Nin
Alternate: Darkness, tyranny
Nin is a vampire deity obsessed with the eternal quests for knowledge and perfection. They seek to build a following of perfect vampires capable of conquering the multiverse and making Nin the Universe's most perfect creature.1
Relationships
Nin and their followers do not get along with Zura's or Urgathoa's churches despite them also being undead deities, seeing those deities' hedonism as beneath them and a waste of an immortal life.1
Pantheons
Nin is among the deities of the Children of the Night pantheon, alongside Camazotz, Urgathoa, Yaezhing, and Zura. These deities lack trust in each other but cooperate toward a greater goal of protecting their murderous followers. This secretive pantheon's followers are also cagey about revealing its existence, much less inducting new followers.2
Appearance
Nin refuses to expose themself to danger by manifesting in a physical form, and instead appears to vampires deemed worthy exclusively through reflections in mirrors and pools of water. Their appearance resembles a black-skinned, long-fanged agender human wearing eccentric clothing and thin eyeglasses. In these appearances, Nin carries a large book with bleeding pages.1
Emissaries
The writings of the nosoi psychopomp Yivali relayed reports of Anemona, a scholar from the Ustalavic city of Ardis, who had fought a vampiric herald of Nin. This herald was said to have pursued the conquering of the Darklands beneath Casmaron.3
Church of Nin
Nin is selective of their followers and intolerant of any who demonstrate weakness. Nin charges their followers with collaboratively investigating solutions to complex issues that vampires face, such as the effects of garlic, the academic ramifications of blotting out the sun, or the effects of different types of wooden stakes on vampires of weaker religions.
These esoteric tasks have directly contributed to the nullification of several previously effective deterrents to vampires, such as hypnotizing them using naturally occurring spirals, weakening them by burning lavender, or attacking them with hematite weapons.1
Worshipers
Nin's requests for her followers draw ambitious, intellectual vampires who view reality as if it were a series of problems with mathematical solutions. These devotees work over millennia to solve Nin's problems with methodical rigor, and to eliminate their own flaws and optimize their powers.
Worshippers of Nin view mortals as nothing more than food, and the deities who show them compassion as being undeservingly complacent of their divine power.1
References
Paizo published an article on Nin in Divine Mysteries.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 . “Other Gods” in Divine Mysteries, 152. Paizo Inc., 2024
- ↑ . “Pantheons” in Divine Mysteries, 242. Paizo Inc., 2024
- ↑ . “Mortal Herald” in Divine Mysteries, 278. Paizo Inc., 2024 . This information is presented second-hand as in-character text and might be unreliable.