You know, there's a fighter in each and every one of you--a dormant, violent beast of immeasurable power that craves release. Don't push your inner-animal to the side; don't hide from it either. Embrace it willingly. Treasure it. Coddle it. Hone it. Conflict's natural--always has been and always will be as a matter of fact--but to flee from your nature-given impulse to kill, maim and put the unfit to the blade is to defile the time-honored traditions of the pecking order---and that there's folly. And heresy. And boring. But mostly heresy! And I can't have that now can I, ya?-Apedemak, Great Lion and Beast of the Wounded Deep
Primary Objective: When he was a god, Apedemak originally focused much of his personal time fanning the flames of war and strife on Sormun for his own personal amusement. Since his forced exile to the mortal plane, the Great Lion has reluctantly reorganized his goals to better represent his new-found wariness for the deadly omnipresence that has taken refuge in the nucleus of the land. Not out of compassion for the mortal denizens of the world, Apedemak seeks to circumvent the probable subjugation of Sormun's people to ensure that war and turmoil remain everlasting—and that no potential competitor can stand between he and his rightful station as a higher being in the foreseeable future.
Secondary Objectives: Apedemak has kept a discerning eye trained on the Razaji for the last two-hundred years, but has only recently decided to initiate formal contact with their people. Whispers of their species' deep resentment of the gods and the unforeseen downfall of their primordial empire has presented their landless collective as a deliciously-suitable starting point for the war demigod's seemingly-benevolent plans. Parallel are both the Razaji and Apedemak in a number of ways, most notable of which is the mutual distaste both share for the higher powers native to the celestial realm and the shadowy entities of Darthlukian, while the feline-like visage of Apedemak may act as an approachable face for the Razaji to look upon with trust and hope.
Should they have it, Apedemak wishes to bend the Razaji into a coherent and well-equipped fighting force and humbly offer them a home within the Wounded Deep (which would help to further strengthen and expand his control over it).
Final Objective: Ridding the world of Desolationism and returning to the celestial realm to reclaim his rightful position as the only deity of war. To see this mission met with success, Apedemak must remain patient and diligent, but may also find it necessary to secure himself an 'edge' over the Red Pantheon that may help to nullify their numerical advantage when the deciding confrontation eventually comes to pass.
-Host Size: 1
-Unique Trait #1: A Force of Nature: Raw size and supernatural. It should come as no supruse that Apedemak owns enough hardiness to single-handily assault keeps and strongholds and lay low hosts of
-Unique Trait #2: (Created by me, mostly to reduce min-maxing)
-Unique Flaw #1 Though a Lone Legend: Extreme distaste and a very poor standing with the
-Unique Flaw #2 (Created by me, mostly to reduce min-maxing)
PATRONAGE & GEOGRAPHIC
This is the Wounded Deep, the home of Apedemak.
The dark-brown tiles that lay to the east of Darthlukian are the areas where Apedemak preys on grazing, giant megafauna. He is exceptionally territorial, and usually does not suffer foreigners from Somnus or Darthlukian to pass through his dominion unmolested. Apedemak's stalwart resistance to xeno incursions within his realm of activity has consequently resulted in little opportunity for major civilization to grow and prosper.
SPECIES
Apedemak is an avatar of pure calamity forged from a cosmic shard of an obscured and splintered deity of war and aggression; he has selectively adopted the unnerving shell of a towering, anthropomorphic lion-like creature of exaggerated dimensions to operate as his tangible vessel of choice. Aside from a single nose piercing and several rings of gold looped through his left year, Apedemak's appearance is fairly modest.
RELIGION & MAGIC
Because his bestial, looming form is imbued with a perverted mixture of magical corruption from Darthlukian and a vast aggregate of mystical dregs originating from the celestial realm, Apedemak has been bestowed with extramundane physical capabilities and a potent affinity for retarding the manifestation of all forms of magic and the effects of all paranormal abilities within a comparatively wide area. Magical abilities that do manage make contact with his hide or mind are blunted further.
Perhaps unique to Apedemak is his complete inability to be destroyed in mind. If slain on Sormun, his essence remains in a never-ending state of limbo until eventually recalled back to the mortal plane.
CULTURAL
-History of the Host (This includes how it was founded and why)
-Relations:
Followers of DesolationismThat bastard pantheon of false-gods? Little mishaps tried to throw me out of the celestial realm when they all finally grew some fangs and tasted true power for the first time. Invaders the lot of them! When that pathetic plot of their's failed miserably, they tried to erase me from existence. But I was a fighter! Still am, too! I knew how to call it even so that I can drag a scuffle out longer. I splintered. Broke my essence up and scattered myself across the World Below to wage a war of retribution from fronts that I damn well knew that those haughty children couldn't bring themselves to personally fight on. They're drunk with power. They'll never give that up. Not even to slaughter the second-biggest thorn in their backside. -Apedemak on his near-defeat at the hands of the Red Pantheon
Driven by jealously, prejudice and hatred for past wrongdoings, Apedemak absolutely abhors the Red Pantheon and its followers with a raging, inexhaustible ferocity. Over the last two centuries, Apedemak has sought to do significant harm to this particular faith by relentlessly pursing a genocidal crusade against dragons, common people, heroes, and other legendary creatures and mundane beings that are in league with the Primal Gods, but he has only been marginally successful in his deplorable exploits and calculated acts of ultra-violence against the faith in spite of the frighteningly-powerful reserves of might that the Great Lion has at his disposal. For this reason, Apedemak is
infamous throughout the world for his actions against their followers and their hallowed sights of worship, and consequently finds himself universally despised by Sormun's devout Desolationists.
