Ashwallah

Alignment: NE

Pantheon: Major Deities

Areas of Concern: Storms, Sea Serpents, Catastrophes

Domains: Destruction, Evil, Scalykind, Water, Weather

Subdomains: Catastrophe, Cannibalism, Daemon, Fear, Venom, Flowing, Oceans, Rivers, Storms

Favored Weapon: Harpoon, Trident, Sea Knife

Symbol: Whirlpool

Sacred Animal(s): Sea sneks

Sacred Color(s): Blue, green

Obedience: Use the tooth of an aquatic animal to scratch a spiral into your skin, while letting a drop of your blood diffuse into a body of water or fall into a bowl of clear water. You gain a +4 profane bonus on saving throws against the spells, spell-like abilities, and supernatural abilities of creatures with the aquatic or water subtype.

Lore: It has always been believed that the world was on the back of a giant beast, a snake-like creature known as Ashwallah. People believe that water was always on his back, but as he shed his skin, that skin became land, growing with each shed, until the landmasses peered through the water and created the continents. Back before the Rising Tides, the world was mostly land, but the main ocean was known as Ashwallah’s maw, as he wouldn’t shed skin from his mouth, and there were two small seas known as Ashwallah’s eyes. Of course, rivers existed too, and they were explained as the tears in his skin as he shed it.

People also believe that most sea monsters are spawns of Ashwallah. Through his maw, many dangerous sea creatures emerged, such as monstrous crabs, monstrous snakes, Aboleth and the like. Most Aboleths believe themselves to be the firstborns of Ashwallah.

It is believed by many that Ashwallah created the Rising Tides in order to expand his domain to the rest of the world, thus becoming stronger and stealing power from other deities that long controlled the land.

Depiction: A giant sea serpent or other sea monster. A giant sea monster that is the bottom of the ocean, supporting all the water.