Sigiswald (3.5e Deity)
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| Greater Deity | |
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| Symbol: | A wooden cross with a snake twisting around it, wrapping around the longer section, around each 'arm', and finally biting off the 'head' of the cross. The right eye of the snake is amber, while the left eye is azure. |
| Home Plane: | Warped Plane |
| Alignment: | While at rest, Chaotic Neutral, but it may change at will |
| Portfolio: | Madmen, Artists, Rulers, Thieves, the Forgotten (Pre-Fall); Travelers, Healers, Outcasts, Redemption Seekers |
| Clergy Alignments: | Any Chaotic, True Neutral (Pre-Fall), Any Neutral and Lawful or Chaotic Neutral (Post-Fall) |
| Domains: | Chaos, Death, Evil, Madness, Trickery, and War (Pre-Fall); Creation, Healing, Liberation, Repose, Travel (Post-Fall) |
| Favored Weapon: | Scythe |
Pre-Fall:
Sigiswald, the Soul Stealing Snake. While he himself is not an overly powerful Deity, or himself known for any acts of greatness or evil, save for one, Sigiswald is one of the most mentioned and seen Deities of the Warped Plane world. His title mainly comes from his power: The ability to devour the souls of the lost or missing.
Created by the gods of which his religion is founded, Sigiswald held but one purpose: Replace those who died. In folklore and tales, stories of gods and goddess dying have been seen many times over, yet they always come back within minutes, if not seconds, of their death. Upon death, Sigiswald devours their soul, absorbing their essence. With the soul, Sigiswald, simply put, becomes a copy of the soul he has devoured. During that time, Sigiswald is not alive, and the god/dess that has died is, allowing the god/dess to be revived at a later time, and allowing Sigiswald to return to his life.
This cycle continued for countless years, with the Soul Stealing Snake silently going about his painful trials of death and rebirth. To himself, he though of a plan to grant himself immunity to torment. As he is not himself when he has devoured a soul, Sigiswald made himself a simple note, a reminder about his plan. Waiting patiently for the Goddess of Life Radiance to die, Sigiswald made his plan come to fruition upon her death. With her powers and the note left to himself, Sigiswald recreated his body, and killed his old one. The two souls, now fused into one, were devoured by the new body of Sigiswald. He took on a very simple look: Should length platinum blond hair, long and lanky figure in a simple white shirt of high quality, similar style pants, dirt brown color. His most distinguishing feature: His amber colored right eye and azure colored blue eye. With his new powers, Sigiswald slowly repeated this process until his powers grew to such limits that, by himself, he was the Warped Pantheon. His mind, broken form years of death and rebirth, his soul ripped to shreds by his own power, and body forcibly remade until it suited his needs, Sigiswald sat at his throne a ruined man. No amounts of power could soothe him. Only time cured his wounds, and during the time, he found one other being in his Plane which survived the slaughter, his personal angel, Mayu. Seeing her in tears and fear at what happened, the war within the Soul Stealing Snake finally came to an end. He took her, and banished the two to the Material Plane.
Post-Fall:
Sigiswald and Mayu traveled the Material Plane, going from town to town, city to city in order to do whatever deeds it would take for Sigiswald to atone for his murder of the deities. While his mind is at calm, and the souls inside him are quiet, the anger that dwells within him boils at times. Folklore around towns say that a simple man was seen defending a town by himself, but other accounts the same person razing a city for harboring a Thieves' Guild that held too much power.
With each being killed, Sigiswald is held by his original purpose: The devour them. No longer does he become them, or adopt their ways. However, the soul is drawn to him, at which it melds into his own, granting the pained deity higher burden and more pain. Still, Sigiswald attempts to redeem himself in the eyes of his ruined Pantheon in whatever way possible, and travels the Martial Plane in hopes of doing so.
Dogma[edit]
"Remember who you are...for if you are used by those whom trust you...the name you once held stands risk being erased and you yourself being washed aside as a simple tool..."
Clergy and Temples[edit]
The temples or clergymen of this ancient religion are gone. However, texts still remain, and people have took the words of this ancient lore to heart. Sigiswald himself requires little in terms of religious grandeur. He simply asks his Clerics and followers to not forget who has granted them their power, and that they not hold back Sigiswald's name when asked who they worship.
With his Post-Fall redemption, and due to his extreme determination abide by and keep law, a Paladin may worship Sigiswald in his Post-Fall ways. However, this is a very risky ordeal, due to Sigiswald's former life, and many Paladin Orders feel that the title alone is not worthy.
Pantheon[edit]
The Warped Pantheon. With few original texts remaining, and many texts being reproduced, and sadly with changes, one can only hope to assume that the Warped Pantheon is something akin to that of the Roman or Greek Pantheons, if the slightest a large realm of divine beings that influence the world of those who worship them.
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