The Black

The Black is the Creseran god of fate. The world can be a brutal place at times and the Black advocates for looking after whats yours making him an appealing deity for those who life in the notorious pirate archipelago.

Story
The Black is worshipped by those who perform criminal activities or who operate by night. The Black is usually depicted without actual form but rather as an inky black malevolence that sweeps over towns and countries. He brings plague, dark thoughts, and evil in his wake but this is an aspect of his being rather than of malcontent. The Black has quite the religious presence in Creser where the people have embraced lives of piracy and crime and where disease and sickness roam untreated.

The annals claim that The Black originated in the same location as the Seven Sages. And while the Seven Sages brought the benefits of civility and education The Black instead brought aspects of crime and death. The Black thought to educate people on how to exploit the world that belonged to them not through introspection but rather in the ways that nature intended. If you are strong you should fight, if you are weak you can poison, and if you are small you must steal. Contrary to what the Seven Sages would teach, The Black believed that our legacy lasts only as long as we live and so we must do what we can with the time that we have.

The Black has had few noteworthy interactions with the other gods. Claw once tried to make him her slave but The Black would not be contained and the soldiers of Claw's army soon fell to plagues, her lieutenants were poisoned, and her armada was stolen by pirates. The Black has had history with Erdon, however, who in his travels fought The Black on at least two occasions. Once to prevent The Black from reaching Vorst and a second time to prevent The Black from reaching Thalmus, both incidents would likely have corrupted the world.