The Lurker Beneath

Greater Deity

Symbol: A withered, black hand reaching upward

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Portfolio: Darkness, earth, all things bad and wrong

Worshipers: Evil cultists, dark sorcerers and sages, the stupid

Cleric Alignments: CN, NE, CE

Domains: Chaos, Darkness, Evil, Earth

Favored Weapon: Dagger

Description: The Lurker Beneath is not a nice god. In Mythic Times, the Lurker Beneath was known as the Darkness Manifest, but it was struck down by the other gods, the high church splintering into thousands of warring cults, and it was entombed deep, deep, deep within the earth. The Lurker Beneath's cults, who all worship it under different names and aspects, seek to unearth their dark god, the labyrinth designs of their tunnels a foul geomantic ritual to summon aberrations and others of that ilk to defend them against those heros who would try to stop them.

The Lurker Beneath does have a true name, one known only to his cultists. It is so horrible and alien that devastating acidic balefire consumes all who hear it. The cultists of the Lurker are known to sow discord by scrawling the name in restrooms, passing notes containing the name to adventurers and then running away, and by training parrots to say it before releasing them into heavily populated areas.

But it is said that there is a greater name -- a truer name. Finding the Lost Name is the obsession of all of the cultists, for it is said that those who know and comprehend the lurker's True Name will usher in his final return, a holocaust of death, freedom and ecstasy (but mostly, truth be told, death) that will consume Dungeonpalooza as a purifying flame.

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