Deity Profile: Falx'bet of the Elements

Falx’bet of the Elements

Pantheon: The Seven

Titles: The Primordial Sleeper, Watcher of Toil, Therma’s Fangs

Material Form: The material form of falx'bet is a leviathan serpent with rough-cut spherical stone “eyes”, fangs of solid fire, a body of diamond-hard ice, scales of metal, a tongue of forked lightning. His signature acidic Godkiller venom courses through his veins, and likewise trickles down from the tips of his fangs. It is worth noting his material form is the largest in scale, with no definitive end to his coiling body's length. The only time his body has a fixed size is in those rare instances he manifests on a mortal plane of existence.

Spells: Apex Predator, Rending Vortex, Godkiller Venom Lance, Glacial Breath, Wall of Rock, Razored Avalanche, Impaling Spire, Insatiable Inferno, The Primitive Virus, Firestream, Erratic Metal Growth, Raining Acid, Electrify Metal, Lightning Pillar, Chaos Seeds, Summon Serpentine Legions, Summon Realityslip Hydra, Oceans of Venom

Brief Description: Although he is thought to be the weakest of the Seven, Falx’bet is also the most widely venerated one outside of Underhaven. This is due to his missionaries having had some notable successes in converting primitive cultures to his worship. He presides over hunters both human and animal as well as weather patterns. He is called upon in war alongside O’as’plura to inflict weather and temperature-based calamities, as well as ill “natural” conditions on their opponents.

In terms of his nature as a deity, Falx'bet is pragmatic in the extreme. Unlike the rest of the Seven he cares little for dogma and instead has a desire for "getting things done" simply and efficiently. His rites are simple and meant to be taken at face value. Because of these and other reasons he is very much a layman's deity, as opposed to an enigmatic darling of theologians and philosophers.

Falx'bet and O’as’plura are in fact very close. This is fitting (or deeply ironic, depending on how one views it) considering O’as’plura is the god of Pestilence and Falx’bet has had bad experiences coping with disease. To be specific, Falx’bet was originally the sole god of a long-forgotten jungle race of Humans who died out from a supernatural plague. His inability to offer protection from whatever disease destroyed his own society still haunts Falx’bet. After this he willingly joined the other gods who would become the pantheon of The Seven as their final member, rather than risk eternal anonymity to the mortal races. It is because of him that Underhaveners associate their gods with hydras and especially serpents and feel a deep fondness for these creatures.

Because he presides over “pure” elements, certain professions in Underhaven traditionally venerate him. Examples would include, miners, glassblowers, and forge workers because of his dominion over stone, fire, and metal, respectively.

Devoted Monk’s Item: The monks of Falx’bet wield a traditional hunting spear, the design and associated rites of which date back to his original jungle tribe. In that role, this spear was given as a gift from his first priesthood to youths during their coming-of-age ritual. It is enchanted to have a head which drips a highly diluted form of Falx’bet’s own Godkiller venom, a caustic poison especially effective against creatures of supernatural origin.

Holy Symbol: A serpent coiled around a volcano.

Spheres of Dominion: Hunters, Nature, The Elements, Protection from Natural Disaster, Laborers, and creatures of all sorts (whether mundane, sacred, or supernatural)