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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
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<p>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</p>
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<p><strong>Main Portfolio:</strong> Absence, Darkness, Night, Loss, Oblivion, Secrets, Hidden Truths, Silence</p>
<p><strong>Main Portfolio:</strong> Absence, Oblivion, Loss, Silence, Darkness, Secrets, Hidden Truth</p>
<p><br><strong>Typical Domains:</strong> Trickery, Death, Knowledge</p>
<p><strong>Worshipper's Perspective:</strong></p>
<p><br>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</p>
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<td>&nbsp;Shar</td>
<td>&nbsp;Black disk with a purple brim</td>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Nightsinger isn’t the “evil” or “twisted” version of concepts like light, hope, warmth, or memory — she is the <strong>void</strong> left when those things are gone. This is what makes her <strong>terrifying and seductive</strong> at the same time: she doesn’t promise pain, but the <i>end</i> of pain. Not chaos, but <i>nothing:</i></p>
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<li><strong>Not lies, but unreality.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Not loss, but un-being.</strong></li>
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<p>The Nightsinger represents the <strong>absence</strong> that remains when all those things are gone — and the <strong>cold comfort</strong> that lies in surrendering to that void.</p>
<p>The Nightsinger represents the <strong>absence</strong> that remains when all those things are gone — and the <strong>cold comfort</strong> that lies in surrendering to that void.&nbsp;</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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:</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p><strong>The Eclipsed Scribe: </strong>“I do not write for the living. My ink is for the forgotten.”</p>
<p><strong>The Archivist: </strong>“Truth is often erased by those who fear it. We preserve it where they cannot see.”</p>
<p><strong>Deity of knowledge, with focus on rediscovering lost knowledge:</strong> “She taught us to read the traces others left buried — truth etched in what was meant to be forgotten.”</p>