Xol, Consumer of Thousands (5e Deity)

Xol, Consumer of Thousands

The Worm God, Xol

"Behold my passage. Behold my vast displacement, my ponderous strength, my great and coiling length, my folded jaws and curled wings. Behold the hiving cities symbiotic with my flesh. I am fecund, Aurash. I am at the beginning and end of lives.

- Xol, Consumer of Thousands

Alignment. Chaotic Evil
Domains. Death, Trickery
Divine Rank. Greater Deity

Xol, Consumer of Thousands is the God and enslaver of an insect-like race, using them to enforce its will and constantly feed it after binding their ancestors to an ancient pact that forever doomed their race to eternally feed with a false promise of power.

Xol is a long, serpentine-like beast, covered in stone plates and heavy lairs of chitin. At the front of its body is a mouth, opening into six segments to reveal a large, glowing, Eye. Xol's followers pray to effigies of it, ranging from various designs such as staw bound into the shape of a serpent or a beautifully shaped jewel, coiled like a snake.

In the past far gone, a realm blanketed by sand and a sky of dark existed, inhabited only by a race of short-lived insectoid like creatures called the Krill, who didn't amount to anything nor made any difference, Xol slept under the sands, kept at bay by 'the sky'. For millennia he watched the Krill and bide his time, waiting for a moment of freedom to escape his eternal imprisonment. Once that chance came, he whispered to the Krill, offering the first prophet the gift she couldn't give up; survival. Xol's gift allowed her to survive, but at a dear cost, and once the prophet spread this gift it wasn't long until Xol has the entirety of the Krill under his thumb. They were burdened with the task to feed Xol for an eternity to come, and once self tribute no longer satisfied Xol, they moved on, expanding their reach to other planes of existence. Although Xol's reach has yet to grasp the major planes, his influence can still be found occasionally but once Xol's influence spread, its power grew with haste. No longer was it merely powerful, it had become a God. With its newfound power, it created its own plane of existence, one where it had omnipotency; a throne world. From its throne world, it can communicate with its most devout followers or those from outside its sphere of influence, seeking its false promises of power or to mock those who dare challenge its power and underestimate its hidden following.

The consumer resides within its throne world, a separate pocket of reality, shaped to its will and mind. Many races and walks of life rever Xol as his influence has spread throughout existence, becoming more than a lowly bug in the sand.

Insignia of the Consumer (From Andoric Art)

However followers of Xol are still few and far between, often being those who have lost all meaning and everything they once had; giving up their life to continue the cycle of feast and destruction Xol brings about. Each one of his followers is as devout as the rest, hoping to one day become one with their god, only after it devours all life that exists within their world

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