Nazeth

Appearance
He appears as a gaunt and wasted man, nearly skeletal. Thin skin stretched tight over bones, half of his face missing and just clean bone. He wears a thick, black cowl and carries a scythe in one hand and a fiddle on his back.

History
The clergy of Nazeth was formed on the day that Allhara made her pact with Nazeth, and crossed over into the Spirit World.

Dogma
Nazeth is the Lord of the Dead. In exchange for the worship and respect of the living, he holds closed the Gate of Souls. Followers of Nazeth either worship him to appease him, or worship him to revel in the death that he represents. According to scripture, the dead only stay quiescent due to his blessing and the pact he made with his consort. Allhara's Eve is the day most sacred to his worshippers, as it marks the date of their founding and the day when his favor is in the most demand. In Yntheria, the dead are buried and treated with respect in honor of not just of those who have passed on, but of Nazeth and his power. Denying funerary rights to a corpse angers Nazeth and tempts his vengeance, despite his pact. Corpses are only cremated when there is no other choice, as it is viewed as a denial of his power. Before passing onto their eternal rest, all souls must first pass through Nazeth's Dread land and face judgement before him and their deity. There, they will pass to the world beyond, or be damned to the blackest of hells. His land is depicted as a large, misty expanse stretching into the far distance, with columns and drifts of bones. The Gate of Souls stands at the focus of the plane, above Nazeth's throne. The Gate is often depicted as a large circle made of bone, with vertebrae-like nodes evenly spaced across. Each temple of Nazeth has a stylized Gate of Souls built into the temple's altar.

Relationships
Nazeth and Mellavine do not see eye to eye on many things, as Nazeth does not respect or acknowledge the sanctity of life versus the rest of the grave. Both however, detest the suffering that often occurs between both states.

Servants
Allhara - Protector of the gate, demi-goddess Once, the most beautiful princess in all the world. She is rumored to have traveled to his realm back in the early days of time when the gates of the spirit world stayed open and ghouls and revenants haunted all corners of Yntheria. She travelled to his realm and pleaded with him to close the gates, he agreed on the condition that she would stay by his side as his consort for all eternity, with but one day a year to be free to walk the world.

Associated Items

 * Violin of Souls