====== Ebolek ======
Demipower of the Prime Material\\
The Devourer From Within\\
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**Domain:** plagues, infestations, pestilence\\ **Symbol:** a wriggling pile of maggots in the shape of a skull\\ **Sacred Items/Creatures:** bezoar, cinnabar, flies, leeches, rats\\ **Resonance:** Dark\\ **Spell domains:** [[plague]], [[evil]]\\ **Allies:** [[The Faceless One]]\\ **Enemies:** [[Jarmila]], [[Nimnavanon]], [[Lysara]]\\ 

===== History =====
Several stories are told about Ebolek's origins, the most popular being
that it started as a maggot eating away at a fallen god's corpse after the
Silence. It grew and mutated by that thread of divinity until completely filling
the hollowed out skin. Now, it moves about in a perpetually rotting parody of a
humanoid form, rips and tears in the skin revealing the bloated white flesh
beneath. It lurks in the dark, diseased corners of the wilds, constantly seeking
new diseases, pestilence, and vermin to corrupt the lush wilds. Some rumors
claim that Ebolek likes to disguise itself to travel the civilized lands, only
revealed to those who can pierce the deceit and detect the rot beneath the veil.

=====Regards to Undead=====
Undead are not reviled, but they are not valued either except
as simple tools. Undead flesh does not benefit the spread of disease.

=====Regards to Outsiders =====
Ebolek is completely indifferent to outsiders.

=====Vestments===== 
Vestments are often ragged gray-green robes, frayed along the edges.
It is common for this clothing to be splotched or discolored by various ichors
when the faithful work in concocting new contagions or diseases.

=====Dogma=====
All worship to Ebolek, that the touch of Its plagues and pestilence might
pass over you. Make plentiful offerings of food and drink to briefly sate Its
eternal hunger. The richness of nature is there to feed Ebolek and Its swarms,
to feed and grow and multiply in order to spread Its plagues. The devout should
seek to spread Its blessings, finding new ways to taint and corrupt the healthy
and the strong, to bring them to their knees before It.

===== Followers =====
Ebolek accepts followers of dark and twilight resonances, but only bestows its powers upon those of the dark.

=====Faith-based groups=====
* __The Witches of Systyquah__: A gathering of trolls, these witches make offerings to
Ebolek for inspiration in creating strange concoctions to use against their
enemies, relying on the trolls' natural hardiness and regeneration to resist the
effects that would devastate lesser races.

**Note:** Ebolek is a demigod/lesser deity that has not formally established
himself amongst the pantheon. There may or may not be temples or even widespread
knowledge of his existence.