I know I saw the stats (portfolio, domain, alignment etc) for this worm lover somewhere, I just can't find it for the life of me.
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Just looked Kyuss up in the Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities (a free download at the Living Greyhawk site). Here's a more complete description:
Name: Kyuss
Gender: m
Rank: Hero-God
Areas of Concern/Portfolio: Creation and Mastery of Undead
Titles: The Bone Master
Holy Symbol: A skull with worms in its eyes and jaws
Alignment: NE
Origin of Worship: Flan
Core Worshippers: Flan
Common Worshippers: Others
Favoured Weapon(s): Club
Weapon of the Diety Spell: +1 Mighty Cleaving Club
Domains: Death, Evil, Pestilence (Complete Divine)
Few have not heard of the dreaded sons of Kyuss - terrible zombies that spawn their own kind through sickly green worms the corrupt the living. Few know that the creator of these foul creatures, Kyuss (kai-OOSS) himself, has an active cult in the Flanaess. Sponsored to godhood by Nerull, Kyuss was a Flan priest in the ancient Empire of Sulm, which now lies buried in the Bright Desert. Escaping from there shortly before its destruction, he fled to the Wormcrawl Fissure near the Rift Canyon and underwent apotheosis. He appears as a skeletally gaunt man with hands of bone and eye sockets filled with crawling worms. He is manic and communicates only with his priests, Nerull, and undead beings. He carries a worm-ridden club that turns whatever it strikes into some form of undead. His symbol is a skull with worms in its eyes and jaws. "Life is a temporary obscenity, and death is an eternity of sedentary non-existence. Only undeath is the blessed state. Grant others its wonderful gift, even infidels, so they may see Kyuss' truth. Create undead whenever you are able, abandoning them when you leave. Control undead as you need them, but free them to their own will when you need them no longer. Destroy enemy undead only when you face destruction yourself." Clerics of the cult raid graveyards to create undead just for the sake of doing so. They sometimes sell their creations to mages or other clerics but often let them run wild in the streets of cities. Powerful clerics attempt to create new kinds of undead, and most seek lichdom rather than face true death. Kyuss' clerics adventure to acquire more undead followers and money to create more undead, discover new or forgotten types of undead, and to discover forgotten holy sites of the patron (such as certain ruins in the Amedio Jungle, where Kyuss once traveled.)
Alignment: NE
Really? I thought of him as chaotic.
Alignment: NEReally? I thought of him as chaotic.
So did I. I wonder what his backstory will be for the Realms though.
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Keep in mind that previous material on Kyuss is somewhat dated, written during 2nd edition. It's entirely possible that the folks at Paizo have decided to make several changes, such as his "trip" to the Amedio Jungle.
I noticed a few other changes too:
His favored weapon now looks more like a mace, though im not sure if it really is one, because of that blade thing.He underwent apotheosis at the spire of long shadows instead of the wormcrawl fissure, though i think it will still play an important part, as it will get its own adventure.
tell me if i missed anything!
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I could be wrong, but I believe that there's some info--which may or may not be the same of what's presented above--in the 3rd edition "Fiend Folio" under the Spawn of Kyuss entry, and more again in the "Book of Vile Darkness", where I think there's some more attention given to Kyuss (and another related undead with gems in its eye sockets... maybe...?).