Kartas

God of Fire, the Moons and the Ashplanes. 
               Kartas was never not a God. As Myrtu arrived and the ordering took place, Kartas lifted himself out of the ash and magma and staked his divine claim and the material world. This place, known as the Ashplanes, was where Kartas created the two moons for this world. One, black with white cracks, lifted from the ash itself, named Xarus and the other an emerald green, named Thodehome. This was meant to emulate the beauty Kartas saw in Xar’s sun. 
               Kartas created the frog demigod Thode to govern the moons which assist in the passage of death to the afterlife. If they are good people, they are reborn as helpful sprites. If they are not good people, souls are guided through the feywild deep underground until they reach the center of the earth and Kartas’ chief responsibility. The destruction of evil souls and the creation of a whitish-green flame called Soulfire. Kartas used this soulfire to craft his weapon, The Doom Blade. The majority of the soulfire created goes to Kartas’ daughter, Enya. Kartas has three children. One with his former lover Xar, their son Zartas, and two from random dead mortals, Enya and Nelera. 
               Assisting with his furnace are the orcs, who live in the Ashplanes and worship fire and the moon. They are devout, brutish orcs with visible black veins under their olive-green skin. They are led by Fire Priests, Engineers and those blessed enough to be born albino. Kartas views the world as a big toy sandbox that exists for him to do whatever he wants. 
APPEARANCE
               A cloaked figure with armor. The armor is constantly heating up and melting through old fissures and cracks. Floating smoke and ash encircle a head with a glowing yellow face like a jagged lantern. Tight, black gauntlets encircle The Doom Blade, a massive, green-white axe that can slice cleanly through concrete. 
WHAT IS AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH?
               Accessible from the surface in the Ashplanes through a large cleft in the earth called The Infinite Descent, the center of the earth holds a massive, everburning furnace that contains sentient, magic flames that burn so hot that they can melt spirits and souls. This furnace needs regular maintenance. 
HOW DO YOU WORSHIP KARTAS?
Kartas’ worshippers organize into smaller cults. These cults accept non-orc members, but only if they get a visible black tattoo. While he loves mortals, he also enjoys tricking them and torturing them for fun.