Svarog

### Aliases

God of War, Fire, Smithing, and Craftsmanship, Strongest of the Gods (formerly), The Great Rapist

### Relatives

Tartarus (father/creator)Belobog, Chernobog, Vodan, (brothers)

Lada, Zhiva, Marzanna, Kupala (sisters)

Sud, Perun, Ognebog, Radagast, Ragaviet, Dazhbog, Jutrobog (sons)

Sudenica (daughter)

## Statistics

### Power Tier

12

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Svarog is the Slavic God of War, Fire, Smithing, and Craftsmanship. He is the eldest son of Tartarus, crafted by his father as a monument to his own ego. He was once the leader of the Slavic Pantheon, the Beznadi, reigning for countless brutal centuries before being deposed by his son Perun.

## Biography

### Early Life

Svarog was brought into being as the result of Tartarus, in his vanity, desiring to craft offspring solely by himself. Svarog was the eldest and most powerful of his seven siblings, and as such, he viewed it as his personal responsibility to shelter them. Svarog did this by keeping their father's attention, and thereby receiving the brunt of Tartarus's violent rages. In addition to supplying himself as a punching bag, Svarog also kept his siblings safe by bullying them himself, ensuring that Tartarus would view them as weaklings unworthy of his attention, which for the most part worked. However, the twisted mentality of his formative years would go on to affect Svarog deeply, and forge him into the brutal, violent, and somewhat insane being he would be known as during his later years.

### Independence

When he and his siblings were around a millennium in age, Svarog was banished from the realms of the Abyss, in order to secure holdings of their own. He lead his siblings across the realms, eventually settling on one that they named Zemja Bogov. Svarog ordered his siblings to reshape the realm into one suited to the magnificence that they were owed, before setting out to crush the bordering realms and bring them into their domain. Upon Svarog's return, he found that his sisters had been hard at work fulfilling his orders, whilst his brothers had practically ignored them. The twins, Belobog and Chernobog, had been squabbling with one another, and their battles had slowed the work of the others. Vodan, on the other hand, had done nothing but create a single lake for himself to laze around in. His youngest brother had roused his ire the most, but Svarog gave him one final chance to make amends, ordering him to complete his task. Vodan stubbornly refused, stating that he had no need to follow the orders from a blustering idiot like Svarog. This enraged the Firstborn of Tartarus, and who dealt his brother one of the most violent beatings ever unleashed, only relenting when his sister Kupala interceded on Vodan's behalf. Still, the thrashing was so severe that Vodan's very personality was altered, turning him into a calm and placid individual from then on.

### War Against Olympus

Around 5,000 BC, Svarog, in his infinite bloodlust, would launch a campaign to conquer the other “lesser” pantheons. Foolishly, he chose first to attempt an attack on the Olympians, one of the mightiest pantheons in all of Creation, who were possessed of more powerful and more numerous warriors then themselves, against the advice of his son Perun. During his preliminary attack, Svarog commanded Chernobog and the hordes of his personal realm to assault Stygia, the Olympian Underworld, whilst Vodan launched an attack on Poseidon in Atlantis. Meanwhile, Svarog, Belobog, and Perun struck at Olympus, the heart of Olympian power. Taken by surprise, the Olympians found their gates breached. Before their council even had time to convene, the hot blooded Ares descended upon them and challenged Svarog to a duel, which Svarog won due to his superior power, and imprisoned Ares in a massive jar, proclaiming that he would make all the goddesses of Olympus his concubines. Infuriated, Zeus sent forth the armies of Olympus and all his divine children, who took on Svarog’s army whilst Zeus battled Svarog, savagely defeating him, and unleashing a blast from his Master Bolt which knocked Svarog from the realm, forcing the Beznadi to retreat. Svarog, enraged at his defeat, prepared to assault Olympus once more after regrouping in Zemja Bogov, when word reached him that Vodan had been imprisoned by Poseidon, and Hades sent him the still living head of Chernobog, who had been decapitated for proclaiming that he would rape Hades’s wife, Persephone. Despite the tremendous defeats his armies had suffered, Svarog still planned to continue with the conflict. In this, he went too far, and his son Perun, fearing his father’s bloodlust would lead their family to ruin, declared his father an unfit ruler, and challenged Svarog to a duel for leadership. The infuriated Svarog accepted, and commenced the fight right then and there, only to be defeated by his son. The outcome of the duel left Svarog stunned, and Perun negotiated a peace with the Olympians, securing the return of Vodan and the rest of Chernobog’s body.

### Deposition - Present (Being Updated)

Thousands of years later, Svarog would spend many years attempting to garner mortal worshippers in order to gain dominance over his son once more, but found that his violent temperament was not as attractive to as many mortals as his son was. When Perun was negotiating a treaty with Heaven to prevent a war between the angels and the forces of the Abyss and Beznadi, Svarog attempted to rally the other gods in overthrowing his “feeble, soft-hearted son”, but this move was seen as a sign that Svarog was truly unworthy to lead, due to him not being willing to challenge Perun himself. In order to calm him, his brother Belobog crafted him a magical bear named Medvedi, stroking his brother’s ego by saying it was “a tribute to his greatness”. Svarog was delighted with the creature, who he would feed random mortals to for his own amusement, taking immense joy in the pain and terror the bear would inflict upon those who displeased him. Eventually, Svarog came to care for -in his own way- the gift that Belobog had given him above even his own children, since Medvedi “was not so monstrous as to question his greatness and right to power”.

## Physical Appearance

### Avatars

* Grigori Beznadi Vladovitch is one of Svarog's Temporal Avatars. In this state, Svarog resembles a huge, muscular man in his forties, covered in scars and tattoos. His head is mostly bald, covered in some grey hairs, whilst his face is covered in a black beard. There is a scar over his right eye, which is missing and covered in an eyepatch.

## Personality

*”There are two types of people in this universe child. Butchers and meat."*

*-Svarog to his son Perun*

Few beings in creation are more infamous than Svarog, the once master of the Beznadi is the brutal encapsulation of his pantheon. Brutish, arrogant, overtly unintelligent and legendarily violent. His name is spit upon by the honorable warrior for his brutality, he is laughed at by the schemer and reviled in disgust by the cultured. Even those whose begrudging respect he has inadvertently earned through his famed tenacity and strength are no friends to the Great Rapist. Svarog is known well only by the Beznadi and those who serve him. The reputation he has earned is well given. Svarog is an unflinching and brutal warrior, reveling in the slaughter of war and merciless to any foe against him. He refuses to engage in any diplomacy other than that of surrender (to him) or personal combat. His single minded assaults against the Ynochim and Olympians alike led to his spectacular defeats at the hands of both. His fierce and unpredictable temper is not spared upon any individual who drew its ire. The Strongest of All the Gods possesses a strong desire to dominate others and prove his position of supreme might. From beating his foes to a pulp, rape or city leveling destruction. While Svarog often enjoys these vile acts, the act of quenching his immense ego and proving to others that he is the strongest is the true motivator behind them. Svarog’s delusional arrogance and unparalleled ego are perhaps unmatched within creation. Forming from a need to be the strongest of his siblings to take the brunt of his fathers torturous attention, the need became twisted upon their escape from the abyss. The Lord of Flame became convinced he had to impress the same concept on all of creation to spare his family from possible harm. Yet as he aged the desire to prove to himself that he was the Strongest of All the Gods grew, leading to increasingly more reckless and violent acts.

These culminated with his defeat by his son Perun after his failed assault on Olympus and the end of his reign over the Beznadi. Svarog had never known an existence where he had not ruled over his kin, where it was not his responsibility to protect them. The God’s arrogance and ego grew to the point of nigh madness, fueled by his relative isolation from his family and constant surrounding of his yesmen servants, he began to truly believe his once grandiose boasts and proclamations. That he *mighty Svarog* was the strongest of all the gods and whose ‘defeats’ was brought about by cowardly tricks. Yet amongst his possibly innumerable flaws there exists a small ounce of admirable quality within. Through his brutish and violent persona, his scarred and addled mind there remains a man unflinchingly protective of his family. For though few would ever imagine it and he would never admit to even himself such a weakness, Svarog loves his family fiercely. Raised in the horrors of the abyss by Tartarus, any form of empathy or care was weakness, punishable by excruciating torture. The firstborn Svarog sought to spare his siblings from such an education upon emotion through beatings, to make them strong and to draw the attention of his dread father upon himself. The Selfless acts of bearing the brunt of Tartarus’s abuse were never thanked by his siblings for such would result in a beating from Svarog to attempt to spare them from the worse fate of the Bloodlord’s knife. Even upon their freedom from the abyss the Greatest of all the Gods feared the return of his torturous father upon him and his siblings, striving to make them strong as he was and reassuring his place as their leader (and therefore the one to take the brunt of their fathers ire).

Upon the birth of his firstborn Ognebog he resolved to do the same, no matter how much it pained him he would make his children strong, strong enough to wether the fires of the Abyss. Every savage beating and vile act was justified, to make his family strong and to make himself the one who would take the brunt of the inevitable torture that would come. Any admission of genuine gratitude, of love or affection to him was punished, for emotion was weakness. In turn he showed little to none, for he above them all had to be the strongest, to endure it for them. Only what he saw as strength was publicly praised, skill in battle or raw prowess. Yet silently and rarely a little smile of fatherly pride would form only to be quickly snuffed. And most mysteriously there was never a child among the Beznadi who lacked for a toy, for when they woke one would appear. And every Beznadi does wield a great weapon forged on the anvils of Svarog, masterfully tailored to each god, unique and powerful.

## Powers

Svarog, as a god, is able to access a number of powers based on his Avatar. In addition to those, he also has several traits and abilities which he is always able to use in some capacity.

Emotional Manipulation: Due to his status as God of War, as well as his own violent tendencies, Svarog has the power to induce bloodlust and madness in his allies and instill mindless terror in his enemies. Depending on his Avatar, the potency of this ability fluctuates, from being able to send foes fleeing in terror through nothing but proximity, to requiring a prolonged period of shouting.

Pyrokinesis: Due to his status as a God of Fire, Svarog possesses powerful pyrokinetic abilities. He is able to produce, manipulate, and absorb various forms of fire and heat, though the scale and intensity of the power varies based on what type of Avatar he is using.

Supernatural Strength: Compared to other gods, Svarog is gifted with titanic physical might. Within his own pantheon, the Beznadi, there is absolutely no one who can stand up to his strength, with the sole exception being his son Perun, who exceeds him.

## Skills

Intimidation: Svarog is an immensely terrifying individual, feared for both his prowess as a fighter, violent temper, inclination towards brutality, and his fondness for dominating his enemies through rape.

Expert Warrior: Svarog is well renowned for his skills as a warrior, being feared for his immense resistance to pain, and his sheer ferocity and utter disregard for his own safety, which allows him to overwhelm most of his opponents.

Magical Blacksmithing: As a God of Craftsmen and Smiths, Svarog is also an immensely talented blacksmith, having forged powerful weapons such as Belobog’s spear, Chernobog’s hammer, Perun’s axe, and his own weapons.

## Stats

### Traits

Strength: 5

Dexterity: 2

Endurance: 6

Intelligence: 2

Charisma: 4

Perception: 3

### Skills

Academia: 1

Alertness: 3

Artistry: 4

Brawl: 4

Charm: 2

Command: 2

Craft: 4

Deception: 2

Empathy: 2

Intimidation: 5

Intrigue: 1

Leadership: 2

Marksmanship: 3

Medicine: 3

Melee: 3

Occult: 2

Performance: 1

Seduction: 1

Stealth: 1

Stewardship: 0

Survival: 4

Torture: 4