The Fractured Ruin
Category: Twilight Kin
Areas of Concern: Entropy, Broken Oaths, Unraveled Minds, Forgotten Gods
Follower New Domain: Ruin
Trait: Ruin
Ruin Damage is a supernatural force that erodes reality itself, bypassing resistances except for protections containing the divine trait.
Granted Ability: Echo of Undoing – As a reaction, when an enemy fails a save against your divine spells, you may inflict additional Ruin Damage equal to your level.
Domain Spell (Advanced): Ruinous Decree – Target one enemy within 60 feet. They take 7d6 Ruin Damage (basic Will save) as their body and mind begin to fracture into nonexistence. If they critically fail, they suffer a permanent physical or mental anomaly, dictated by the GM.
Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 2d6
Vexhoth is not worshipped in the conventional sense—its followers are drawn by compulsion, broken by visions of impossible futures, or transformed by prolonged exposure to its essence. Those who embrace its doctrine are slowly unmade, their minds and bodies shifting, warping, and decaying into something neither mortal nor divine.
No temple stands in Vexhoth's name, no priest leads its followers in prayer. It is a whisper, a sickness, a decree left unfinished—but once heard, it cannot be unheard.
Warp the established order, break unbreakable laws, dissolve reality’s structure.
Spread the Ruined Word, an unknowable doctrine that unravels the minds of the faithful.
Induce paradox, conflict, and discord in all things, so that all may know the horror of truth.
Transform yourself and others beyond recognition; perfection is decay in disguise.
Restore something fully to its original form.
Submit wholly to any singular cause or unchanging purpose.
Deny the existence of Vexhoth's Ruin, even in the face of oblivion.
Once, there were two: Vorthos the Unyielding, a bastion of order and unbreakable will, and Xethra the Wrathful, an incarnation of unrelenting fury. But when they were cast into madness by Valdros, The Veiled One, they did not perish. They did not fade. Instead, they twisted, melded, and unraveled, their essences devouring one another in a ceaseless war of rage and rigidity until neither remained whole. What emerged from that endless torment was Vexhoth, the Fractured Ruin—a god of impossible contradictions, a being of grotesque beauty and seething madness.
Its form is ever-shifting: one moment an armored titan with writhing chains of broken law, the next a seething storm of tendrils that carve reality apart. Its voices—sometimes the stern decree of a dying judge, sometimes the tortured howls of a berserker—echo through the void, promising salvation and oblivion in equal measure. It sees neither justice nor vengeance, only the ruin of all certainty.
Vexhoth is the embodiment of gods forgotten, of laws shattered, of wrath without purpose. It does not simply destroy; it leaves things broken, twisted into mockeries of what they were meant to be. Those who worship it are drawn to undoing the structure of existence, replacing reason with discord and purpose with beautiful, violent entropy.
The symbol of Vexhoth is a fractured, incomplete spiral, its jagged paths twisting in impossible directions, encircling a hollow void or a cracked, weeping eye. Surrounding it are broken, half-melted chains, symbolizing the unraveling of law, fate, and reality itself.
Divine Attribute: Intelligence, Charisma
Divine Font: Harm
Divine Sanctification: Must choose Unholy
Divine Skill: Occultism
Favored Weapon: War-Flail or Spiked Chain
Domains: Ruin (New Domain), Madness, Nightmare, Destruction
Alternate Domains: Pain, Tyranny, Darkness, Death
Cleric Spells:
1st: Phantom Pain
2nd: Stupefy
3rd: Bind Undead
4th: Vision of Death
7th: Warp Mind
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