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I know this sounds weird, but what do you think a non-evil deity of fear would be like?
The sort of chills you get when hearing a ghost story at a sleepover or around a campfire. The reason someone goes to a horror movie or into a fake haunted house. That sort of thing.
And in a more primal sense, the fear of what lies beyond the camp-fire, not in a malicious sense but in a keeping you from being lion-chow sense.
^Not necessarily. Could be a stern deity of Law and Order that makes criminals quake in their boots . . . .
Patron god of those who are afraid. He/she/it exist in the state of internal terror, a divine anxiety.
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Honestly, Erastil. Fear of what lies beyond the campfire is the reason people created communities. It's the reason they huddled together in caves for safety.
Or to expand it to their own deity.
(Insert Name here)
The Watcher on the Wall, The Warning.
Domains:Community, Fear, Luck, Protection
"----" represents the primal instinct of fear, not dark malicious terror, but the fear that inspires self preservation, and drives civilizations to cling together for survival. They are the reason for the many varied superstitions among the various races, each seeking some small degree of protection from that which lies beyond knowing.
From your description a deity of storytelling, or maybe a trickster deity with a slightly cruel bent.
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Our Kingmaker country had a high priest and cathedral to Jaidz...
I can see this as a god with 0 Int. But the biggest problem it would just destroy the world because it doesn't understand anything. So people could be scared that it would wake up and eating everyone.
OK another pure neutral god idea. It would punish the evil and the good, so that might work.
Now the thing I would go for. A god of luck. It's a coin flip to punish or help someone. So it has stories of it helping cites, but also having stories of it eating adventurers.
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Jeztakat-Lord of Jumpscares
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- Can mimic any creature's natural sound, typically footsteps, slithering, hissing, etc. when not actively observed. He won't make intelligible speech or truly frightening sounds, only hints of a presence or disturbance.
- Has an aura of prickliness that causes the sensation of hair on the arms and back of neck standing up and all living creatures in the area to suffer a -2 distraction penalty to most tasks and skill checks except Perception which is at a +2 bonus except to actually spot or detect him. Creatures need a Will save to avoid having the next thing they say be either a subconscious whispering (if to someone nearby) or abnormally louder than intended (if directed towards an unknown area or entity, such as asking 'Who's there?" or calling out "I've got a weapon!")
- His true, normal form is that of a simple cat (though he can take a few others) but he can dimension door into any space where a cat might conceivably be (even if how it could have got in there might be baffling); cupboards, closed lockers, top shelf of the closet, in a trashcan.
- He often just leaps out at tense moments and then vanishes (around a corner, under furniture, etc.) He's not malicious, he actually normally shows up before an actual attack or potential threat just to give people an indirect foreshadowing. Sometimes he just does it because he wants to, so not every time has meaning.
- He gains strength from mortal sighs of relief and nervous chuckles. Any creature that actually attacks or strikes him as he leaps out (and runs away, no penalty if he's actually attacking someone from ambush, which is rare) suffers a -2 luck penalty to every check for 10 minutes. Even then he doesn't usually fight back or take it personally unless they were real jerks about, typically understanding that's just how things happen sometimes.
- Anyone who doesn't attack him when he jumps out, and successfully identifies him. "Oh, it's just a cat..." or "Only a cat..." (he's pretty
I like this. Sound CN. I love the fact that he's a cat. Reminds me of my own boy Uriel.