Sett

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## Deity

### Domains

Disease
Murder

### Worshippers

None

**Sett**, The Father Serpent, The Lord of Disease, The Great Tyrant, is an Elder Being of the World of Aedron.

## History

In the early days of Aedron, when the magic of creation first washed across the lands and left behind the Elder Beings, Sett was one of the first to truly understand his powers and influence in the world. He knew that in order to survive he would need to gain a steady influx of faith, and to do this, he needed the belief and faith of a mortal group. He managed to corral and control a nomadic but quick witted group of desert dwellers, humanoids with fine features, thin bodies, and most interestingly, and extra set of arms beneath their primary ones. These desert dwellers became Sett's new faithful, and he imparted on them mighty gifts and terrible curses in equal measure.

Sett was a paranoid and fickle god to these people, as he was just as likely to reward one as he was to send plagues and diseased out into their villages. In an effort to appease him, his faithful grew ever more devout, building grand temples and statues to him throughout their lands.

As his faith and powers grew, Sett became more and more convinced that the other Primal Beings were his largest threat, and chief among them was the Phoenix, Attiah. Sett challenged the Primal Being to a contest of wills, and did not make his intent to harm known, during their contest, he bit the mighty Phoenix, and Attiah fled to its roost to recover from Sett's virulent poisons.

In the throes of the worst of the disease and posion, Attiah used its powers to be reborn, returning to a fiery egg to heal and eventually hatch back into the Phoenix. However, it was during this time healing that Sett struck, tricking Attiah's faithful, the bird folk of Saerrica to leave the nest nearly undefended, and he and his loyal warriors attacked, killing the guardians, and allowing Sett to swallow the egg whole.

Sett absorbed this energy, and became more powerful than he had ever imagined, which only pushed him further into paranoia and insanity.

Sett then began preying upon other Elder Beings, and eventually caused them to band together in an attempt to stop him. A great battle was fought, and a great deal of Elder Beings were destroyed, but left Sett in a weakened state. Desperate for ever more faith, he unleashed more plagues upon his people, to force them to pray to him for relief. However, his people grew weary of being punished for their god's endless appetite for power, and instead followed his example, and laid a trap for him, falling upon him and, as he did to Attiah, devoured him.

## Domains

Sett controlled the Domains of Disease and Murder, for a time, he controlled Rebirth, and a number of other Domains, which have now been freed into the world.

## Afterlife

Nothing is known of where Sett's faithful go after they die, though the ruins of his temples are often populated with various mummies and spirit guardians, so perhaps they are trapped in eternal service.

## Positions in the Faith

Sett's priests often donned cowls and robes that were made of snake skins and done up with fangs and other serpentine decor. They are fully extinct now, and exist only in the carvings of the lost temples to his name. Their specific duties and functions are left a mystery to modern peoples.