Vyinsul

## Deity of Death *(former)*

Vyinsul was one of the
earliest selected Deities of Aeglion as death was a natural end of a mortal’s
cycle in itself. He was often worshipped by warriors of all races. Many pray to
him for a good death in battle or to peacefully pass in old age. He was
depicted as an armored figure, formidable and battle-weary. He often
represented death being something to face with courage, his formidable stature
evident of one’s strengths in the face of the end.

He is notorious for being punished by the Elder Beings for intervention. There are no more recorded
places with statues if him, many torn down or buried over the years after his
“intervention”.

### The Sundering

As legend would have it,
Vyinsul was very close to Sho’risdal, and they had one daughter together, Fresca. Ages ago, before she became a High Deity, she
was very newly chosen as a Deity. Religion was new and growing in Aeglion back
then. Despite the support of the elves, others did not take too kindly to a new
Deity, feeling Sho’risdal undermined the Gods they had been worshipping, namely
Valothiel the God of Hope. People began to understand more and more that the
Deities could not intervene in their world directly and so sometimes they would
act or speak out against them, often without repercussions for their behaviors.
Soon after the elves built the first temple to Sho’risdal, the king in Rhamos,
the city of men at the time King Phintius the First, was distraught. He felt
the elves were trying to sway his people’s religion. They had been worshipping
Valothiel, as they always have. Valothiel himself had no part in what ensued
but he could not intervene with the king’s wishes for even his messengers were
ignored by the king.

He sent his men to destroy
the temple. Sho’risdal could not stop them but tried to save her followers. Her
messengers however were also ignored as the elves would not have her temple
desecrated and so they barred the doors and stood their ground, hoping to fend
them off. They were unarmed for the most part, priests and holy people only
trying their best to defend what they believed in.

As history recorded the
events as per Sho’risdal’s messengers over the years, Vyinsul watched the
events that day with Sho’risdal. They were mortals of Aeglion with a mind and
reasoning that they believed to be so sound that none could challenge their
will, not even the Gods. They cleaved her followers. They chanted the name of
Valothiel as they destroyed the temple, thinking he would approve of their acts
in some irony. The humans approached Sho’risdal’s first shrine and hammered
away at it, spitting insults and curses. And it was then, a thing that should
never have been done was done. Vyinsul stood up and with a clap, the skies in
Aeglion grew dark. The Deity of Death had intervened. Sho’risdal tried but
could not stop Vyinsul. The earth around the temple rose up akin to mountains,
craggy and ferocious the likes none had seen. The mountain range surrounded the
plains with her temple and the grounds shifted. The mortals scrambled in fear,
falling and trampling over one another. They ran out and there were records of
seeing a face in the sky enraged with blazing eyes. The grounds shifted,
splitting and cracking as violently as the mortals had split open the temple
doors. They panicked, screamed and prayed but no one survived that day. There
was no mercy. Vyinsul buried everyone beneath the earth that dared defile her
temple. There was nothing then but a silence on the plains.

### Banishment

The Elder Beings
punished Vyinsul, the role, respect and responsibilities stripped. Vyinsul was
never seen in their plane of existence again and was believed to be cursed,
sent to Aeglion to serve as one of the mortals as a punishment. Avarkim was
chosen as the new God of Death and time moved on just as the world moved on.
Men would come many years later, daring enough to build roads through the
plains from the city of Rhamos to the northern lands. The temple was desecrated
but the shrine was intact even to this day. The plains have since been known as
the Plateau of Nex. Vyinsul was never heard from again.