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MonkeySage
2017-08-13, 01:16 AM
It would center around a town that struck a deal with Gevhist long ago; he would watch over them, keep them safe, and protect their dreams. in exchange, they provide him with a sacrifice every 10 years, in addition to the standard livestock sacrifice: A child, groomed from birth, is given to the temple when they turn 6, to serve as a Priest of Gevhist for life. But this time, the town missed their tribute- the mother refused to give her son up, and fled into the wilderness... now the town is being punished for it.

Gevhist is the God of Beasts, Dreams, and Nightmares; he's chaotic neutral. He is loosely based on the Elder God Nodens, from the Cthulhu Mythos.

Any suggestions?

Kitten Champion
2017-08-13, 02:47 AM
A simple and evocative choice would to damn the town - as in anyone in the physical proximity, including passersby, merchants, and adventurers - to experience vivid nightmares every night until his tribute is restored or some specific task of significance is performed. This would include making the local livestock and wildlife increasingly neurotic and prone to violence as their minds are affected in their own way, because that's a classical sort of horror thing.

For something more drastic -- have the god unleash a being that exists in the manner of Stephen King's It or the Boggart from Harry Potter with the creature changing forms into a different horror depending on the observer - that provides a cool opportunity with the monster reflecting the characters' deepest fears - that feeds on fear and is cultivating it slowly by horrifying the villagers.

MonkeySage
2017-08-13, 06:18 PM
In my setting, Gevhist's divine realm, the Dreamscape, acts as a buffer between the Plane of Nightmares, home to a bunch of horrible monsters, and the Ethereal Plane. Every mortal alive visits the Dreamscape in their sleep, and Gevhist normally plays the role of hunting down the monsters that would prey on sleeping mortals. Night Hags, Leng Ghouls, and plenty of other such things.

So it's entirely within his power to simply drop his guard and let these monsters have what they want. :smallbiggrin: