The Dead Gods
Ten names. Ten gods. All of them slain by the basilisk SHE within the wretched peaks of the Bergen Chrypt. Their corpses are scripture nobody reads anymore. Their prophets still hear them — hot wires through the brain, day and night, the voice of something that should have gone silent.
No one wants to hear the words of a dead god. They speak anyway.
The Slain (3d10 / d10 × 2, source p.1)
| d10 | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acrophoe | Beacon of blood |
| 2 | Elioch | Bearer of death |
| 3 | Ekk | Bride of decay |
| 4 | Ghzat | Child of flies |
| 5 | Gnost | Herald of impotence |
| 6 | Häil | King of panic |
| 7 | Kvera | Lady of rot |
| 8 | Malais | Prince of rust |
| 9 | Varkka | Queen of unease |
| 10 | Öde | Song of the flesh |
Roll twice for the Dead God's Prophet class — first the name, then the title. The combinations are themselves canon (Acrophoe, Bride of Decay; Häil, Song of the Flesh). The titles travel between names like rot between bodies.
What Their Murder Means
These were somebody's gods. Cults that ran older than Verhu's prophecy. Names spoken before the Two-Headed Basilisks built their cathedral on top of Anuk Schleger's tomb. SHE descended on each of them inside the Bergen Chrypt and put them down — the same mountain where she crawled from the cracks at the start of time, the same mountain where she spawned and slaughtered her own.
Now the prophets wander with rotten gospels, beaten and babbling, smelling of the gods that died on top of them. Some still work miracles — the dead god enters the flesh of its last witness and answers one yes/no question before withdrawing.
SHE, Bergen Chrypt, Dead God's Prophet, Two-Headed Basilisks, Verhu, Nameless Scriptures, Forgotten Mind-Cult
Source gives only names and titles — never described what the gods did or what their cults looked like before SHE slew them. Whether the Forgotten Mind-Cult of the Ochre Tablets predates or postdates this slaughter is open. Whether any temples to these gods remain standing — sacked, defaced, sealed — is wide-open expansion territory. The mechanism of god-murder ("slain by the Basilisk SHE within the wretched peaks") is unwritten; presumably the same agonies she visits on her own spawn cast from the cliffs.