Deities and Legends for Everyone

[GaelofDarkness]

A possible side effect for the clerics of The Faceless Mother. Also, an explanation for how Gibbering Mouthers are born.

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After the Faceless Mother's defeat she sought to find Consorts to rival the six of the Mother of Many Faces. Many suitors came, many died painfully. Those that survived faced even more painful fates. When Pater Nosferatu fell, the Faceless Mother saw an opportunity. While he hates her as much as any, he gladly manipulates her into letting him return from the underworld. Mad as she is, she has not realized he too schemes against her. He is careful to plot only when in the underworld, away from her eyeless stare and to play the attentive, caring lover in the winter months. Some whisper that Pater Nosferatu could stand against the Sunif he chose to, but bides his time and uses the excuse to return to the underworld where he can hatch his schemes.

The clerics of Pater Nosferatu always change the topic when this comes up. They know their patron works against the Faceless Mother in secret and so they plot in secret against the clerics of the Faceless Mother and those shapechangers loyal to them, even while they pretend to be their staunchest allies.

This leaves the clerics of Mother Whiptail very few friends and many enemies among the locals of Dal Anviha, though some of the scaled folk (lizardfolk) have turned heretic and praise their blasphemous, new reptilian goddess with fervor.