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Harbinger of Chaos
Deity

"The wheel of entropy spins and spins, a constant in the struggle between chaos and order. The Eye of the Maelstrom is freedom where the Final Arbiter would seek to impose tyranny upon us all."

- Varonia Calvadon, High Priestess of the Sisters of Chaos


Oohros the Harbinger of Chaos, also known as Eye of the Maelstrom, Discordant One, and Entropy Itself, is the god of chaos, entropy, and potential. He resides within the churning, ever-expanding pot of limitless creation and destruction known as the plane of Limbo, the birthplace of the multiverse from where all that can and that which cannot be is possible. 


History

Oohros was spawned in alongside his antithesis Torek, a being of pure law, with the spark that led to the creation of the multiverse itself as it was birthed and separated from the primordial plane of Limbo as a living embodiment of his plane's true nature. Theological canon would place him as the first divine being alongside Torek, born to sow chaos and forever challenge the laws and structures upon which existence is built. As chaos personified, Oohros is a threat to all structure and order by his very nature, nurturing the march of entropy to tear down cosmic law and drive the multiverse towards constant change and revolution. But were Torek no longer to keep him at bay, he would surely plunge the multiverse back into Limbo and see it all unravel.

Although above such static concepts as good or evil he is the cause of the greatest threat against the multiverse itself beginning with the release of the most fearsome, nightmarish manifestations of his agenda: the tanar'ri, known to mortals as demons, inhabiting the endlessly sprawling plane of the Abyss formed from a shard of Limbo itself. Home to beings whose greatest desire is to bring about the end of all life and to bring about the multiverse itself, feeding on the souls of those too wicked or corrupted as to be rejected by all the gods, it is proof enough for many to consider Oohros a villain opposed to all of creation. A contrary theory to Oohros' intent is that his purpose for creating the demons is to enable the possibility of the multiverse's demise not to cause it as true chaos can only exist where everything is possible. 

Characteristics

Like his counterpart Oohros is more a concept given a will more than he is a person, an amorphous being whose form and designs are ever-changing and unpredictable as the realm he embodies. He is believed to have taken avatar form and walk Aranor many times, leaving chaos for good or ill wherever he passes, but no such event can be truly certain since his shapes and his deeds are both without pattern or consistency to validate it as more than the workings of mundane chaos entirely without any divine intervention to speak of. What is without question, however, is that during these terrestrial escapades he has left behind children born of mortal mothers and fathers, some of which have risen to become demigods themselves. 

Chaos as an end is difficult to define but it can be understood that Oohros' agenda is to oppose all and any attempts to shackle the multiverse by cosmic laws or structure, intent to set it free to develop, change, and inevitably die, as all of creation before it has outlived the full breadth of it's potential before collapsing to make way for something new. 

Worship

Offering worship to Oohros is to invite such chaos upon oneself well beyond the mortal capacity to quantify and precious few whose faith is strong enough to gain his attention have survived it and those who do are permanently altered from the experience. His children whom matured to demigodhood do however enjoy flourishing faiths of their own, embodying various aspects of chaos that is decidedly more mortal in scope.