Chthonic Realms

The Chthonic planes are positioned between Narrakka of the unaligned realms and the endless realms or Archeon. Although they embody the ugly side of life, they are not intrinsically evil as some would have you believe.

These realms are defined by the god that inhabits them just as much as the god is defined by the realm. It's a two way relationship created in the New Ordinance.

## -1 ~ The Putrid Lands

God: **Haspic**

Domain: **Despair, Sadness, Decay**

Haspic is often associated with the grim face of death, with the rising of restless dead and is sometimes conflated with the storyteller of myth

He most often appears as a skeletal or decaying figure in white clothing and a great staff of weathered ebony wood.

Symbol: **Bone wreath**

Haspic is the caretaker of the Putrid lands, a place of endless swamplands, Vile Decay and Alien beauty. Unclaimed souls will find their way here and will usually find rest. Fruit that grow in the putrid lands are said to extend life. These fleshy fruit of deep red grow on pale trees in the deepest part of the realm and are tended by Haspic himself.

The putrid lands are the gateway into the Chthonic realms and is this fiercely guarded by a great beast of stone known as the Guardian or the Gargoyle.

## -2 ~ Saurnia

God: **Malos:** The great beast

Domain: **Fear, Panic**

Malos is often associated with a primal fear, a animalistic fight or flight that supersedes all other cognition. A fear that takes away agency, that is chaotic and unpredictable. A fear that can be violent. Malos is also associated with the deep bestial nature that exists deep within us as well as bestial transformation. Cultists of Malos are reported to transform into savage animals when cornered.

Malos appears as a muscular humanoid figure with several animal heads.

Symbol: **Stag skull**

Saurnia is a darwinian nightmare of primeval beasts and predation. I've heard that some seek out this plane for the challenge of a true hunt.

## -3 ~ Horanin

God: **Bolg**

Domain: **Joy, Mania**

Associated with overindulgence, dissatisfaction and an endless hunger for more.

Appears as a rotund figure of great stature clothed in layers of fine cloth and bright colours with a mask of exaggerated scowl fashioned from gold.

Symbol: **Sharp teeth clenched shut.**

A cold and foul smelling place. An aroma of sweet perfume overpowering Vomit. This plane is divided into three layers across most of it's surface. On the uppermost one a select few fiends live in perpetual ambivalent hedonism, eating, drinking, puking, repeat.

on the second level the locals live in extreme want. everyone steals from each other.

On the third, filth from the other layers all fall down to here. Mindless creatures of hunger and rage roam eating whatever falls to this layer.

## -4 ~ Arthroherpedris

God: **Pallow**: the Stoned Man

Domain: **Desire, Envy**

Pallow is associated with the downtrodden and the underprivileged. He is the Patron the condemned and repentant with associations to Regret and Mercy. Envy in this case not as greed but as a resentment for your lot in life and bitterness towards those who appear to have it better. Pallow is also associated with insects and pestilence.

Pallow appears as a figure badly beaten and dressed in rags, a news over their head and a neus around their neck.

Symbol: **Stockade**

Arthroherpedris is a barren place of high winds, swarming insects and haunted ruins. Colour is sapped from the world and the souls of those spending their afterlife here become eroded to their basest contemptment. These cursed souls wander the lands destroying anything nice they find, not permitting anyone to have it better or suffer less, not even Pallow. Pallow is one of the few gods who does not seek sacrifices or souls to fill his plane.

## -5 ~ Carcarceres

God: **Verdana:** The Sly Empress

Domain: **Love, Lust**

Verdana's domain is unrequited love, it's parasocial possessiveness and toxic obsession. Verdana is also associated with reptiles, mainly snakes, venoms and poisons. She is sometimes also associated with selacity but that is an inconsistent characterization. A more charitable depiction of her is the a Goddess forbidden love and of both poisons and medicines.

Verdana appears as a woman holding snakes or with snakes for hair.

Symbol: **A stalk of Foxglove**

Carcarceres is a place of opulence and appears as a paradice. The spirits and Deamons that reside there are perpetually enraptured in high stakes melodrama.

Away from the beautiful temples and villas are untamed wilderness but oppressively lonely, possibly supernaturally so.

## -6 ~ Sheol

God: **Yaga:** The faceless man

Domain: **Subterfuge, Deception**

Yaga's domain is that of charlatans, and grifters, but also of Schemers and machiavellian manipulators. They have some association with assassins and and thieves but much more strongly with charming broad daylight misdirections. They is also deeply associated with Quicksilver and has power over it.

Yaga is said to have 1000 faces all of them bewitchingly beautiful and handsome.

Symbol: **A featureless mask**

It is unclear what part of Sheol Yaga actually presides over. An endlessly complex hierarchy of bureaucracy seems to have everyone working really hard to maintain a system with no one on top. Construction of cities by shades and daemons that remain uninhabited by anyone except for the those assigned to "Keep the peace". Petty administrators strut around rubbing their meager title in everyone's faces. There is no wilderness here, new construction is done directly on top of old unused buildings.

## -7 ~ Madris

God: **Gazo:** The Laughing Shadow

Domain: **Insight, Suspicion/Paranoia**

Madness, rage, insanity

Symbol: Oni mask

## -8 ~ Capreole

God: **Din:** Smoke and Bone

Domain: **Focus, Fixation** (Industry)

Symbol: the wheel

## -9 ~ Lauroth

God: **Durrok:** The Knotted mind

Domain: **Aversion, Disgust** (Labirynth, despair, depression, losing your way)

Symbol: The Maze

## -10 ~ The Stillwater

God: **Yikril:** The Tangled Mind

Domain: **Curiosity, Obsession** (Secretes, dangerous information, Arcana, Amphibians)

Symbol: Eclipse/black sun

A featureless Expanse. A perfectly smooth black globe with it's water in a thin layer on top. The sky appears black with source less light about the place. If you can break through the hard glassy surface there is a gigantic subterranean and subaquatic world filled with lost things and strange creatures.

## -11 ~

God: **Neltose:** Sculptor of Sorrow

Domain: **Anger, Hate** (Curses, Witchcraft,

Symbol: Spider

## -12 ~

God: **Vexin**

Domain: **Integrity, Stubbornness** (Ego, enchantment, cruelty)

Symbol: A thorny rose

## -13 ~

God: **Tsangor**: the Horned King

Domain: **Law, Tyranny**

Symbol: Stylized Torus "♉︎"