Ither, God of Night

Ither, God of Night, The Lord of Darkness. His symbol is a black disk with a small white moon in the center. Worship of Ither is illegal in Ostren. Ither was described as a tall, beautiful humanoid with long dark black hair. When visiting mortals in dreams, his dark hair would move and swirl regardless of gravity or outside forces, as if the wind was blowing through it.
The very existence of Ither was paradoxical; The Lord of Darkness was brought into existence by the creation of Eidolon, but was the living embodiment of the void, the perfect nothing that existed before he or even the planes were born. The emptiness that he originally reflected had itself been erased at the start of time, filled with the matter and planes of the world and he longed to return to the ancient calm of nonexistence.
The depths of Ither's evil were too extreme to be described by words. He was deeply twisted and perverse, a being of ceaseless, petty hate and envy. He plotted from the shadows to undermine all creation, reveling in the hidden and never to be revealed. Though he was not chaotic himself, he nonetheless sought to destroy all order. Even his own devoted worshipers were simply pawns in his overarching scheme against everything there ever was and ever would be.
Although Ither purported to be a healer, soothing the grief-stricken by letting them forget their woes, he was in truth a sadist, and enjoyed inflicting the pain of loss on his worshipers. His alleged help was not release from that pain, but numbness to it, the acceptance of it as normal and the removal of any expectation otherwise. The Lord of Darkness did not truly believe in healing grief, not even his own, but in harnessing it, in nurturing spite, nursing indignity, and reinforcing regret until minor slights, at least in his mind, become transgressions worthy of bitter vengeance.
Among his array of twisted powers was the ability to see everything that lay or happened in the dark. Ither's realm was originally on Eidolon and was a tower that had no obvious entrances called the Tower of Shade. He would trap those who enjoyed their freedom inside, savoring their despair at their loss, though he would allow petitioners and visiting worshipers to freely come and go (perhaps to further torture the trapped ones).
When he created Eidolon, Ither abandoned the Tower of Shade and created a new realm in the Astral Sea, larger than any of the others there. Among the dark scenery, with its black sand and shadowy natural features, lay the Towers of Darkness. His new abode, a more palatial one than his old home, was built atop the tallest mountain of this realm. Access to Eidolon was easy from here and he shared the realm with Omara and Phyaris.
Ither is the son of Omara and Lusmes, and twin brother to Noxona.
After the Cataclysm Ither was trapped inside of the smallest moon, named after himself, by the Goddess of The Moon, Noxona.
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