From a07c8eff935962f1aad79f6da67f402f4a8a3b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MortenGM Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:52:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: update HBW/Miscellaneous-assistance-pages/Deity-Equivalences --- .../Deity-Equivalences.html | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/HBW/Miscellaneous-assistance-pages/Deity-Equivalences.html b/HBW/Miscellaneous-assistance-pages/Deity-Equivalences.html index bb58b53..0bd8478 100644 --- a/HBW/Miscellaneous-assistance-pages/Deity-Equivalences.html +++ b/HBW/Miscellaneous-assistance-pages/Deity-Equivalences.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: Deity Equivalences description: Lists equivalent deities. Not to be read by players published: true -date: 2025-06-21T23:25:04.274Z +date: 2025-06-21T23:52:11.105Z tags: game-master, deity equivalences, deities, pantheons, gods editor: ckeditor dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:53:50.445Z @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:53:50.445Z

The Nightbringer; Lady/Lord of Loss; The Dark God/Goddess; Mistress/Paramour of Pain; The Shadowy Seductress/Seductor; The Empty Void; King/Queen of Darkness; The Dreamless Sleep

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Main Portfolio: Absence, Darkness, Night, Loss, Oblivion, Secrets, Hidden Truths, Silence

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Main Portfolio: Absence, Oblivion, Loss, Silence, Darkness, Secrets, Hidden Truth


Typical Domains: Trickery, Death, Knowledge

Worshipper's Perspective:


Apathy; Deceit; Erasure (of self); Escapism; Forgetting; Hidden Knowledge; Hidden Wisdom; Loss; Night; Quietude; Rejection of Falsehoods; Secrecy; Stillness; Suppression of Pain (especially of the soul); Truth in Darkness; Unmasking of Lies; Comfort through Emptiness

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At the heart of the Nightsinger lies not revelation, but erasure. This is not the opposite of light, hope, or meaning — but the void left when all such things are undone. The Nightsinger does not corrupt for pleasure, nor destroy for rage. She lies, manipulates, and corrupts only to hasten the unraveling. Her presence is absence, her promise is silence, and her purpose is the quiet end of all things — until nothing remains, not even the memory that anything once was.

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At the heart of the Nightsinger lies not revelation, but erasure. This is not the opposite of light, hope, or meaning — but the void left when all such things are undone. The Nightsinger does not corrupt for pleasure, nor destroy for rage. She lies, manipulates, and corrupts only to hasten the unraveling. Her presence is absence. Her promise, silence. Her purpose: the quiet end of all things — until nothing remains, not even the memory that anything once was. She does not comfort you with lies, but rather teaches you how to forget that you ever hurt.

To her, wounds cannot be healed, sorrow cannot be soothed — only erased. In her truth, salvation is not found through hope or change, but through the merciful unmaking of all pain, self, and memory. In oblivion, there is no suffering — for there is nothing at all.

The Nightsinger isn’t the “evil” or “twisted” version of concepts like light, hope, warmth, or memory — she is the void left when those things are gone. This is what makes her terrifying and seductive at the same time: she doesn’t promise pain, but the end of pain. Not chaos, but nothing:

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The Nightsinger represents the absence that remains when all those things are gone — and the cold comfort that lies in surrendering to that void.

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The Nightsinger represents the absence that remains when all those things are gone — and the cold comfort that lies in surrendering to that void. 

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To her, the end is not tragedy — but release. Her ultimate expression is a universe in which nothing but silence remains — a reality where even the memory of suffering has been erased.

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While the Nightsinger is typically a deity that manipulates people into worship, some of her concepts — like revealing hidden knowledge/wisdom, secrecy, or of night — can have interpretations where an individual or culture may worship him/her as neutral or even good aligned deity representing said concept. The more nihilistic aspects of the Nightsinger are typically not part of such an interpretation of the deity. Some examples can include:

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While the Nightsinger is typically a deity that manipulates people into worship, some of her concepts — like revealing hidden knowledge/wisdom, secrecy, or of night — can have interpretations where an individual or culture may worship him/her as neutral or even good aligned deity. The more nihilistic aspects of the Nightsinger are typically not part of such an interpretation. Some examples can include:

The Eclipsed Scribe: “I do not write for the living. My ink is for the forgotten.”

The Archivist: “Truth is often erased by those who fear it. We preserve it where they cannot see.”

Deity of knowledge, with focus on rediscovering lost knowledge: “She taught us to read the traces others left buried — truth etched in what was meant to be forgotten.”