Erythnul
| Erythnul | |
|---|---|
 Erythnul the Many, as depicted in Deities and Demigods (2002). | |
| General information | |
| Portfolio: | Hate, Envy, Malice, Panic, Ugliness, Slaughter |
| Home: | Windswept Depths of Pandemonium |
| Alignment: | Chaotic Evil |
| Gender: | Male |
| Superior: | none |
| Rules items | |
| Domains: | Chaos, Destruction, Evil, Trickery, War |
Erythnul is the Oeridian god of Hate, Envy, Malice, Panic, Ugliness, and Slaughter. He is known as the Many, and is worshipped by many gnoll, troll, ogre, and bugbear tribes, in addition to humans.
Description
Erythnul is called the Many, because in battle his features continually shift from human to bugbear to troll to ogre to gnoll and back to human again. His spilled blood transforms into similar creatures. Erythnul delights in panic and slaughter.
Relationships
Erythnul has a long-standing rivalry with Hextor, due to the later stealing Erythnul's portfolio of War. He sponsored Roykyn's ascension to the status of hero-power.
Realm
Erythnul's realm, the Citadel of Slaughter, is in the third layer of Pandemonium, Phlegethon. Previously, he had a realm called the Fields of Malice in Cocytus.
Dogma
Worshippers
In civilized lands, Erythnul's followers (including evil fighters, barbarians and rogues) form small, criminal cults. In savage lands, evil barbarians, gnolls, bugbears, ogres, and trolls commonly worship him.
Erythnul is the official god of Stonehold.
Clergy
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