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Player > Setting > Deities > Urgathoa
Starfinder Core Rulebook p.491
NE goddess of disease, gluttony, undeath
Centers of Worship: Eox
Symbol: A skull-backed fly or death’s head moth
Urgathoa was once a mortal with a hunger for life so
tremendous that she rebelled against the notion of
being judged by Pharasma when she died, instead tearing
herself away from the Lady of Graves’s endless line of souls and
returning from the Great Beyond as the universe’s first undead
creature. Urgathoa’s existence is a corruption of the natural
order; some say her first divine footprints upon the soil of the
Material Plane birthed plague and infection and that the first
undead shadows and wraiths were born of her breath.
Urgathoa is an utterly amoral, hedonistic goddess, concerned
only with sating her own desires, regardless of the consequences
others might suffer. To the Pallid Princess, the dull existence of
a dead soul is pointless and tedious compared to the vibrant
intensity of mortal or undead sensation, so her followers indulge
in gluttonous depravity, attempting to cram as much sensation
into existence as possible. Urgathoa’s faith embraces breaking
and surpassing taboos, so nothing is forbidden. Asceticism and
self-restraint are repugnant—unless they are themselves part
of some obsessive and gluttonous game—and the unrestrained
excess of undeath is a state to aspire to.
Creatures of passion and vice who believe that the universe
is their playground are drawn to Urgathoa’s church, as are those
who worship death and revere disease. Most of her followers are
insatiable gluttons, sinister necromancers, undead creatures, or
those who seek undeath for themselves. They demand experience
without limits or repercussions and perpetually chase hedonistic
sensation. Although the church of Urgathoa is primarily interested
in undeath, some cults focus on her gluttonous aspect, indulging
in lavish orgies and decadent feasts of food and drugs. The vices
of those who worship Urgathoa tend to become ever stranger
and more demanding as they advance in her service. Urgathoa’s
faith is shunned, if not outright banned, on most civilized worlds,
but the undead inhabitants of Eox openly worship the Pallid
Princess, and many cities have secret clubs dedicated to her,
often servicing the bored elite. Urgathoa’s temples are built like
feast halls, usually adjacent to a graveyard or crypt inhabited by
loyal undead creatures.
Priests of Urgathoa are usually mystics or envoys, but people
of all talents can be seduced by her promises. Interestingly, her
faithful are split on the issue of technological life extension: while
some eagerly pursue virtual immortality through methods like
consciousness uploads, traditionalists fear that this sidestepping
of magical undeath may gradually lessen the goddess’s influence.
Others see it as a nonissue, expecting it’s only a matter of time
until Pharasma and her minions forcibly close such loopholes.
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