Zhintos - God of Death

As the God of Death, Zhintos is not able to create life by himself. He is able to create soulless beings and undeads. He can only twist and corrupt creatures that already possesses life.

By stealing one of Drox's babes, he created the first devil, Akumet - God of The Hells and Devils.

Domains

Death, decay, despair, destruction, undeath, darkness, hopelessness, blasphemy

Alignment

Lawful Evil

Name

Zhintos.

Aliases

The Dark Lord, The Pale One, The Thin Man,

Appearance and depiction

His face is gaunt and cheeks sunken. His skin is pale with a blue tint. The skin is broken in several places by sharp bone protruding through. A single red eye of evil peeks from deep within the right eye socket. His left eye is missing and the dark empty socket is exposed. Sometimes his eye is depicted as a necklace with a large ruby. Over the hood of his cloak, he wears a crown of bones. He wears an intricate black robes which flows unnaturally as if it was underwater.

Artifacts and weapons

The Bone Blade. Sword made of the bones of Apaxia. Zhintos once killed Apaxia and used her bones to forge an evil blade. Apaxia was resurrected as she is the goddess of life.

The Book of Souls. Zhintos records every soul he claims in a book. If someone wants to know if a soul has ended up in The Sea of Lost Souls, it will be written in the book. The book is locked and the Zhintos keeps the key on him at all times.

Companions

Reapers Reapers are soul collectors. They travel freely between the material plane and the upper planes. When a mortal dies, a reaper appears to transport the soul to Limbo, The Plane of Judgement. They posses true invisibility are rarely seen by mortal eyes. When seen, they have been described as black hooded figures, floating with eight red glowing eyes.

Symbol

A tombstone with a withering rose.

Worshippers

Not many mortals worship the god of death, but most have a certain respect and fear of him. It is said, that ending up in The Sea of Lost Souls is a fate worse than most, and

Among his most devote followers are necromancers, who channel destroyed souls from Zhintos' dominion to fuel their necromantic practices.

Way of worship

Realm & Home

Zhintos resides in the The Sea of Lost Souls, where he collects any souls that have nowhere else to go. Souls who end up here are said to endure an eternal nothingness which gradually warps and corrupts the souls until they turn into the Sea of Lost Souls itself. When necromancers and liches raise the dead, they usually are raised with an soul from the Sea of Lost Souls.

Stories & Fables

The Devil Ritual

Akumet was was born of Drox - God of Light originally as red-scaled and horned humanoid dragon. But was stolen as a baby by Nox - Goddess of Night at the command of Zhintos - God of Death. Zhintos did not possess the power to create life, but able to manipulate and twist it. He already had an adoptive daughter in Nox, but desperately wanted a son. The young Akumet underwent an unspeakable transformation involving shaving off his scales, leaving a red and scarred skin all over his body and tail. His long dragon-like face was brutally shattered and magically sculpted into a new human-like face with eerily symmetrical features. His wings were burned and charred permanently black. Akumet grows up in Zhintos' Palace in The Sea of Lost Souls believing he is his son. At some point when he reaches adulthood he discovers the truth and enraged attacks Zhintos. Akumet had grown extremely powerful and almost overpowers the God of Death. As a last measure, Zhintos performs a powerful piece of magic channeling the souls of his plane, sending Akumet from the plane through Lore/Cosmology & Planes of Existence/Conductive Planes/The Astral Plane creating a whole new plane of existence. Several souls accompany Akumet to this new realm which later will be known as The Nine Layers of Hell. Akumet is trapped on this plane by Zhintos, but the fiery fury of Akumet terraforms this plane to his liking.

As Akumet's true father is Drox, he posses the divine spark of creation and realizes he can create his own race of people. With blood, bone and fire, he manages to create Tieflings. Though Akumet himself was trapped in The Nine Hells, the Tieflings were eventually able to travel to the material plane and spread rapidly.