The Lord of Nine; The Lord of Lies; The Archfiend; The Corruptor; The Serpent's Tongue; The Architect of Damnation;
Main Portfolio: Law as a Weapon/Tool, Contracts, Control, Order (through influence and exploitation), Temptation, Corruption
-Typical Domains: Knowledge, Order, Trickery
+Main Portfolio: Law as a Weapon, Contracts, Control, Order, Exploitation of Consent, Temptation, Corruption
+Typical Domains: Knowledge, Order, Trickery
Worshipper's Perspective:
-(How followers perceive the deity, viewing his influence as pragmatic, strategic, and a means to achieve personal or political success.)
Ambition; Contracts and Pacts; Clever Maneuvering; Control through Consent; Deception; Shrewd Diplomacy; Exploitation of Weaknesses; Outmaneuvering Adversaries; Strategy and Planning; Pragmatic Success; Securing of Power; Sacrifice
-(Typically understood in the context of personal advancement, influence, and achieving one’s goals through cleverness and persuasion. It is the willingness to bend morality for control, and truth for victory.)
+(For his worshippers, law is not a burden, but a path — to power, to wealth, to victory. They revere discipline, strategy, and the mastery of systems. Success is not seized by force, but by precision, influence, and leverage. Every word is a weapon. Every agreement, a battlefield. Morality may bend, but a pact — once signed — is sacred.)
Underlying Reality:
(Keywords above still apply, though in context with the keywords written below)
-Coercion; Subtle Corruption; Deception; Strategic Manipulation; Seduction; Temptation; Damnation
-Contractual Domination; Immutability of One's Word and Promises; The Inviolability of Law; Oaths; Law as Chains; Law as Binding Control / Law as Bondage
+Coercion; Subtle Corruption; Deception; Strategic Manipulation; Seduction; Temptation; Damnation
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Contractual Domination; Immutability of One’s Word; The Inviolability of Law; Oaths; Law as Chains; Law as Binding Control / Bondage
(The Lord of Nine is law not as guidance, but as trap. He speaks in promises and seals them in blood. Every word he utters is true — and every truth he offers is sharpened to a point. Through contracts, bargains, and oaths, he binds the will of mortals in chains they clasp willingly. He is the silver-tongued serpent, smiling from behind the mask of justice — the voice that convinces you to damn yourself, and thanks you for your trust.)
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(The Lord of Nine's influence is rooted in the manipulation of agreements and laws, where promises bind individuals to him. He never breaks his word, but uses these unbreakable contracts to subtly corrupt, control, and lead followers into damnation.)
Law as a Weapon/Tool (/Binding and Exploitation)
+Law as a Weapon, Contracts, Control, Order, Exploitation of Consent, Temptation, Corruption
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Represents Law as a Weapon/Tool (/Binding and Exploitation)
Symbolizes the seductive and absolute power of law — used not to guide or protect, but to trap, control, and corrupt. His law is immutable and inescapable, twisted into chains cloaked as contracts, bargains, and "consent." A devil’s smile beneath a lawyer’s robe.
"Every contract is a promise. Every promise is a chain. Every chain, in time, leads to him."
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Temp draft: Law and tradition tools to bring others under control, ultimately seeking to bring all under his absolute authority – both part of and trapped by his infernal hierarchy.
+(How followers perceive the deity, viewing his influence as pragmatic, strategic, and a means to achieve personal or political success.)
+His interpretations
Desperate farmer: “Let my neighbor’s claim be overturned, my lord, for I had the land first. Give me the words to win the magistrate’s ear.”