Ancient Death Deity; The Inevitable End
Status: Deceased, role replaced by Remedia
Worship of Kerrigor (and opinions on Death, in general)
In Ilisara, death is something to be feared and revered. It was well known for hundreds of years that Kerrigor was the overseer of a mystical Afterlife, but his role was not explicitly defined.
Some believed he was an arbiter, judging souls for their merit after death; others believed he carried out sentences on souls who sinned; still others saw Kerrigor as a guide who merely carried the souls of the worthy to an eternal paradise. There are shreds of truth to each belief. In any case, death is accepted as the natural continuation of life in Ilisara, and Kerrigor was the sole god who commanded it. He held the respect of almost all people.
Undeath
Decay, disease, and plagues that corrode at life were Vandun’s domain. Undead creatures are also in Vandun’s domain because they are an abomination, a horrid mixture of life and death that should not be. Kerrigor frowned upon necromancy and black magic meant to subvert the natural order. His followers tended to be spiritual guides who commune with the dead, predicted fates of the living, and/or practiced soul magic meant to bind or free others.
Kerrigor's Role
Kerrigor was a very busy god. His domain fueled soul magic inside and outside Ilisara. He personally escorted souls to the Afterlife upon death, and he also oversaw resurrections, funerals, and other rituals related to soul-magic, life, or death. Seldom did he interact with mortals other than to reap their soul upon their natural death.
Kerrigor was also the god of Winter, which is a time of great death and hardship as plants and animals die. However, Winter is also a time of great celebration and reverie, which Kerrigor encouraged. Death was a celebration of life, and the transition into new life.
Kerrigor's Death
After empowering his dreamstate Afterlife since the beginning of time, Kerrigor finally amassed enough power to overthrow the pantheon of gods and render himself the sole deity in charge of Ilisara. He absorbed the domains of every other god and stripped their divinity.
The weight of responsibility for every aspect of the world was too much for a single entity. Even in the beginning, Ilisara had two titans responsible for it; it is simply impossible for one deity to control everything. The pressure built until Kerrigor could not sustain it anymore. He chose to commit suicide.
This event was the trigger for Armageddon, and caused the Afterlife to collide with the living world.
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