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LordofBones
Master of Realmslore
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 Posted - 26 May 2024 : 01:22:11
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I always thought Apep and Sobek got done dirty in D&D.
APEP
Devourer of the Sun, Enemy of Ra, Lord of Chaos, He Who Encircles the World, the Life-Upender, the Dragon of Evil, the Serpent of Death, Eater of Souls
Greater Power of Gehenna//Demipower of the Abyss
Symbol: The Isfet hieroglyph within the jaws of a red and black cobra
Realm: Ankhwugat, the Twelve Hours of Night (Gehenna/Krangath)//Wells of Darkness (Abyss/73rd)
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Aliases: Apophis
Superior: none
Allies: Falazure, Garyx, Kardum, Nerull, Thralhavoc
Foes: The entire Pharoanic/Mulhorandi pantheon, especially Ra, Sobek and Set; Amaunator (dead), Lathander, Pelor, Rao
Servants: unknown
Servitor Creatures: crocodiles (normal, dire, and fiendish), deathfangs, dragons (black, red, pyroclastic, shadow and tarterian), flameskulls, flamesnakes, incorporeal undead (wraiths, spectres and shadows especially), serpents (normal and fiendish), tanar'ri of all types
Manifestations: The shadow of a red-eyed serpent over the sun, the Isfet hieroglyph
Signs of Favor: the sensation of a serpent's cool scales over bare skin, the Isfet hieroglyph glowing red or a deep, soulless black
Portfolio: Darkness and eternal night, the end of all life, destruction, death, disorder
Worshippers: nihilists, doomsayers, the vengeful and the wrathful, mad spellcasters, entropists, those who desire the overthrow of civilization
Cleric Alignments: CE, LE, NE
Domains: Darkness, Death, Destruction, Entropy, Evil, Fate, Hatred, Night, Spite, Suffering, Wrath
Favored Weapon: Any bludgeoning or piercing*
*Apep's avatars never manifest in humanoid form or have any discernable weaponry; his clerics must select a weapon that emulates the strike of a serpent (i.e. piercing damage) or the crushing coils of a snake (i.e. bludgeoning damage).
Apep, also called Apophis, is the Devourer of the Sun, an ancient and malevolent power that seeks nothing less than the end of all life and the return to the primeval darkness from which it was born. The oldest member of the Pharoanic pantheon, save for Ra, Apep considers the bulk of the pantheon to be beneath his notice. Indeed, the vast majority of the power's attention was devoted to destruction of Ra and the sun he rules over, and the cycle of day and night that brought the sun god's barge to the Twelve Hours of Night in Krangath provided ample opportunity for the Dragon of Evil to snuff out the light he so despised. Apep loathes Sobek and Set - the latter most of all - almost as much as he hates Ra, for both the Lord of All Crocodiles and the Father of Jackals were among the elder god's greatest and most faithful defenders, slaying countless numbers of Apep's shadowy minions and even scoring wounds on the dark god himself. In recent years, the Eater of Souls was finally defeated and sealed away in the Wells of Darkness, and his realm taken by Set and moved to Baator, but sages familiar with the pantheon grimly agree that this state of affairs isn't bound to last long.
The Lord of Chaos - a title earned not only for being the embodiment of Isfet but also due to his preference for tanar'ri - has not cultivated many allies. He has made overtures to both Falazure the Night Dragon and Garyx the All-Destroyer, who have worked with him in creating new horrors of consuming shadow and rampant destruction. The Abyssal Lord Kardum, Lord of Balors, has been known to experiment with infusing the primeval darkness of Apep's domain with the fires of his favored tanar'ri to create a new kind of 'blackfire' balor, while the mysterious Abyssal Lord Thralhavoc admires Apep's usage of shadowy undead to bring ruin to his foes. He counts deities of the sun and law among his enemies, with special attention paid to the powers of Oerth and Faerun. Apep is remarkably indifferent to both Shar and the imprisoned elder deity Tharizdun, perhaps seeing them as potential rivals, but has a sort of friendly rivalry with Nerull - something that horrifies anyone even the slightest bit familiar with either deity.
In his true form, Apep is a colossal cobra-like serpent with scales of a midnight hue. Great stripes that crackle with red lightning and seethe with fiery heat decorate his back, and the Isfet hieroglyph glows upon his spiked hood like a crown. The elder god's tail ends in a bladed spike, and his golden eyes blaze with terrifying intelligence and dark wisdom. He sometimes manifests as a crocodile of similar hue, perhaps in mockery of Sebek.
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Edited by - LordofBones on 26 May 2024 04:26:28
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[3.5e] Apep, Devourer of the Sun
