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Player > Setting > Deities > The Devourer
Starfinder Core Rulebook p.485
CE god of black holes, destruction, supernovas
Centers of Worship: Akiton, Apostae, the Diaspora, Eox, Verces
Symbol: A black hole, often tinged with red
Eons ago, the Material Plane sprang into existence in an
instant, and someday it will end just as abruptly, as all
creation ceases to exist. Believed by some to have been born
in that same instant of creation, or perhaps even to be the
ghost of some entity from a previous cycle of existence, the
Devourer seeks to hasten this inevitable end and unmake the
entire plane, eradicating all matter and energy until nothing
remains, not even the Devourer itself. Every machine that
breaks, every living thing that dies, every star that goes
supernova, every photon sucked into a black hole, every
galaxy that goes dark—all these and more are said to be the
handiwork of the Devourer.
The Devourer has no name, no form, no being. It is less a
god than a primal force of the universe—an embodiment of
malicious entropy, concerned only with the obliteration of
all reality. Heedless of the meaningless existence of life in
all its myriad forms, it cannot be reasoned with, delayed, or
halted, and it largely ignores the pleas and prayers of even its
most devout worshipers. Some cosmologists and theologians
postulate that when the Devourer has consumed everything
and the mortal world expires, the Devourer will give birth to a
new universe in place of the old, but the crazed cultists who
venerate the Star-Eater as a god know this for the foolishly
hopeful lie that it is. There will be no rebirth, no second
creation—only an immeasurable void of nothingness.
The church of the Devourer has little organization or
leadership, only scattered, chaotic cults made up of berserkers,
cannibals, nihilistic plotters, depraved reavers, and ruthless
solarians. While many of the faithful prey upon nearly
every sentient being they encounter, reveling in destruction
and mayhem, some members possess a cunning knack for
planning, carefully engineering catastrophes and triggering
disasters to maximize the loss of life and ruination of property
and resources. Devourer cults are outlawed on nearly every
civilized world, but hidden shrines can be found on remote
asteroids and abandoned moons, and many cults form motley
flotillas of ships that attack and slaughter all they come across
in the depths of space.
While the Devourer can be represented by a simple black
dot or swirl—representations of the final collapse of spacetime—
the most common symbol is the Blood Accretion: a black
hole with swirling red in its accretion disk. When the end
finally comes, Devourer cultists believe, space-time itself will
weep the blood of the gods before finally passing into nothing.
For more information on the faith, see page 496.
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