Spider God

The Trapdoor Spider God was a minor god on Kamens during the Aeldrum Trade Company's expedition to Kamens in .
== Description ==
The Spider God claimed to have been an Elder God once, “weaving the fabric of the universe,” but its terrible hunger and horrific aspect led almost none to worship it when civilization was finally established; indeed, if Zulkir was the personification of Death, the spider god was the personification of Hunger. This inability to control itself or perception of it drove away any who could sustain its hunger, and over years and years the spider god lost its sanity and ability to control reality, becoming confined in form to its aspect, which had somehow arrived on Kamens. Now, its only goal was to consume as much etheric energy as possible, both by creating the energy-absorptive effect in the pocket dimension but also by conscripting religious followers for their souls.
The Nocturnals were worshippers of the spider god. This worship was possible because of the spider god’s apparent signature power: the ability to prevent others from perceiving its form. Learning over the eons that its true nature was the problem keeping others from worshipping it, the spider god’s abilities to affect reality faded, but its ability to affect memetics stayed; the spider god created a sort of buffer around itself and its paraphernalia and rites that would keep people from being able to perceive them if they were not already driven half-mad by the mental influence of the spider god, by which point they would be much more pliant for cultivation as worshippers.
Category:Minor Gods