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Gods of Ithia Expanded: Tasmar Oriondus the Defiler.

Tasmar Oriondus. God of Desecration, Mutilation, Conquest, and Slaughter. 

Known across the plane as Tasmar Oriondus, The Lord of Slaughter, The Unspoken One, The Bloodsower, The Scourge of Life, The Blasphemer, The Defiler, The Betrayer, and The Stained God. 

Tasmar Oriondus is a member of the Ko’Cai, The Gods of Malice, The Fell Gods, The Gods of War, The Mad Gods, and the Monstrous Gods. 

Holy Books: The Book of Suns.   

Tasmar Oriondus one of the most reviled Gods in Ithia who sees nothing as Sacred. No line to far, no whim out of bounds, no step too far. Tasmar after slaying Kaldron was brought low and with the machinations of Zatolen found himself slain by his own high cleric and his physical manifestation destroyed.  

His Symbol is The Ruination – The silhouette of a baby impaled upon a broken Horned Cross of Zatolen. 

When active on Ithia, Tasmar Oriondus’ Celestial Body is the Herald of Dread a constellation of stars forming a skull with a swaddled form caught in its teeth. 

Tasmar Oriondus’ Divine Realm is a great mass of stone pitted with grooves that lead out from a great sacrificial slab the feeds the grooves with streams of blood. Burning crosses of Zatolen are spread across the plane with the crucified bodies of those who have defied Tasmar’s darkest dreams. Forever tortured in his plane of ruin and sorrow. 

Tasmar does not maintain nor need any divine artifacts.  

Tasmar Oriondus is hulking mass, brutish features, skin covered in armor of bone knitted together with threads of sinew, a cloak of weeping flesh hangs from his massive shoulders. His lipless maw filled with rows of serrated teeth and a long-barbed tongue.  He has four arms of rippling muscle bursting from his putrid skin, the lower two ending in sickle like blades of bone. His legs end in cloven hooves shoed with sharp spikes. 

Tasmar is a nightmarish deity driven by the need for suffering glutting himself on pain, suffering, and the lamentations of those who survive. He has no empathy, compassion, values, or rules. He values nothing but his current urge or whim. He is short sighted, vicious, and lacks the delicacy of Mire or even the brute cunning of Haltheris and comes at his desires straight forward. He grants what few mad men who worship him the power to channel rage into decaying flames, weaken material, break the divine blessings. 

Tasmar Oriondus is rarely worshipped but those who do tend to be the worst of any society monstrous bandits, heinous pirates, and soldiers who give into their base desires. He is worshipped in dark secret places or in small gatherings of soldiers before battle. Tasmar Orindus takes sacrifices of blood, innocence, and pain. 

Tasmar’s values. 

Pillars (Virtues)- Slaughter, Mutilation, Murder, Fury, Terror, and Force. 

Columns (Vices) – Peace, Honor, Mercy, Calm, Courage, and Weakness. 

Tasmar doesn’t maintain any former holy orders.   

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