Picture Of Curchanus?


Lost Omens Campaign Setting General Discussion


Does anyone know where I can find a picture of Curchanus?
I believe that the wolf god's picture was somewhere in a blog on this site but I can't seem to find it.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.


James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

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Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

Ah, that's in Pathfinder Player Companion: Faiths & Pantheons on page 20.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

If you find it, or if someone else finds it, let me know here so I can see!

Curchanus is a dead god from my homebrew, but not one that I've ever done much with there OR in Golarion, so if someone somewhere along the way did more with him and even illustrated him, I'd love to see!

Paizo Employee Creative Director

John Compton wrote:
Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

Ah, that's in Pathfinder Player Companion: Faiths & Pantheons on page 20.

Ah; interesting! Do we say in print that is an illustration of Curchanus? (It's certainly not what I imagined him looking like... )

Paizo Employee Developer

James Jacobs wrote:
John Compton wrote:
Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

Ah, that's in Pathfinder Player Companion: Faiths & Pantheons on page 20.
Ah; interesting! Do we say in print that is an illustration of Curchanus? (It's certainly not what I imagined him looking like... )

The spread discusses the reverence of larger pantheons over the worship of a single deity, and in several places it talks about deities appearing in art in a very different way than the deity's "core" worshippers might imagine him or her (e.g. racial pantheons seeing some deities as members of that race). I think this might be a depiction of Desna as something of a "star wolf" that would fit more with a nature-revering group.

Mark Moreland developed this book, so he might have some more insights.


Found the blog I was talking about. Thank you John. http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lezb?Test-Your-Faith

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Sky Howl wrote:

Found the blog I was talking about. Thank you John. http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lezb?Test-Your-Faith

Ah, and the art link labels it as "wolf totem." One way or another, it's a neat piece and might be used to depict any number of supernatural beings.


I really like the concepts of Aroden and Curchanus even though they are dead gods. I might make cameo appearances of them in a game with my friends at some point and even have worshipers of them. Not cannon but they are pretty awesome.


James Jacobs wrote:
Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

If you find it, or if someone else finds it, let me know here so I can see!

Curchanus is a dead god from my homebrew, but not one that I've ever done much with there OR in Golarion, so if someone somewhere along the way did more with him and even illustrated him, I'd love to see!

This would be be awesome! Maybe he could make an appearance in a future book or adventure path. Curchanus could team up with Desna and give Lamashtu her just desserts.

Paizo Employee Developer

Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

If you find it, or if someone else finds it, let me know here so I can see!

Curchanus is a dead god from my homebrew, but not one that I've ever done much with there OR in Golarion, so if someone somewhere along the way did more with him and even illustrated him, I'd love to see!

This would be be awesome! Maybe he could make an appearance in a future book or adventure path. Curchanus could team up with Desna and give Lamashtu her just desserts.

I sense a really cool opportunity for Mythic Adventures!


John Compton wrote:
Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Sky Howl wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
We've never illustrated Curchanus, so far as I know.

Oh I'm confused then. I remember seeing a picture of a black-ish colored wolf with white star fur patterns. That's the picture I'm looking for then.

If you find it, or if someone else finds it, let me know here so I can see!

Curchanus is a dead god from my homebrew, but not one that I've ever done much with there OR in Golarion, so if someone somewhere along the way did more with him and even illustrated him, I'd love to see!

This would be be awesome! Maybe he could make an appearance in a future book or adventure path. Curchanus could team up with Desna and give Lamashtu her just desserts.
I sense a really cool opportunity for Mythic Adventures!

I consider for the sake of Desna's ethos that Curchanus should stay death. However, what about a mythic adventure path involving the idea of resurrect Curchanus which ends taking a turn into the conversion of Lamashtu in a CN or CG deity?

Tangentially, I thought that wolf with star pattern fur was in fact Shellyn and Zon-Kuthon's father before...well, you know what.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

To me... Curchanus is FAR more interesting as a dead god than a living one. There are no plans, nor am I all that interested, in bringing him back to life.


Sometimes, dead is better.

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