykup:'' Because you're my great grandpa and I love ye.
--> '''Irminsul:''' Y-You...Y-You what?!
--> '''Vykup''': I love ye. Ye don't want to admit it, but your blood is runnin' through my veins... I saved me mortal mum because for all the evil she did, a chance to repent ain't somethin' anyone deserves, but it's somethin' everyone gets. If I'd do that for her, I'm willin' tah do it for you.
* LastSecondChance: As a goddess of Mercy, Repentance, and Redemption, giving these to mortals is part of her job, which includes kingdoms slated for a 'Calling of the Terrors'.
** Vykup once redeemed her mortal mother, a Trottish dark witch, by making her choose between love for her daughter and her desires to start a kingdom-destroying war, stating that she "can't have both". Her mother ultimiately chose to redeem herself for her daughter's sake. Although Vykup expected her father, Yarost, to be angry with her for ruining his plan to use her mother as an UnwittingPawn to test mortal sapientkind, Yarost didn't, and in fact was actually proud of her for her actions.
** Vykup also gave a Erobreseg Deer kingdom that was slated to be destroyed in a 'Calling of the Terrors' event one last chance to repent, after she [[AintTooProudToBeg begged Yarost to let her do so]]. To everyone's surprise, she managed to convince enough of said kingdom to seek redemption by atoning for their crimes and turning on those who refused to change their wicked ways. This is what allowed her to Ascend to true godhood.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:
** In contrast to her inherently violent, merciless and (constructive) evil father, Princess Vykup is peaceful, merciful and good, seeking to redeem souls while her father and siblings seeks to punished those souls for their sins. This causes her a lot of grief initially until she came forward with her feelings and nature and was assured by her [[GoodParents loving father]] that she will not be judged and has his and her siblings' full support in being who she is.
** She's also the only member of Temnobog's side of the family who actually loves Irminsul. While she accepts how rotten his actions were and he ''deserves'' his potential fate, she also acknowledges he's her great grandfather and would prefer seeing him redeemed than destroyed.
* LoveRedeems: Vykup's mortal witch mother loved her daughter despite her evil and villainy, and could not bring herself to harm her daughter when she got in her way of her grand evil scheme. This love allowed Vykup to get through and eventually redeem her.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Princess of Repentance", due to embodying Repentance and actively working in helping wicked people achieve redemption by making them atone for their sins.
* MixAndMatchCritters: As a Deer-Draconequus hybrid, she has chimeric traits like her father and infernal relatives. In her case, her chimeric traits are based on animals that are related to mercy and redemption, such as lambs, phoenixes, and oxen.
* PurgatoryAndLimbo: She rules over the pantheon's 'Purgatory-Realm,' which serves to test and attempt to lead souls who are still redeemable to admit to their sins so they can go to a Heaven-Realm.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: Vykup's personality, domains and role compels her to implore and encourage villains and lost souls still living to turn around and redeem themselves before their actions causes them to be inevitably be destroyed, be it by their own hooves or by heroes. Those who heeds her and redeem themselves are often spared from death and damnation.
** She most likely saved her witch mother's life when she stopped her from carrying a grand evil scheme which would had marked her as beyond redemption and got her to repent.
** She is often the one sent to lands within the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon's sphere of influence which had been marked for a 'Calling of the Terrors', imploring the denizens there to repent and giving them a LastSecondChance on behalf of the gods before they are subjected to the pantheon's measure of last resort. Those who heed her message and repented are often spared from being exterminated by the Four Terrors, be it the land as a whole or as part of the uncorrupted population who are evacuated from the condemned lands before the axe falls.
* SympathyForTheDevil:
** It's noted to be part of her very nature to have this for sinners, as she'd much prefer they repent and change their ways than be condemned. This includes her mother and even kingdoms so corrupt that 'Calling the Terrors' is seen as their fitting punishment.
** This includes her great grandfather Irminsul, who she still loves as family. This makes her one of the only members of Temnobog's side of the family who has any compassion for him. She's this to the point she went to him to plead with him to repent and admit his sins before it was too late and he lost what was left of his family.
* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the very few children of the Four Terrors to ''not'' be evil aligned at all, not even 'Constructive Evil.' This caused her emotional problems because she tried to make her father proud, but couldn't bring herself to be evil. Yarost, however, [[GoodParents completely]] [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes understood]].
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* MeaningfulName: Their group name translates to "children of the terrors" in Russian, literally referring to their status as children (and grandchildren) of the Four Terrors.

--> See his folder entry [[Characters/CodexEquusEquestrianPantheon here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prince Touha, the Prince of Lust]]
--> See his folder entry [[Characters/CodexEquusEquestrianPantheon here]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Prince Varázsló, the Sorcerer of Knowledge]]
!!!'''Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant(?)
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Magic, Knowledge, Fate, Hope
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate)

-> ''"We are all players in the grand scheme of things, whether we like it or not. But in the end, even the smallest action will create giant ripples in the cosmic pool that is the universe at large."''

Prince Varázsló (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-54-859005115 here]]) is the Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god of Magic, Knowledge, Fate, and Hope, and is the younger identical twin brother of Prince Cselszövő.

* ShoutOut: Some of Yarosts' followers are known to shout [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/840068448/4839613296 certain battle-cries]] in tribute to their murderous god, which Princess Stitching Times and Emperor Golden Scepter both found strangely familiar...
--> '''[[AxCrazy Yarost Cultist:]]''' '''[[TheBerserker BLOOD!]]''' '''''[[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosGods BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!]]'''''

* AbledInTheAdaptation: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Kairos Fateweaver]] was rendered flightless, wizened, insane, mutated ([[MultipleHeadCase with his head split in two]]) and blind to the present after Tzeentch threw him into the Well of Eternity to gain all knowledge of the future. In contrast, Cselszövő, though somewhat insane, was transformed into an EldritchAbomination during his time in the Well of Eternity yet did not become completely insane because of his HeroicWillpower.

--> '''Erobreseg Hydianites:''' '''''[[FreakOut AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE - !!!]]'''''
* {{Expy}}: Subverted. While he's based on [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Tzeentch]] from ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', he's more based on Tzeentch's scheming and deceptive aspects. His backstory of getting thrown into a magical plane/dimension called 'The Well of Eternity' by a depraved knowledge seeker, and coming back from it alive and all-knowing yet insane, was inspired by the story of [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Kairos Fateweaver]].

* AbledInTheAdaptation: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Kairos Fateweaver]] was rendered flightless, wizened, insane, mutated ([[MultipleHeadCase with his head split in two]]) and blind to the present after Tzeentch threw him into the Well of Eternity to gain all knowledge of the future. In contrast, Varázsló, though blind ([[EyeScream self-inflicted]]) and somewhat insane, was transformed into an EldritchAbomination during his time in the Well of Eternity yet did not become completely insane because of his HeroicWillpower. Varázsló also has some skill in physical combat, unlike Kairos who is pretty useless in a direct fight due to his condition.

--> '''Erobreseg Hydianites:''' '''''[[FreakOut AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE - !!!]]'''''

* DishingOutDirt: One branch of magic granted by his Magic domain is air magic.

* {{Expy}}: Subverted. While he's based on [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Tzeentch]], he's more based on [[DecompositeCharacter Tzeentch's magical and knowledgeable aspects]]. His backstory of getting thrown into a magical plane/dimension called 'The Well of Eternity' by a depraved knowledge seeker, and coming back from it alive and all-knowing yet insane, was inspired by the story of Kairos Fateweaver, another ''Warhammer 40,000'' character.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Justified; because he's blind, his eyes are always closed. This only applies to his default forms, though - in his [[EldritchAbomination true form]], his eyes are [[GhostlyGape holes]] full of space that make people feel an existential dread when looked into.
* ForWantOfANail: InUniverse; many of Varázsló's experiments involved examining alternate timelines/dimensions where his and his brother's lives became much happier based on different choices that were taken. Unfortunately, his obsession with future possibilities nearly led him down a dark path, and his concerned family was forced to call in Golden Scepter when he [[CurbStompBattle proved himself too damn powerful for anyone to stop]]. Golden Scepter subduing him and destroying crucial research information [[VillainousBreakdown left Varázsló a despondent, broken wreck]], but also forced him to acknowledge that [[ScrewDestiny he can still take charge of his own life/future in spite of what happened to him]], especially after Golden Scepter introduced him to a fellow eldritch deity, Dr. Endless Dreams.

* GhostlyGape: Because he blinded himself in all eyes in a futile attempt to stop receiving psychic visions, his true eldritch form now has holes for eyes that, when looked into, show the dark expanse of space and fill the looker(s) with an existential dread.

** His MagicStaff is called ''Sorsszövő'', which translates to "fate-weaver" in Hungarian. It's also a [[ShoutOut reference]] to [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Kairos]]' most-known title, "Fateweaver".

* YouCantFightFate: Invoked. As a god of Fate, he has the power to bind people to certain fates, which he uses to punish those who tried shaping the fates of others for lofty goals, no matter how well-intentioned they are. They're put in illusionary worlds where their actions will either lead to their impending fate being hastened, worsened than it originaly was, or the occurence of a completely different yet horrible fate in place of the original one.

Yarost (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-13-795969722 here]]) is the Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god of Fury, Hatred, War, Bloodshed, and Evil, and the eldest son and child of Temnobog.\\\

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god who embodies Fury, Hatred, War, Bloodshed, and Evil.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Cruelty, Despair, Sadism, and Evil.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god who embodies Gluttony, Greed, Pestilence, Famine, and Evil.

Pokhot (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-19-807675619 here]]) is the youngest member of the Terrors, the youngest daughter and child of Temnobog overall, and the Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess of Lust, Pride, Sex, Deception, and Evil.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Lust, Pride, Sex, Deception, and Evil. It's noted in her entry that out of her siblings, Pokhot's portfolio resembles Ispita's the most, causing her mother (before her FaceHeelTurn) to [[ParentalFavoritism favor and spoil her]], and causing Pokhot no shortage of grief after Ispita's Fall.

Prince Cselszövő is the Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god of Scheming, Deception, Fate, and Hope, and is the older identical twin brother of Prince Varázsló.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god who embodies Scheming, Deception, Fate, and Hope.

Prince Varázsló (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-54-859005115 here]]) is the Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god of Magic, Knowledge, Fate, and Hope, and is the younger identical twin brother of Prince Cselszövő.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus god who embodies Magic, Knowledge, Fate, and Hope.

* UnhappyMedium: For him, being a powerful Seer with unlimited knowledge just plain ''sucked''. His precognitive sight was so strong that he could even [[FlashSideways perceive alternate timelines and dimensions]], making it hard for him to discern between them and reality. At one point, he [[EyeScream ripped out all of his eight eyes]] just to make his visions stop... only for them to ''increase'' now that he's a BlindSeer. This in part influenced him to conduct clandestine dimensional/chronal experiments so he could learn how to improve his own life based on observations he made of alternate worlds where he and his brother lived much happier lives. But after Golden Scepter intervened on his family's behalf, he gradually learned to live with his power, especially since both Golden Scepter and his great-uncle, Kúzelník, are helping him control it.

Princess Cardinal Wing is the hybrid Bogolenya Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess of Love, Art, and Pleasure, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a hybrid Bogolenya Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Love, Art, and Pleasure.

Princess Iron Crown is the hybrid Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess of Royalty, Government, and Power, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a hybrid Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Royalty, Government, and Power.

Princess Tudás is the Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess of Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets, and is a daughter of Prince Varázsló and his older twin brother, Prince Cselszövő.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets.

Queen Krásná Tradice (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-54-859005115 here]]) is the Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess of Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, and Prophecy, and is one of Pokhot's older daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, and Prophecy.
* AppealToTradition: Deconstructed and played for drama. She had the sheer misfortune of being born and growing up in an Alvslog Deer kingdom at its worst, and the xenophobic, puristic, traditional, and reactionary attitudes have hurt both herself and her family personally. While her father, the Deer King, eventually died a KarmicDeath thanks to Pokhot and her family moved to a more tolerant environment, she continued clinging to the toxic beliefs of her homeland because that's what she was taught. Unfortunately, her bigotry drove a wedge between her and her relatives in the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, eventually influencing her to run away just to find some justification to her existence. It wasn't until she met Blue Suede Heartstrings during one of her travels that she rethinks her beliefs and chooses to focus on punishing those who became obsessed with enforcing traditions and order to unfettered degrees so more innocents wouldn't suffer like she did.

* EvilReactionary: Due to growing up in an Alvslog Deer kingdom and seen/experienced the worst aspects of her society's obsessive traditionalism and stubborn, reactionary mindsets, she hates reactionaries in general with a passion. Her hell-fief, which is modeled after a typical Alvslog Deer kingdom, was designed to be a nightmarish dystopia reflecting all the evils of the 'good old days' that were often looked upon fondly, all so the reactionaries could [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor choke on it]] upon death and damnation. Ironically, she was one herself in her youth due to clinging to her deceased father's bigoted teachings despite the sheer trauma they inflicted on her, which drove a wedge between her and her family. It wasn't until she meets Blue Suede Heartstrings during her time as a [[WalkingTheEarth globe-trotter]] that she rethinks her views and chooses to do something productive instead, such as punishing reactionaries.

* MakerOfMonsters: It's believed InUniverse that she was responsible for creating the Glory Hounds due to having similar chimeric appearances and traits. When Jade Shell asked her about it during an interview, she was left quite stunned and confused, with Blue Suede/Caerulus' medical Glory Hound Sunny being equally confused and Caerulus himself [[ActuallyPrettyFunny finding it pretty hilarious]].
--> '''Queen Krásná Tradice:''' "I... what?"

** Deconstructed. In a perversion of the Alvslog Deer Herds'cultural reverence of prophets and Seers (especially Alvslog royalty who are born with foresight), Krásná punishes damned shades who abused their powers and station in life by giving them unfiltered psychic visions, turning them into gibbering wrecks that are unable to distinquish true visions from hallucinations. Any attempts to change the future will either have one future ironically occuring, or whatever they're trying to avoid happening anyway. This especially reflects how High King Irminsul selfishly tried purifying his unborn son of his inner evil in-utero to create a 'perfect' and flawless god, thus fulfilling his vision of a great Deer King leading mortal Deerkind into a GoldenAge, but ended up killing/mutilating his son instead.

* ReallyGetsAround: Implied. As par the course of being one of Pokhot's daughters, she has slept with many lovers over the centuries and sired children with them.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Justified. One of her domains is Tradition, which gives the power to create her own traditions and enforce them, while creating punishments for those who fail to follow said traditions. In a twist, she uses these powers to punish those who become [[AppealToTradition utterly obsessed with upholding tradtions to the point of harming innocents without reason]], much like the tradition-obsessed Alvslog Deer societies she grew up in as a fawn.
* ShownTheirWork: InUniverse. One of her favorite punishments is to put reactionary Deer in illusionary worlds with cruel, dystopian parodies of proto-Alvslog Deer civilizations that lived InHarmonyWithNature. By her own admission, she had to do quite a bit of research in order to ensure her punishment's historical accuracy.

Prince Chamtivá Daň (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-50-844421514 here]]) is the Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god of Greed, Debt, and Law, and is Bolezn's oldest son.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god who embodies Greed, Debt, and Law.

Prince Stækka (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-50-844421514 here]]) is the Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god of Life, Wealth, Growth, and Fertility, and is one of Bolezn's oldest sons.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus god who embodies Life, Wealth, Growth and Fertility.

Princess Hnignun (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-50-844421514 here]]) is the Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess of Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness, and is one of Bolezn's oldest daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness.

Lord Knechten (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-51-848558436 here]]) is the Bogolenya Cervogriff-Draconequus god of Slavery, Coercion, Imprisonment, and Torture, and is one of Phykti's sons.\\\

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's a Bogolenya Cervogriff-Draconequus god who embodies Slavery, Coercion, Imprisonment, and Torture.
* ArchEnemy: Has one in Kleidóno, the Hellish Warden of the Poenan Pantheon. They both share similar domains, such as Imprisonment, but they oppose each other for various reasons to the point of violence between them and their mortal followers. Kleidóno locks up Knechten's followers along with anyone with the ''smallest'' association with them, while Knechten tempts Kleidóno's followers into giving in to their worst flaws/impulses, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters making them enslave themselves to vices like excessive vengeance and moral blindness]].

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess who embodies Mercy, Repentance, and Redemption.

* InTheBlood: Justified. Iriminsul's well-meaning yet foolish and arrogant attempt to turn his then-unborn son into a GodOfGood by magically purifying him of his inner Evil resulted in the birth of Belyolen and Temnobog. Because of this, whatever children they would have would be affected by their parents' natures - in Temnobog's case, being the living embodiment of mortal Deerkind's worst traits would irrevocably corrupt and twist the Four Terrors' remaining good traits and ruin their potential of what they could've been instead. Pokhot discovering this part of Temnobog's history would both motivate her to create a play based on her and her father's life, and cause her to [[VillainousBreakdown break down sobbing]] afterwards, as she was traumatized by the fact that she and her immediate family came to be because their grandfather harmed his unborn son with his incredibly twisted ideas of perfection.

* WouldHurtAChild: On the receiving end of this when a hotblooded group of Poena's divine allies tried to kill them on their second attempt to assassinate Temnobog. Fortunately, they were stopped. [[PayEvilUntoEvil The Terrors would then gleefully join their father in punishing the offenders]], with Belyolen's full permission.

* RealitySubtext: An InUniverse example. When she heard of her father and uncle's terrible history with her grandfather, Irminsul, and by extension, the Elternteil Deer pantheon, she would go into seclusion for a while. She came out with a play that's about a tragic young doe whose attempts to stay compassionate and help people would ultimately fail due to [[SinsOfOurFathers overwhelming prejudice against her for being the daughter of a vile criminal]], as well as [[InTheBlood any evil traits she may have inherited from her father]]. The play also implied that her father himself is the ultimate consequences of sapientkind's hubris in trying to get rid of Evil itself. While the play was critically-acclaimed, Belyolen and Temnobog quickly caught on to the similarities between what happened in real life and in Pokhot's play. True to form, they would find Pokhot sobbing in her dressing room after the play was over, traumatized by the knowledge that she and her siblings' future potential and inner goodness were ruined by Irminsul because of his twisted ideas of "perfection".

* ForWantOfANail: InUniverse; many of Varázsló's experiments involved examining alternate timelines/dimensions where his and his brother's lives became much happier based on different choices that were taken. Unfortunately, his obsession with future possibilities nearly led him down a dark path, and his concerned family was forced to call in Golden Scepter when he proved [[CurbStompBattle too damn powerful for anyone to stop]]. Golden Scepter subduing him and destroying crucial research information [[VillainousBreakdown left Varázsló a despondent, broken wreck]], but also forced him to acknowledge he can still take charge of his own life/future in spite of what happened to him, especially after Golden Scepter introduced him to Dr. Endless Dreams.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Following his reconciliation with his younger twin sister, Hnignun, he fell in love and entered an incestuous relationship with her. This led to the birth of their eldest daughter, Duchess Vyléčit, the Deer-Draconequus goddess of Healing, Medicine, and Doctors. It's also implied that many of Stækka's other hybrid children were born from incest, as they live with him in his hell-fief. The Erobreseg Deer Herds don't consider this too surprising, since Temnobog and his side of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon embodies Deerkind's lustful aspects to varying degrees, making familial incest quite common.

* TheEmpath: Like the goddess Want, she possesses empathic powers that pertain to her domain of Poverty. Unlike Want, she can produce an empathic aura that suppresses people's desire for material wealth and makes them okay with living in extremely deplorable conditions.

* TheGrimReaper: As a goddess of Death, she has the powers typically associated with Death deities and is automatically very powerful. She can travel between mortal and divine planes easily, [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation summon magical copies of weapons from thin air]], raise and command the spirits of the dead, and free spirits that are stuck in the mortal planes by cutting their "ties". She can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change her own form to blend in with her surroundings]]; when in the mortal plane, she often [[GodInHumanForm appears as a lanky, black and brown-furred doe with no antlers]]. She also has clairvoyance that makes her sense when people are going to die, allowing her to approach them in their last moments. Being a Death goddess also grants her the ability to induce peace and painlessness in those who are suffering in agony, to calm the dying and ensure a smooth transition to the next part of the cycle.

* MakeSomeNoise: She can disorient her opponents with sound-based [[MasterOfIllusions illusions]] by using her wind magic to carry the echoes of her own voice everywhere, even through far distances.

* SuperEmpowering:
** As a goddess of Poverty, she's able to become stronger when in extremely impoverished areas, which means that she's at her strongest in her own hell-fief due to its complete lack of wealth.
** As a goddess of Sickness, she can empower animals by turning them into living disease carriers, so being bitten by an animal empowered by Hnignun can leave someone infected.

* TheHighQueen: One expectation foisted upon her as a fawn was becoming the Queen of her own Alvslog realm/kingdom, on account of her developing the highly-prized {{Seer}} powers. She eventually does become Queen, but of her own hell-fief for the damned, a complete opposite direction of what her former Alvslog herds wanted her to be. While she's still seen as this by her own children, siblings, and demonic servants/champions in the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon, the damned shades who are sent to her for punishment see her as [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a rigid and uncompromising tyrant]] who robs them of the capability of choice and free will.

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant(?)

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant(?)

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ascendant

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ascendant/Ethereal

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Elemental/Ethereal/Ascendant

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant

!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant

* AnimalGenderBender: One of her chimeric traits is a peacock's fanning tail, which is associated with royalty. However, the peacock's fanning tail is exclusive to males of the species.

** She loves the nobler, virtuous side of her family as well. [[GodOfGood Belyolen]] in particular was able to connect with her and get through her during her emotional lows because as a son of [[AbusiveParents High King Irminsul]], he understood what it's like to grow up with harmful, toxic teachings, which are what kept him from speaking up against his family's abuse of Temnobog for years in his youth.

** Because she was given many harmful teachings by her deceased father, who was an emotionally abusive, puristic, and xenophobic bigot in life, she became almost as bad as her fellow Alvslog Deer, clashing with her Bogolenya family/relatives over differing views on a lot of things and hurting everyoen around her with her insensitive, bigoted remarks. However, during a period of globe-trotting, she met Blue Suede Heartstrings, who convinced her to move away from her bigoted worldview and oppose things that encouraged toxic mindsets like hers. She took his advice to heart, and devoted her experiences to punishing fanatically traditional and reactionary bigots so no one will suffer her hardships again.

* BigBrotherMentor: He often serves as a mentor for his younger siblings and cousins in teaching them gardening and cooking. He was responsible for helping his younger cousin, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, start his own vegetable garden to satisfy his vegetarian diet.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: On the receiving end. While his Elternteil Deer relatives grudgingly admit that his domains would make him a good addition to their nature-themed pantheon, they hate him largely because of his evil nature and his tainted heritage. In fact, being compaired to them by Phykti in her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech causes Stækka to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize how badly he abused his twin sister for embodying Death]].

* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Played with. While she's one of Bolezn's oldest daughters, Hnignun's significantly less attractive-looking than her brother Stækka, being the embodiment of Bolezn's diseased and poor aspects and thus resembles an extremely emaciated and sickly Deer doe. However, Hnignun's a DaddysGirl who's completely loyal to her father and loves helping him create new plagues. There's also the fact that many of her siblings and relatives engage in [[VillainousIncest incestuous relationships]], so looks don't even matter to her.

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Born to Phykti and a Griffon slave trader during an era when chattel slavery was rampant and the international slave trade was booming, Knechten grew up witnessing the evils of slavery from the POV of a perpetrator, and despite his own budding cruelty and sadism grew to despise the immoral institution, especially after his father [[HeelRealization have a change]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone of heart]] following his own harrowing enslavement by other non-Griffon slavers and decides to end their family business as atonement. Knechten, despite eventually ascending as a Bogolenya [[GodOfEvil god of slavery, coercion, imprisonment and torture]], would dedicate his existence tempting, weeding out and punishing those who would enslave others in their greed, cruelty and hatred, swearing to make them suffer by enslaving them in life and in damnation for all the suffering they caused enslaving others.

* AssShove: In one pre-Ascension incident, this is how he murdered a particularly cruel and depraved Griffon overseer, who had a habit of '[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring]]' himself with the slaves under his watch, sometimes with the overseer's own beating rod. To punish the Griffon overseer, Knechten took that same beating rod, added several nails and other sharp bits to it, and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath proceeded to inflict the same tortures the former gave to his victims]].

** To Prince Red Blade, Golden Scepter's 16th son. Both are sons of divine royalty and despise slavery of all kinds. But while Red Blade embodies Freedom and prioritizes the liberation of oppressed serfs/slaves, Knechten embodies Slavery, yet prioritizes the tempting/punishing those who participate and/or condone slavery due to his nature as a constructive evil deity, usually by [[PayEvilUntoEvil enslaving them back]]. When they are not a FriendlyEnemy to each other, they are working with each other to take down even worse villains who enslave others.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Knechten murdering a particularly cruel and depraved Griffon slaver for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping his own slaves]] by sodomizing him with his own 'modified' beating rod is depicted as extremely brutal and horrific, even though said Griffon slaver [[AssholeVictim deserved it]]. In contrast, Knechten's cousin, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, has consensual sex with his husband Blue Suede Heartstrings/[[MeaningfulRename Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria]], and the entire thing is depicted as sweet, tender, and loving. According to [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/665862165/4872943438 a Codexverse writer]], the contrast was intentional. It's zigzagged, though, as Prince Stoltur is similarly evil and depraved like Knechten yet has a nobler side, while Blue Suede/Caerulus is a kind and humble yet flawed person who took a long time to accept his own flaws due to then-untreated trauma; being HappilyMarried brought out their better sides while tempering each other's flaws.

* GodOfEvil: Is this like his other siblings and kin among the Four Terrors, embodying the evils of slavery, coercion, imprisonment and torture and is noted to be sadistic, depraved and evil even by standards of many dark/evil deities as a result.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Like his mother and siblings, his ascension turned him into one of these on account of his Draconequus side. He have animal parts corresponding mostly to species known to enslave or parasitise others (and thus enslaving those lifeforms for their ends) as part of their life-cycles or habit, as well as those who chases or restraints their prey in their hunting behaviour. Among other things, he had wings of a cuckoo bird (brood parasites), an Anaconda python-like tail and smooth serpentine eyes and scales (as anacondas coils and strangles their prey in an inescapable death-grip), a Dragon’s claws to complement his other original Cervogriff Buzzard claw, as well as a draconic horn to his other Deer antler and draconic teeth in his Buzzard-like Deer/Griffon maw (given Dragons' tendency to subjugate and dominate where they don't burn, crush or eat), a stalking Lion's hind-leg to complement his cervine one (like slave-hunters chasing escaped slaves), a pair of antannae from Slave-Making Ants (shaped like itself) above his Cervogriff face.

* PsychicPowers: He's a Psyker as a result of his domains over torture and coercion, allowing him to inflict pain and suffering on emotional and psychological levels to his targets or geassing them into doing his bidding against their own will. In this regard, he is countered by Moon Ray Vaughoof, whose psychic powers are not only stronger than his, they can also interfere with his reality-warping and break his geases.

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[[Characters/CodexEquusPoenanPantheon Poenan Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusColticPantheon Coltic Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusTrimortidae Trimortidae]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusCaearnarianDeerPantheon Caearnarian Deer Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusHoyklanDeerPantheon Hoyklan Deer Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusElternteilDeerPantheon Elternteil Deer Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusMinotaurPantheon Minotaur Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusJotunnPantheon Jotunn Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusTaurenGiantPantheon Tauren Giant Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusDraconicPantheon Draconic Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusShinseinaPantheon Shinseina Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusDharmadeshvarPantheon Dharmadeshvar Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusZebrafricanPantheon Zebrafrican Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusOldOrosianPantheon Old Orosian Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusPramanthanPantheon Pramanthan Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusGreatSkunkPantheon Great Skunk Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusSauropodianPantheon Sauropodian Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusKaluanPantheon Kaluan Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusNovellusPantheon Novellus Pantheon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusUnaffiliatedDeities Unaffiliated Deities]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusPrincipalitiesOfEquestria Principalities of Equestria]] ([[Characters/CodexEquusCanterlot Canterlot]], [[Characters/CodexEquusPonyville Ponyville]]) | [[Characters/CodexEquusSunnytown Sunnytown]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusGrittishIsles Grittish Isles]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusCrystalEmpire Crystal Empire]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusLuchalibre Luchalibre]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusAlvslogDeerRealms Alvslog Deer Realms]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusErobresegDeerRealms Erobreseg Deer Realms]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusNordskeltDeerRealms Nordskelt Deer Realms]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusCaearnar Caearnar]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusAbyssinia Abyssinia]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusTheStormEmpire The Storm Empire]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusTerranEmpire Terran Empire]] ([[Characters/CodexEquusAureusidae Aureusidae]] [[[Characters/CodexEquusBlazingHoof Blazing Hoof]], [[Characters/CodexEquusFangedPaw Fanged Paw]], [[Characters/CodexEquusForgingScale Forging Scale]], [[Characters/CodexEquusClearVoice Clear Voice]], [[Characters/CodexEquusCrimsonStar Crimson Star]], [[Characters/CodexEquusBrightEyes Bright Eyes]], [[Characters/CodexEquusSteelBarricade Steel Barricade]], [[Characters/CodexEquusDeathShroud Death Shroud]], [[Characters/CodexEquusWrittenWord Written Word]], [[Characters/CodexEquusNightShade Night Shade]], [[Characters/CodexEquusRedBlade Red Blade]]]) | [[Characters/CodexEquusTheChangelingCourts The Changeling Courts]] ([[Characters/CodexEquusTheChangelingCourtsSpringCourt Spring Court]], [[Characters/CodexEquusTheChangelingCourtsSummerCourt Summer Court]], [[Characters/CodexEquusTheChangelingCourtsAutumnCourt Autumn Court]], [[Characters/CodexEquusTheChangelingCourtsWinterCourt Winter Court]]) | [[Characters/CodexEquusKulesianMazlanderCommonwealth Kulesian-Mazlander Commonwealth]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusMalregnarEmpire Malrègnar Empire]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusVertusia Vertusia]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusNewCrypta New Crypta]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusShadowpactEmpire Shadowpact Empire]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusTheClovenEmpire The Cloven Empire]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusZebrica Zebrica]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusFriendshipGardens Friendship Gardens]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusHyrule Hyrule]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusMachina Machina]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusFederalRepublicOfPonyland Federal Republic of Ponyland]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusColtalia Coltalia]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusNeighpon Neighpon]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusImperiumOfPonykind Imperium of Ponykind]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusKerajaanCahaya Kerajaan Cahaya]] | [[Characters/CodexEquusSauropoda Sauropoda]] | 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* CombatClairvoyance: His precognitive sight allows him to predict when to avoid attacks and when to strike. Unlike Kairos Fateweaver, though, he has some skill in physical combat.

* HappilyAdopted: She would be adopted by Blue Suede Heartstrings after he made a full psychological recovery and joined the Equestrian Pantheon as 'Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria'. Life for her improved after that, but what makes their relationship somewhat awkward is that one of her younger half-brothers, Stoltur Skjöldur, is now Caerulus' husband, which by her own admission she finds a little weird. To Caerulus' credit, he acknowledged this and initially didn't want to adopt Krásná because of it, but did it anyway because she deserved a much better father-figure in her life.

* BrotherSisterIncest: It's strongly believed InUniverse that he and Hnignun have an incestuous relationship, which is indicated by the fact that he has many hybrid children of his own, and they live with him in him hell-fief. The Erobreseg Deer Herds don't consider this too surprising, since Temnobog and his side of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon embodies Deerkind's lustful aspects to varying degrees, making incest quite common.

* PsychicLink: He shares a telepathic link with Hnignun due to their portfolios and natures being closely intertwined, which sets them apart from identical twins like Belyolen and Temnobog, who are magically bonded, and Blue Suede Heartstrings and Bossa Nova Heartstrings, who are empathically bonded. Their telepathic link allows them to work together without struggle between them, as they can share plans and strategies extremely quickly. However, it's noted that it's also a huge weakness; whenever one of them is psychically attacked, the other will feel their psychic pain.

* AndIMustScream: Invoked as a punishment in her hell-fief. Anyone who tries to cheat Death by becoming unfettered {{Immortality Seeker}}s are transformed into rotting trees after they inevitably die and are sent to her hell-fief, and forced to live in complete agony for eternity.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: She's a divine Deer-Draconequus who looks severely emaciated, diseased, and sickly, and she embodies things ilke Death, Decay, Poverty, and Sickness. She also has a black pelt with brown gradience, antlears that resemble gnarled, rotted, and/or diseased tree branches, has dead, rotting leaves for fetlocks, and wears a black, tattered druidic cloak lined with dead leaves and brown patterns. All which makes her resemble a piece of rotting wood. Her divine armor is likewise made of rusted bronze.

* BrotherSisterIncest: It's strongly believed InUniverse that she and Stækka have an incestuous relationship, which is indicated by the fact that Hnignun has many hybrid children of her own despite her sickly and emaciated appearance, and they live with her in her hell-fief. The Erobreseg Deer Herds don't consider this too surprising, since Temnobog and his side of the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon embodies Deerkind's lustful aspects to varying degrees, making incest quite common.
* ColorMotif: Brown and black. She's a Deer-Draconequus goddess with black fur and brown gradients, and likewise her druidic attire is also black with brown patterns. It's noted she resembles a piece of rotting wood because of this, especially since she has dead, rotting leaves on her cloak, antlers, and fetlocks.

* DivineParentage: Her father is Bolezn, the Bogolenya Deer god of Gluttony, Greed, and Pestilence. Her mother was a Nordskelt Deer immigrant form Cervidia and a botanist.

* MeaningfulName: Her name means "decline" or "decay" in Icelandic, which is rather appropriate for a goddess who embodies things like Death, Poverty, Decay, and Sickness.

* PsychicLink: She shares a telepathic link with Stækka due to their portfolios and natures being closely intertwined, which sets them apart from identical twins like Belyolen and Temnobog, who are magically bonded, and Blue Suede Heartstrings and Bossa Nova Heartstrings, who are empathically bonded. Their telepathic link allows them to work together without struggle between them, as they can share plans and strategies extremely quickly. However, it's noted that it's also a huge weakness; whenever one of them is psychically attacked, the other will feel their psychic pain.

* AssShove: In one pre-Ascension incident, this is how he murdered a particularly cruel and depraved Griffon overseer, who had a habit of '[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil pleasuring]]' himself with the slaves under his watch, sometimes with the overseer's own beating rod. To punish the Griffon overseer, Knechten took that same beating rod, added several sharp bits and nails to it, and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath proceeded to inflict the same tortures the former gave to his victims]].

* EvilCounterpart: As an evil god of Slavery and Imprisonment, Knechten serves as a constructive foil to deities and demi-deities like Prince Red Blade, Prince Knight Shade, and Moon Ray Vaughoof, all who oppose him and bear the ability to free those who were enslaved either by others or themselves. Moon Ray Vaughoof in particular contrasts Knechten the most, not only in upbringing and parentage, but also in powers and domains; Water, Temperance, and Forgiveness can help purify poisons and free people from wrongful punishment/enslavement, while Moon Ray's psychic powers in general are able to interfere with Knechten's reality-warping and break his geases.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Knechten murdering a particularly cruel and depraved Griffon slaver for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping his own slaves]] by sodomizing him with his own 'modified' beating rod is depicted as extremely brutal and horrific, even though said Griffon slaver [[AssholeVictim deserved it]]. In contrast, Knechten's cousin, Prince Stoltur Skjöldur, has consensual sex with his husband Blue Suede Heartstrings/[[MeaningfulRename Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria]], and the entire thing is depicted as sweet, tender, and loving. According to [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/665862165/4872943438 a Codexverse writer]], the contrast was intentional. It's zigzagged, though, as Prince Stoltur is similarly evil and depraved like Knechten, while Blue Suede/Caerulus is a kind and humble yet flawed person who took a long time to accept his own flaws due to then-untreated trauma; being HappilyMarried brought out their better sides while tempering each other's flaws.

* HalfHumanHybrid: He was born a mortal Cervogriff, as his mother is a Deer-Draconequus hybrid and his father was a Griffon, though he and his siblings disguised themselves as Griffons for much of their mortal life to avoid [[HalfBreedDiscrimination discrimination]]. When he ascended to godhood and became a Cervogriff-Draconequus, he no longer had to hide his heritage.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Certainly is of this opinion, and shows no hesitation in [[PayEvilUntoEvil doing this unto the perpetrators as punishment for their carnal debauchery]], especially those who [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil coerced or enslaved others]] to be forced upon. A scene-insert heavily implies in his youth he ''[[AssShove sodomized]]'' an overseer who has a habit of forcing himself young and/or female slaves with his own beating rod (modified with many, ''many'' sharp bits) as the opening act of a torturous, karmic death Knechten inflicted upon him. After ascending to godhood, he sold repugnant, carnally-depraved damned souls, male and female alike, to Pokhot and her scions, demons and followers for their harems and seraglio to be violated and degraded for all eternity as payback for their lustful wickedness, and is implied to have his way with them himself, whether personally with his own damned souls of the depraved or during his vacations in Pokhot's hell-fief as a VIP guest.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: In contrast to her inherently violent, merciless and (constructive) evil father, Princess Vykup is peaceful, merciful and good, seeking to redeem souls while her father and siblings seeks to punished those souls for their sins. This causes her a lot of grief initially until she came forward with her feelings and nature and was assured by her [[GoodParents loving father]] that she will not be judged and has his and her siblings' full support in being who she is.

[[folder:Princess Tudás, the Lady of Secrets]]
!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Curiosity, Knowledge, Secrets

Princess Tudás is the Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess of Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets, and is a daughter of Prince Varázsló and his older twin brother, Prince Cselszövő.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets.
* HalfHumanHybrid: She's an Alicorn-Deer Draconequus by virtue of her fathers, Prince Varázsló and his older twin brother, Prince Cselszövő, being Alicorn-Deer Draconequui themselves.
* HasTwoMommies: Gender-inverted; Prince Varázsló and [[{{Twincest}} his older twin brother]], Prince Cselszövő, are her biological fathers. Not only that, magical HomosexualReproduction was involved, which isn't considered too surprising by the Erobreseg Deer Herds given how depraved Temnobog's family is.
* HomosexualReproduction: She was sired by Prince Varázsló through [[{{Twincest}} his older twin brother]], Prince Cselszövő, through magical means. InUniverse, this isn't considered too surprising by the Erobreseg Deer Herds given how depraved Temnobog's family is.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Lady of Secrets".
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: She embodies the wicked aspects of Curiosity, Knowledge, and Secrets, showing [[GoMadFromTheRevelation what happens]] when her domains are pursued to unfettered extremes.

[[folder:Princess Cardinal Wing, the Princess of Pleasure]]

!!!'''Portfolio:''' Love, Art, Pleasure

Princess Cardinal Wing is the hybrid Bogolenya Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess of Love, Art, and Pleasure, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a hybrid Bogolenya Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Love, Art, and Pleasure.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Princess of Pleasure".

[[folder:Princess Iron Crown, the Cold-Hearted Tyrant]]
!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Royalty, Government, Power

Princess Iron Crown is the hybrid Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess of Royalty, Government, and Power, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a hybrid Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Royalty, Government, and Power.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Cold-Hearted Tyrant".

[[folder:Princess Cardinal Wing, the Princess of Pleasure]]
!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ethereal/Ascendant
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Love, Art, Pleasure

Princess Cardinal Wing is the hybrid Bogolenya Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess of Love, Art, and Pleasure, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a hybrid Bogolenya Griffon-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Love, Art, and Pleasure.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Princess of Pleasure".

[[folder:Princess Iron Crown, the Cold-Hearted Tyrant]]

!!!'''Portfolio:''' Royalty, Government, Power

Princess Iron Crown is the hybrid Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess of Royalty, Government, and Power, and is one of Pokhot's many daughters.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's a hybrid Bogolenya Alicorn-Deer Draconequus goddess who embodies Royalty, Government, and Power.
* TheMagnificent: Known as "the Cold-Hearted Tyrant".

[[folder:Queen Krásná Tradice, the Dutiful Queen]]
!!!'''Divine Classification:''' Ascendant/Ethereal
!!!'''Portfolio:''' Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, Prophecy
!!!'''Rank:''' Divine (Tier III/Intermediate; formerly a demigoddess)

-> ''"It's no use following traditions when all it does is lead you to ruin in the end."''

Queen Krásná Tradice (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Deities-and-Divines-Part-54-859005115 here]]) is the Bogolenya Deer-Draconequus goddess of Tradition, Sovereignty, Order, and Prophecy, and is one of Pokhot's older daughters.

!!Children of the Four Terrors
The Four Terrors themselves are not alone in their love and depravity. Each of them have started families of their own, with children born from their relationship with mortals, other gods and even [[VillainousIncest among themselves]]. Each of them would inherit aspects of their parents' depraved and evil personalities and philosophy, which in turn greatly affected their own characters and divine domains, for good or ill.

** Some parents of the Four Terrors' children were outright abusive to them growing up, in addition to being wicked in general. While a few redeemed themselves, others were damned for eternity upon death for their behavior. This has led to the children the Four Terrors sired with them carrying psychological issues that took them a long time to heal from, especially since Mentálne was not born yet when they were young.
** Subverted with the children of the Four Terrors themselves. As shown with Prince Stækka and Princess Hnignun's raising of their daughter, Duchess Vyléčit, the children of the Four Terrors are loving parents to their own children despite their inner evil and depravity.
* BastardBastard: Many of the Four Terrors' children had been sired with different people, both divine and mortal, making them half-siblings. Pokhot's family is the most prominent [[ReallyGetsAround due to her embodying Lust]], resulting in scores of divine and demi-divine. It's subverted as while said children are Evil by nature and are rightly feared by mortals for the things they do, they practice "constructive" Evil and serve as testers of mortals so they could make them strong enough to oppose Evil.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Being [[VillainousIncest Evil deities]], many of the Four Terrors' children have slept with their own siblings, whether they're male or female. Of course, they're also willing to sleep with [[ParentalIncest the Four Terrors themselves]] (as well as grandfather Temnobog). Many children on Temnobog's side of the family are born from these trysts.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Because of their inner evil, the Four Terrors often find themselves attracted to amoral, villainous, and/or depraved characters. This means that in some instances, their children end up suffering in some way, usually through AbusiveParents, which gives them lots of psychological baggage that takes a long time for them to recover.
* DepravedBisexual: Zigzagged. Many of Pokhot's children are Evil deities and, depending on their gender, have entered same-sex relationships with both males and females. While they are depraved and hedonistic by nature, they're {{Noble Demon}}s who practice the philosophy of "constructive" Evil, and often act the way they do to punish the damned shades in their hell-fief for crimes related to Pride and Lust. That being said, it's implied with Stoltur that outside of work, many of them are generally good and affectionate lovers who treat their partners well.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Despite their evil and depraved natures, they can be just as loving and affectionate as their noble relatives/peers and vice-versa, and are capable of holding long-standing relationships with heroic individuals. Knechten and Stoltur are just two examples, with the former dating a mortal female abolitionist (albeit under a secret identity to keep her from discovering his true nature as a god of Slavery), and the latter being HappilyMarried to Blue Suede Heartstrings/Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria, the Alicorn god of Music and Humility.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Aside from each other, all children of the Four Terrors are affectionate towards their parents, their infernal relatives, and their infernal grandfather, Temnobog. Their love also applies to Belyolen and his family despite their opposing natures as 'good' deities, as GoodNeedsEvil and the nobility of Belyolen's family tempers their evil nature. And because all of them are descended from a GodOfEvil, they're inherently depraved and lustful, and incest is very common among them.
* EvilNephew: Played with. All children of the Four Terrors are [[GodOfGood Belyolen]]'s grandnieces and grandnephews by virtue of being grandchildren of Temnobog, Belyolen's younger identical twin brother and the Bogolenya Deer Pantheon's ruling GodOfEvil. But despite their evil, the Four Terrors' children are {{Noble Demon}}s just like their parents and grandfather, and they practice 'constructive Evil' to ensure the survival of mortal/divine sapientkind. Belyolen also loves his nieces and nephews and treats them all like family the same way he does with Temnobog.
* EvilVersusEvil: Like their parents and grandfather, the children of the Four Terrors are utterly opposed to practitioners of [[ForTheEvulz "careless" Evil]], as it will rage out of control like a wildfire that will destroy everything, including itself, if left to its own devices. Because of this, they are bitter enemies of Hydianites and worshipers of Fallen deities like Ispita, who is their divine grandmother.
* EvilVersusOblivion: As constructively Evil deities and demi-deities, the Four Terrors' children and grandchildren are utterly opposed to followers of [[ForTheEvulz "careless" Evil]], as their unrestrained depravities would cause the destruction of Good and unnecessary suffering for the sake of Evil and eventually destroy not only Equus, but the surrounding universe and eventually itself.
* GodOfEvil: Zigzagged. Like the Four Terrors themselves, many of the Four Terrors' children are {{Noble Demon}}s, but are also unapologitically depraved and evil. However, some like Queen Krásná Tradice and Prince Lenost are more moderate in their evil than their infernal siblings/relatives. And then there's how some of them like Stækka are born with domains like Life and Fertility, which are 'good' in concept but can be used to commit evil when pursued to unfettered extremes.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The majority of the Four Terrors' children are Deer-Draconequui by virtue of being grandchildren of Ispita, a Fallen Draconequus goddess. However, some parents of said children themselves are non-Deer due to the Four Terrors' lustful tendencies, especially [[ReallyGetsAround Pokhot]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Some of Pokhot's children who bullied Lenost for [[CatsAreLazy not working as hard as them]] also 'worked' by [[TheHedonist participating in carnal depravities]], thus actually making them NotSoDifferent. Their mother Pokhot would furiously chew them out for this, and as punishment, she gave Lenost her blessing to [[PayEvilUntoEvil punish his bullying siblings as he saw fit]]. He did just that by cursing them to be so lethargic and apathetic that they couldn't work or enjoy even the smallest pleasures.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Some of Pokhot's children who bullied/mistreated their brother Lenost for being 'lazy' would receive a furious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from their mother, who also let Lenost punish them for their actions and hypocrisy. Lenost proceeded to cast a spell on them, leaving the afflicted so lethargic and apathetic that they couldn't muster up the energy to enjoy the carnal depravities they loved. This humiliated them and forced them to see the error of their actions, and they apologized for Lenost, only for their brother to nurse a grudge against them for a long time. Even after forgiving them thanks to Moon Ray Vaughoof's help, Lenost made it ''very clear'' that he will punish them should they decide to bully him again.
* NecessarilyEvil: Like their parents and grandfather, the children of the Four Terrors follow "constructive" Evil, which has them sowing Evil across the mortal planes so they could weed out the wicked and motivate/test heroes into becoming strong enough to oppose Evil. They see it as their duty to uphold the Balance of Good and Evil that preserves Equus, and those who follow [[ForTheEvulz "diabolical/careless" Evil]] must be destroyed.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Many of the things the children of the Four Terrors do to the damned shades in their parents and grandfather's hell-realms are rightly horrifying by mortal standards. However, as constructively Evil deities, what they do is necessary so they could provide warnings to mortals in regards to what happens when they fall into sin, and the damned shades themselves are almost always unrepentant people who deserved their punishments.
* ThePeepingTom: According to [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/665862165/4872943438 one of the Codexverse writers]], it's common for Pokhot's children to magically spy on their own family members whenever they participate in carnal, hedonistic depravities. This is shown with Prince Touha, who in one incident used his Lust-based 'observation' spells to spy on his younger brother Prince Stoltur having [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex consensual, tender, and sweet missionary sex]] with his husband, Prince Caerulus Melodia Equestria.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of the crimes that Pokhot and her divine and demi-divine children cover. Pokhot's entry notes that gangs and packs consisting of her demonic servants and champions often act like rapists and stalkers seeking to violate the damned shades in her hell-fief, echoing how the damned shades themselves did the same to innocent people in life. Pokhot's children would also join in and use the damned shades to satisfy their own lusts and pleasures at their victims' expense.
* ReallyGetsAround: Many of Pokhot's children are often as lustful as her, due to their mother embodying Lust, and like her, they see little difference between work and play. They are also not above sleeping with [[BrotherSisterIncest even their own brothers and sisters]]. While this mostly applies to Pokhot's family, the children of the other Terrors have also proven to be lustful themselves, to varying degrees.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: As shown with Prince Stoltur, many of Pokhot's children are Princes and Princesses by virtue of their mother being the "Empress" of her hell-fief. And as "constructive" Evil deities, they serve as divine testers of mortal heroes and champions, while opposing/punishing those who follow "diabolical/careless" Evil.
* WarriorPrince: Many of the Four Terrors' sons hold the title of 'Prince', with the title being more common among Pokhot's sons by virtue of being the children of an infernal 'Empress'. They are powerful and competent gods and warriors in their own right when they're not helping their parents punish the damned shades in their hell-fiefs.

* TheStoic: Justified. Being thrown into the Well of Eternity and forced to bear the knowledge and magic of the universe (or at least a huge part of it) has left him incredibly serious and stoic. Despite this, [[NotSoAboveItAll he has a penchant for pranks, especially when they involve screwing over villains who are obssessed with fate and prophecy]].

* VillainousBreakdown: After he is [[CurbStompBattle subdued by Golden Scepter, who destroys all of his dimensional/chronal research with his [[PsychicPowers psionic might]], Varázsló desperately tries salvaging what he could. He gets [[HopeSpot a glimmer of hope]] when he finds a piece of leftover paper... only to discover that it's burnt to the point where he can't read it anymore. Varázsló then sits in the ashes of his work and is breaks down sobbing, upon which a sympathetic Golden Scepter puts a solemn hoof on his shoulder.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Justified. While she's pretty evil himself, Pokhot a ''constructively'' Evil deity who seeks to test mortals and make them strong enough to oppose Evil in general. Her mother, Ispita, was once like her but became a Fallen goddess and thus, in Pokhot's eyes, she became no different than those who practice "careless" Evil. On a personal level, Pokhot ''hates'' Ispita because the latter's horrific actions initially drove her to extremes in trying to make herself different than her mother, only to have her pride broken with the discovery that no matter what she did, she was still indulging in the same Evils she sought to deny out of spite. She follows without question her father's standing order for Ispita and other beings like her, which is essentially "Kill on Sight".

* CloseToHome: Her entry notes that she has a deep grudge against those who break other people's pride for abusive and/or malicious ends, and always hands such individuals her severest punishments once she takes them to her hell-fief. This is due to Pokhot's experiences with Ispita, who became a Fallen goddess and broke her family apart by luring half of her children she had with Temnobog into "careless Evil"; because she resembled Ispita the most, Pokhot feared being persecuted by proxy due to her surviving family's hatred, and tried acting completely different from her mother by resisting her own evil nature to prove that she is not like her. However, her attempts would backfire when she couldn't resist anymore and participated in a massive orgy, but the discovery that she's being NotSoDifferent to Ispita after all caused her to fall into despair. Pokhot's hatred of pride-breakers is also the reason why she hates her grandfather, High King Irminsul, because he irrevocably warped his unborn son for the sake of his twisted ideas of perfection, and abused Temnobog and broke the Evil god's pride out of unjustified hatred and disgust. When she learned of Ispita's abuse of Cudnost as well as her numerous attempts to break the virtuous Draconequus goddess's pride, Pokhot was ''enraged'', to the point where her servants and champions believe that she has dreams of breaking Ispita's pride herself as punishment for her horrific actions.

* MamaBear: She was ''furious'' when she learned through one of her elder sons, Prince Touha, that some of her infernal children were bullying their brother, Prince Lenost, and treating him with contempt for being 'lazy' and not actively spreading 'constructive Evil' like they are. After [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chewing out her children for their hypocrisy]], she let Lenost PayEvilUntoEvil however he saw fit, which led to Lenost hitting his tormentors with a spell that made them so lethargic and apathetic, they couldn't even enjoy the carnal depravities they loved.

* BestServedCold: After spending some time recovering from psychological trauma inflicted by both his childhood abuse and his time in the [[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]], he finally gets his chance for revenge when Pokhot transfers the now-powerless damned shade of the Knowledgeable Sorcerer, on whom he proceeds to inflict every horrible fate imaginable.