Family Tree: The Twins of Metrona and the Children of Neg'Crûn and Metrona
Together with Neg’Crûn, Metrona had the most children. Over the course of time they had seven, starting with Eskellen, the Father of Slumber. As his Father sees death as the eternal sleep, he wanted a son to guide the souls of Abaddon into their next life. The souls didn’t wander the realm of Neg’Crûn forever, for these souls were to be divided between his brothers and sisters, maintaining the balance Metrona and his Parents desired so deeply.
To increase his own power, a second son came to be: Gairyun, Father of Diseases. When a single life was to end, but there was no time of war to help claim a soul for the afterlife, sickness needed to take them instead. The natural causes of death were called forth to the world to make sure no mortal would ever become immortal.
Some mortals were lucky enough to never be struck by whatever illness Gairyun created. Another way to make sure demons and devils didn’t live too long needed to be created and so came forth the third son. Az-Kamal, the Father of Suffering, came for those who took too long to be reunited with their makers. When the body didn’t get struck by the hideousness of disease, the mind makes an excellent target as well. Az-Kamal’s whispers drove them insane. After their will became twisted enough, they would take their own life and became one with all other souls once again.
The problem with diseases is they can be treated and cured, at least most of them. A different approach of diseases needed to be created and some forth the Twins of Plagues, the Father Hortherom and the Mother Gyryxa. New diseases, brought forth by the creatures they both created, spread across the land at an alarming rate, cleansing overpopulated land and expanding the population in the land after Abaddon.
Some mortals found their way to outlive every child of Neg’Crûn with magic or pacts with other beings of other planes. Immune to disease and their minds belonging to other gods, beyond the reach of the Abaddonian Parents, the Father of Death created a son to walk the land and destroy their bodies in other ways. Neg’Krell became the Father of Decay, able to lay waste to flesh and bone, freeing the soul from its mortal cage and taking it with him when it was set free.
The last of Death’s children was Ves’Quia, Mother of Pestilence. She took away the cattle and ruined the crops when her siblings were occupied with death elsewhere or when her Father wished so. Many ways to die came to be when Neg’Crûn’s family grew and some questioned how necessary and useful her way was. When she unleashed her locusts and spiders, no one ever doubted her power once again.
Together with Gor-Thar, she had five children. The Father of Fear wanted his first child to be the direct consequence of his own power, a child that would embody the hopelessness of his victims. Phaeler, his first-born and Father of Despair, appeared everywhere when Gor-Thar walked the earth, reaping with his Father had sown.
To cope with fear, rest was necessary. Gor-Thar made sure that sleep would become the enemy of all his enemies. His second child was a daughter, Valdrad. As the Mother of Nightmares she took away the comfort of sleep, making those who opposed her Father more susceptible to his ghastly influence.
But then magic interfered. Mages learned spells to protect themselves and others from the effects of fear and they needed to amerce. His third child, Gyla Kalera, became his executioner as the Mother of Punishment. She bound Gor-Thar’s enemies in chains, pulverized their bones and flayed their skin. Effigies were made in her name, made of the spines and limbs of those sacrificed to her. Some of those dreadful sculptures still stand today, as wide as the fields the farmers tend to and as tall as the towers of the castles of kings and queens.
When the first great pest spread across Abaddon, the fear of starving to death became a harsh reality many of the inhabitants. The Father of Fear tapped into this terror with his fourth child. Krranz, Father of Famine, became a very powerful Parent in a short period of time. His followers symbolized his ever growing hunger. They lost their lower jaw and their mouth reached all the way down to their abdomen. Even after the time of shortage and deprivation the demons and devils prayed to him, hoping it would never happen again.
His last child was his daughter Jez-Behla, Mother of Tragedies. Fear inspired the hearts of many to act too rash, leading to disarray and disruption. From there Jez-Behla took over. After the right push, she would weave further on the tapestry of the future, spreading sorrow where sorrow needed to be.
Together with Mahaeleax she also had five children. The Father of Magic took less interest stabilizing the realm with death, fear and war, like his brothers. He wanted to discover what world lied beyond Abaddon and what kinds of deities and magic could be found there. Knowing the followers of his brethren would abuse this information, he locked it all away in his first son, Xaviziel, Father of Forbidden Knowledge.
With all users of magic worshipping him, Mahaeleax took a special interest in the covens of witches. Their resourcefulness was remarkable and their rituals exciting, but they required more attention. Too curious for their own good, always pushing the lines of what they were supposed to know. The witches needed a patron for their own and so they found one in his second son, Dhae-Laher, Father of Witchcraft.
Every creature must follow the path laid out by fate, but those paths are unclear, even to the Parents of Abaddon. Uncertain when disaster would strike, the Father of Magic wanted to help fate to pave the paths. He knew trying to entirely control the future of every living create would take away the entire point of creating mortals, he found a different way. If he could shift disaster and misery from one person to another, he would have at least some influence on the times yet to come. And so he had his first daughter and third child, Mor’Chadalla, Mother of Misfortune.
His followers learned other ways to influence their own fate. With the powers of the different schools of magic granted by Mahaeleax, some of them learned how to speak directly to him by diving into divination magic. At first he was impressed with the innovativeness of his worshippers, but he grew tired of answering every question on every meaningless little thing in live. They stopped living their own lives and focused solely on reading the near future and acting on the knowledge they acquired. He wanted this no longer. To contact the pantheon of Abaddon, they would have to bring a sacrifice to a different Parent, to his fourth child, Ozephelyx, Father of Oracles.
After this, it took a long time for Mahaeleax to have his last child, a final daughter. With his first child, Xaviziel, he hid much knowledge away from his kin and mortals, knowing they would abuse it if they got the chance. However, just as he expected, the magic users of Abaddon found ways on their own to discover the methods of magic too dangerous for demonkind. He commanded some of his archmagi to stay in their own plane of existence as punishment for needless explorations. The most well-known mortal would be Oanoa, one of the first mortal children of the Father of Magic. Those who rebelled needed to be silenced. So came to be the legendary tale of Iavolof, his other mortal son, driven mad by knowing everything but unable to share his endless knowledge. This sentence was passed by his second daughter, Al’Kra Daresh, the Mother of Secrets.
Together with Ur-Gha-Belesh she had six children. The first child was not to created to wage war on mortals created by their Parents - the Father of War kept this pleasure to himself - she was created to devastate their resources. Both the walls of their castles they hid away in and the instruments to take them down took away too much of the more primal form of combat he liked. And so the Mother of Destruction, Shea’Val-Zara, came to be. Wherever she walked, everything built by demonkind came crumbling down and returned to dust.
The demons and devils of Abaddon learned to coexist. Beside the few minor struggles that remained, it was peaceful. The Father’s thirst for bloodshed remained unquenched and he needed to rekindle the fires of rage within demonkind. He had his second child, a son named Vor’Tros. He became the Father of Hate and inspired the inhabitants of Abaddon to never live in peace for too long. It was never his intent for all mortals to kill each other, but without war, he would become absolute, at least until the first invaders came for their world.
Sometimes, Ur-Gha-Belesh didn’t need an entire war to get what he wanted. Sometimes, it were just some individuals who imagined they didn’t need to follow orders. When a warlord claimed to be Avatar of War or a false prophet claimed to speak for the Father of War, that person needed to be eliminated. The third child, Mari Hatesh, Mother of Murder, whispered the command to one of their many followers and the deed was done. The Father of War didn’t give second chances.
During battle, killing wasn’t the only solution to win the war. During the invasions of Abaddon, information was necessary and the ways of torture invented by the Father of War were nearly endless. Pain became the most important instrument and so he created the Mother of Pain, Gladryhix. Whenever a blade became the tool of interrogation, it became her blade. She always found the perfect way to break the body and then break the mind.
During the wars, some followers turned to other Parents, but during the invasions, some followers turned to a different pantheon. So was the case when the Enochian forces of the archangels began the war for dominion over Abaddon. Ur-Gha-Belesh didn’t came for those who still prayed to his family, but he did not tolerate these blasphemous acts. Two sons came to be, twins, named Ur-Ka-Mahesh and Namun-Ahr, the Fathers of Vengeance and Treachery. While the first of the two came for those who abandoned their Parents, the second one came to influence their enemies, turning them on their masters. Without them, the number of casualties would have been so much higher. For that, the Festival of Blood is annually thrown in their name.”
Some mortals were lucky enough to never be struck by whatever illness Gairyun created. Another way to make sure demons and devils didn’t live too long needed to be created and so came forth the third son. Az-Kamal, the Father of Suffering, came for those who took too long to be reunited with their makers. When the body didn’t get struck by the hideousness of disease, the mind makes an excellent target as well. Az-Kamal’s whispers drove them insane. After their will became twisted enough, they would take their own life and became one with all other souls once again.
The problem with diseases is they can be treated and cured, at least most of them. A different approach of diseases needed to be created and some forth the Twins of Plagues, the Father Hortherom and the Mother Gyryxa. New diseases, brought forth by the creatures they both created, spread across the land at an alarming rate, cleansing overpopulated land and expanding the population in the land after Abaddon.
Some mortals found their way to outlive every child of Neg’Crûn with magic or pacts with other beings of other planes. Immune to disease and their minds belonging to other gods, beyond the reach of the Abaddonian Parents, the Father of Death created a son to walk the land and destroy their bodies in other ways. Neg’Krell became the Father of Decay, able to lay waste to flesh and bone, freeing the soul from its mortal cage and taking it with him when it was set free.
The last of Death’s children was Ves’Quia, Mother of Pestilence. She took away the cattle and ruined the crops when her siblings were occupied with death elsewhere or when her Father wished so. Many ways to die came to be when Neg’Crûn’s family grew and some questioned how necessary and useful her way was. When she unleashed her locusts and spiders, no one ever doubted her power once again.
Family Tree: The Children of Gor-Thar and Metrona
Together with Gor-Thar, she had five children. The Father of Fear wanted his first child to be the direct consequence of his own power, a child that would embody the hopelessness of his victims. Phaeler, his first-born and Father of Despair, appeared everywhere when Gor-Thar walked the earth, reaping with his Father had sown.
To cope with fear, rest was necessary. Gor-Thar made sure that sleep would become the enemy of all his enemies. His second child was a daughter, Valdrad. As the Mother of Nightmares she took away the comfort of sleep, making those who opposed her Father more susceptible to his ghastly influence.
But then magic interfered. Mages learned spells to protect themselves and others from the effects of fear and they needed to amerce. His third child, Gyla Kalera, became his executioner as the Mother of Punishment. She bound Gor-Thar’s enemies in chains, pulverized their bones and flayed their skin. Effigies were made in her name, made of the spines and limbs of those sacrificed to her. Some of those dreadful sculptures still stand today, as wide as the fields the farmers tend to and as tall as the towers of the castles of kings and queens.
When the first great pest spread across Abaddon, the fear of starving to death became a harsh reality many of the inhabitants. The Father of Fear tapped into this terror with his fourth child. Krranz, Father of Famine, became a very powerful Parent in a short period of time. His followers symbolized his ever growing hunger. They lost their lower jaw and their mouth reached all the way down to their abdomen. Even after the time of shortage and deprivation the demons and devils prayed to him, hoping it would never happen again.
His last child was his daughter Jez-Behla, Mother of Tragedies. Fear inspired the hearts of many to act too rash, leading to disarray and disruption. From there Jez-Behla took over. After the right push, she would weave further on the tapestry of the future, spreading sorrow where sorrow needed to be.
Family Tree: The Children of Mahaeleax and Metrona
Together with Mahaeleax she also had five children. The Father of Magic took less interest stabilizing the realm with death, fear and war, like his brothers. He wanted to discover what world lied beyond Abaddon and what kinds of deities and magic could be found there. Knowing the followers of his brethren would abuse this information, he locked it all away in his first son, Xaviziel, Father of Forbidden Knowledge.
With all users of magic worshipping him, Mahaeleax took a special interest in the covens of witches. Their resourcefulness was remarkable and their rituals exciting, but they required more attention. Too curious for their own good, always pushing the lines of what they were supposed to know. The witches needed a patron for their own and so they found one in his second son, Dhae-Laher, Father of Witchcraft.
Every creature must follow the path laid out by fate, but those paths are unclear, even to the Parents of Abaddon. Uncertain when disaster would strike, the Father of Magic wanted to help fate to pave the paths. He knew trying to entirely control the future of every living create would take away the entire point of creating mortals, he found a different way. If he could shift disaster and misery from one person to another, he would have at least some influence on the times yet to come. And so he had his first daughter and third child, Mor’Chadalla, Mother of Misfortune.
His followers learned other ways to influence their own fate. With the powers of the different schools of magic granted by Mahaeleax, some of them learned how to speak directly to him by diving into divination magic. At first he was impressed with the innovativeness of his worshippers, but he grew tired of answering every question on every meaningless little thing in live. They stopped living their own lives and focused solely on reading the near future and acting on the knowledge they acquired. He wanted this no longer. To contact the pantheon of Abaddon, they would have to bring a sacrifice to a different Parent, to his fourth child, Ozephelyx, Father of Oracles.
After this, it took a long time for Mahaeleax to have his last child, a final daughter. With his first child, Xaviziel, he hid much knowledge away from his kin and mortals, knowing they would abuse it if they got the chance. However, just as he expected, the magic users of Abaddon found ways on their own to discover the methods of magic too dangerous for demonkind. He commanded some of his archmagi to stay in their own plane of existence as punishment for needless explorations. The most well-known mortal would be Oanoa, one of the first mortal children of the Father of Magic. Those who rebelled needed to be silenced. So came to be the legendary tale of Iavolof, his other mortal son, driven mad by knowing everything but unable to share his endless knowledge. This sentence was passed by his second daughter, Al’Kra Daresh, the Mother of Secrets.
Family Tree: The Children of Ur-Gha-Belesh and Metrona
Together with Ur-Gha-Belesh she had six children. The first child was not to created to wage war on mortals created by their Parents - the Father of War kept this pleasure to himself - she was created to devastate their resources. Both the walls of their castles they hid away in and the instruments to take them down took away too much of the more primal form of combat he liked. And so the Mother of Destruction, Shea’Val-Zara, came to be. Wherever she walked, everything built by demonkind came crumbling down and returned to dust.
The demons and devils of Abaddon learned to coexist. Beside the few minor struggles that remained, it was peaceful. The Father’s thirst for bloodshed remained unquenched and he needed to rekindle the fires of rage within demonkind. He had his second child, a son named Vor’Tros. He became the Father of Hate and inspired the inhabitants of Abaddon to never live in peace for too long. It was never his intent for all mortals to kill each other, but without war, he would become absolute, at least until the first invaders came for their world.
Sometimes, Ur-Gha-Belesh didn’t need an entire war to get what he wanted. Sometimes, it were just some individuals who imagined they didn’t need to follow orders. When a warlord claimed to be Avatar of War or a false prophet claimed to speak for the Father of War, that person needed to be eliminated. The third child, Mari Hatesh, Mother of Murder, whispered the command to one of their many followers and the deed was done. The Father of War didn’t give second chances.
During battle, killing wasn’t the only solution to win the war. During the invasions of Abaddon, information was necessary and the ways of torture invented by the Father of War were nearly endless. Pain became the most important instrument and so he created the Mother of Pain, Gladryhix. Whenever a blade became the tool of interrogation, it became her blade. She always found the perfect way to break the body and then break the mind.
During the wars, some followers turned to other Parents, but during the invasions, some followers turned to a different pantheon. So was the case when the Enochian forces of the archangels began the war for dominion over Abaddon. Ur-Gha-Belesh didn’t came for those who still prayed to his family, but he did not tolerate these blasphemous acts. Two sons came to be, twins, named Ur-Ka-Mahesh and Namun-Ahr, the Fathers of Vengeance and Treachery. While the first of the two came for those who abandoned their Parents, the second one came to influence their enemies, turning them on their masters. Without them, the number of casualties would have been so much higher. For that, the Festival of Blood is annually thrown in their name.”
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