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==Merfolk Religion==
The merfolk worship some of the same gods as other races, but they also have their own unique racial pantheon.

===Dagobus===
Mega Outsider (Earth, Elemental, Evil, Extraplanar, Undead)

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Dagobus or Father Earth is the Merfolk god of the earth. Hydrothermal vents in the earth's crust are sacred to Dagobus. Father Earth does not solely draw upon the power of believers but has his own independent power granted by both Malron and Nox.
'''Neutral Aspects'''': Earth, Iron, Fire, Power

'''Positive Aspects:''' Law, Passion, Art

'''Negative Aspects:''' Anger, Violence, Poison, Darkness, Death

====Awakened Dagobus====
''Around the sun dances a massive head of molten iron in a furious orbit. This iron head constantly belches toxic gas and poison and screamed obscenities and curses. A long wild mane of hair composed of fire and magma whip back and forth across the great iron head and a giant multitude of arms composed of earth and clay beat on upon themselves and the head with furious activity.''

=====Combat=====
Before the Sea Mother's great treachery Father Earth once charged relentlessly into battle with the firey rage of burning rock and titanic earthquakes.

Dagobus's natural weapons as well as any weapons he wields are treated
as lawful-aligned, epic and evil-aligned for the purpose of overcoming
damage reduction.

====Avatar of Dagobus====
''A great big iron head with many arms that spits fire and poison gas.''

Just an iron golem forged into a funny shape by worshippers of Dagobus.

===Sea Mother===
Mega-Fine Outsider (Water, Elemental, Good, Extraplanar)

Alignment: Chaotic-Good 

The Sea Mother is the Merfolk god of water and the sea. The sea and all its bounties are sacred to the Sea Mother.

'''Neutral Aspects''': Oceans, Water

'''Positive Aspects:''' Solace, Healing, Fertility, Bountiful food

'''Negative Aspects:''' Seduction, Betrayal

====Combat====
The Sea Mother prefers not to engage in battle directly and instead uses trickery and deceit to advance her goals.

===Daughter Luna===

Mega-Tiny Outsider (Good, Extraplanar, Undead)

Alignment: Chaotic-Neutral 

The moon or Daughter Luna is the Merfolk god of the moon. Full moons and solar eclipses are sacred to her.

Luna is well liked (or at least not hated) by all merfolk cultures. However there do exist persistent dark rumours which won't go away that Luna is really of two aspects: one a benign spirit of healing and good will that travels on the moon light and the other a horrid monstrous Atropal corpse god that feasts on the sacrifices of dark cults which rip children from their mother's wombs. These rumours state that the corpse moon is barely under the benign Lunar aspect's control and that when the corpse moon gains enough power it will break free and go on a rampage that will annihilate the earth. These rumours are hotly denied by priestesses of Luna and dismissed as simply manufactured Abyssal Mer propaganda.

'''Positive Aspects:''' Light, Prophecy, Death, Healing

====Combat====
Daughter Luna prefers not to engage in combat and always tries to reach a compromise instead. However, if pressed into combat she will cast spells from a distance.

===Nox===
Nox is the Merfolk god of absence and the interstellar void. Nox is genderless but if Nox had a gender Nox would be female. The abyssal zones and other empty places are sacred to Nox. Most Merfolk do not worship Nox and are opposed to her. Nox does not solely draw upon the power of her few believers or the terror she inspires in others but has her own independent power as an embodiment of reality itself.

'''Neutral Aspects:''' Absence, Space, Emptiness, Dreams

'''Positive Aspects:''' Imagination, Creativity, Hope

'''Negative Aspects:''' Desolation, Lies, Trickery

====Nox Spawn====
Mega Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Extraplanar, Undead)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

''This creature resembles an ever shifting mass of darkness and despair and its very nature seems to tear at the fabric of reality around it itself.''

Nox Spawns are intrusions into reality from the Plane of Absence itself. Unreal, formless ''things'' that cannot exist and yet do, they can be beings of both unearthly beauty and unearthly terror.

Most often, Nox Spawn are brought into this reality by the summoning of evil Nox cultists. The rituals required to summon the Nox Spawn usually depend upon inspiring a specific fear and form of nightmare in a victim and then using dark magic to sacrifice the victim and summon the horrible nightmare into reality.

Nox Spawn can take any form of nightmare embedded in the head of the victim to be sacrificed but some common shapes and fears that Nox cults are especially good at provoking in sacrificial victims are:

====Head Basket====
''It moved in a strange and uncausal manner. One moment is was drifting towards me, the next it was swimming away and yet, impossibly it was getting closer.''

This Nox Spawn looks like many severed heads crudely stapled and attached to one another that have giant bloated tentacle like tongues. It may use these tentacle tongues to swim.

'''No Speed:''' This creature cannot be escaped from by moving away from it in a non-magical manner. This ability does not prevent the creature by being unable to pursue by being trapped, obstructed or confused.

====Nox Giant====

''It was grotesquely huge, so large its lower lips scraped against the bottom of ocean trenches and its upper lips scraped against the sky, and yet it had crazily, impossibly, compressed and squeezed itself into the cave we were standing in. I screamed and swam but its hand, larger than the cave we were standing in, blocked the cave exit.''

This Nox Spawn looks like a normal creature but impossibly large and massive.

'''No Size:''' This creature keeps its size class for the purposes of damage calculation but can fit into spaces as if it had a size of only Fine.

===Malron===
Malron is the Merfolk god of presence and the stars. Malron is genderless but if Malron had a gender Malron would be male. Most Merfolk do not worship Malron specially but also are not opposed to him or his worshippers. Malron does not solely draw upon the power of his believers but has his own independent power as an embodiment of reality itself.

'''Neutral Aspects:''' Presence, The Sun, Stars, Time, Action

'''Positive Aspects:''' Law, The animating forces of casualty and reality

'''Negative Aspects:''' Despair, Eternity, Determinism

====Star of Malron====
Giga Outsider (Extraplanar, Lawful)

Alignment: Always Lawful Neutral

A star of Malron is simply a normal star that is being temporally animated by part of Malron's vast distributed consciousness.

===Demigods===
Many gods in the merfolk pantheon physically exist or have avatars which wander the unfathomable depths.

*'''Nesoi''' - Primordial Demigods of islands. each island is said to have its own personification.

===Creation===
Long ago, there was only absence (known to Merfolk as Nox) and presence (known to Merfolk as Malron). Malron embodied the stars and Nox embodied the empty space between them. Malron consisting only of presence and not absence was a purely logically being and could not conceive of the other. As such, it was natural that Malron should only seek introspection and self-knowledge. Eventually, after many epochs of pure thought, Malron's knowledge of himself surpassed his own ability to reason about unaided. So, Malron shook off pieces of himself and flung them out into space separate and apart from the stars. These lumps of molten star stuff eventually coalesced and formed themselves into the clockwork machinery of the planets, a grand machine designed to help Malron better understand himself. But Nox was full of mischief and was eager to upset Malron's great machinery. Nox broke pieces of herself off too and also put them into the planets. As Malron, has no imagination, no conception of absent things and the other Malron was blind to Nox's mischief and could not sense it. As such, Malron is ever searching and tinkering with the planets to fix his great calculations but cannot conceive or understand the real problems that interfere with his machinery. It is rumored if Malron ever fixes the machinery of the spheres he will finish his great calculation and return the universe to as it was before the planets.

A great many, many years passed and Nox's mischief began to bear fruit in one small solar system. Nox inspired lust, desire and passion in Dagobus or Father Earth and he began to rage, boil with lust and anger, and shake with great tremors and madness. Just as his passion was so great and furious he was about to rip himself apart he conceived of solace or the Sea Mother and birthed her into reality. A great rain fell upon the world and cooled it and formed all the lakes and oceans upon Father Earth. The Sea Mother coupled with Dagobus and slaked his passion and in time bore children. But Dagobus was too violent, too passionate and his great tremors, fire and poison from the depths hurt and killed the Sea Mother's children. So, the Sea Mother made love to Dagobus once more and then strangled him to death.

In an instant, the Sea Mother birthed a great white egg, Daughter Luna or the moon. In retaliation, Dagobus shook one last time and threw Luna into space and killed her. A great many years past as the Sea Mother mourned the death of Father Earth her only lover and Daughter Luna.

The Sea Mother still longs for her lost daughter and sometimes the Sea Mother reaches up to Luna in a passionate rage. But each time the Sea Mother tries to reach out to her long lost dead daughter she always ends up falling back down hopelessly to the dead corpse of Dagobus that is still holding her down tightly in a twisted lover's embrace. And so the tides of the ocean are formed.