Fandalgorn

### Aliases

The Mad God, The Dead God, He Who Knew All, The Scourge of Shendali, The First of the First, He Who Hated Mortals, The First Death

## Depicitions

### Avatar Description

A large man with three glowing green eyes and skin covered in runes.

## Affiliations

### Open Worship

No

> *"I wonder, is the Dead God part of me, or am I part of him?"*
> - Vi
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Fandalgorn was the Supreme God of Knowledge, before his death at the hands of Shendali. His intellect was unmatched, even by his successor and partial reincarnation, Vi. Known as the Mad God, he is frequently portrayed as wicked and villainous due to his madness and his opposition to Shendali, Mother of Mortals.

## Fandalgorn's Influence

As a vestige, Fandalgorn does not interact with anything. He no longer holds control over the domain of knowledge, as that has been passed onto the New God of Knowledge, Vi.

### Fandalgorn's Goals

Fandalgorn's goals were unknown, and theologians have no came to a concrete decision on what Fandalgorn wanted. Similar mystery stems around the cause of his madness; some believe his betray was planned from the beginning, others believe it to be simply the burden of infinite knowledge. Some theorise that Fandalgorn may have came across a piece of information that permanently warped his perception of reality, leading to his decision to kill all mortal life actually being fully logical and reasonable, although all major religions reject this as heresy and the view is only held by small cults.

### Divine Relationships

Fandalgorn is viewed by most mortals as a great evil, and many assume his relationships with his fellow deities reflects this. However, this is a distorted perspective, and most deities have neutral, if not distrustful, views of the Dead God.

This is not the case for Shendali; while originally close, the Madness of Fandalgorn created an endless hatred between them. This hatred and rage resulted in Fandalgorn's death, but not without severe and grievous injuries to Shendali. Cults devoted to Shendali carry on this hatred, leading inquisitions to find and execute anybody who still worships the Mad God.

On the other hand, Hallistar and Fandalgorn are depicted as brothers and close friends. The two gods collaborated on many occasion, the most notable being their emergences from the First. Some theologians theorise that Hallistar did not intervene between Shendali and Fandalgorn as he had too much love for both of them to strike at either of them.

Noe and Fandalgorn had a business-like relationship; Fandalgorn viewed Noe as a powerful ally, and vice versa. They rarely worked together, but whenever they did, the results were exceptional.

Although they never met, Fandalgorn and Vi have a strange bond. Vi's divine essence coalesced on the corpse of the Dead God, resulting in great influence of the burgeoning god that led to him being the New God of Knowledge. However, it also acted as a partial reincarnation of Fandalgorn; Vi absorbed some of Fandalgorn's lingering divine essence and the old God still lives on inside that new god. Many fear that this may result in Fandalgorn's madness manifesting in Vi, however, although so far it has not manifested.

## Worshipping Fandalgorn

Fandalgorn is not openly worshipped; open worship of the Supreme Deities is generally looked down upon in the reign of the Pantheon of Kalix, and Fandalgorn's worship is particularly discouraged. Still, cults to the God still exist, in hiding. They are frequently persecuted, and struggle to defend themselves with no divine gifts being granted to them.

Cults to Fandalgorn take many forms, although many of them are strange; only the most eccentric choose to worship a vestige and risk persecution when an active, acceptable knowledge god exists in Vi. The Cult of Ascended Madness worships Fandalgorn as a god of madness, seeking to break their own minds with forbidden knowledge, believing the Supreme Deity did the same. Meanwhile, the Cult of the Reborn God believes that Vi and Fandalgorn are one in the same, and that by unlocking Vi's true power, he will realise that he is Fandalgorn and the Dead God will reborn, causing the Supreme Deities to reunite and the Pantheon of Kalix to fall, with a new era of perfection to begin. Lastly, the Child of Fandalgorn believe that Fandalgorn's destruction of all mortal life must have had a divine purpose that mortal and deity alike will never be able to understand, and thus, all mortals should die.

## Myths of Fandalgorn

Fandalgorn's myths are highlighted in The Creation of Eldaron; the most prominent being his emergence and his madness.