[Incarnation of]
The Black Ichor
[Elemental Affinity]
Earth and Dark
[Alignment]
Chaotic Neutral
[Physical description of preferred forms]
Black Ichor, the amorphous inky black liquid born of Abaranne's grief, Bashemath is a consciousness formed from it, molded by it. It cannot exists long from the source unless occupying a body, it reanimates the dead to act as avatars for Bashemath.
Preferred form A strange dark child with a white face, black lips and black nose, and black hair and tentacles, her eyes black save for blue eyes shaped like 8s.
Other forms Any avatars she possesses, and a large tentacled creature resembling a corruption of Abaranne. They have ink-like fluid filling their eyes, sometimes dripping out, black lips, and black tendrils protruding from the spine.
[Preferred Gender]
Female
[Means of Godhood]
While uncertainty exists of being a god, her birth was from the black ichor of the tree of Abaranne, an embodiment of her grief while seeing the carnage wrought upon her children.
[Personality]
She is strange, eerie, her tone and nature seems to shift on a whim, but always always smiling, always staring, always speaking softly while digging for a reaction. She has an almost lustful obsession with mortal beings and their livelihood, showing some kind of love for the flesh, perhaps a kind of corruption of Abaranne's love for her children. She shows an incapability to lie, instead choosing not to answer a question rather than falsifying information, a trait that seems etched into her very being rather than conscious honesty.
When reanimating the dead, some aspects of the former life carry over into the avatar, but are merely an echo of the person or creature rather than the original.
She shows distrust of the gods, especially those that enter Ertse'gart, a trait considered potentially dangerous, perhaps more so with her spreading influence.
[Worshiped by]
Little to none, much of what appears as first as followers are instead her avatars.
[Symbols]
"Bashemath's Eye" "It gazes inward and outward, sees through lies, peers through you."
[Divine Weapon]
None.
[Blessings]
Perpetuation: death marks the end of the former life, but through Bashemath the experiences and memories do not fade away, assimilating them when reanimating their evacuated body some part of them will persist in the mortal world after death.
Symbiosis: Augmenting the bodies of beings, she can improve their survival in exchange for linking with them, actively aware of their every move.
[Curses]
Last Will: With the memories of the murdered and maligned, they return to persecute their killer and drive them to madness, dragging them back to be dealt with in Bashemath's domain.
Leech: Latching a part of herself to another, she draws strength from them, and in part, power, while weakening them until it is purged or the connection is severed. Fire works if it can be endured.
[Realm]
Ertse'gart Nexus, the center point around the monument of Abaranne's former life.
[Most Notable Creation]
The Undying, avatars created from people and animals that once left the mortal coil, now reanimated as the black-blooded populous.
[Preferred form of worship]
None.