Yrrn

**Yrrn the Mother of War** is one of The Twelve gods who make up the calendrical year. Yrrn has dominion over the the 11th month of the year during the cycle of Akat. Yrrn is the goddess of destruction, war and childbirth.

Yrrn has given birth to every one of The Twelve gods in many cases without a father and is commonly referred to as the Mother of Gods.

## Dogma of Yrrn

The followers of Yrrn believe war is the necessary pain that is required to forge a new future. Paired with the concepts of childbirth, the followers of Yrrn hold that pain and destruction must precede creation. Before battle warriors sacrifice something to Yrrn to gain her favour, a blood offering to satiate the Mother of War. Rivers of blood and mountains of gore is the only thing that will satisfy the followers of Yrrn, for that is the price of creation. The weak will be sundered, and the unworthy riven, The Mother of War consumes all.

Ultimately the prophecy of Velern dictates that Yrrn herself will be the death of all The Twelve after seeing their weakness. By her womb she created them, and by her hand she will unmake them. The followers of Yrrn, practice for this day with vicious fervour for when their Mother calls upon them in the final battle which will end the world and slay the gods.

 ***"And the doors of Hell shall burst open and on a road of blood, the legions will ride. In the fire of cleansing war, with the lust for battle in their unbeating hearts. Yrrn shall be their general and it is her who will lead the legions unto unholy war upon the gods. She will tear their hearts, still beating, from their divine bodies! She will rip limb from limb from the cowards who call themselves gods! She will upend the very heavens, cast them to oblivion, sunder their essence and reap their immortal souls! There will be no escape from the undying rage of Yrrn! And she will not stop until she stands atop a mountain of godly gore!"*** - extract from the *Prophecy of Velern*

## Yrrn's Black Rage

Yrrn's Black Rage is a curse that afflicts those who lose control of their emotions and become overcome by rage and hatred. Yrrn's Black Rage is an unending, and consuming lust for carnage, killing and blood that cannot be sated. During The Black Rage, all extraneous emotions are stripped away and any semblance of peace or mercy is torn away and replaced by hatred, rage, fury and a frenzied drive to kill anything that stands in the way. People usually become overcome by Yrrn's Black rage during a moment of great emotional distress or aggravation, such as during the loss of a loved one, the agony of childbirth, becoming mortally wounded, or those who seek revenge. When the Black Rage takes hold the victim no longer needs to eat, drink or sleep as the act of killing satiates their body allowing them to spend every waking minute of their cruel hateful existence tearing, ripping hacking and slashing at anything that can draw blood. Killing is the only pleasure victims of the Black Rage will ever feel again, and even that is fleeting. As one body hits the floor, and the blood stops flowing, the pounding thrum of the Black Rage once again courses through their veins and Yrrn fills their heart with fury and fills their head with the bellowing drums of war as they are spurred on again to kill, receiving only a slight tinge of enjoyment before they must kill again.

The Black Rage also facilitates great physical changes in the victims allowing them to further their carnage. With every man cut down and every spray of blood and gore, the victim becomes stronger as the Black Rage grows to make them unstoppable in their frenzy. Their eyes become glossed over with a bright crimson red and the very blood in their veins turns oily black as their heart withers in their body from the untapped evil that radiates from within. Men afflicted by the Black Rage grow in strength, speed and height, whilst women undergo a different change.

Women afflicted by the Black Rage, after killing dozens and feeding the Black Rage become pregnant with four identical quadruplets, born from the blood of battle. Each of the four quadruplets, when born will be a Yrrnspawn, Tieflings with dark iron-black skin inheriting The Black Rage upon birth, growing from the bloodshed to become towering monstrous avatars of war who have only known rage, hatred and carnage. When they have grown large enough the four Yrrnspawn will burst free from their mother's womb ripping her to shreds. After the quadruplets are freed, spurred on by the Black Rage they will turn on each other as soon as they take their first breath. The siblings of war will tear and bite at each other until just one remains, the strongest, the fiercest the most cruel. After feasting on their brothers and sisters the victorious yrrnspawn will grow to become a blessed warrior of Yrrn, infused with her hatred and her lust for blood. The following servant of Yrrn is a creature born from the very act of killing and the pure chaos of rage. These creatures walk amongst the living like demigods of wrath nearly unstoppable in their strength, staving off death by sheer frothing anger.

## Worshippers

### Reverend Mother of War

**The Reverend Mother of War** is the head of the church of **Yrrn** and the matriarchal leader of Vernus. Her identity is a closely guarded secret amongst the church of Yrrn

### **Millonia, Matron of War**

**Millonia the Matron of War** is the only unmasked Reverend Mother of Vernus. She served as Reverend Mother of Vernus immediataly after the collapse of the Kingdom of Kasst during the Atenic War.