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Vasgorath, or the The Reaper of Souls, The Sovereign of Sins, and The Daemon Father is the Sovereign of every undead, daemonic, sinful creature that preys upon the people of Goralon. His unholy symbol is a three-eyed Umbral Dragon head half of which is undead. This can be represented in many ways. His sacred animal is the umbral dragon.
History
Creation
Vasgorath was the outcome of 5 souls joining together in an effort to save Goralon. Those 5 souls are Charon, Urgathoa, Zon-Kuthon, Baalzebul, and Asmodeus. Vasgorath's creation destroyed those 5 gods and all of their power belonged to him. Because of this every god was vying for his power. But Vasgorath ended up in the hands of Tiamat and Dahak.
Rise to power
When Vasgorath was wise enough to learn of his power he used it and created his own plane of existence. The plane of the void a place filled with negative energy. The plane had a race of daemonic undead construct creatures called the corruption. Which he descended down upon Goralon He then through sheer might conquered every other plane except Goralon.
Appearance
He had the lower half of a spider, upper half of an unbral dragon, with 4 daemon arms and many construct parts. He has also the qualities of a lich
Church of Vasgorath
Clergy
Vasgorath's priests are primarily composed of clerics, necromancers, liches, vampires, and every other undead and daemonic creature. They have few responsibilities to uphold. For example helping those who desire undeath, Help spread the use of the forbidden magics, and gain more power. Understandably, they often are secretive of their religious inclinations in public. The priests have been known to compel their enemies to eat their own fallen comrades. The ceremonial clothes of Vasgorath's worshipers are a black and dark red heavy armor chestplate with a large blood stone in the center. They also have a black and dark red greaves and helmets Most ceremonies involve sacrificing souls to him, putting a daemon host in followers and raising more undead.
Reaping
Priests of Vasgorath practice a ritual known as the Reaping. The priest will put their outfit and arm himself with a vorpal unholy scythe. The priest then heads out into the world to cause as much death and destruction to harvest as many souls as he can before he is driven back to his sanctuary. They believe that if Vasgorath is pleased by the outcome of the Reaping, she will grant a boon to the priest.
Temples and shrines
Vasgorath's temples are modeled after Castles, with a large altar. Usually, temples are near a graveyard, a place where lost souls are present or a crypt, frequently inhabited by ghouls. His greatest temples are often guarded by daemonic servants. His largest temple in Geb, and it being a nation of undead, perhaps the largest in the world.
Well, some thoughts. Do you mean Golarion? Cause if you do you're inserting a god redundantly, and killing off a bunch of other gods to do so. Seems unnecessary.
You also say he is the "sovereign" of every undead, daemon, and sinful creature. Unless you're getting rid of all the other gods, this is unlikely. Not just getting rid of all the evil gods, but all gods. Because there are some outsiders that redeem themselves, and ghosts that aren't evil. These are very unlikely to worship an evil deity.
You really need to come up with a good reason why the deities you mentioned would at all be interested in giving up their power. They're all evil. They probably don't care enough about the planet Golarion (because they're are other planets with life) that they'll give up their existence to save it.
Creating his own plane thing....no just no. Just have him create his own area in the negative energy plane. That's exactly what you're describing anyways and it already exists.
Deities are beyond things like liches. There really isn't a reason to include this. The only things that can kill a god are plot.
It sounds like you are just trying to make a "giant walking badass of a god" but it comes across just far too stilted to me.
Sorry, but overall this just isn't very good to me.
Try to make him more interesting and come up with a good backstory than just trying to invest all this power into this "deity".
I hope your clergy supports large armies to protect the sanctuaries, because based on the Reaping, every other group across creation would seek to destroy them. And not just other religions, but literally any and all other groups.
The deity name is good though.
He seems pretty generic. The story doesn't have that feeling of mythology to it like the other major deities do.
He conquered all the other planes, but not one planet on the Material? (Golarion isn't a plane, it's the planet.) That's three good planes with a bunch of deities, the Boneyard with the most powerful deity, the infinite Maelstrom, plus plenty of others, like the Positive Energy plane.
Less is more. Try starting with something like the demigod of cowards as an exercise.
To be fair, at this point it may be an FAQ. [/snirk]
The god does seem to be kinda... snowflakey.
There's nothing there beyond overwhelming force and what feels like an extremely contrived situation. A bit more depth/story to it would help to flesh it out.
Fleshing it out is good, even if it is a lich.
He seems pretty generic. The story doesn't have that feeling of mythology to it like the other major deities do.He conquered all the other planes, but not one planet on the Material? (Golarion isn't a plane, it's the planet.) That's three good planes with a bunch of deities, the Boneyard with the most powerful deity, the infinite Maelstrom, plus plenty of others, like the Positive Energy plane.
Less is more. Try starting with something like the demigod of cowards as an exercise.
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