The Lord of Pain, Degridon

Degridon, The Lord of Pain, god of suffering, keeper of Abital. Degridon was an orc that was known for being an extremely vicious torturer during the First Wars. When the creator gods made Abital (a place to send souls that The Destined determined weren't worthy of being with their patron), he was raised to god status by them to watch over it and punish the souls sent there. Though forced to renounce his orc "status" upon deification, he still counts the orc pantheon among his allies. Since the end of the First Wars, Degridon has been an aggressive and ambitious deity, always trying to expand his number of followers by corrupting the living into betraying their patron gods so that their souls are sent to him upon death. He created abitalians by binding the tormented spirits sent to him with a physical body  (and possibly demons and devils through a similar process ). He used the abitalians in an attempt to conquer the Material Plane during the Abital Invasion, though many of them betrayed him, causing his plans to fail. After this, the greater gods kept a much closer eye on The Lord of Pain and closed the "loophole" that allowed him to bind spirits to physical bodies (though greater gods can still do this), and he has been unable to muster any kind of significant force since then.

Alignment and Status: LE intermediate god

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Portfolio: suffering, punishment, deception, trickery

Home Plane: Abital

Favored Weapon: whip

Favored Spell Focus: Metabiology, Summoning, Telepathy, Transmutation

Worshipers: demons and devils, torturers; some few abitalians, who regard him as their true creator and their only possible patron

Deification: raised by consensus of the Greater Gods to watch over Abital