Jergal Jergal ( pronounced " JER - gull " ) , also referred to as The Lord of the End of Everything , is the seneschal of the Lord of the Dead who keeps records on the final disposition of all the spirits of the dead . Jergal is unfeeling and excessively formal , he never angers and always speaks in a disembodied , chilling voice . He cares little for anything besides an orderly accounting of the fate of the world as it slowly sinks into death , and he now serves Kelemvor as he previously served Cyric and Myrkul before him . In ethos , Jergal is colder and more inhumane than his master , sanctioning the use and creation of undead by his followers , provided they serve the cause of advancing death in the world . He is not evil or malicious , but impassively records the death of all things . Worshipers . Church . The church of Jergal is small and secretive , a rigidly organized , almost monastic order of scribes known as the Scriveners of Doom . Based largely in lifeless stone mausoleums and dry , dusty crypts , its members spend their days maintaining and extending vast archives of scrolls listing how sentients under their purview passed away and their destination in the afterlife . Only in Thay , where death is a daily fact of life , has Jergal ' s church undergone a small renaissance . A handful of Jergal ' s followers still follow the old ways of the Companions of the Pallid Mask , an order whose members specialized in combating or commanding the undead whose existence was not sanctioned by the church or who had proven to be troublesome . Clergy . Clerics of Jergal pray for their spells at dusk , a time of day representative of the end of life . On the last night of the year , Jergal ' s clergy cease their endless toil for a full night . On this holy night , known as the Night of Another Year , the clerics read every name whose death they have recorded from the scrolls they have carefully inscribed over the past year . With a cry of " One Year Closer ! " , all the scrolls are then filed , and work begins the next day . The only ritual Jergal ' s clerics are required to perform is called the Sealing . After recording each and every creature ' s demise , form of death , and destination in the afterlife , Scriveners of Doom are required to sprinkle a light dusting of ash and powdered bone over their inscribed words to blot the ink and mark another small step toward the world ' s end . Some seek church - sponsored undeath to allow them to continue their archiving careers . Some clerics multi - class as monks or necromancers . Relationships . Bane , Bhaal and Myrkul inherited most of the portfolios of Jergal when he wearily stepped down from his position and then faded into near - obscurity . The death of those deities left Jergal in the service to Cyric and then Kelemvor . Although his nature is that he must be loyal to the office of death , he can subtly undermine the holder of that office if he or she is not true to the office ' s responsibilities . Jergal works well with Kelemvor , but retains his scorn for Cyric and spends much of his efforts combating Velsharoon ' s efforts to prolong life into undeath . History . Jergal is an ancient deity , older than many of the greater gods of Faerûn . In the time of Netheril , he was a greater deity himself , with the portfolios of the Dead , Murder and Strife . With the long aeons , he became bored with his position of power , and allowed for three mortals , known as the Dead Three , to each take up parts of his divinity . Bane assumed the portfolio of Strife , Myrkul the rulership of the Dead and Bhaal the portfolio of Murder . Jergal himself faded from his great stature , and became a seneschal to Myrkul , a position he has kept even after his master perished and first Cyric , then Kelemvor assumed his place .