A goddess of Love turned to Hate leads an army of fiends and succubi. It's a matriarchy of sorts, but she subjects her female minions to more emotional pain and her male ones to physical agony. Fiends and succubi who do well may have bat wings grafted onto their backs, taken from the giant bats that their cavalry ride. Enemies are often tortured to death in special rituals.
A god of Peace turned to War leads an army of Brutes. They use all sorts of weapons and armor, including weird, impractical stuff like parasites. They have a kind of centipede-like creature that drives its fangs into the back of your head and the middle of your spine, then turns you into a psychotic warrior in their cause. If someone has been host to one of these creatures for too long, they'll die when it's removed because their heart and such won't work anymore without the critter to drive it. His equivalent to the succubi are Lamias, serpent women who can be diplomatic and alluring, but are trained to murder without remorse.
The god of Wisdom turned to Madness has simply holed up in his home plane and now denies the existence of the other realms. Those who disturb him are torn apart by his minions.
There's probably a god of Life turned to Death out there, who has turned his realm into a great mausoleum of the undead. Like the god of Wisdom/Madness, he's mostly concerned with the state of his realm, although sometimes his minions launch raids to acquire fresh corpses or to revenge some intrusion.
The demon-god armies would be much more effective if they'd team up, but like the Blood War in Planescape, they hate each other too much to ever do it.
Posted by Kiz at December 27, 2004 01:27 AMCommentsPost a comment