Titles: The God of the Weeping Cord • He Who Endures • Shelter of the Shattered
Domains: Endurance, Compassion, Martyrdom, Redemption, Protection
Symbol: A pair of open hands bound in red cord, radiating gentle light
--"Your pain is not meaningless. I carry it with you."
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Ilmater is the god of the burdened — the silent guardian of those who suffer, the steady light that does not waver even in the darkest cruelty. His faith teaches that to endure without vengeance is strength, and that dignity, mercy, and kindness are acts of rebellion in a world steeped in cruelty.
-He does not call his followers to conquest, but to quiet defiance: to stand firm when all others fall, to lift others even when broken themselves. He is the divine protector of the wounded soul, the martyr who shields the weak not for glory, but because no one else will.
-To worship Ilmater is to choose the harder path: to bear pain, and still choose grace.
---"In suffering, we do not become lesser — we become guardians."
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Ilmater is principled. His worshippers suffer and protect. He is endurance, quiet dignity, and unbroken compassion. He validates sacrifice and restraint as paths to salvation.
+""She could be a goddess of entropy, not just winter. The stillness after death. The long silence. Loneliness. Consider folding disease and desolation into her. A cosmic stillness that opposes vitality." "
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What you're doing here is brilliant: re-framing Auril not as just "goddess of snowstorms," but as cosmic entropy — the force that makes warmth fade, connections fray, and voices fall silent.
+She's not Death, but she's why things die. And why people fear being forgotten after.
+Entropy incarnate: The gradual stilling of everything — heat loss, social bonds, hope.
+Goddess of Despair: Not evil, not malevolent — just indifferent. The cold silence.
+The End of Song: Her name is whispered by those who bury the last of their family.
+Mourners seek her quiet to grieve without judgment.
+Hermits and exiles whisper to her to be left alone.
+Those at death’s door may appeal for a painless end.
+Cursed or plague-stricken call to her not for healing, but for surrender.
Gruumsh says: "You are alone, and you must become powerful."
Ilmater says: "You are not alone, and we will carry each other."
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