As there are equal number of deities on every axis in pathfinder except for lawful good - chaotic evil, for the sake of balance, to fill a missing story element, and to help out all you game masters who need a good plot hook, here is the missing chaotic evil deity. This is not official but if Jason Bulmahn actually wants to use it, he's welcome to do so.
NOTE: The Mind Domain is in the Psionic Spells file in the SRD. "Brain Spider" is a spell given in the same file.
Keslaren the Scorned
Chaotic Evil
Goddess of Fear, Temptation, Betrayal, and Regret
Domains: Chaos, Evil, Charm, Darkness, Mind
Favored Weapon: Bastard Sword
Keslaren is the dark side of the story behind the birth of Iomedae that has been cast out of most texts. But in a few ancient, forbidden tomes, the Scorned One is revealed as Iomedae's twin sister, also born as a goddess of light and received just as lovingly. The tale of Keslaren's fall into darkness is uncertain, but some scholars believe that both Iomedae and Keslaren fell in love with a mortal, the same mortal, and his choosing of Iomedae over Keslaren led the aptly titled Scorned One to thoughts of jealousy and madness. Keslaren appeared to the mortal and pretended to be her twin, and after having her fill of his embrace, stabbed him through the heart. The mortal, revealed to be a paladin, believed himself betrayed by his lover at the very end, allowing Keslaren's foul magic to twist his soul beyond redemption. The mortal re-emerged as the first death knight, and with Keslaren's wooing over the following century of his descent into madness he became her favored champion.
Iomedae, enraged by her sister's unthinkable betrayal, vowed to erase all traces of her worship from all realms, no matter how long it took, and then finally to drive her sword into the dark heart of the Scorned One.
It is said that the Scorned One, after millennia of afterthought, feels some sadness over the rift she tore between her and Iomedae. Keslaren has however come to accept that the two shall never be again as the loving twins they once were. In fact, she has found great joy in turning the paladins of Iomedae into her own blackguards and death knights, each conversion a reminder of the satisfaction she felt when Iomedae's lover became hers, body and soul.
Clerics of Keslaren often use their spells to read the minds of those they wish to convert to better tailor the temptation necessary to lure the potential into Keslaren's dark embrace. The Cult of the Scorned One is on relatively friendly terms with the followers of Calistria (CN) and the followers of Norgorber (NE).
Keslaren is currently allied with Urgathoa, allowing the cultists of Urgathoa to raise many of her fallen blackguards as death knights. It is said that Urgathoa assisted in Keslaren's fall to evil, and gave her the dagger and knowledge of dark magics that would lead the mortal paladin to become the first of the death knights.
MIND
1st - Scramble Mind (Su): As a standard action you may make a melee touch attack that scrambles the targets mind. The target has a 25% chance of making an illogical action instead of what it would normally do next round. Once a creature has been affected by scramble mind, it has no effect on him for 1 day.
2nd - Comprehend Languages (Sp): You can cast comprehend languages 1/day per 2 caster levels you possess.
4th - Detect Thoughts (Sp): You can cast detect thoughts
1/day.
8th - Local Telepathy(Su): You may send one telepathic message to a creature within 60 feet as a swift action. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to your caster level.
12th - Probe Thoughts (Sp): You can cast probe thoughts 1/day.
16th - Mind Blank (Sp): You can cast mind blank 1/day.
20th - Weird (Sp): You can cast weird 1/day.
By the way, on the page where the deities are listed, there is indeed a small space at the bottom of the box where one more deity description can be fitted in.
Too much like Mystra and Shar or Hextor and Hieroneous... the evil twin thing has been done to death.
May as well make him a tharizdun/cthulhu clone instead. . . Hidden BBEG.
Just not the "clone" saga please...
Midnight-v wrote: Too much like Mystra and Shar or Hextor and Hieroneous... the evil twin thing has been done to death.
May as well make him a tharizdun/cthulhu clone instead. . . Hidden BBEG.
Just not the "clone" saga please...
Okay then, here's another version. This one favors lycanthropes and creatures of the night. If Pathfinder already has a deity in charge of the moon, somebody please mention it.
Keslaren the Scorned
(Greater Deity)
Chaotic Evil
Goddess of Fear, Temptation, Betrayal, and the Moon
Domains: Chaos, Evil, Charm, Darkness, Mind
Favored Weapon: "Blood Moon" (Chakram)
Keslaren was born a mortal, child of the mage king Lantharion. Keslaren was a prodigy of arcane lore, with potential unprecedented in recorded history. By the time she reached the age of consent, the mage princess had become a wizard of great power far beyond her years. On the eve of her graduation from the Academy of Arcane Arts, she was approached by a young man about the same age. It is said that this man may have been an immortal being of great power, possibly even a deity, attracted to the princess' great beauty and unwavering ambition.
They became lovers, and the man revealed to the mage princess secrets of not just arcane magic but also the hidden power of the mind. Alas, the man had a shallow, fickle heart, and as Keslaren's beauty gave way to the ravages of old age, he took another, younger woman, as his lover in secret. Keslaren however had progressed in her training more than she had let on, and learned of her lover's betrayal through her formidable abilities.
Enraged, the mage princess, now mage queen, concocted a daring plan to destroy the object of her anger.
On the night of the crescent moon, Keslaren lured her unsuspecting lover, her intent shielded by powerful artifacts as well as her own skill, into an enchanted chamber at the top of the royal palace. The chamber had been paintakingly converted into a binding trap of such power that the deities themselves fear another such trap being created to this day. The man's power was suppressed, and he could neither escape nor defend himself.
Keslaren then spoke the words to a powerful arcane ritual that transferred all of the life force of the man to herself, leaving the man a withered shell and restoring Keslaren to the form of a beautiful young woman. To complete the ritual, Keslaren cut out the man's heart and ate it, and as his blood poured onto the floor of the chamber, the mage queen trembled as did the very land itself, for in taking the man's immortal power and coupling it with her own, she ascended into godhood.
A short time after her ascension, Keslaren slew an untold number of lesser deities the very same way, luring them to doom with her divinely restored beauty, ever growing in power until the gods of light took notice and began to oppose her machinations with their own.
Among Keslaren's favorite meddlings is to infect a lover on his or her wedding night with lycanthropy to watch as one tears the other to shreds in a horrific display of violence. In lands where Keslaren's cult is strong, it is taboo to be married on nights of the full moon.
Oh wow... I for some reason thought no one was listening to me! Dude let me say both stories are good and interesting...
By the way I really really like the idea of a God of Fear.
Just add that to the portfolio and I'm on bored really.
Nice backstory and flavour, well done.
Gnome Ninja wrote: 1st - Scramble Mind (Su): As a standard action you may make a melee touch attack that scrambles the targets mind. The target has a 25% chance of making an illogical action instead of what it would normally do next round. Once a creature has been affected by scramble mind, it has no effect on him for 1 day. This really should carry a Will save rather than a 25% success rate. Otherwise, it's fine - basically, it's one round of confusion against a single target.
Also, to OP, there is no specific moon god, but the current thinking is that there's a god for the light side and a god for the dark side. I forget who the light side god was, but a god of madness is the main contender for the dark side.
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