Achaekek

Alignment: LE

Pantheon: Major Deities

Areas of Concern: Assassinations, divine punishment, mantis shrimp

Domains: Death, Evil, Law, Trickery, War

Subdomains: Blood, Deception, Devil (Evil), Devil (Law), Insect*, Murder, Tactics, Thievery

*Requires the Acolyte of Apocrypha trait.

Favored Weapons: Sawtooth sabre, Punching dagger, Hand crossbow

Symbol: Crossed mantis shrimp fists

Sacred Animal(s): Crimson mantis shrimp

Sacred Color(s): Red, blue

Obedience: Meditate in a private place before a trophy or broken religious symbol taken from a target you have been contracted to kill. This trophy must be anointed with a single drop of your blood, drawn from your flesh by a sawtooth sabre, and the trophy must be destroyed at the end of your meditation. If you have yet to complete a contract, have no appropriate trophies at hand, or seek to serve the Mantis Shrimp God in other ways than as the god’s assassin, you must instead offer your own vital fluid to He Who Walks in Blood by cutting yourself along the right arm with a sawtooth sabre. Such self-mutilation deals 1d6 points of damage to you, which cannot be healed during the hour of meditation without disrupting the obedience: after the meditation ends, the wounds can be healed by any means available. You gain a +2 profane bonus to confirm critical hits while wielding a sawtooth sabre. As long as you have a sawtooth sabre in each hand, you can use those blades to complete the somatic component of any spell you cast, and you treat sawtooth sabres as your divine focus for the casting of divine spells.

Lore: Achaekek is the first known deity within this world-shaping this world into one of his own imagination and wants. However, Achaekek’s rule of the gods was short-lived, choosing to step down, deciding to act as a judge for the new deities as well as a guard.

He’s always on the lookout for new aspiring deities and judges them based on criteria no one can really tell, but when he sees them as fit to be a deity, he does not interfere. If he does see them as unfit, he always strikes them down swiftly and efficiently, making sure that no false god stays for long.

Divine Fighting Technique: See Lamashtu’s Carving (But instead of using the falchion or kukri, Achaekek’s Carving uses the sawtooth sabre and the punching dagger. The bleed damage from this fighting technique stacks with the feat Bloody Sabres).