D&D&D campaign settings

Ugsyn was a formation god from Dark Twins, along with his brother Betelgeuse. In a fit of jealousy, Ugsyn tore their realm apart. He is a transient, hateful deity who spends his time looking for footholds in other realms and corrupting mortals who feel abandoned by the gods.

Ugsyn was once a good aligned god of nature, who helped his brother Betelgeuse maintain their realm. His brother ruled the hierarchy of the Dark Twins Pantheon, and received the bulk of the mortal's love and worship. Ugsyn, who had always questioned why his brother wielded greater authority, grew more and more jealous. He used the hammer his brother had gifted him to wreak havoc on the threads of reality, an event known as The Calamity of Dark Twins.

After he inflicted the Calamity on his brother and the Dark Twins realm, his portfolio made a drastic shift towards hatred and trickery, and his rhetoric grew more unabashedly evil. He has since been travelling to different realms, accruing worshippers from the lonely, abandoned, forgotten and hated mortals he comes across.

Ugsyn is depicted as a robed corpse with rotting flesh, infested with insects and vermin. He wears a skull-like mask, and is adorned in gold. The cavity of his chest is exposed, and in place of his heart is a large carrion beetle.

Ugsyn has no allies, and is universally hated by the other gods. His survival depends on his ability to stay hidden, and to not linger in any one place for too long.

His most hated enemy is Betelgeuse. Ugsyn's jealousy has long since vanished, and in its place is a sick delight for all the pain he's caused his brother.

Ugsyn has a vicious rivalry with Titania and Oberon. Their rejection of unsightly mortal creatures, such as the Rumbums, has allowed Ugsyn to find a major foothold in the Fairy Kingdoms.

Ugsyn and his followers seek out and adopt mortal beings that feel lonely, forgotten, hated, abandoned; he teaches them that these feelings are to be nurtured. His followers are taught to act on the ugliest parts of their minds. If the world treats them as monsters, they will act as monsters outwardly towards the world.

Ugsyn's teachings are dangerous and amorphous, much like the god himself. Ugsyn takes whatever form and rhetoric is needed to acquire power, and so his followers are taught to acquire power my any means necessary. And, should they ever accrue enough power, to wield it in pursuit of revenge and domination.

His symbol of a carrion beetle represents rebirth; the death of the old self, and the rise of the new. He teaches that compassion, kindness, empathy and concern are the weaknesses of the old self that must be shed so that the new can be born. The new self being one that embraces the worst, ugliest impulses and acts on them.

Ugsyn's worshippers range from monstrous creatures to mundane people that feel slighted. While seeking out worshippers, he is looking for any possible foothold he can find in an individual's heart and mind.

They do his bidding, albeit not always directly, and each in a different capacity. Some may terrorize a village, while others are politically active and worship him in secret.

Ugsyn followers, like their god, are often nomadic and do not require a temple or house of worship to follow him. When followers do find permanent residence, they often make their temples by desecrating the place of worship that once belonged to other gods. Others who worship him in secret may construct small, hidden shrines.

The Desecration is a ritual when vandalizing the temple of another god. The effigies of that god have their chests carved out, and their hearts replaced with the Carrion Beetle.

Ugsyn followers have a declaration for personal revenge - an Illbile. The Illbile is a contract between the individual declaring the Illbile and Ugsyn - that the god will look favorably and give good fortune on their act of revenge in return for doing the killing in his name. They can declare an Illbile on hated enemies, political rivals, or abusive superiors. targets of an Illbile are, preferably, captured alive to make a ceremonial sacrifice - but Ugsyn also accepts Illbile contracts fulfilled by many other means.

When the Dark Twins well opens, followers of Ugsyn celebrate and feast. It is a wild, uninhibited party to mock Betelgeuse and rejoice in Ugsyn's revenge.

The story of Betelgeuse's hammer is told as a comedic play. It describes how Betelgeuse, the dim-witted tyrant, forged a hammer to build a prison for the other gods. Ugsyn, the quick-witted trickster, offered to help Betelgeuse to construct this prison, promising that he would use his sharp mind to build an inescapable labyrinth. Betelgeuse agreed, and as soon as Ugsyn had the hammer, he used it to destroy the prison and end Betelgeuse's reign. As a final act of revenge, Ugsyn flung the hammer into Betelgeuse's face, smashing it and robbing the idiot god of his narcissistic pride. Ugsyn, the clever god, used this opportunity to release Betelgeuse's prisoners and to flee the Dark Twins.