Deiodio

Deiodio (also spelled deiodeo) is a powerful deity present in both the Wheatist and Paxian pantheons. He is usually represented as an armored humanoid with a rooster head and snakes for legs. Often depicted carrying a shield and whip. His Wheatist depiction is associated with chickens, agriculture, and creation. While his Segrist depiction is one of wind and change.
== Mythology ==
There are two primary and conflicting myths surrounding Deiodio. The first comes from his subgroup of Wheatist worshippers (sometimes referred to as Deiodism) who credit him for the creation of the universe itself.
The Deiodist creation myth claims that in the void before time there was nothing but a celestial egg. From this egg hatched Deiodio, who dreamed of existence. From his dreams sprouted a great tree, which grew and bore many fruits. These fruits were the empty planets of the universe, some of which would come to be known by names such as Abexilas, Rathnir, Jagdas, and Paxia. It is said that Deiodio shaped these worlds with his voice and feathers, blowing wind and changing the landscape so that life might thrive on them. This story sees Deiodio as a chief creator god, one who is responsible for the world and existence itself.
The Egononomica Segrora tells a different story, claiming that Deiodio was one of two great opposing powers in the world of Paxia that came from the primary force of Nyar-Lothhodideios-Bardathaldaboath. That he and his sister Segra, who was born from the opposite force Lehkelogah-Djehkeleho-dehbe-effehezepeh, battled for the dominance of their opposing ideologies, change and order, respectively. Deiodio believed that life would grow through adaptation to changing circumstances. While Segra believed in growth through order and culling the weak and disorderly within that ordered world. It was his striving for new things that Deiodio shaped the world into that of the one we know, creating the winds and sky, the sun and the moon, using them to shape the world. He would desire even more beyond this, which Segra urged against, and he created the first people from the wind. These were the white wind people and they scattered across the newly made world. They were subject to Deiodios other creations; however, in his narrow view of purposeless creation, he conjured a great storm. This flaying storm brutally swept across all of the world and creating chaos and torment. Deiodio could not control this creation, and yet he would not let his children have the peace of death. Seeing the chaos Segra would make her own race, from the waters of the abyss she would make the black water Paxians. These were stronger than Deiodios creations and together the two races would create a new race of grey Paxians, from which all other people of the worlds would eventually be born. In this it is said that Deiodio exists in the blood of all people. 
The Paxian myth sees Deiodio as a chief creator god as well, but a vain and shortsighted one rather than a wise and all powerful one. The two tales are similar in many ways including Deiodios creation of the world and celestial bodies as well as the focus on wind as his primary instrument and domain.
== Encounters and Artifacts ==
The first accounts of mortal interactions with Deiodio outside of Segrist sources comes from the Rathnir land of Neuheim. Deiodio first appeared to Hugo Mertürmer as a chicken. He would go on to punish the people for heresy trapping them in bedrock boxes and causing chickens to rain from the sky. He would send this group several other messages usually in the form of chickens or similar animals. This group would incorporate Deiodio into their Wheatist beliefs, eventually becoming their own sect entirely (Deiodism). This sect would come to live in Seeberg, and constructed several shrines to the god. 
Through worship and ritual sacrifices at Deiodios shrine the people of Seeberg were able to contact this entity. On one occasion he appeared to worshippers at his shrine and blessed the sky around Seeberg.
Several artifacts are attributed to Deiodio, the people of Seeberg had in their possession several pieces of enchanted wheat and other similar objects that were attributed to the god. The Gnetri Deiodio was an Eldham artifact pickaxe that was also apparently from Deiodio.
== Literary sources ==
Most information on Deiodio comes from the Egonomica Segrora, a heretical Segrist religious text that claims that Segra was one of the world’s creators. The other sources on Deiodio is the short historical account Deiodio: Fact or Fiction? And the religious texts of Seeberg which detail Deiodios lore."In the vast void before creation there seemed to be nothing, 
But floating in this nothingness was an Egg 
After countless beginnings and endings of countless universes he finally hatched 
He, the one true god, the [][][][][][][][] [][][][], Deiodeo 
He floated there for endless eternities 
But then he thought 
And with a thought, the abyss parted before him 
And where he stood there sprouted a tree 
On this tree there were instead of fruit, countless blank worlds 
He then flapped from world to world with his endless majesty 
And with a stomp, mountains rose and seas parted 
And with a screech wind started blowing through the air 
He puffed his pure white feathers and out came the clouds 
With his arrival and departure he left the eggs of creation 
Out of which hatched we 
We, and countless others" 
-Seeberg religious text
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