Nekrosyl
The Blighted Lord · Lord of Decay · The Rotting God · Father of Dragobloom
Domain
Death, Decay, Plague, Corruption
Alignment
Neutral Evil
Status
Dead
Factions
Sporesworn Cult
Nekrosyl is dead — slain during the God Wars over eleven thousand years ago. But death, for a god of decay, is not the end. His corpse, wherever it fell, has become the source of the Dragobloom plague: a slow, creeping corruption that transforms living matter into fungal horror. His influence spreads not through worship but through the blight itself, and those who tend his legacy — the Sporesworn — are among the most feared cultists in the world.
Holy Symbol
A withered hand clutching a blooming flower whose petals drip with dark ichor
Worship & Rites
The Sporesworn do not worship in temples. They gather in blighted groves, corrupted cellars, and places where the Dragobloom has taken root. Their rituals involve exposure to spores, consumption of tainted food, and meditation in the presence of decay. They believe that by embracing corruption, they transcend mortality — becoming something beyond life and death.
Clergy & Organization
The Sporesworn cult has no formal hierarchy in the traditional sense. Instead, leadership is determined by degree of transformation — those most consumed by the Dragobloom, who have become part-fungal beings, command the deepest reverence. The most advanced Sporesworn are barely recognizable as their original race, their flesh replaced by pulsing mycelia and flowering blight.
Holy Days
The Withering
Observed when the first frost kills the autumn flowers. The Sporesworn see this as a reminder that all things must decay, and they celebrate with rituals of release and transformation.
Bloom Night
Held on the anniversary of Nekrosyl's death. The Sporesworn gather in the deepest blight zones and commune with the residual divine essence in the corruption. Some claim to hear the dead god's whispers.
Lore & History
Nekrosyl was slain during the God Wars — a five-hundred-year conflict between the forces of chaos and law that reshaped the divine order of the world. The specifics of his death are debated by theologians: some say Anachron, the God of Law, struck the killing blow; others claim it was a coalition of mortal heroes empowered by divine weapons.
What is not debated is the result. Nekrosyl's corpse did not decompose — it *bloomed*. Wherever his divine ichor seeped into the earth, the Dragobloom took root: a creeping fungal plague that corrupts living matter at the cellular level. Trees become towers of pulsing fungi. Animals transform into shambling, spore-breathing horrors. And mortals who breathe the spores too long find their flesh slowly replaced by flowering blight.
The Dragobloom is Nekrosyl's legacy — and his revenge. Even in death, the Lord of Decay continues to consume the world.