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==Lords of Creation==
The Scarred Lands is defined by its Greco-Roman battle between elder deities called the Titans and their God progeny. But who are they?

===Titans===
The Titans were primordial beings, drawing their power directly from the elemental essences of the planes themselves. Petty, short-sighted, callous and cruel, they consisted of the following:

'''[[Chern]]''', also known as The Scourge and The Last Great Sickness and Suffering, was the creator of plagues, vermin and disease. He was slain by the High Elves of Termana, his body entombed beneath the Mourning Marshes. His dying curse transformed the surviving High Elves into the Forsaken Elves. His symbol is a braided rope adorned with bone figurines.

'''[[Gaurak]]''', aka The Glutton and The Voracious One, was a 100-toothed eating machine who devoured every scrap of life upon the once-verdant moon. The gods ripped out his teeth and scattered them across the world, where they turned into mountains, monoliths and even trees that blight the lands around them, before burying him deep in the earth. His titanspawn creations seek to feed his hunger, metaphorically or literally. His symbol is a fang.

'''[[Golthagga]]''' of the Forge, also known as the Shaper, was a misshapen brute who loved to meddle with the "toys" - sapient races - created by his fellows, spawning horrible aberrations out of his whimsy. Some still worship him for his talent of shaping the world around him, or his elemental affinity for earth and flame. His symbol is a forge or anvil.

'''[[Golthain]]''' the Faceless was a Titan with a vague compassion for the life-forms that the Titans created. For this, they mocked him and stripped him of his senses. In return, he betrayed them during the Divine War and then requested a merciful death. His symbol is a blank-faced mask.

'''[[Gormoth]]''' the Writhing Lord spent centuries in poisoned agony after incurring the wrath of his sister-wife Mormo. He ultimately recovered and began venting his spite and hatred on the world, targeting individuals rather than working on the grand scale. Defeated in the Divine War by Vangal and Chardun, they split him down the middle from skull to crotch and then dumped each still-flailing half on opposite sides of a great chasm. His followers still fight a vendetta against his three great enemies. His symbol is a two-headed flail.

'''[[Gulaben]]''', Lady of the Winds and Mistress of Madness, is an obscure Titan about which nobody knows anything. Her symbol is a swirling cloud with a blue eye set at its center.

'''[[Hrinruuk]]''' the Hunter relished the challenge of hunting, and created many of the most lethal monstrosities to ever stalk Scarn just to give himself something better to hunt. This chucklehead basically triggered the divine war when he decided to hunt his own daughter, Tanil, brutally rape her, and then leave her to die. This was the last straw in a string of abuses for the gods. Tanil and Corean slew him during the Dawn War, giving his still-living head as a gift to Hedrada, whose daughter Miridum he had killed for sport. His symbol is a broken bow.

'''[[Kadum]]''', the Mountainshaker, the Bleeding One, the Father of Monsters. Implied to resemble/be this setting's version of the [[Tarrasque]]. The Blood Sea exists because the best plan that the gods could come up with for defeating him was to cut out his heart, chain him to a rock, and throw him into the deepest ocean chasm, and his ever-bleeding wound poisons the sea. His symbol is a bloody heart.

'''[[Lethene]]''', the Dame of Storms, the Untamed One, is another mysterious Titan who may have actually been one and the same as Gulaben. Her symbol is a whirlwind or whirlpool.

'''[[Mesos]]''', Sire of Sorcery, the Disrupted, was the Titan most associated with arcane magic and is reputed to be the ultimate creator of all forms of sorcery. He was the first to be slain by the gods during the Divine War. His symbol is six arms clasping each other to form a six-pointed star made of two overlapping triangles.

'''[[Mormo]]''', Mother of Serpents and Queen of Witches was one of the most prolific of all Titans, creating [[hag]]s, [[asaatthi]], [[medusa]]e and [[gorgon]]s amongst dozens of others. Hacked into pieces during the Divine War, her blood transformed the Hornsaw Forest into a homeland for mutant terrors. Her symbol is a serpent.

'''[[Thulkas]]''', Father of Fire, also known as the Iron God, was an elemental force of flaming metal. So durable was he that Corean could not slay him, instead forcing him onto Golthagga's own anvil and hammering him with the Shaper's tools into the form of an arrow, which Tanil then shot into the sun using the bow she had taken from Hrinruuk. His symbol is a red sun with a black eye in the center.

===Gods===
The progeny of the Titans, the Gods found they drew their power from the belief and worship of the mortal races. This made them naturally more empathetic to the suffering of mortals, and so, ultimately, the abuses of the Titans roused them to put an end to it. That said, not all of the Gods are nice people - many of them are fucking assholes in their own right. They consist of the following:

'''[[Corean]]:''' God of [[Lawful Good|Law]], Protection, Chivalry, Wisdom, Craftwork, and Strength.

'''[[Madriel]]:''' Goddess of the Sun, Light, Sky, Redemption, Healing, and Agriculture.

'''[[Tanil]]:''' Goddess of [[Chaotic Good|Chaos]], Music, Good Fortune, Trickery, Travel, Freedom, Hunting, Forestry, and Archery.

'''[[Hedrada|Hedrada the Lawgiver]]:''' God of [[Lawful Neutral|Law]], Order, Protection, Judgement, Justice, Knowledge, Cities, and Wealth.

'''[[Denev]]:''' Titaness of Earth, Nature, The Seasons, and the Cycles of Life.

'''[[Nemorga|Nemorga the Gatekeeper]]:''' [[True Neutral|Neutral]] psychopompic demigod of Death, Executions, Funerals, Judgement, Underworld, Portals, Gateways, Travel, and Knowledge.

'''[[Enkili|Enkili the Shapeshifter]]:''' God/dess of [[Chaotic Neutral|Chaos]], Storms, Trickery, Luck, Misfortune, and Travel.

'''[[Idra]]:''' Demigoddess of [[Chaotic Neutral|Chaos]], Sexuality, Physical Affection, Carnal Knowledge, Passion, Entrancement, Prostitutes, Secrets, and Health.

'''[[Chardun|Chardun the Slaver]]:''' [[Lawful Evil|Lawful]] god of War, Domination, Slavery, Bindings, Conquest, Avarice, and Pain.

'''[[Belsameth|Belsameth the Slayer]]:''' Goddess of Darkness, Death, Nightmares, Deception, Witchcraft, Magic, and Madness.

'''[[Vangal]]:''' God of Destruction, Pestilence, Famine, Bloodshed, Thunder, and Disasters.

===Ushada===
According to their worshipers, the Ushadan, the Ushada are the spirits of all things. And they mean ALL THINGS. In a forest, every tree, animal and rock have its own Ushada, and the forest itself have an Ushada. All Ushadan see the Titans as abnormal forms of Ushada, and respect them even if they also see them as corrupt and evil. In the matter of the gods the Ushadan are divided. Most see them as an unusual form of Ushada, but other believed to be not a part of the world and fear them.

===Agency of the Emperor===
The [[Agency of the Emperor]] is the faith followed by the inhabitants of the Dragon Lands in Scarn.
The people of the Dragon Lands believe that the draconic shape is the mark of an august spirit, lifting [[dragon]]s above other mortals, and the only being above them is the emperor, also a dragon, who is the embodiment of an august spirit. The followers of the Agency obey the dragons and seek to emulate them, so that they can become spiritually august as well. The [[cleric]]s of the faith act the earthly representatives of the Unseen Emperors and serve the emperor directly.

When a person dies, they go to the ''August Court of the Highest Heavens'', a paradise ruled over by the ''Unseen Emperors'', the spirits of the former emperors, but only if they have followed the societal standards, and prayed and supplicated their ancestors dwelling in the Court of the Unseen Emperors.