Hataam (The River Eater)Source Divine Mysteries pg. 320The world flows too quickly, pushed into haste by innovation and technology. Civilizations rise and fall, bloodlines start and end, and even gods ascend and perish over time. The rapidity of life is distasteful to Hataam, who prefers the calmness of stagnant rivers and closed lakes. He often floats along murky waters as a mass of detritus and rotting limbs, leisurely watching for drownings and those who die of thirst.
Hataam’s followers are similarly dissatisfied with the breakneck pace of the world, resentful of being left behind by progress and suppressed by unwanted change. They target those they blame for changing their lives for the worse, drowning their victims as a sacrifice to the River Eater. Those whose sins are deemed too great for the mercy of a quicker death are captured and left to die of thirst, though all bodies are disposed of in bodies of water. These polluted waters become a shrine to Hataam, bloated with corpses and overgrown algae.
His cultists refuse to change even after death, often becoming
ghosts who repeat the patterns they followed in life. Those who do move on from the Universe sometimes refuse to follow psychopomps, even attempting to fight their guides to cling to what they once had.
Category Sakhil TormentorsEdicts Drown your enemies, refuse to change your mind in the light of new evidence, throw your body in the way of progress
Anathema Adopt new societal norms or innovations, save creatures from drowning
Areas of Concern Drought, drowning, stagnation
Religious Symbol Driftwood floating on the surface of a stagnant pool
Sacred Animal Eel
Sacred Color(s) Blue, brown
Devotee Benefits
Divine Attribute Constitution or Wisdom
Divine Font harmDivine Sanctification can choose unholy
Divine Skill NatureFavored Weapon bolaDomains lightning,
nature,
travel,
waterAlternate Domains cold,
dust