Thanatos, God of Luck and the Dead
The Taker of the Dead, Thanatos is both the guide who takes souls into the afterlife as well as the default patron of the souls of the deceased. Any mortal who was not particularly devoted to any other deity, or who failed to exhibit any of the traits those deities admire in mortals, find their souls taken from the Crossroads of Eternity into one of three possible afterlives based on how that person lived in the most general sense possible:
Elysium, a paradise for the pure of heart or those who suffered injustices in their life; Lethe, a realm of forgetfulness where those who did nothing to be remembered in life are slowly stripped of all their thoughts and memories in death; and Tartarus, a realm of abstract torment for those souls who were truly vile without ever committing one of Chiron's punishable sins.
Thanatos has gained associations with luck in the face of danger, and many pray to him before undergoing perilous journeys in the hopes that he will not come for them. Since all souls who die are taken from the mortal world by an avatar of Thanatos, it is possible to defy one's own death by successfully hiding from or overpowering the avatar. Such undead are considered abominations by clerics of Thanatos, and the destruction of these monsters is his clergy's primary function.
A being who willfully turns itself into an intelligent undead that is later destroyed by Thanatos' clerics is destroyed utterly, no trace of that entity's soul will remain to pass into an afterlife.
Elysium, a paradise for the pure of heart or those who suffered injustices in their life; Lethe, a realm of forgetfulness where those who did nothing to be remembered in life are slowly stripped of all their thoughts and memories in death; and Tartarus, a realm of abstract torment for those souls who were truly vile without ever committing one of Chiron's punishable sins.
Thanatos has gained associations with luck in the face of danger, and many pray to him before undergoing perilous journeys in the hopes that he will not come for them. Since all souls who die are taken from the mortal world by an avatar of Thanatos, it is possible to defy one's own death by successfully hiding from or overpowering the avatar. Such undead are considered abominations by clerics of Thanatos, and the destruction of these monsters is his clergy's primary function.
A being who willfully turns itself into an intelligent undead that is later destroyed by Thanatos' clerics is destroyed utterly, no trace of that entity's soul will remain to pass into an afterlife.
Divine Domains
Evil, Death, Dream, Luck, Travel, Destiny
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A Grinning Skull
A Hooded Figure Manning A Boat
A Hooded Figure Manning A Boat
Divine Classification
Intermediate Deity
Religions
Alignment
Neutral Evil
Church/Cult
Children
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