Scal

Scal

(Deity)

Titles

Calm after the Storm

Alignment

Neutral evil

Areas of Concern

Annihilation
Catharsis
Purity

Edicts

Strive for physical and mental perfection, tap into one's inner darkness to destroy anything that compromises one's pursuit of righteous perfection, take vengeance when necessary

Anathema

Indulge in gluttonous or lazy behavior, give up without a fight, refuse a duel

Follower Alignments (1E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (1E)

Destruction, Earth, Evil, Liberation, Void

Subdomains (1E)

Catastrophe, Daemon, Entropy, Freedom, Rage, Self-Realization

Sanctification (2E)

Must choose unholy

Domains (2E)

Destruction, earth, freedom, perfection
Alternate: Repose, zeal

Favored Weapon

Meteor hammer

Symbol

Burning meteor impacting the ground

Sacred Animal

Wolverine

Sacred Colors

Red

Source: The Flooded Cathedral, pg(s). 73 (1E)
Divine Mysteries, pg(s). 178–179, 302–303 (2E)

The religious symbol, sacred animal, and sacred color for this deity are listed exclusively in the Divine Mysteries Web Supplement.

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Scal is a deity of annihilation, catharsis, and purity worshiped by the humans of ancient Azlant. He teaches his followers to shed their imperfections not by repressing or subduing them, but rather by harnessing and releasing their inner darkness upon threats to a righteous existence.

History

During the Age of Legend, Scal proclaimed that if humanity disappointed him, he would unleash an apocalypse upon Golarion to allow a new generation of faithful to grow. After Earthfall, the survivors—unaware of the true culprits—blamed Scal for the catastrophe and forbade speaking his name in the early aftermath. In the Age of Darkness, Scal's cult faded to obscurity.

Church of Scal

Scal's cults are scattered and consist mostly of loners who congregate around fight clubs. During the time of Azlant, his priests searched the empire's cities for people who felt drawn to a group that could understand their rage against a flawed world and promised to make them better—disowned people and recently released prisoners were easy to recruit.

Members of House Denzarni of Taldor take pride in their purported Azlanti heritage in many ways, most notably in their ostensible worship of Scal. While not devoted in any truly meaningful way, they nevertheless engage in debauched orgies as a means of "cleansing" themselves of wicked impulses in a manner that resembles the worship of Scal.

A series of hidden temples devoted to Scal has been discovered in the Azlanti ruins of Pegaduor in Taldor. Fareine Oubroulay, a prominent Pathfinder from Nex, believes that these temples have something to do with the ancient disappearance of Pegaduor's residents sometime after Earthfall.

References

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