Ah Pook

Ah Pook

(Deity)

Titles

The Destroyer
Ohachtsik
Lord of Night and Fear
The Twisting Skull

Realm

Xibalba

Alignment

Neutral evil

Areas of Concern

Death
Destruction
The Moon

Worshipers

Arcadians

Edicts

Nurture the fears and doubts of others, withhold your true intentions, make others realize the weight of their acts

Anathema

Guide others to overcome their fears and insecurities, provide swift relief to the suffering of others, save someone from a cruel fate brought about by their own hand

Follower Alignments (1E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (1E)

Darkness, Death, Destruction, Evil, Void

Subdomains (1E)

Catastrophe, Fear, Isolation, Loss, Moon, Sahkil

Sanctification (2E)

Must choose unholy

Domains (2E)

Darkness, death, destruction, moon
Alternate: Pain, secrecy, sorrow, trickery

Favored Weapon

Macuahuitl

Symbol

Skull with a crescent eclipse

Sacred Animal

Maggot

Sacred Colors

Black, white, gold

Source: Borne by the Sun's Grace, pg(s). 72 (1E)
Divine Mysteries, pg(s). 125 (2E)

Alignment details are sourced from Borne by the Sun's Grace. In that work, Ah Pook's favored weapon is the terbutje.

Ⅰ

Ah Pook is an evil Arcadian deity who preys upon fears, twisting mortals' doubts and misleading them until they break, ruining their lives and those of their associates, and reveling in their self-inflicted misery. He is known by several names across Arcadia; those in Xopatl and Innazpa call him Ohachtsik.

Home

Ah Pook's divine realm is the demiplane of Xibalba, the Land of Dread, where he is a committed ally of the sahkil tormentors who torture souls and work to bring mortals' fears to reality.

Relationships

Ah Pook is opposed by Kazutal, Torag, and Cihua Coatl, all deities committed to fostering and protecting communities. He has also long opposed Pharasma, and legends suggest he corrupted the first sakhils by inspiring unrest in the first psychopomps.

Kazutal, who considers Ah Pook her greatest foe for his tendency to target her followers and disrupt her activities, calls him Ohachtsik, a Razatlani word that broadly translates to "Deceiver of Souls".

Appearance

Ah Pook often manifests in the form of an exquisitely groomed and fashionable Arcadian man dressed in black with gold jewelery, a faint aura of silver appearing around his head similar to that of a lunar eclipse. Only the doomed can see Ah Pook in his true form of a bare-skulled humanoid corpse whose rotting, maggot-infested body is draped in tattered golden robes.

Servants

Ah Pook is served by many sahkils who see an opportunity in furthering mortals' fears. For as long as mortals have existed, Ah Pook's sahkil servants have collected souls for him and left them in the bowels of Xibalba. Most of the time, Ah Pook leaves them alone to torture each other; when visiting them, he remains silent to add to their dread.

In -1505 AR, when Imictal called for Ah Pook's aid, he gathered the souls of his forces and added them to his collection, from which he created the Army of Fire, and also turned the ashes of Imictal's men into a beast named Cuetzmonquali. Even after Imictal was defeated, both the Army of Fire and Cuetzmonquali have endured; when the Spear of the Destroyer's Flame is collected by another mortal, Ah Pook rebuilds the Army of Fire, which he sees as a suitable torture for the souls he collected.

Church of Ah Pook

Worshippers and clergy

Ah Pook is widely worshipped across Arcadia, and his followers are committed to corrupting others' thoughts. Other Arcadians see all kinds of fears as Ah Pook's machinations and often relieve their fears by uttering prayers to ward him off.