Baathuul


Baathuul is the widely feared Bloodied One, Lord of Murder, and He Who Lies In Shadows and is the deity of murder, violence, ritualistic sacrifice, torturers, and self-inflicted agony.

"I do not choose the path of right or wrong, Layana, I choose the path that let's me shed the most blood."
-Baathuul

Description


Appearance

He takes the form of a 30-foot humanoid with 4 arms. It wears a helm in the shape of a pyramid with curved, thick horns that sprout from the side. He's adorned in intricate gold-plated armor laid with raged cloaks. Chains attached to cuffs hang from its wrists, and many blades pierce through his flesh.

Personality

Baathuul only lived to hunt and kill, the presence of the living instilling in him an overpowering desire for death and destruction. He was at all times a cruel, violent, and hateful being, though his behavior could vary from cold and calculating ruthlessness to a savage thirst for blood.

Symbols

Baathaal has two distinct symbols depending on his followers. Those who delve into murder, violence, and ritualistic sacrifice use the symbol of a broken skull with chains wrapped around it. However, his followers who indulge in torture and self-inflicted pain and agony use the symbol of a whip with thorns.

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Ring of Darkness


After the Severence, Baathuul took residence over the second ring of The Nine Hells, the Ring of Darkness.

Biography


Background

Baathuul was not of the original Diathan Pantheon that first arrived in Avada. He was created from the darkest minds of the mortals who desired to murder and slaughter their own kin. No one knows when he first appeared in the Diathan Pantheon, but not much was known about it till the Diathan War. It was the first deity to side with Theonvara in overtaking Avada, and Bathhuul was right by Theonvara and Lathrea when they killed Lannalra.

After The Severance, many of his followers and cults went underground to secret societies. Baring the symbol in any typical city would cause immediate arrest. However, some corrupt pillars of power will secretly recruit Baathuul followers for interrogations.

Worshipers

Baathuul has many churches under various names, however, they can be divided into which title they worship. 

Bloodied One

Those that follow under Baathuul's title of Bloodied One, follow under his ideations of torture and self-inflicted pain and agony. Bringing pain and suffering was the aim of these worshippers, either through physical torture or sometimes more subtly and psychologically. Beauty, intelligence, and acting were useful attributes, but the ability to fully understand someone was the best skill these followers could acquire, as knowing someone fully could help inflict maximum pain, one way or another.

Lord of Murder

The clergy of the Lord of Murder in Avada were a disorderly underground network of local orders, with the urban and rural branches maintaining distant relations from one another. Collectively, they believed that murder was both a duty to their god and a game for their enjoyment. Each cleric of Bhaal was expected to perform at least one murder every tenday, in the darkest moment in the dead of night. Many of their temples were built underground, usually in deep parts of the Underdark, especially after The Severance

He Who Lies In Shadows

Those that follow under He Who Lies In Shadows usually keep their worship to themselves. Many are renowned assassins, and a few belong to assassins' guilds.  

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Hoping to seal away the Odelates for good, the Prime Diathanretreated from the Material Plane. Behind themselves and their defeated brethren, they erected a barrier known as the Diathan Net, which would prevent any god from physically crossing over into mortal realms.

The departure of the gods from Avada, and the diminishing of their influence, was an event that has since come to be known as "The Severance".

This was not a unanimous decision; some Prime Diathan didn't think creating the Diathan Net was truly in their best interests. But those deities were outvoted.

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While holding this rod, you can use an action to activate it. The rod then instantly transports you and up to 199 other willing creatures you can see to a paradise that exists in an extraplanar space. You choose the form that the paradise takes. It could be a tranquil garden, lovely glade, cheery tavern, immense palace, tropical island, fantastic carnival, or whatever else you can imagine. Regardless of its nature, the paradise contains enough water and food to sustain its visitors. Everything else that can be interacted with inside the extraplanar space can exist only there. For example, a flower picked from a garden in the paradise disappears if it is taken outside the extraplanar space.

For each hour spent in the paradise, a visitor regains hit points as if it had spent 1 Hit Die. Also, creatures don't age while in the paradise, although time passes normally. Visitors can remain in the paradise for up to 200 days divided by the number of creatures present (round down).

When the time runs out or you use an action to end it, all visitors reappear in the location they occupied when you activated the rod, or an unoccupied space nearest that location. The rod can't be used again until ten days have passed.

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