Sedona

Alignment: NE

Pantheon: Major Deities

Areas of Concern: Undead, Ice, Cold, Dangerous magic, Taboo, Witchcraft, Hatred, Cyclops

Domains: Death, Destruction, Evil, Magic, Water

Subdomains: Undead, Plague, Hatred, Torture, Daemon, Fear, Arcane, Rites, Ice

Favored Weapon: Scythe, Sanpkhang, Crystal Chakram

Symbol: Exploding mountain with a single eye floating in the middle

Sacred Animal(s): Spider, Bat

Sacred Color(s): Ice blue, White

Obedience: Spill the blood of a living creature onto snow-covered ground; the creature must remain alive during the entire obedience, and must die within a minute of the obedience’s end. Gain a +4 bonus on all saving throws against cold.

Lore: It is said that prior to the coming of the mortals, the world was covered in eternal ice. Everything was frozen still, with nothing moving or living. When deities started to appear, they created life and warmed the world, causing it to change and causing vegetation and animals to start dotting the world’s surface. As the deities’ influence kept growing, the world’s ice disappeared more and more, until no ice remained except in one spot, at the very North of the world, a single mount of ice remained. Because of the destruction of this realm of ice, it is said that the mountain woke up and a mighty cyclops came out of it, shattering the ice down and covering the northern mountain chain in its remnants.

This cyclops was later known as Sedona, a cyclops that had been frozen in ice for so long that many believe that she was covered in ice since the birth of the world. Others claim that before the time of humans, elves and dwarves, a great cyclops empire ruled the world and eventually collapsed due to magical experiments that went wrong, destroying their empire and also covering the world in ice. No one truly knows what once was.

When Sedona noticed how the world was changing, she decided to reshape her part of the world to her vision of how the universe should be. She rose dead cyclops into undead champions and sent them to fight other mortals, raising them as well to continue to spread her vile intentions, her corruption and her influence. This time period was known as the Great Darkness, a time when undead would attack mortals when they were still just grasping the world as it is. That is when Abadeus intervened and taught them cities, structure and law, protecting them behind fortifications. Even with Abadeus’ intervention, mortals were not faring well against her armies, until Dormadu rose from the ranks of mortals, using the power of the sun and regrouping the different races to face the enemy together. With her power alone, she turned the tides and crushed the Sedona’s armies one by one, until the giant was cornered with her back against the remnants of her mountain. There, the two of them fought a battle to the death, both of them ending up mortally wounded. That is when the gods intervened, so moved by their battles, that they were both ascended to godhood.

Divine Fighting Technique: See Urgathoa’s Hunger.