"God Damn!"

One of the tasks assigned to each of us, was to come up with a god that could plug into the pantheon of our chosen setting. Since we chose The Forgotten Realms, I decided to make a lower god in the pantheon and tie them into the setting by having them serve an established Deity.

The god itself is called Shazek, and he serves Cyric, the god of death and destruction. My lesser deity is actually based a little on the Cthulhu mythos's Nyarlathotep, a trickster god that shifts form.

So the god is based on deceit and masks, its followers gives it their identities and in return gain powers of shifting, control over shadow, and significant increases to bluff checks.

Now the player characters can become significantly involved with the god by choosing to walk the path of the veilbinder, a class that gains their powers from an agreement with Shazek. Or by running into its particularly large and invasive cult the god controls.

So now we get to see how not only mine, but the other gods fit into the campaigns story!