More Random Acts of Godhood

Time to roll up another god, with Kellri’s Old School Encounters Reference.

This time, I start off with a Demi-god, who has one domain and one artifact.

And, the domain is…

Plains. Hmm. Plains.

He’s neutral to neutral evil and, as for his following, a roll of 97 means it’s a world wide cult! He has 940,000 followers! He’s concerned with his worshippers and he has one allied group. On the Demeanor Table, I rolled Lenient. Appearance? A Demonic Biped, who appears as a child. Symbol: A Gnarled Fist. Artifact? A rod/staff/wand.

I need to think about this. I’m going outside to smoke a cigarette. I’ll be back…

I’m tweaking this a bit, so, here we go.

Uermos – Scion of the Wild Fields. The Wandering Mage. Demi-god. Symbol – A Forked Tongue, Dripping Blood.

A deity worshipped by the Nomads of the Eastern Steppes, Uermos is the son of Makusta, the Great Khan of the Heavens and Candira, a Demon Princess whom the Great Khan enslaved. Uermos was charged by his father, with the task of overseeing the Wild Fields and communicating information from the Great Khan, to his people and their mortal leader, the Khan of the Steppes. It is Uermos who guides the Nomads on their endless journeying. He passes along what information they need, by way of the Nomads’ Priests and Magi. Uermos is credited with teaching the steppe dwellers the art of Magic, as well as what limited agricultural knowledge they possess.

Appearing as a small, dark, thin child, with a wolf’s head and forked tongue, Uermos wields a staff named Higistu, carved from the thigh-bone of a Storm Giant, which he killed, when the giant refused to tell him the secret of lightning. Uermos bound the spirit of the giant into the bone. The staff is +3 to hit and damage, grants the wielder immunity to electricity, casts an 8d8 lighting bolt 3 times per day and allows the wielder to both move and breath, freely, while underwater. Browned with age and decorated with horsehair fringes, the staff may be wielded by Uermos with impunity, but, if anyone else uses the item, there is a cumulative 3% chance, that the spirit that is bound within the item, will be able to mentally enslave the wielder for 2d10 days.

Uermos is sometimes seen at night, dressed as a horseman of the plains, moving to and fro, just beyond the perimeter of his followers’ tents. Once per month, in the dark of the moon, a slave or captive must be sacrificed to Uermos. The deed is performed outside the range of the peoples campfires and must be done in such a way, as to insure that the victims blood will serve as a fitting repast for the demonic little god. The priests teach that this offering of devotion, shows Uermos the peoples gratitude, insuring that the demi-god will continue to look after them. The day after the sacrifice, a small boon is always granted to the people, usually in the form of a new spell being given to the priests or magi. Sometimes, a new resource will be found in the vast grasslands, instead. Uermos always looks after his father’s people, as the Great Khan has decreed, demanding little, save for his sacrifice and that the Nomads heed the words of the priests and magi, who communicate the will of Makusta to the people and their Khan of the Steppes.

I went pretty far afield, with that one. Quite a bit of information, between the lines.