Editing Mordiggian (section)

==Pathfinder==
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{{Infobox Deity
|Name = Mordiggian
|Symbol = [[File:Mordiggian symbol.png]]
<center>Bloody Fangs Surrounded By Darkness</center>
|Alignment = Chaotic Evil
|Divine Rank = Great Old One
|Pantheon = Cthulhu Mythos
|Portfolio = Darkness, Ghouls, Voices of the Dead
|Domains = Chaos, Darkness, Death, Evil <br> '''Subdomains:''' Entropy, Loss, Night, Undead
|Home Plane = Dreamlands
|Worshippers = [[Ghoul]]s, Undertakers, [[Necromancer]]s, Anatomists
|Favoured Weapon = Scimitar
}}
Mordiggian appears in [[Pathfinder]] as a Great Old One, making him a god worshipped by NPCs, or even the PCs if you're running that sort of campaign. Both of his appearances so far have been in "Strange Aeons"; the [[H.P. Lovecraft]]-themed adventure path. Stats for Mordiggian appeared in the second adventure module, "The Thrushmoor Terror", whilst a profile of him as a deity appeared in the first adventure module, "In Search of Sanity", as part of the article "Elder Mythos", a revamp of the article "Cults of the Dark Tapestry", which had appeared in the earlier module "Wake of the Watcher", part 4 of the horror-themed path "Carrion Crown".

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His writeup from that article reads as follows:

''In ancient times, Mordiggian was the god of ghouls, yet as these undead spread throughout the countless worlds, many of them lost their way and fell into decadence. These ghouls have forgotten the Charnel God, and only pockets of those from Leng who have not degenerated maintain the ancient rites today.

''Mordiggian’s primary worshipers in the modern era are humans who venerate him as a death god, yet to the untrained eye, these men and women are little more than ghouls themselves. Using vile rituals and surgical practices, they transform their limbs and visages into ghoulish countenances. In cities where such grotesqueries would cause incident, his worshipers wear heavy cloaks and silver masks to hide their shapes. Mordiggian’s temples are grand mausoleum-cathedrals placed in positions of prominence in their cities. Cities that host such temples have no graveyards of their own, for the priests of Mordiggian collect the bodies of the dead and place them, free of charge, into their sacred vaults for “disposal.” As such, undead and corpse-borne disease are rare contagions in cities under Mordiggian’s care, yet sometimes his priests are too eager in gathering the “dead,” and have been known to take away those in comas or deathlike trances from which they could have recovered.

''Mordiggian is a living cloud of darkness, capable of congealing and coalescing all or portions of his form within the inky depths to serve his needs, whether he’s manifesting a long, grasping limb to pluck a ripened morsel from a coffin-platter, or visiting his wrath upon those who dare to tread upon halls where only the dead may walk. The Charnel God’s favored form is that of an immense worm with a set of grasping tentacles arrayed around a central maw; this fanged maw appears often in the god’s symbology.''

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