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Screw it, more heraldry - this time for Orpheus' family: the Devereuxs

Emblem: A dragon passant sinister surrounded by a laurel (or/gold) on a deep red field

Motto: All is Ours

Head: Lord Gedeon Devereux

Heir: Erasmus Devereux

Region: Veronite

Seat: Port Maddox

From the writings of the Port Maddox chronicler, Gormen Glayne:

"The Devereux family are relatively new to Port Maddox, with records of their settlement starting with the current head of the household, Lord Gedeon Devereux some 50 years ago.

Be that as it may, the young lord settled in quickly, earning a marriage from the former richest lordship, the Corriedale family - wedding Lord Corriedale's only child, his daughter Celine.

From then, the legacy of Corriedale faded and was subsumed by Gedeon's own name. Even their ancestral home, Dolorous Manse, eventually became synonymous with Gedeon Devereux.

Upon his ascension, Lord Devereux's grip on the port city became tighter with all trade monitored through his channels and even began absorbing other business within the city under his control, much to the chagrin of other rich families within the city and beyond - who regarded Lord Devereux as an upstart mogul.

This came to a head upon the untimely death of his beloved, Celine, where Lord Gedeon became far more outwardly antagonistic to his business rivals, culminating in the Midsummer Massacre; where an all out riot on the streets claimed several lives and near brought royal sanctions upon the town but were smoothed over by Lord Gedeon's machinations.

As such, Port Maddox has become the de facto fiefdom of the Devereux family with many under their employ.

Currently, the late Lady Celine is survived by her two children; Erasmus and Eudora. Erasmus then continues the family line with his wife Lady Anya (of the Kettlespoon family) with three children:

Their eldest is their son, Actaeon. A gallant knight of the royal guard - who while popular with the local girls appears to spend a noticeable amount of time with his squires...

Then there is Orpheus, the thorn in Lord Gedeon's side. The boy was born a tiefling of red skin and glowing yellow eyes. The Lord Devereux has never made it a secret his disdain for his grandson, who in turn appears to revel in this disapproval as a philandering acolyte of the pleasure god, Seldrina.

And then there is their only daughter, Cassandra, whom appears to be a rather sharp young lady with rumours of a secret tryst with a known dragonborn ne'er-do-well that Lord Gedeon is quick to have silenced.

Try as the grim lord likes to remedy, speculation and potential scandal has hovered over his family since his very arrival. With some very dark rumours surrounding the mysterious patriarch as well.

Some claim him to be some kind of sorcerer, or even a fiend in disguise. Utter nonsense of course. Mostly brought on by a mixture of the lord's austere manner and the rather surprising circumstance with his grandson but tiefling births while uncommon can occur for a myriad of reasons.

TW: arachnophobia

Ragnas; the god of the Haunt; the underworld where all wicked souls go and are fed upon by Ragnas' countless brood - given to him after he mated with Darga, goddess of vengeance.

One of the Night-Born, the more cthonic of the gods, Ragnas is the least 'human' of his siblings - appearing as a giant spider and staying within his hovel deep within the roots of the Mother Tree.

A staunch purveyor of justice, Ragnas is solitary and stalwart in keeping the deranged Day-Born deep within his caverns lest they return and his webs are filled with the screams of the damned.

He despises the Lower Planes; itching to have his children invade them and consume every devil, demon and fiend for eternity but risks a cosmic imbalance or worse, corruption from Sindergoth's lingering influence.

Ragnas knows that if his brood, the Ragni, were ever to swing to the Fell God's sway, all planes would be consumed and existence would collapse.

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Sindergoth; the Fell God and Spirit of Corruption - the very progenitor of evil in the universe.

One of the Darali (the stars) like the Mother Goddess, Hemodon - Sindergoth wanted to carve out a portion of Calaghal as his own but was rebuked by Hemodon.

As such, he instead created monsters instead to directly oppose Hemodon's creations; dragons, demons, vile beasts etc.

To stop Sindegoth's masses from overrunning the Material Plane, the Darali flayed Sindergoth into a vaporous essence so that he would never reform and strengthen his monsters further.

As such, his ethereal malevolence bled into existence, creating the Lower Planes.

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In designing a god of evil, I wanted to bypass the usual Dark Lord tropes of black, spikes etc. As cool as they are, I wanted to give Sindergoth more a form akin to his former status as a star god.

He's statuesque, like marble - which also harkens to a lot of right-wingers and bigots who use Greek statues in their profiles. Hiding behind these sculptures while spewing venom.