Hail the Headless King!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
There's more in the multiverse than just the deities of Golarion's civilized races. Amid the near endless realms of the Great Beyond lurk wonders and horrors beyond the imaginings of mortals, beings deserving of worship, and terrors of which no man was ever meant to know.
In addition to the twenty most prevalent deities of the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting, the next tome in the Pathfinder Chronicles line, Gods & Magic, sets its sights on the heavens and hells. From the serenity of Nirvana to the tortures of Abadodn, the deific inhabits of realms beyond the mortal sphere come to life. Along with familiar allies like Cayden Cailean and Desna, and soul-thirsty nightmares like Lamashtu and Zon-Kuthon, Gods & Magic reveals a host of new godly patrons and immortal perils. For example, legends of the scalefolk tell of one Ydersius, know to those who slither as the Headless King...
Ydersius (The Headless King): This ancient being was the patron god of the all-but-forgotten race of snake-men that battled mighty Azlant and lost. Forced to hide in the Darklands with his mortal servants, the Serpent King was decapitated by a mighty champion, but such was the power of the god that he remained alive in two pieces. Now his mindless body thrashes recklessly, and his head is lost and presumably rotted away to a skull. But there are some that say the skull still thinks and can control a tiny measure of power, and if it and the body were ever reunited, Ydersius would heal and lead his people in an attack on the surface world.
Gods & Magic, scribed by the newest addition to Paizo staff, theologian Sean K Reynolds, hits the shelves in October.
F. Wesley Schneider
Pathfinder Managing Editor
New Blog Entries
