Egerush

The All-Seeing Eye

Father First

Lord of the Abyss

The First Saint

Anger Everlasting

Dark Father of Old

The Dissenter

### Symbol

Candelabra with three candles, each topped with eyes, and another eye on the stand

### Subjects of Rule

Darkness, Mindless Rage, Sight, Eyes, Impatience, Starvation

### Worshippers

Hexers, Warlocks, Necromancers, Followers of darkness, Dark Clerics, Those driven insane

### Inspired Organizations

Dark Dissenters

**Egerush** (pronounced: Ehg-er-ussh), or the Watchful Father, was the god of Darkness, Sight, and the realm of the Abyss. They were revered by those who followed the path of dark, as well as those who went insane, and their calls beyond were not answered by any other deity. Due to being a Primordial God, they have present no activity outside of their realm. However, the Abyss does seep out of their domain, and occasionally will infect small villages, wildernesses, or people who come into contact with it. Despite their innumerable age, they are widely praised by followers of the dark arts.

## Description

Egerush is a large being, standing at 16ft (4.9 m), appearing as a large, black humanoid with uneven appendages. They have numerous branches growing outwards from their head, arms, legs and back, and stringy, gray hair on their arms and head. A notable feature is the innumerable amounts of small, red, beady eyes covering its whole body. It appears hunched over, and has its bones sticking out of its body, making it appear to limp wherever it goes, despite the fact that it has no issue with mobility. It clutches its precious cloth, which allows it to harness the abyss into magic.

## Abilities

Egerush, being a being of the Abyss, has 120ft darkvision, and can even create a 30ft dim light around it. With its cloth, it can also manipulate the darkness in the abyss and turn it into magic.

## Realm

The realm Egerush created and was trapped within, the Abyss, is an endless system of caves and ravines, that dropped into nothingness, entirely encompassed in a dark fog. Those who lose their lives here are bound to the dark realm, becoming Dark Spirits, and are forced to wander as spirits of what they were in life. Egerush acts as a watcher, rarely dragging others where its lair is to consume their knowledge. Its lair holds one of the few exits of this realm.

## Items

Egerush holds the First Saint Remembrance.

## Relationships

Egerush holds no relationships with other gods, feeling bitter about them for "living without the dark." It especially holds disdain towards human gods, wishing nothing more than to infest them with the abyssal plight that it spreads.

This hatred towards life was due to its imprisonment in what was before the abyss, becoming what it is from the insanity-driven Egerush. They were once a follower of Kurona, the goddess of faith and judgement. However, when they looked to her for guidance while being attacked by Gallus Moore, their pleas were not answered and thus, died with rage. Through anger, they attempted to confront the goddess, only to be banished and cast to a realm of dark. Their descent began, and eventually they fell into obscurity, becoming a primordial god through ushers of their name being told before text.

## Worshipers and Organizations

Egerush's influence spread across the world, gaining followers of dark magic from numerous different races. The most committed worshipers of it are typically in the abyss, serving as messengers, guides, and preachers for the watchful father. Followers of Egerush will sacrifice themselves for it in the heat of battle by allowing it to absorb their knowledge, rejuvenating it from its injuries. It has no control where the abyss goes, though wishes for it to infect more people for its hive-like cults. Those who please Egerush are few and far between, but known ones ruled over huge stalk-like tower cities in the larger areas of the abyss.

### Dark Dissenters

The Dark Dissenters are the most prominent followers of Egerush, consisting of incredibly powerful hexers, witches, warlocks, and necromancers. They actively go to smaller towns or random passerbyers to induct them into their beliefs, before feeding them, willingly or not, an eyestalk of Egerush. All high-ranking dissenters have, at one point, been in the abyss, making them much more powerful compared to other dark arts users.

## History

They had, at one point, been a human before dying to the hands of the Lothian Wind Knights, and was banished by Kurona, the goddess of faith and judgement, after attempting confrontation over their unanswered pleas. Upon being transported to a realm of caves, they went mad and sprouted the abyss through their anguish and going insane.

## Legends and Mythology

Its said that those with the "eyes of egerush" are typically hiding a much more violent or malevolent side of themselves from someone or from people.

There are also traces of humanity left in Egerush, though these cases are only told by its followers, so such information can not be trusted.