Naruset, God of Undead and the Undying

## Naruset

**Naruset**, also known as **The Profaned Prince**, the **Faceless Master** and **Dark Father**, is the God of the Undead and Undying . Though he was imprisoned by his mother, **Mendrith - Goddess of Death**, and the other gods, Naruset still maintains his divinity and influence over the mortal world.

**Naruset** was born out of the secret love between the goddess of Death, **Mendrith**, and the God of Chaos, **Ugvagar**. While initially made a minor God of Death in order to assist his mother in developing what would come to be called **Alboras, the city of Death**, Naruset started exploring the mortal world, and getting closer with his father. Upon **Ugvagar**’s descent into infamy, and his eventual punishment, **Naruset** had become displeased with his mother and her methods, wanting to test the limits of his powers, and the hierarchy of death imposed by Mendrith. He supported his father in the events that would result in the creation of the **Shadowlands**, and for that his mother resorted to taking a drastic decision. After many transgressions were made, **Mendrith** had inquired with the other gods, and eventually imprisoned Naruset in a secondary plane called **The Well**.

Though he is imprisoned, **Naruset** still holds an eternal battle with his Mother, subverting the natural order of Death, attempting to claim the souls of the living for himself, as well as weakening **The Thread**, which many suggest is the reason why some mortals are able to travel to the realm of the dead.

### Description:

While once resembling his mother, **Naruset’s** appearance has changed ever since his imprisonment in **The Well**. The god has skin the color of a decaying corpse, and his face is unrecognizable by mortals and deities alike, a shifting dark mass with golden eyes existing in its place. He can also appear to have skeletal or blackened hands, as well as long black wings. Naruset’s symbol is that of the iron chain cross, entwined with red string - it is meant to mimic the god’s imprisonment, but also his resilience.

### Divine Power, Early History and Worship:

Naruset’s influence in the world can be felt more tangibly through the existence of undead beings. Naruset has shared the knowledge of raising the bodies of the dead and entrapment of souls to ancient mages, who would eventually come to develop the study of necromancy. Even to this day, most necromancers worship him in some form, for it is him who brought this ‘science’ to the mortal realm.

Being a curious god, Naruset has always sought to subvert his mother’s order - while she aimed at collecting souls at the proper time, Naruset sought to test the limits of mortals to see what could be achieved. As a result, many undead were empowered by him, but the most notable feat in this regard was the creation of the first vampires and liches. Vampires were the first to be created, a perversion of life and death - Naruset wanted to create an undying creature that maintained their intelligence, and so he made an immortal body, one that would not age. Despite this, Naruset was a cruel god, and he wanted to test his creations - in exchange for this body, one would feel an eternal hunger, and they would forever be bound by their undead nature, a slave to darkness. For this ‘blessing’, Naruset is one of the only gods venerated by vampires across Yarelle, being their **Dark Father**. Despite their immortal body, the **Pale Mistress** has dedicated her efforts to the eradication of the vampires, and when they are defeated, vampires are subjected to the harshest of punishments possible. The first litch was created as a re-evaluation of this process, and Naruset instead chose to preserve a soul, ground it in the mortal realm - while the body would decay, one would be able to live eternally, their soul hidden from the natural order of death. For this reason,**Mendrith** despises her son and his abominations, imprisoning him forever in order to prevent more perversions, yet he still moves in the shadows, granting this knowledge to the few who would pay any price to acquire it.

Though there are no churches or temples dedicated to the **God of Undead and the Undying**, given that he is generally perceived as a malevolent deity, **Naruset** finds worship in those that benefit from his influence - necromantic cults and vampires. He also reaches out to strong individuals, usually those with violent tendencies, and empowers them as his representatives in order to raise his active influence in the mortal realm. Because Naruset still deals within the sphere of death, he is able to claim souls, and therefore his champions that kill in his name help to feed the god and his constant crusade against his mother.