Meziraan

The Master of Fear, Meziraan (meh-za-ron) is the aspect of Ximatia's tongue. He is the pride Ximatia rejected to temper her schemes against arrogant oversights.
Meziraan's vanity is surpassed only by that of his brother, Kuulvaniz. He appears to mortals as a muscular, horned humanoid with handsome features. His beauty, however, is marred by the innumerable, sharp-toothed mouths that decorate his form. Each and every one of them is constantly laughing, constantly muttering in dark tongues. Meziraan is said to be terrible to behold in person, the mere sight of him able to drive men to gibbering insanity and wallowing penitence.
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==Description==
===Dogma===
Meziraan firmly believes that all creatures are below him, destined to serve his will, or be destroyed, sometimes in body, but all too commonly in mind. Meziraan delights in the mental pain and discord of mortals, appropriately enough, since only the insane would willingly worship him. Followers of the Laughing Prince invariably enter the faith out of fear of punishment, either by Meziraan himself or his agents. He has been known to come to mortals in times of great fear or anguish, and offer them an easy out, only to bind them into a new, and all too often more terrible fate of serving him.
Those who are not crushed under the tyranny of his rule rise from the ashes as conduits of his will. Pious members of Meziraan's cults are known as "Willbreakers," men and women with torture-hardened hearts. The only goal of these remade mortals is to garner power, seizing it for dark lord, and by extension - themselves.
===Clergy and Temples===
Temples of Meziraan are few and far between, but where they do exist they serve as monuments to terror. Their black obelisks are decorated by those who refused to bow, or who simply broke under the pressure of the toil their masters demanded of them.
Meziraan's clergy is a tumultuous thing, his clerics only nominally allied, as they each scheme and plot to overthrow one another, seizing more power for themselves. This is only worsened by their certain mental instability. Cults of Meziraan tend to spring up during times of great strife, but rarely ever succeed without the semblance of structure that his temples offer.
Category:Deities
Category:Ximatianism
Category:Lawful Evil Deities
Category:Major Deities
Category:Fiend Deities
Category:Aspect Deities
Category:Deities of Destruction
Category:Deities of Evil
Category:Deities of Law
Category:Deities of Madness