Inna (The Death of Stars)Source Divine Mysteries pg. 314The building blocks of the mortal
Universe were forged within suns, each element in reality created within the burning furnace of their cores. Almost all life in the Universe still depends on these suns, with both animals and plants nourished by the life-giving energy of these blazing spheres. Yet these gifts are granted by the slow death of the stars, their eons-long immolation finally ending in an explosive nova and a collapse into a black hole. Inna, the Death of Stars, is the poison that lurks in the heart of these doomed suns, the slow murder of these celestial bodies that facilitates all other life. This gift does not come without a price: the death throes of these cosmic giants offer an invisible, radioactive death to those who come too close.
Few are both powerful enough or knowledgeable enough to attract Inna’s attention, and most who do succumb to radiation or explosive accidents. Adherents of Inna tend to accept this exchange, sacrificing their bodies for knowledge and power. The powers of creation and destruction that Inna wields is unparalleled, and for those few who can grasp the concept of the first arbitrator in their minds, the bargain is worth it.
Inna is unusually responsive to prayer for an arbitrator, but this is counteracted by their radioactive influence, which often kills their worshippers. Followers of Inna are thus almost uniformly scholars, as most who rely on the sun in their day-to-day lives can find safer gods to follow. While Inna rarely makes demands or enacts punishment on mortals, they do sometimes send heralds: terrifyingly calm animals with tiny burning stars in place of eyes.
Category Monitor Demigods
Edicts Create using heat or fire, sacrifice yourself to achieve your goals, destroy objects when their purpose is done, rescue creatures from doomed planets
Anathema Douse ashes with water instead of letting them burn out, bury a body instead of cremating it, curse the sun
Areas of Concern Black holes, energy, radiation, stars
Religious Symbol Blindingly bright star
Sacred Animal All
Sacred Color(s) Red, white, yellow
Devotee Benefits
Divine Attribute Strength or Constitution
Divine Font harm or
healDivine Sanctification none
Divine Skill CraftingFavored Weapon alchemical bombDomains destruction,
metal,
star,
sunAlternate Domains creation,
fire,
nothingness