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48 Vermthizzl (The Light in the Deep) Symbol: None Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (with evil tendencies) Governs: Deep drow, fire, humour, trickery Domains: Chaos, Fire, Trickery Favoured Weapons: Light pick, scimitar, spiked chain Requirements for Priesthood: Must be chosen by the priesthood and pass a series of tests administered by the priesthood. Background Vermthizzl, the Light in the Deep, is actually just a false face created by Kez’Skul, the Trickster. Before the end of the goblin war, when worship of the drow pantheon was growing to crowd out worship of the old elven pantheon in drow society, one clan that refused to give up worship of the elven Allfather broke off from the rest of the drow, determined to find a way around the goblins and back to the surface. After years of wandering through the previously unknown terrors and dangers of the Underdeep, their faith was waning. The Trickster had never stopped watching this clan of drow and, as their faith was at its ebb and they found themselves huddling in terror from the shangu at the bottom of the Underdeep, he appeared to them in the form of a flame. The drow took this to be a manifestation of the Allfather, and the Trickster did nothing to disabuse them of this notion. They gladly worshipped him, and he urged them to remain hidden deep beneath the world, where eventually they became the Pol’Tah, the deep drow (see page 115). Slowly, the Trickster weaned the Pol’Tah away from the few tenets of the Allfather they still maintained, introducing them to a new religion he literally created as he went along. Never in all the long millennia since that day has he revealed himself for what he is, but the Pol’Tah have long since forgotten the name of Allfather, believing they have always worshipped Vermthizzl, the Light in the Deep. The practices of this religion, which the deep drow truly believe has not changed, would be abhorrent to the Allfather, which only makes this millennia-long joke on the deep drow all the funnier, at least from the perspective of the Trickster. Still, the joke is beginning to grow stale for Kez’Skul. He has not yet abandoned the Pol’Tah, nor would he ever reveal the truth to them, but he has grown desirous for some kind of change to make his aspect as Vermthizzl entertaining again. Religious Observances Vermthizzl demands sacrifice but since the Pol’Tah have, until quite recently, had no contact with any intelligent race other than occasional battles with the shangu, they have had to sacrifice their own to keep the Light in the Deep burning. Every year, 16 children are chosen from the deep drow. Eight are chosen to enter the priesthood; eight others are kept in tiny cages within the temple, to be publicly sacrificed throughout the year. Temples There is only one temple to Vermthizzl, in the deep drow city of Drez Khelim. It is a featureless block of stone, the interior of which is forbidden to any not of the priesthood. Clergy As noted earlier, the priests of Vermthizzl choose 16 children at random from the population of the Pol’Tah. Eight of these children become sacrifices to the Light in the Deep; the other eight enter the priesthood. Worshippers All of the deep drow are worshippers of Vermthizzl. There is no other god in the society of the Pol’Tah.
Deity Symbol Alignment Governs Domains Favoured Weapon Worshippers Alsythuth Black coin with CE Commerce, Chaos, Luck, Quarterstaff, Drow bloody edges raiding, trade Travel sling Azzanoth A fang-filled mouth CE Feral drow, Chaos, Death, Scimitar, Kanahraun (The cruelty, Evil shortspear, Feral Drow) gluttony, necromancy shortbow Belishtim A heart impaled on a CE Ambition, Air, Chaos, Darts, rapier Drow black blade desire, lust Trickery The Dark A black spider on a CE Death, Chaos, Death, Flails, whips Drow Mother silver web destruction, drow, fate Evil, Protection Kez’Skul A single flame flanked CN Fire, humour, Chaos, Fire, Dagger, sap, Drow by two opposing and trickery Trickery sling intricate symbols Mu’Ushket which seem reversed images of each other A field of black with CN Assassins, Chaos, Death, Hand crossbow, Drow an indistinct grey face secrets, shadow, Trickery short sword inside it stealth Nazrakoth A simple scale LE Law, vengeance Destruction, Heavy mace, Drow Law, Strength longsword Olyet’Naru A pair of drow hands, NE Craftsmen, Earth, Magic, Light crossbow, Drow and open as if reaching smiths Strength war hammer Lorgreln (The or grasping for Iron Drow) something. Among the Lorgreln, the symbol consists Polshoath merely of a coldwrought iron dagger. A split oval within a CE Birth, life, pain Chaos, Evil, Spiked chain Drow black circle Water Thraud A cleft shield LE Combat, Death, War, Longspear, Drow and conflict, Destruction longsword, Lorgreln (The soldiers, war composite shortbow Iron Drow) Vermthizzl None CN Deep drow, Chaos, Fire, Light pick, Pol’Tah (The fire, humour, Trickery scimitar, spiked Deep Drow) trickery chain Ydrillia An open book, its NE Knowledge, Knowledge, Quarterstaff, Drow spine turned towards learning, magic, Magic hand crossbow the viewer so the contents of the pages are hidden wisdom 49
Page 3 and 4: Editor Christopher Allen Cover Artw
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Page 8 and 9: 6 History of the Drow What follows
Page 10 and 11: 8 The war raged on and on and the d
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Page 14 and 15: 12 The last few undrunk drops of oi
Page 16 and 17: 14 An Overview of the Drow This cha
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Page 20 and 21: 18 This preference for elegance and
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Page 52 and 53: 50 The Noble Houses Religion plays
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Page 58 and 59: 56 Favoured Class: Wizard Predomina
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Page 84 and 85: 82 1,000 years. The names of its fo
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Page 88 and 89: 86 Culture The culture in the Darkl
Page 90 and 91: 88 The Game of Bones - the Sheathed
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160 Shadow of Mu’Ushket Class Lev
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254 An Overview of the Drow 14 Bone
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