Writing Worlds with Words

Gods of Ithia Expanded: Doi Rok the of Idle Hands.

Doi Rok: God of Despair, Inertia, Sloth, Binding, Imprisonment, and Slavery. 

Known across the plane as Doi Rok, The Drowning Soul, The Slothful One, The Inert, The Dead Moon, The Lord of Idle Hands, The Deep Sleep, The Eclipse of the Mind, The Eternal Rest, The Despair, and The Smothering. 

Doi Rok is a member of the Ko’Cai, The Drowning Gods, The Gods of Malice, and The Gods of Silence. 

Holy Books: The Book of Suns. 

Doi Rok is the drowning sensation you feel when you can’t find hope, the anxiety choking you from the inside, crippling boredom, fatigue, depression, until you can’t hope to move even backwards. 

His Symbol is the The Drowning – Pale hands pulling the vague image of a screaming face beneath black water.   

Doi Rok’s symbol is a dark world wreathed in fire only visible at night. Its surface looks like a screaming face. While active his divine body weighs down on the mortals feeling them with despair.  

Doi Rok’s divine plane is not habitable by most mortals; it is a ruin flooded with thick viscous black fluid. Believed to be deep underwater where the pressure alone would crush a mere mortal. His throne room is the only airable space where he sits on a throne of twisted, broken bodies.  

Doi Rok has no relics. 

Doi Rok is a pale humanoid body running up to the waist on one side and shoulder on the other. Hundreds of pale rotting hands grasps forth where the rest of his body would be. They grasp and reach like drowning men trying to pull you down into the black ichor of his insides.  

Doi Rok is all the emptiness you try to hide. He is the sensation of failure, of falling behind, of never being able to catch up, catch your breath, stop, rest. If you pause, you’ll be buried under the weight of all your failures. He is the horror of war, the trauma of life, the vicious abuses of life. He isolates, twists, controls, and binds in chains. Doi Rok is slothful and inert rarely leaving his crumbling throne unless thoroughly roused. Roi Rok gives no divine gifts unwilling to give his power to anyone.  

Doi Rok is rarely worshipped, ignores prayers, and does not grant power he inspires no temples, shrines, or sacrifices.  

Doi Rok’s Values.   

Pillars (Virtues)- Inertia, Suffering, Chains. 

Columns (Vices)- Movement, Balm, Freedom. 

Doi Rok maintains no Holy Orders. 

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