Mordiggian

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Mordiggian
(Deity)

Titles
The Charnel God
Alignment
Areas of Concern
Darkness
Ghouls
the Voices of the dead
Worshipers
Cleric Alignments (1E)
Domains (1E)
Chaos, Darkness, Death, Evil
Subdomains (1E)
Entropy, Loss, Night, Undead
Favored Weapon
Symbol
Bloody fangs surrounded by darkness
Source: In Search of Sanity, pg(s). 69
Mordiggian
(Creature)

Type
Aberration
(chaotic, evil, Great Old One, incorporeal)
CR
30
Environment
Any
Alignment
Source: The Thrushmoor Terror, pg(s). 86f.

Mordiggian1 is the Great Old One of darkness, ghouls, and the voices of the dead.2

History

Mordiggian's age cannot be reliably tracked, as he can move back and forth in time. As far as one can look into the past or future, his cult can be found.3

Appearance

Mordiggian appears as a mobile cloud of darkness with no fixed shape. His favoured corporeal form is that of an immense graveworm or a limbless giant made of darkness with solid tentacles, in which he manifests to eat or punish those who trespass in his temples.23

Church of Mordiggian

Mordiggian was once the patron of all ghouls, but most of them have since forgotten him and converted to the worship of other death gods. Only pockets of Leng ghouls continue to maintain their ancient rites. Most of Mordiggian's modern followers are humans who deformed themselves to resemble ghouls, and hide these features under silver masks and heavy cloaks.2

Mordiggian's temples are either hidden vaults under graveyards, or great mausoleums in positions of prominence in cities. Priests of Mordiggian collect the dead in such cities for free and feed them to Mordiggian in their sacred vaults. Sometimes they are too eager to gather the 'dead', and also take the comatose, despite their potential of recovery.23

Relationships

Mordiggian's cult considers ghouls who have converted to the worship of other deities, like Kabriri, heretics and seeks to exterminate them everywhere they can be found.3

References

For additional as-yet unincorporated sources about this subject, see the Meta page.

  1. Original Source: Clark Ashton Smith, "The Charnel God", 1934;James Jacobs. “The Elder Mythos” in In Search of Sanity, 69. Paizo Inc., 2016
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 James Jacobs. “The Elder Mythos” in In Search of Sanity, 69. Paizo Inc., 2016
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 James Jacobs, et al. “Bestiary” in The Thrushmoor Terror, 87. Paizo Inc., 2016