Zel’Quaznyka

Zel’Quaznyka

The Xenophon, The Hermit, The Justicar, The Avenger, The Inquisitor, The Purifier

Demi-God

Symbol: A humanoid head impaled on a sword-staff.

Home Plane: Thanatos; Ithos Subterranean region

Alignment: Lawful Neutral (Above Ground); Neutral Evil (Below ground)

Portfolio: Retribution, Vengeance, and Purification

Worshippers: (Above ground) Elven wizards, Knights, Monks; (Below Ground) Dark Elves, and other denizens of the under realms.

Cleric Alignments: (Above ground) Lawful Neutral, Neutral; (Below ground) Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil.

Domains: Retribution, Purification, and Inquisition

Favored Weapon: Sword-Staff (Two-Bladed sword in some instances.)

Zel’Quaznyka, or Ristra’zuqutia as the surface world knows him. He is a righteous and potentially overzealous deity of vengeance, giving not a care to what the crime is or who committed it, as long as punishment is dealt out. Vengeance however, is his passion, and he delivers it swiftly and without mercy. Though in the recent centuries, he has become rather dormant, some believing he took a hermitage to a far off plane because of the corrupt nature of Ithos, and the steady decline of the Elven race. However, instead of traveling to another plane of existence, he focused his attention elsewhere in Ithos, away from the prying eyes of the Elves. He now inhabits the subterranean kingdoms of Ithos, seeking out worshippers to do his bidding.

No one is quite sure how this change came about, or even if it is the same deity. Only that some four hundred years ago, an unknown entity defeated a powerful beast that was wreaking havoc on a small community of under dwellers, (mostly Deep Gnomes and Dark Elves) and came to dwell there. Nothing was known of the individual at the time, only that they possessed near deific powers and were terribly self-righteous and one minded. Well, this deity came to be served by the inhabitants of this small village, and it eventually disappeared into history. This may only be a myth, but one thing is for sure, something very powerful and very angry now slowly gains worshippers in the lower realms of Ithos.