Aarilax

Greater (native): Gorethar | O'Ma | Dru'El | Toran | Mikon | Forian | Valok | Aarilax | Maleki
Greater (foreign): Clangeddin | Titania | Corellon Larethian | Tobin | Ptah | Gruumsh | Blibdoolpoolp
Intermediate: Andria | Dagath | Hurine | Ingoren | Mishlekh
Lesser: Angadar | Berryn | Dra'Nar | Dre'Ana | Fegall | Senath | Skern | Ti'si'faan | Verossa | Vorin | Wilsash | Yeraiah
Demi: Aryeh Gidol | Balgar | Cha'reth | Evrak | Harpinger | Kelvos | Keros | Lesa | Naren | Paragus | Pelar | Ra-Ghul | Seven | Stephanus | The'ton | Xenon | Zhitaril

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Symbol: A dagger with a snake for a blade

Colors: Black, Dark Green

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Worshipers' Alignment: NE

Area of Control: Murder, Lust, Survival, Shaahesk, Sahuagin

Clerical Domains: Death, Evil, Protection, Trickery, Water

Holy Warrior: Annihilator

Religious Orders: Order of Aarilax

Center of Worship: Drotid

Lizard folk and sahuagin tend to follow their creator, Aarilax. Getting what you want is essential. You may have to work with others to get it, or then again, you may have to eat them. They don't care if anyone else exists or not, so long as they can get what they wants. This does not necessarily have to involve hurting everyone in sight, but it could.

According to Aarilax, The most holy thing ever created is desire. Many individuals in the world strive to better themselves, or to become enlightened. Theologians of Aarilax always debate whether there is any such way of becoming enlightened at all, whether through good or evil, law or chaos. After all, what is the proof?

When you are left without a path to enlightenment or other higher places, the only thing you have remaining is your desire and your feelings. The gods gave these wonderful creations to all the intelligent races, and it must have been for a reason. They must be useable to obtain something worthwhile.

Keeping Aarilax's precepts means worshiping them as the keeper of this philosophy, and the one who teaches it to all of their followers. However, worship of Aarilax is secondary to worshiping YOURSELF. Every being has the right to get what they want. The strong ones will of course have an easier time with this, but it does not make the weak any less privileged. They just have to work harder.

Paying attention to your own inner emotions and feelings is the important key. Most people do not even know what they are feeling at a given moment. You must not only simply pay attention to your feelings, however. You must also do whatever you can to satisfy them. They are your guide, and your direct link to Aarilax's will. When it is all said and done, at the end of the day, all you have left is your feelings.... so they better be worth having.

Sometimes people have feelings that conflict with each other. This is the will of the gods. They made us, and they test us according to our feelings to see what we will do. The one whose feelings prevail on a matter will triumph in the eyes of the gods, however they achieve their means. If they need to remove others to get to their goal, so be it. It is a simple complication along the way.

Patience can be a virtue in these matters but it is not required. The intelligent and the wise will use patience to their advantage when acting out their feelings. However, being impulsive is also part of the game if you are like that. The gods made people of both varieties for a purpose.

Outside of their center of worship in Drotid, Aarilax has a temple just outside Mikona.

The Mantles of Lust and Survival

In recent years, Aarilax has added to their spheres of influence. In one case, Aarilax took the mantle of Lust from the god Kelvos. In another episode, they gained the mantle of Survival from Keros.

Aarilax's priests teach that survival is something a living being must choose every day. Survival is never guaranteed. There are many ways to survive. Many of Aarilax's followers choose to interpret the command to survive as meaning they must preserve their own life and their own interests at any cost - certainly above any costs to others. But, equally, survival may mean bowing down to a deadly or influential superior; in other cases, it may mean surviving as part of a group, working together to mutual benefit and protection. Aarilax commands preservation and elevation of the self: the means matter much less to them than the end.

The main consequence of Aarilax's acquisition of Survival is that they now empower Druids.

Churches of Aarilax

For a long time the cults and churches of Aarilax within Drotid were the ascendant worshippers of their creator on Avlis, gifted with the Murderlord's favor and many boons. The so-called Southern churches, with their smaller numbers and greater representation of non-lizardkin worshippers, were held in less esteem, especially by Drotid's Shaahesk overlords. However, following the failure of Drotid's invasion of the free countries of Negaria and the service rendered by Southern worshippers to Aarilax's pursuit of the mantle of Survival, the churches of Drotid have been thrown into disfavor by their patron. This has had disastrous consequences in that nation. Non-lizardkin Aarilaxans, on the other hand, find themselves looked upon much more kindly by Aarilax's serpentine eye - for the time being.