God Name:
Grumpsh (Ngroompsh)
Title:
God of Emptiness, Secrets, Silence, and Lost Things
God's Sex:
Male
Alignment:
Neutral Good
Terrain Preference:
Hollow places such as caves, or homes at night, when they breathe
Opinion of Mortals/Followers:
"The tribune of humanity is in its silent heart, never its talkative mind."
"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
Should we all reveal our virtues we would also laugh for the same cause."
"If you would rise but a cubit above race and country and self you would indeed become godlike."
"You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand."
"The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the lips of her child."

God Appearance:
Grumpsh was a giant god, towering, but as wide as he was tall, a great fat man, with a massive grey beard. Out of his head sprouts two ivory-white antlers, which extend and flatten out like a crown or halo. His eyes are a knowing grey, and his skin is worn, leathery, and tanned. He wears a plain tunic made of hemp, and a rope belt, from which hangs a calligraphy brush and an inkstone.

Personality:
Grumpsh was a stoic god, whose words are always spoken with a melancholic air, however, he never spoke ill of anything or anyone, so the tone is usually translated as a happy one. He was universally liked by the gods in his time, and was considered, due to his position as god of secrets, the closest to omnipotence as any god could come. He kept his secrets absolutely, but tended to act with bias towards those whose secrets he knew, which could occasionally give it away.

Other:
Grumpsh used to be a very hospitable deity, accepting any god who wished to meet with him into his abode, an ethereal place, a vast expanse of what looked like floating ruins, with roofs and columns, and whatever else was first to fade away from the human realm. He was a god in whom many confided, as he already knew their secrets, but would speak to them to know how they perceived their worries. He, being God of Secrets, understandably acted as a parental figure to Nemea, Goddess of Gossip.

He began drifting away from the other gods ages ago. While he did not become more cold, he was less curious, and spoke less and less to the various deities who would come to him. He began to sit for decades at a time, still, staring over the world from a tall mountain. He even began to wander the world amongst humans, speaking to no one, never being seen, but still present in the mortal world, which was strictly forbidden. Grumpsh, ironically, helped establish the rules which confined deities, keeping them from interfering directly with the world, due to past catastrophes the gods had perpetrated. However, by his own rules, for interacting with the mortal realm, he was forbidden from leaving his own realm, stripped of his avatar, and not allowed visitors. His followers, dissipated, and some less religious human historians generally consider Grumpsh as a proto-deity of earth worshiped by an early civilization. Some posit that dwarves adopted him and linguistic adaptation would result in the deity Grungi, while others theorize he was more accurately a precursor to the god Mori. However, interest in him as faded considerably in his confinement (a punishment no longer used by the gods for interacting with the human realm), and besides a reference to him as a metaphor for a teacher, in Dendapim philosophy, he has no more followers.

Nemea generally gets very emotional about Grumpsh, and it is another aspect of her past that is shrouded in mystery. Even old gods tend to forget him, if only because he was only mildly interesting when he was present, nearly omniscient, but also silent, many believed his powers were simply myth.

Most figure that if Grumpsh really was the god of emptiness and silence, solitary confinement would not be so horrible for him, and figure that, whenever his sentence ends, he would be essentially unchanged.