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Azzanoth (The Glutton)
Symbol: A fang-filled mouth, usually scratched out in
blood.
Alignment: Chaotic evil
Governs: Feral drow, cruelty, gluttony, necromancy
Domains: Chaos, Death, Evil
Favoured Weapons: Scimitar, shortspear,
shortbow
Requirements for Priesthood: Must be
born into the ruling class of the Kanahraun
Background
Azzanoth the Glutton is not a part of the
drow pantheon at all. He is a demon lord
from the infernal planes, whose attention
was attracted by the Lost Tribe of the
Kanahraun (see page 100) in the days
after the Sundering.
Entwining himself among the Kanahraun
after rescuing them from a slow but
certain death, Azzanoth has made this band of dark elves
a hobby of his. The prices he exacted for his aid, prices
about which the Kanahraun foolishly did not inquire before
accepting help, have turned the tribe into a subrace of feral
drow, dangerous and depraved.
Azzanoth no longer lives among the Kanahraun. Indeed,
that period was relatively brief and has been over for
millennia but its influence is still felt, from the fiendish
traits he passed on to the offspring he fathered upon the
drow to the cannibalistic rituals with which the feral drow
revere their demon lord.
Religious Observances
The Kanahraun worship the Glutton with a variety of rites
which no outsider has ever seen and survived. Most of the
rituals involve literally slaughtering and eating a victim
alive, gifting the flesh to Azzanoth but at the same time
taking sustenance from it, in deference to the Glutton’s
First Price. The least debased of the rituals are concerned
with scarring and disfiguring one’s own body in praise to
Azzanoth, while the worst involve consuming the flesh of
the undead.
Temples
There are few permanent temples to Azzanoth, as the
Kanahraun are a nomadic people, prowling the Underdeep
and hunting for food. Those temples which do exist, such
as in the Kanahraun city of Gauth Sheol, are made almost
entirely of bones taken from the feral drow’s victims and
melded together as part of a process taught to the Kanahraun
by Azzanoth that is known as boneforging (see page 186 for
more information). The temples are constantly being added
to and augmented, growing ever outward and upward with
no thought given to form and creating a meaningless shape
of chaos that Azzanoth finds more pleasing than any planned
structure. The inside is built of a combination of stone
as well as more bone, containing rooms
of all sizes and dimensions.
In front of the temple is an enormous
altar of bone, on which the major
sacrifices are made and feasts taken. In
the deepest parts of the temple, however, is
the area where the ruling class, the descendants
of Azzanoth practice their own rituals, in
rooms with walls of undead bone that
grasp and scrape in constant pain.
Clergy
To be a priest or priestess of Azzanoth, one
must literally be born to it. The Glutton only accepts
those Kanahraun descended from his fiendish offspring as
his priests.
Worshippers
Worship of Azzanoth is nonexistent outside of the
Kanahraun, but within the clans of feral drow, it is the only
religion and is vigorously adhered to by every Kanahraun.
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