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* TheJuggernaut: Rovagug is this from the perspective of the other gods. It was deemed too costly to kill him, and it took an elaborate plan and trap to seal him. The Godsrain Prophecy makes it clear that, even in the event that the gods rally all the new deities that came into existence after he was sealed, the cost of killing Rovagug would be a PyrrhicVictory that would devastate the material plane so much while leading many deities dead int he end, that it isn't worth it.
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* TheJuggernaut: Rovagug is this from the perspective of the other gods. It was deemed too costly to kill him, and it took an elaborate plan and trap to seal him. The Godsrain Prophecy makes it clear that, even in the event that the gods rally all the new deities that came into existence after he was sealed, the cost of killing Rovagug would be a PyrrhicVictory that would devastate the material plane so much while leading leaving many deities dead int he in the end, that it isn't worth it.
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* KillTheGod: Slew numerous other deities and seeks the destruction of the entire cosmos, gods included. Rovagug himself seems immune to this -- the aforementioned destruction of the universe may well be the only way for him to die. [[spoiler:Though even this is played with: in the final end foreseen by Tabris, he dies when he consumes himself at a point in which he is the sole remaining thing in existence, leaving it up in the air whether multiversal annihilation would have finished the job if he hadn't done it himself]]. This is also why, even many years later, it is seen as too costly to try and kill him, as he would just slay amny of the newer deities even if they all worked together.
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* KillTheGod: Slew numerous other deities and seeks the destruction of the entire cosmos, gods included. Rovagug himself seems immune to this -- the aforementioned destruction of the universe may well be the only way for him to die. [[spoiler:Though even this is played with: in the final end foreseen by Tabris, he dies when he consumes himself at a point in which he is the sole remaining thing in existence, leaving it up in the air whether multiversal annihilation would have finished the job if he hadn't done it himself]]. This is also why, even many years later, it is seen as too costly to try and kill him, as he would just slay amny many of the newer deities even if they all worked together.
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* InformedFlaw: He's supposed to be very misogynistic, but WordOfGod [[http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ptge?Hell-Devils-Archdevils-Whore-Queens-and-the on the subject]] is that Asmodeus doesn't care about gender one way or another when it comes to mortals, only when it comes to immortal beings (gods, other outsiders) that chose to take a female form. Even then, he puts it aside in favor of pragmatism and won't turn away an ally based solely on her gender. Hence, his occasional alliances with Iomedae and Sarenrae; likewise, his refusal to work with Calistria or Lamashtu has nothing to do with their gender and everything to do with him considering them untrustworthy. In the end, his misogyny apparently extends no further than his own court, and even then it's hinted that it may well be nothing more than a ploy.
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* InformedFlaw: He's supposed to be very misogynistic, but WordOfGod [[http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2ptge?Hell-Devils-Archdevils-Whore-Queens-and-the on the subject]] is that Paizo has stated]] Asmodeus doesn't care about gender one way or another when it comes to mortals, only when it comes to immortal beings (gods, other outsiders) that chose to take a female form. Even then, he puts it aside in favor of pragmatism and won't turn away an ally based solely on her gender. Hence, his occasional alliances with Iomedae and Sarenrae; likewise, his refusal to work with Calistria or Lamashtu has nothing to do with their gender and everything to do with him considering them untrustworthy. In the end, his misogyny apparently extends no further than his own court, and even then it's hinted that it may well be nothing more than a ploy.
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* UnreliableNarrator: WordOfGod is that whether or not Ihys even existed is a matter of debate, and that Asmodeus may have made the whole thing up.
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* TimeAbyss: [[WordOfGod Word of James Jacobs]] is that Pharasma is the oldest being in the Great Beyond, being the SoleSurvivor of the previous multiverse.
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* TimeAbyss: [[WordOfGod Word of James Jacobs]] is that Pharasma is the oldest being in the Great Beyond, being the SoleSurvivor of the previous multiverse.
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* TheJuggernaut: Rovagug is this from the perspective of the other gods.
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* TheJuggernaut: Rovagug is this from the perspective of the other gods. It was deemed too costly to kill him, and it took an elaborate plan and trap to seal him. The Godsrain Prophecy makes it clear that, even in the event that the gods rally all the new deities that came into existence after he was sealed, the cost of killing Rovagug would be a PyrrhicVictory that would devastate the material plane so much while leading many deities dead int he end, that it isn't worth it.
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* KillTheGod: Slew numerous other deities and seeks the destruction of the entire cosmos, gods included. Rovagug himself seems immune to this -- the aforementioned destruction of the universe may well be the only way for him to die. [[spoiler:Though even this is played with: in the final end foreseen by Tabris, he dies when he consumes himself at a point in which he is the sole remaining thing in existence, leaving it up in the air whether multiversal annihilation would have finished the job if he hadn't done it himself]].
* MisanthropeSupreme: Again, lots of his followers.
* MysteriousPast: No one is sure where Rovagug came from, or why he wants to annihilate all existence. It has been [[WordOfGod confirmed]] that he's a deific qlippoth. The Windsong Testaments puts him as the first qlippoth, already divine even then, but even so he's different than the other first divinities. He was the last to come into being of those first, but given that the divinity that became Rovagug walked off the spiral of creation, it's unclear if he was always Rovagug, corrupted by something outside, joined with it, or if Pharasma's fear of that space was what took hold of him.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Again, lots of his followers.
* MysteriousPast: No one is sure where Rovagug came from, or why he wants to annihilate all existence. It has been [[WordOfGod confirmed]] that he's a deific qlippoth. The Windsong Testaments puts him as the first qlippoth, already divine even then, but even so he's different than the other first divinities. He was the last to come into being of those first, but given that the divinity that became Rovagug walked off the spiral of creation, it's unclear if he was always Rovagug, corrupted by something outside, joined with it, or if Pharasma's fear of that space was what took hold of him.
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* KillTheGod: Slew numerous other deities and seeks the destruction of the entire cosmos, gods included. Rovagug himself seems immune to this -- the aforementioned destruction of the universe may well be the only way for him to die. [[spoiler:Though even this is played with: in the final end foreseen by Tabris, he dies when he consumes himself at a point in which he is the sole remaining thing in existence, leaving it up in the air whether multiversal annihilation would have finished the job if he hadn't done it himself]].
himself]]. This is also why, even many years later, it is seen as too costly to try and kill him, as he would just slay amny of the newer deities even if they all worked together.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Again, lots of hisfollowers.
followers. Most are drawn to him because they despise living and other people so much, they would prefer to see it wiped out.
* MysteriousPast: No one is sure where Rovagug came from, or why he wants to annihilate all existence. It has been[[WordOfGod confirmed]] confirmed that he's a deific qlippoth. The Windsong Testaments puts him as the first qlippoth, already divine even then, but even so he's different than the other first divinities. He was the last to come into being of those first, but given that the divinity that became Rovagug walked off the spiral of creation, it's unclear if he was always Rovagug, corrupted by something outside, joined with it, or if Pharasma's fear of that space was what took hold of him.
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* MysteriousPast: No one is sure where Rovagug came from, or why he wants to annihilate all existence. It has been
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** She's also opposed to Abaddon and the daemons, to the point where she actually allows demons and devils to poach souls that would be destined for that realm. She doesn't specifically care about good or evil, but she opposes the destruction of the universe.
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* AnimatedArmor: He usually appears as an empty suit of armor carrying a greatsword. An in-universe theory is that it's actually TwentyFourHourArmor to conceal that he's a half-orc, but it's mostly just half-orcs who say this. [[spoiler:A picture of his corpse shows nothing underneath, but he still bleeds.]]
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* AnimatedArmor: He usually appears as an empty suit of armor carrying a greatsword. An in-universe theory is that it's actually TwentyFourHourArmor to conceal that he's a half-orc, but it's mostly just half-orcs who say this. [[spoiler:A A picture of his corpse shows nothing underneath, but he still bleeds.]]
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Is on the receiving end of it, triggering the War of Immortals.]]
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Is Is on the receiving end of it, triggering the War of Immortals.]]
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Gorum's death is the inciting event that begins the War of Immortals metaplot, which sees a shakeup to Golarion and the pantheon on a whole. In addition, his death is the source of the player characters Mythic Powers during the adventure.
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* DesecratingTheDead: After the Knights of Ozem tried and failed to attack Geb, the necromancer stole and animated her as a trophy wife as an insult to his would-be vanquishers.
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* DesecratingTheDead: After the Knights of Ozem tried and failed to attack Geb, the necromancer stole and animated her as a trophy wife as an insult to his would-be vanquishers. Fittingly, one of her Anathema is creating unwilling undead, given she was made an undead against her will.
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* HeartTrauma: Four of her organs were removed and placed in funerary jars. They're currently in the hands of the Knights of Ozem, her one-time disciples, and she very much wants them back. Said heart can be found in Tyrant's Grasp, but she reluctantly declines taking it back, letting the heroes use it instead.
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* HeartTrauma: Four of her organs were removed and placed in funerary jars. They're currently in the hands of the Knights of Ozem, her one-time disciples, and she very much wants them back. Said Her heart can be found in Tyrant's Grasp, but she reluctantly declines taking it back, letting the heroes use it instead.
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* MutualKill: In her battle against Tlochach, the Serpent of the Seven Hills, Arazni defeated the monster after a titanic struggle, but later succumbed to its venom.
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* MutualKill: In her battle against Tlochach, the Serpent of the Seven Hills, Arazni defeated the monster after a titanic struggle, but later succumbed to its venom. This act would be what turned her into an angel after she was judged for her deeds in life.
* RevengeBeforeReason: A big difference between Arazni and Calistria when it comes to revenge is that, while Calistria is about getting more or less an equal amount of revenge against someone who wronged you, Arazni firmly believes that someone should never forgive or forget when they are wronged. As such, Arazni's followers are encouraged to go further than simply getting payback, and to do everything possible against those who wronged them. For this reason, she has primarily evil and chaotic followers, with the only lawful followers being Lawful Neutral as of second edition.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was originally a {{Paladin}}, but was killed horribly by the Whispering Tyrant. Later, Geb turned her into his undead lich slave out of spite, twisting her former self into an angry woman. Aroden never came to rescue her before his death, and, eventually, she [[FaceHeelTurn became an evil demigod]]. Even after she escaped Geb and become independent, she's bitter and angry at her death and current fate.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was originally a {{Paladin}}, but was killed horribly by the Whispering Tyrant. Later, Geb turned her into his undead lich slave out of spite, twisting her former self into an angry woman. Aroden never came to rescue her before his death, and, eventually, she [[FaceHeelTurn became an evil demigod]]. Even after she escaped Geb and become independent, she's bitter and angry at her death and current fate.fate, only mellowing out a bit.
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* YinYangClash: A great deal of civilization was destroyed in the war with Rovagug, the one deity who ''doesn't'' avoid battling on the Material Plane. The other gods pulled an EnemyMine and worked in tandem to imprison him. His escape could very well mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, as even if the others ''do'' stop him again, the collateral damage would be unfathomable.
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* YinYangClash: A great deal of civilization was destroyed in the war with Rovagug, the one deity who ''doesn't'' avoid battling on the Material Plane.Universe. The other gods pulled an EnemyMine and worked in tandem to imprison him. His escape could very well mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, as even if the others ''do'' stop him again, the collateral damage would be unfathomable.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: She was born a mortal human woman, and obtained a spark of divinity some time during her tenure as Aroden's herald. When she died as a mortal, Aroden found her as an angel and she kept her spark even after her death.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: She was born a mortal human woman, and obtained a spark of divinity some time during her tenure as Aroden's herald. When she died as a mortal, Aroden found her as an angel herald, and she kept her spark even it after her death.being killed and forcibly dragged from the Great Beyond to be transformed into a lich.
* MutualKill: In her battle against Tlochach, the Serpent of the Seven Hills, Arazni defeated the monster after a titanic struggle, but later succumbed to its venom.
* DividedDeity: Gorum's death leads to the Godsrain, a literal shower of his blood, armour and divine essence that falls upon every world where he had worshippers, leaving war and mythic power in its wake.
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* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: His minor divine servants, the zentragts, resemble bears, except in that they are made of metal and covered in spikes. They're also intelligent, and fully capable of fighting tactically.
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Pharasma's immense age and universal control over the souls of the departed mean that she is known and respected throughout the Material Plane. On Golarion, her church is particularly well-established in Tian Xia, where she is known as the Mother of Souls, and of course in the Inner Sea region.
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Pharasma's immense age and universal control over the souls of the departed mean that she is known and respected throughout the Material Plane.Universe. On Golarion, her church is particularly well-established in Tian Xia, where she is known as the Mother of Souls, and of course in the Inner Sea region.
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* GodOfTheDead: The TrueNeutral[[invoked]] judge of the dead. She appears as a stately gray-skinned lady with white hair that doesn't quite obey gravity, despises the undead for being abominations, and runs the CelestialBureaucracy where souls wait to receive her judgement before going on to their designated afterlife. She rules over the {{psychopomp}}s, who rove the planes as her agents in safeguarding the passage of souls and battling those who would prey upon them, and charges her followers with watching over the dead on the material plane as well as battling the undead. Interestingly, besides being the goddess of death, she's also the goddess of [[BirthDeathJuxtaposition birth]], ruling over both the beginning and end of mortal lives, and is worshipped by midwives as much as by undertakers and undead-hunters.
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* GodOfTheDead: The TrueNeutral[[invoked]] judge of the dead. She appears as a stately gray-skinned lady with white hair that doesn't quite obey gravity, despises the undead for being abominations, and runs the CelestialBureaucracy where souls wait to receive her judgement before going on to their designated afterlife. She rules over the {{psychopomp}}s, who rove the planes as her agents in safeguarding the passage of souls and battling those who would prey upon them, and charges her followers with watching over the dead on the material plane Universe as well as battling the undead. Interestingly, besides being the goddess of death, she's also the goddess of [[BirthDeathJuxtaposition birth]], ruling over both the beginning and end of mortal lives, and is worshipped by midwives as much as by undertakers and undead-hunters.
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* BarrierMaiden: The [[https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siik?The-Godsrain-Prophecies-Part-Four Godsrain Prophecies]] suggests this is why the other gods have not tried killing her. As evil as Urgathoa is, she's effectively a RestrainingBolt on undead and necromancy, so her dying would throw the material plane into chaos. Were she to die, some undead would cease to work, but many would still run amuck, and the dead would potentially rise uncontrollably. The prophecy paints her death as leading to a ZombieApocalypse the world could never recover from.
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* BarrierMaiden: The [[https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6siik?The-Godsrain-Prophecies-Part-Four Godsrain Prophecies]] suggests this is why the other gods have not tried killing her. As evil as Urgathoa is, she's effectively a RestrainingBolt on undead and necromancy, so her dying would throw the material plane Universe into chaos. Were she to die, some undead would cease to work, be destroyed, but many would still run amuck, amok, and the dead would potentially rise uncontrollably. The prophecy paints her death as leading to a ZombieApocalypse the world could never recover from.
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* ExactWords: Abadar convinced Zon-Kuthon to stay in exile on the Plane of Shadow until the sun vanished from the sky, in exchange for an item from the First Vault. This was supposed be when the sun burned out billions of years from then, but due to the [[ApocalypseHow Age of Darkness]], it technically happened ''much'' sooner.
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* ExactWords: Abadar convinced Zon-Kuthon to stay in exile on the Plane of Shadow Netherworld until the sun vanished from the sky, in exchange for an item from the First Vault. This was supposed be when the sun burned out billions of years from then, but due to the [[ApocalypseHow Age of Darkness]], it technically happened ''much'' sooner.
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* GodOfDarkness: He's the god of darkness and the most powerful being on the Shadow Plane.
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* GodOfDarkness: He's the god of darkness and the most powerful being on the Shadow Plane.Netherworld.
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Arazni was the mortal friend turned divine herald for Aroden who was slain during the Shining Crusade by the Whispering Tyrant, Tar-Baphon, and revived as a lich by the necromancer Geb. She would eventually escape and help prevent the Whispering Tyrant from becoming a god, gaining a surge in followers with the fall of Lastwall, cementing her as a deity. As of the War of Immortals metaplot, she was ascended to a core deity.
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Arazni was the mortal friend turned once Aroden's divine herald for Aroden who herald, but was slain by the Whispering Tyrant during the Shining Crusade by the Whispering Tyrant, Tar-Baphon, Crusade, and revived as a lich by the necromancer Geb. Geb to serve as his queen. She would eventually escape Geb's control and help prevent the Whispering Tyrant from becoming a god, gaining a surge in followers with the fall of Lastwall, cementing her as a deity. As of the War of Immortals metaplot, she was ascended to a core deity.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: She is, but she actively refuses to let her church be a menace to the world; she even allows Chaotic Good clerics, seeing them as {{Pragmatic Hero}}es who understand [[IDidWhatIHadToDo what must be done to save others from her fate]].
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: She was born a mortal human woman, and obtained a spark of divinity some time during her tenure as Aroden's herald.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: She is, is evil, but she actively refuses to let her church be a menace to the world; she even allows Chaotic Good clerics, seeing them as {{Pragmatic Hero}}es who understand [[IDidWhatIHadToDo what must be done to save others from her fate]].
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: She was born a mortal human woman, and obtained a spark of divinity some time during her tenure as Aroden's herald. When she died as a mortal, Aroden found her as an angel and she kept her spark even after her death.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: She was born a mortal human woman, and obtained a spark of divinity some time during her tenure as Aroden's herald. When she died as a mortal, Aroden found her as an angel and she kept her spark even after her death.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was originally a {{Paladin}}, but was killed horribly by the Whispering Tyrant. Later, Geb turned her into his undead lich slave out of spite, twisting her former self into an angry woman. Aroden [[WhatTheHellHero didn't bother to rescue her,]] and, eventually, she [[FaceHeelTurn became an evil demigod]].
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was originally a {{Paladin}}, but was killed horribly by the Whispering Tyrant. Later, Geb turned her into his undead lich slave out of spite, twisting her former self into an angry woman. Aroden [[WhatTheHellHero didn't bother never came to rescue her,]] her before his death, and, eventually, she [[FaceHeelTurn became an evil demigod]].demigod]]. Even after she escaped Geb and become independent, she's bitter and angry at her death and current fate.
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Arazni was the mortal friend turned divine herald for Aroden who was slain during the Shining Crusade by the Whispering Tyrant, Tar-Baphon, and revived as a lich by the necromancer Geb. She would eventually escape and help prevent the Whispering Tyrant from becoming a god, gaining a surge in followers with the fall of Lastwall, cementing her as a deity. As of the War of Immortals metaplot, she was ascended to a core deity.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: The 2E War of Immortals AP is based around one of the core gods dying in some way, causing a massive shakeup in the pantheon and world as whole. As part of the build-up, the Godsrain Prophecies go in depth on the deities and what were to happen if they perished, while slowly building up to the reveal of whose death triggers the events of the AP. [[spoiler:The hype stream reveals it's Gorum.]]
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* TonightSomeoneDies: The 2E War of Immortals AP metaplot is based around one of the core gods dying in some way, causing a massive shakeup in the pantheon and world as whole. As part of the build-up, the Godsrain Prophecies go in depth on the deities and what were to happen if they perished, while slowly building up to the reveal of whose death triggers the events of the AP. [[spoiler:The hype stream reveals it's Six months before the event begins, the dead god was revealed to be Gorum.]]
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->'''Prince of Darkness'''
->'''God of tyranny, slavery, pride, and contracts'''
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
Asmodeus (pronounced as-MO-day-us) is the most powerful of the nine archdevils that inhabit Hell, and the only one of Hell's rulers to claim full divinity. It was he who is credited with the penning the contract of creation, within which his followers believe is hidden the means for their patron's eventual rise to supremacy.
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->'''Prince of Darkness'''
->'''God of tyranny, slavery, pride, and contracts'''
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
Asmodeus (pronounced as-MO-day-us) is the most powerful of the nine archdevils that inhabit Hell, and the only one of Hell's rulers to claim full divinity. It was he who is credited with the penning the contract of creation, within which his followers believe is hidden the means for their patron's eventual rise to supremacy.
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->'''God of tyranny, slavery, pride,
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Asmodeus (pronounced as-MO-day-us) is the most powerful of the nine archdevils that inhabit Hell, and the only one of Hell's rulers to claim full divinity. It was he who is credited with the penning the contract of creation, within which his followers believe is hidden the means for their patron's eventual rise to supremacy.
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* AffablyEvil: Grim and merciless, but she hasn't lost her ability to be polite or show kindness.
* AngelicTransformation: After her mortal death, Arazni was sent to Nirvana and became a tabellia angel, where her old friend Aroden found her and asked her to be his herald.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She met her death when she fought the Whispering Tyrant, who humiliated her before torturing her to death and throwing her broken body into the ranks of her followers to demoralize them.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She is, but she actively refuses to let her church be a menace to the world; she even allows Chaotic Good clerics, seeing them as {{Pragmatic Hero}}es who understand [[IDidWhatIHadToDo what must be done to save others from her fate]].
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: She was born a mortal human woman, and obtained a spark of divinity some time during her tenure as Aroden's herald.
* DesecratingTheDead: After the Knights of Ozem tried and failed to attack Geb, the necromancer stole and animated her as a trophy wife as an insult to his would-be vanquishers.
* {{Expy}}: She seems pretty obviously inspired by [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Sylvanas Windrunner]], being a formerly heroic character who was turned undead against her will and now rules as an evil queen, but was still technically a slave until finally casting off Geb's control for good.
* FallenAngel: She started as an astral deva, and was turned into an evil lich against her will. Since then, she's softened slightly to be more kind towards others.
* HeartTrauma: Four of her organs were removed and placed in funerary jars. They're currently in the hands of the Knights of Ozem, her one-time disciples, and she very much wants them back. Said heart can be found in Tyrant's Grasp, but she reluctantly declines taking it back, letting the heroes use it instead.
* IHatePastMe: She views her former angel self as having been a self-righteous idiot.
* MagicStaff: She owns a unique ''staff of the magi'' that uses its wielders caster level for saves and allows mythic power to amp up its spells.
* MoralityPet: She comes to see the heroes in Tyrant's Grasp as this. She initially only saw them as a means to an end, but through scrying on the heroes, she comes to develop respect and even something akin to fondness for them, especially if she sees them do acts of good. Due to this, she's willing to give the heroes a chance to stop the Knights of Ozem from getting in her way of confronting the Whispering Tyrant, and secretly hopes they aren't caught in the battle and die alongside her. Despite their sacrifice in the end, Arazni comes to soften slightly after the events of the AP, and by 2e has allowed for good aligned people to work with her more, touched by the heroes sacrifice.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Lichdom usually requires a unique process for each individual, but Geb was not only able to make Arazni into a lich sixty-seven years after she died but also managed to bring her soul back and bind it into her body.
* PetTheDog: She saves the heroes in Tyrant's Grasp in large part because she's grown rather fond of them.
* PlatonicLifePartners: In life, Arazni was Aroden's adventuring companion and later his herald, [[WithFriendsLikeThese not that it kept him from (literally) leaving her to rot after Geb made her his undead slave]].
* RedBaron: She was known as the Scarlet Crusader in life.
* StopWorshippingMe: Arazni actively despises the majority of her worshippers. Many still revere her in her aspect as the lich-queen of Geb, a role she was magically forced into and which she perceives as a profound and obscene violation. The rest, who took to worshipping her after she broke free from this role, she hates chiefly out of resentment at only coming to her now that she's powerful once more after ignoring her while she suffered, and because she despises the idea that what she has become is worthy of veneration. The very few followers she grudgingly accepts are others who were themselves betrayed, broken or otherwise stripped of their agency in the world, and who view her less as a figure to revere and more as someone whose ugly fate they share. This is reflected in how the permitted alignments for her clerics are Neutral Evil, Lawful, True, and Chaotic Neutral, and ''[[DarkIsNotEvil Chaotic Good]]''.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was originally a {{Paladin}}, but was killed horribly by the Whispering Tyrant. Later, Geb turned her into his undead lich slave out of spite, twisting her former self into an angry woman. Aroden [[WhatTheHellHero didn't bother to rescue her,]] and, eventually, she [[FaceHeelTurn became an evil demigod]].
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->'''Prince of Darkness'''
->'''God of tyranny, slavery, pride, and contracts'''
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
Asmodeus (pronounced as-MO-day-us) is the most powerful of the nine archdevils that inhabit Hell, and the only one of Hell's rulers to claim full divinity. It was he who is credited with the penning the contract of creation, within which his followers believe is hidden the means for their patron's eventual rise to supremacy.
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* AngelicTransformation: After her mortal death, Arazni was sent to Nirvana and became a tabellia angel, where her old friend Aroden found her and asked her to be his herald.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She met her death when she fought the Whispering Tyrant, who humiliated her before torturing her to death and throwing her broken body into the ranks of her followers to demoralize them.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She is, but she actively refuses to let her church be a menace to the world; she even allows Chaotic Good clerics, seeing them as {{Pragmatic Hero}}es who understand [[IDidWhatIHadToDo what must be done to save others from her fate]].
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: She was born a mortal human woman, and obtained a spark of divinity some time during her tenure as Aroden's herald.
* DesecratingTheDead: After the Knights of Ozem tried and failed to attack Geb, the necromancer stole and animated her as a trophy wife as an insult to his would-be vanquishers.
* {{Expy}}: She seems pretty obviously inspired by [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Sylvanas Windrunner]], being a formerly heroic character who was turned undead against her will and now rules as an evil queen, but was still technically a slave until finally casting off Geb's control for good.
* FallenAngel: She started as an astral deva, and was turned into an evil lich against her will. Since then, she's softened slightly to be more kind towards others.
* HeartTrauma: Four of her organs were removed and placed in funerary jars. They're currently in the hands of the Knights of Ozem, her one-time disciples, and she very much wants them back. Said heart can be found in Tyrant's Grasp, but she reluctantly declines taking it back, letting the heroes use it instead.
* IHatePastMe: She views her former angel self as having been a self-righteous idiot.
* MagicStaff: She owns a unique ''staff of the magi'' that uses its wielders caster level for saves and allows mythic power to amp up its spells.
* MoralityPet: She comes to see the heroes in Tyrant's Grasp as this. She initially only saw them as a means to an end, but through scrying on the heroes, she comes to develop respect and even something akin to fondness for them, especially if she sees them do acts of good. Due to this, she's willing to give the heroes a chance to stop the Knights of Ozem from getting in her way of confronting the Whispering Tyrant, and secretly hopes they aren't caught in the battle and die alongside her. Despite their sacrifice in the end, Arazni comes to soften slightly after the events of the AP, and by 2e has allowed for good aligned people to work with her more, touched by the heroes sacrifice.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Lichdom usually requires a unique process for each individual, but Geb was not only able to make Arazni into a lich sixty-seven years after she died but also managed to bring her soul back and bind it into her body.
* PetTheDog: She saves the heroes in Tyrant's Grasp in large part because she's grown rather fond of them.
* PlatonicLifePartners: In life, Arazni was Aroden's adventuring companion and later his herald, [[WithFriendsLikeThese not that it kept him from (literally) leaving her to rot after Geb made her his undead slave]].
* RedBaron: She was known as the Scarlet Crusader in life.
* StopWorshippingMe: Arazni actively despises the majority of her worshippers. Many still revere her in her aspect as the lich-queen of Geb, a role she was magically forced into and which she perceives as a profound and obscene violation. The rest, who took to worshipping her after she broke free from this role, she hates chiefly out of resentment at only coming to her now that she's powerful once more after ignoring her while she suffered, and because she despises the idea that what she has become is worthy of veneration. The very few followers she grudgingly accepts are others who were themselves betrayed, broken or otherwise stripped of their agency in the world, and who view her less as a figure to revere and more as someone whose ugly fate they share. This is reflected in how the permitted alignments for her clerics are Neutral Evil, Lawful, True, and Chaotic Neutral, and ''[[DarkIsNotEvil Chaotic Good]]''.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was originally a {{Paladin}}, but was killed horribly by the Whispering Tyrant. Later, Geb turned her into his undead lich slave out of spite, twisting her former self into an angry woman. Aroden [[WhatTheHellHero didn't bother to rescue her,]] and, eventually, she [[FaceHeelTurn became an evil demigod]].
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[[folder:Asmodeus]]
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->'''Prince of Darkness'''
->'''God of tyranny, slavery, pride, and contracts'''
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Asmodeus (pronounced as-MO-day-us) is the most powerful of the nine archdevils that inhabit Hell, and the only one of Hell's rulers to claim full divinity. It was he who is credited with the penning the contract of creation, within which his followers believe is hidden the means for their patron's eventual rise to supremacy.
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Calistria (pronounced kah-LISS-tree-ah) is the goddess of lust and revenge who takes on many faces and guises. She is held in especially high regard by elves, who often identify with her moods and changeable nature. A fondness for wasps has earned this vengeful deity the title the Savored Sting; such creatures live on after harming their enemies, a trait Calistria's followers hope to emulate when pursuing their goals.
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Calistria (pronounced kah-LISS-tree-ah) is the goddess of lust and revenge who takes on many faces and guises. She is held in especially high regard by elves, who often identify with her moods and changeable nature.nature, but also her ability to move on once she has found satisfaction. A fondness for wasps has earned this vengeful deity the title the Savored Sting; such creatures live on after harming their enemies, a trait Calistria's followers hope to emulate when pursuing their goals.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What makes her Chaotic Neutral and not ''Evil'' is that she [[DefiedTrope categorically does not do this]]; revenge, to her, is about redressing specific wrongs, and so she feels her revenge should be about that slight and nothing more - an eye for an eye, not two eyes.
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* {{Revenge}}: A goddess of vengeance, Calistria never forgets a slight, and any who think she has forgiven will surely find it is only a matter of time before they are targeted by a long-term plot of revenge to lay them thoroughly low.
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* {{Revenge}}: A goddess of vengeance, Calistria never forgets a slight, and any who think she has forgiven will surely find it is only a matter of time before they are targeted by a long-term plot of revenge to lay them thoroughly low. Thankfully, it also stops there - once revenge is done with, ''then'' you are forgiven.
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* {{Hobbits}}: [[MysteriousPast As far as can be inferred]], and knowing he is from Vyre with a large halfling community, there's strong implications he was a halfling before he passed the Test of the Starstone, having fully embraced his people's reputation as TheSneakyGuy.
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* {{Hobbits}}: [[MysteriousPast As far as can be inferred]], and knowing he is from Vyre with a large halfling community, population, and how his faithful recruit strongly from halfling communities, there's strong implications he was a halfling before he passed the Test of the Starstone, having fully embraced his people's reputation as TheSneakyGuy.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: He has the distinction of having been the first mortal after Aroden to pass the Test of the ''Starstone''. Fittingly for the god of secrets, no one knows who or what he was before ascension.
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* DarkIsEvil: The god of people who do their criminal trades at night, and an utterly amoral, highly greedy one.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: He has the distinction of having been the first mortal after Aroden to pass the Test of the ''Starstone''. Fittingly for the god of secrets, no one knows who or what he was before
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* TheUsualAdversaries: His faith is a frequent opponent in Adventure Paths, as he is the god of a bunch of things that lend themselves well to intrigue; political corruption, amoral science, crime, and murder.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: The 2E War of Immortals AP is based around one of the core gods dying in some way, causing a massive shakeup in the pantheon and world as whole. As part of the build-up, the Godsrain Prophecies go in depth on the deities and what were to happen if they perished, while slowly building up to the reveal of whose death triggers the events of the AP.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: The 2E War of Immortals AP is based around one of the core gods dying in some way, causing a massive shakeup in the pantheon and world as whole. As part of the build-up, the Godsrain Prophecies go in depth on the deities and what were to happen if they perished, while slowly building up to the reveal of whose death triggers the events of the AP. [[spoiler:The hype stream reveals it's Gorum.]]
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* AnimatedArmor: He usually appears as an empty suit of armor carrying a greatsword. An in-universe theory is that it's actually TwentyFourHourArmor to conceal that he's a half-orc, but it's mostly just half-orcs who say this.
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* AnimatedArmor: He usually appears as an empty suit of armor carrying a greatsword. An in-universe theory is that it's actually TwentyFourHourArmor to conceal that he's a half-orc, but it's mostly just half-orcs who say this. [[spoiler:A picture of his corpse shows nothing underneath, but he still bleeds.]]
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Is on the receiving end of it, triggering the War of Immortals.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Defied, despite being the God of alcohol. Cayden's followers are taught that drinking should be used in displays of camraderie and celebration. Abusing or wasting alcohol tends to be sacrilegious among his followers.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweet guy who is more than willing to help the downtrodden, but if you make him mad...
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* TheAlcoholic: Defied, despite being the God of alcohol. Cayden's followers are taught that drinking should be used in displays of camraderie and celebration. Abusing or wasting alcohol tends to be sacrilegious among his followers.
followers, with there being groups within his followers who focus on helping other followers who are struggling with their alcohol.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweet guy who is more than willing to help the downtrodden, but if you make himmad...mad, expect a swift end. His followers are urged to veer into this mindset as well; be friendly, helpful, and nice, but don't be afraid to take action.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: He was a mortal hero who passed the Test of the ''Starstone''... completely hammered.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: He was a mortal hero who passed the Test of the ''Starstone''... ''Starstone'' while completely hammered.hammered.
* TheDrifter: He was one of these in life and his followers tend to be the same. It's said he tends to do this even after gaining divinity, with several accounts from some denizens of Elysium saying it's not uncommon to run into him and stop to have a drink with whoever's willing.
* TheDrifter: He was one of these in life and his followers tend to be the same. It's said he tends to do this even after gaining divinity, with several accounts from some denizens of Elysium saying it's not uncommon to run into him and stop to have a drink with whoever's willing.
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* NoodleIncident: We have no idea how he managed to [[DeityOfHumanOrigin pass the Test of the Starstone]], [[WhatDidIDoLastNight and neither does he]]. Him seemingly passing it but not recalling is such a mystery that the Godsrain Prophecies for 2e mentions the possibility he never even succeeded originally but rose to divinity later, furthering the mystery.
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* NoodleIncident: We have no idea how he managed to [[DeityOfHumanOrigin pass the Test of the Starstone]], [[WhatDidIDoLastNight and neither does he]]. Him seemingly passing it but not recalling is such a mystery that the Godsrain Prophecies for 2e mentions the possibility he never even succeeded originally but rose to divinity later, furthering the mystery.an idea that Cayden worries about possibly having taken place.
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* TheWanderer: He was one of these in life and his followers tend to be the same. It's said he tends to do this even after gaining divinity, with several accounts from some denizens of Elysium saying it's not uncommon to run into him and stop to have a drink with whoever's willing.
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* TheLostLenore: Not canonically, but the Godsrain Prophecies state she'd be one to her lovers if she ever died; in the BadFuture outlined by them, her demise promptly sends Cayden Cailean into a [[DrowningMySorrows depressed bender]], causes Shelyn to have a CreatorBreakdown where [[TrueArtIsAngsty she only accepts mournful songs as truly beautiful]], and Sarenae [[SourOutsideSadInside builds a wall around her heart and dares Shelyn to try and climb it]].
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* TheLostLenore: Not canonically, but the Godsrain Prophecies state she'd be one to her lovers if she ever died; in the BadFuture outlined by them, her demise promptly sends Cayden Cailean into a [[DrowningMySorrows depressed bender]], causes Shelyn to have a CreatorBreakdown breakdown where [[TrueArtIsAngsty she only accepts mournful songs as truly beautiful]], and Sarenae [[SourOutsideSadInside builds a wall around her heart and dares Shelyn to try and climb it]].
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* BenevolentAbomination: It's heavily implied that Desna was originally a Great Old One or something similar who developed empathy for other beings; she promptly shows her more eldritch side when something [[BewareTheNiceOnes truly pisses her off]]. The Godsrain Prophecies state that her existence is what keeps Pathfinder safely LovecraftLite, as one of the malevolent {{Eldritch Abomination}}s she oversees managing to overcome her [[TheStarsAreGoingOut promptly causes every star to vanish from the night sky]].
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* TheUnfettered: Desna is known for thoroughly fulfilling the Chaotic side of her alignment, not just the Good: while benevolent, she has virtually no respect whatsoever for constraints or traditions and has earned a reputation as one of the most mercurial and unpredictable deities in the pantheon. She once nearly caused an interplanar war when she personally invaded the realm of the demon prince Aolar, killing her and razing her castle, [[PayEvilUntoEvil in vengeance for having killed and possessed one of her priests to then kill the priest's loved ones]].
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* TheUnfettered: Desna is known for thoroughly fulfilling the Chaotic side of her alignment, not just the Good: while benevolent, she has virtually no respect whatsoever for constraints or traditions and has earned a reputation as one of the most mercurial and unpredictable deities in the pantheon. She once nearly caused an interplanar war when she personally invaded the realm of the demon prince Aolar, killing her and razing her castle, [[PayEvilUntoEvil in vengeance for having killed and possessed one of her priests to then kill the priest's loved ones]]. She also set Arueshalae from ''Wrath of the Righteous'' onto the path to becoming an AscendedDemon by reaching through a priest the {{succubus}} was in the midst of [[OutWithABang seducing and devouring]] and [[ForcedToFeelEmpathy giving her a conscience]].
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The Godsrain Prophecies suggests this is why the other gods have not tried killing her. As evil as Urgathoa is, she's effectively a RestrainingBolt on undead and necromancy, so her dying would throw the material plane into chaos. Were she to die, some undead would cease to work, but many would still run amuck, and the dead would potentially rise uncontrollably. The prophecy paints her death as leading to a ZombieApocalypse the world could never recover from.
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* DespairEventHorizon: He's the God of Loss, and many of his followers have crossed it. It's heavily implied that he has crossed it himself.
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* {{Expy}}: He is essentially Paizo's answer to [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Tharizdun]], who is also an EldritchAbomination who seeks to destroy all of reality and was sealed away by an alliance of both the good and evil gods.
