Marlis. Goddess of Famine, Drought, Blight, Decay, and Death. 

Known across the plane as Marlis, The Mother of Maggots, The Kiss of Death, The Goddess of the Blight, The Final Alure, and The Ruinous Beauty. 

Marlis is a member of the Gods of the Dead.  

Holy Books: The Buch der Kronen, The Book of Crowns, The Tosk og Hal, Gambri nuk Kunn, The Immortal Scriptures, The Book of First Flame, and The Book of Scales.    

Marlis entices and guides the souls reaped by her brother to the afterlife. Some souls are too burdened to let go of the mortal coil and follow her into the next underworld. Marlis is all beauty and loving allure. She welcomes the lost and confused souls, consoles them, guides them, and helps them move on. 

Her Symbol is the Shepperd – a crook surrounded by four black tears representing each of the four gods of Death. 

When active on Ithia, The Ring is the Celestial Body of Marlis, a golden ring of light.  It forms around Drei as a golden halo when both Gods are active. 

Marlis’ Divine realm is Vigil where the Gods’ favored dwell. It is paradise incarnate but a lonely place. Marlis spends her time keeping souls company as few make it to the sprawl of Vigil. 

Marlis doesn’t use or maintain any divine artifacts. 

Marlis’ form changes to fit the most enticing form for each mortal she encounters. She is beautiful and pale, with ashes darkening her lips and around her eyes. Her hair is the night at the witching hour speckled with stars; her eyes are depthless pools of moonlight. 

Marlis is far less calm and patient than her fellow gods of Death. She is chaotic and flirty, and if not regularly appeased by the living, she sends forth blight and drought. She is the only God of the Dead who can bring about her domain by herself and on a whim. 

Few people worship Marlis out of love, many appease her fearing the terrible wrath she might send out blotting out entire settlements. When farmers sow seed sacrifices are given, when harvests are brought in sacrifices are given, when the cold seasons come sacrifices are given. People burn sacrifices to avoid droughts, famine, and disease almost always sacrifices of organic material.  People worship in temples made of earth, adobe, clay with a large central fire where sacrifices are burned. Marlis has no prophets or saints. 

Marlis’ values.   

Pillars(Perceived ‘Virtues’): Death, Life, and Appeasement.  
 
Columns(Perceived ‘Vices’): Undeath and Stinginess.  

Marlis’ servants maintain the divine order of the Maids of Mercy.