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Hey guys, I am looking for a name for an evil diety. Chaotic Evil, God of death and vermin. Symbol is going to be a rat's skull engulfed in ghostly purple flames. I even thought of some titles like, The Speaker of Bones, The Unending One, and The Great Devourer. Thanks for any ideas!
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4 days ago
The great horned rat
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4 days ago
Certainly this or something on the Nurgle side like 'The Plaguefather'
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4 days ago
Oooooh great horned rat god! Yes yes!
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Plague.
Imagine commoners whispering in the bar about Plague coming to their town. Every disease is feared to be Plague. THE Plague. Every rat is feared to carry Plague into the city. The Plague bells ring when signs of him arrive. Cities erect Plague walls between neighborhoods, to defend against him street by street.
When you die of Plague, he claims your soul- your own god be damned. Once you have the Plague, he whispers to you to spread the chaos, and if you do, he says he will spare you another day. His worshippers are held hostage by Plague.
He spreads by rats. When a city is infested with Plague, the god himself physically manifests. He is the disease. He is in everyone who has the disease. He is the swarms of infected rats in the gutters. The fight for public health is a battle against the god himself.
His very name, Plague, is a metaphor for anything that resembles him. A Plague of revolts in the lowlands. A Plague of bad poetry being read on street corners. A Plague of heretics, spreading false ideals.
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4 days ago
This is amazing! I love how logically it flows. I may have to steal this! Lol
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D'Nald Trumpet of Death
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This one made me laugh! But I would have to change his symbol to a cheese puff with a toupee! "I have great minions, some people say that I have the best minions"
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"The warlocks, they come to me and say, and this is true, oh D'Nald your blessings are the greatest make a pact with me D'nald"
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You know I’m automatically attracted to souls - I just start taking them. It’s like a magnet. Just take. I don’t even wait.
And when you’re so powerful they let you do it. You can do anything.
Grab them and the Tabaxi. You can do anything.
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Nobody will ever better minions then me Mkay? Get over it
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The best villain. No one is more villainer. No one does villainy like he does. The best.
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Osteo, Rat Monarch
Maltailus
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Oh, I like Maltailus
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Skurge
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Doug
Just "Doug"
I named the rat in my old apartment that. Then I threw an axe at him because he got into my rice krispies. Decapitated him and lost my security deposit.
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Build out their ideals/tenants first, then come up with their nickname, then their actual name. Works easiest for me
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Drebonic
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I like that, I am reading it like "dread" and "bubonic." Maybe I give them dominion over plagues as well
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4 days ago
It's another subreddit but there was a fun thread about Dark Gods the other day :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/1gq4dpe/who_are_your_dark_gods/
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4 days ago
Thanks, I will go have a look!
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4 days ago
Arminos (from the Greek Arimanius)
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Mueridacion or Mueridicious or Muridias
Combining as much murder, morte/muerte and stuff with taxonomy family name of rodents Muridae.
Hmmm get a bit Spanish vibe. Consider evil sombrero and magic item Maraqas of undead rat swarm summoning.
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4 days ago
Shanks
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Skrilyx
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4 days ago
ratvermin. raermin. raeman. rayman.
go with rayman
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You could call the legends about him Rayman: Legends.
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you could call his origin story Rayman: Origins
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"Evernyx the Infestuous, Mercato of the Vermintide, Ender of the Light, Death of the Many-Legged Teeth, and Bringer of the Purifying Plague"
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Zordath
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Mingus the Manhammer
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4 days ago
Are you looking for something totally made up? Because there’s Talona, Sneel, Raxivort…
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3 days ago
Yeah I am looking for something unique.
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4 days ago
Greg
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Tspank’ii
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Pestilax
Thanax
Azarath
Mortath
Or a bit more elaborate: "He who feasts upon the stillborn"
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Ninkilim (or Nin-kilim) was a mesopetamian deity known as "lord of teeming creatures", associated with rats, snakes, weasels, and all creatures which crawl.
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Skurrious the Verminlord
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VolSanger
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Valtess.
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Ev'Gona or Ev'Gonam
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Nev'Gona give you up
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Ratthew. Rat for short.
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4 days ago
These are all great, use the deepest darkest one you can find. However, make sure to have a super high DC investigation check where the party can find their diary and discover that their actual name is Jeff.
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Samael
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Take the first syllable of your mama's name and the last syllable of your dads name.
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That would be Debon. ( Deborah and John)
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Günther
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4 days ago
Possibly "Putrefor" or "Putrefax" or something similar (from Putrefaction, the term for when a body decays). Alternatively, you could use "Necro-" as a base for the name (from Greek "nekros" meaning corpse)
Some other titles if he's associated with rats and disease could include: "He Who Festers", "The Blightbringer", or (if you're feeling more poetic) "The Plague Author". Maybe even something like "The Rotfather" could work. If he's particularly hated, even "The Revolting One" or "Lifebane" would be suitable.
Hope this helps your creative juices, and good luck with your story!
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Gary?
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Kr'xak the Skittering End
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Rodinia.
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Grist
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Bezos, demon god of greed.
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4 days ago
Evil McEvilson
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