Post by Scott on Nov 2, 2004 19:55:34 GMT -5
Tharizdun is the god of eternal darkness and decay. I found this today while reading through the Slayers Guide to Undead:
“When first The Lord of Darkness Eternal beheld the coming of the sun and the rise of man he closed his hands together and envisaged the end which will come and saw ahead of himself an aeon of suffering. ‘The dark, the beautiful dark, has been sullied,’ he said. ‘The purity of the void has been lost. I shall endure that which I must endure, I shall suffer solitude so that non-being can return, I shall suffer imprisonment so that all that is can be undone, I shall suffer so that all suffering, all being, can be made no more and then I shall remember it not and it will be as if it had never been.’<br>Then He Who is Lost turned his head and beheld the festering pits of the Abyss and said, ‘this too shall not be, but first let us take something so that all can be made nothing,’ and he called into his presence Orcus and commanded him to hand over a portion of undeath. Orcus obeyed.
In his right hand The Lord of Darkness Eternal held undeath and with his left hand he plucked forth from his being a piece of the endless dark and he melded the two into one, making something so that all things could become nothing.
From the dark-undeath he had formed The Hidden One fashioned things and called them Nightshades. To them he said, ‘you shall be my children and I shall be your lord. Though you will not see me I shall be with you for I am in you. Unto the time of the end, the time that will come and has come before, you shall be and I shall be and then we shall be no more as the perfect dark you usher in closes over all.’<br>Excerpt from The Book of Dis”<br>
And this:
“The Garden of Shadow
There is a place where He of Darkness Eternal once walked. It is hidden from the eyes of man so that only the chosen can find it. Beyond a waterfall of cascading black water there is a door, beyond the door there is a labyrinth, beyond the labyrinth stands a high wall with no gate and beyond the wall is the garden of He Who is Lost.
Here shadows bloom and grow. They are beautiful to those who can perceive them. Darkness spreads from sconces mounted on the inner side of the wall and the very breeze has a dark shade to it. The place is colder than an arctic wind, darker than a madman’s nightmare and is warded by nightshades of every kind.
Those who would return darkness’s king seek the garden out for there are patterns to the shadows that grow there. One who has the power to solve the shadows’ riddle can glean arcane knowledge and learn the answers to mysteries older than man.”<br>
Scott
“When first The Lord of Darkness Eternal beheld the coming of the sun and the rise of man he closed his hands together and envisaged the end which will come and saw ahead of himself an aeon of suffering. ‘The dark, the beautiful dark, has been sullied,’ he said. ‘The purity of the void has been lost. I shall endure that which I must endure, I shall suffer solitude so that non-being can return, I shall suffer imprisonment so that all that is can be undone, I shall suffer so that all suffering, all being, can be made no more and then I shall remember it not and it will be as if it had never been.’<br>Then He Who is Lost turned his head and beheld the festering pits of the Abyss and said, ‘this too shall not be, but first let us take something so that all can be made nothing,’ and he called into his presence Orcus and commanded him to hand over a portion of undeath. Orcus obeyed.
In his right hand The Lord of Darkness Eternal held undeath and with his left hand he plucked forth from his being a piece of the endless dark and he melded the two into one, making something so that all things could become nothing.
From the dark-undeath he had formed The Hidden One fashioned things and called them Nightshades. To them he said, ‘you shall be my children and I shall be your lord. Though you will not see me I shall be with you for I am in you. Unto the time of the end, the time that will come and has come before, you shall be and I shall be and then we shall be no more as the perfect dark you usher in closes over all.’<br>Excerpt from The Book of Dis”<br>
And this:
“The Garden of Shadow
There is a place where He of Darkness Eternal once walked. It is hidden from the eyes of man so that only the chosen can find it. Beyond a waterfall of cascading black water there is a door, beyond the door there is a labyrinth, beyond the labyrinth stands a high wall with no gate and beyond the wall is the garden of He Who is Lost.
Here shadows bloom and grow. They are beautiful to those who can perceive them. Darkness spreads from sconces mounted on the inner side of the wall and the very breeze has a dark shade to it. The place is colder than an arctic wind, darker than a madman’s nightmare and is warded by nightshades of every kind.
Those who would return darkness’s king seek the garden out for there are patterns to the shadows that grow there. One who has the power to solve the shadows’ riddle can glean arcane knowledge and learn the answers to mysteries older than man.”<br>
Scott
