#tehhet

I drew Tehhet very quickly and poorly and I feel like sharing.

Its head is hollow, and all the blood travels along the edges to the holes in the side from which the teeth grow. Its eyes are very long and narrow. Ir has three narrow nostrils on the top of its head and three narrow nostrils on the bottom. All those spikes on it are teeth. It has three teeth on each wrist and three on each ankle. In the middle of its chest, it has twelve teeth in a rose like shape surrounding a hole to its heart. Its fingers can be moved freely along its hands and feet, leaving trails of blood where they destroyed the skin to move. Tehhet heals quickly. On the bottom of its head, it has a hole which serves as its mouth. It needs not teeth because it can tear people to ribbons with its blood. Of course, like all gods and monsters, its blood is blassen, black and cloth-like.

Tehhet is not very friendly, as you may have guessed by its gruesome appearance. I ahd a fearful encounter with it at the very beginning of my adventure, so you can believe it is one of the most frightening things I’ve encountered. There’s somewhat of a backstory to him, though.

The gods of the realms are mostly the same, with different interpretations befitting of the realms’ respective ideologies. Tehhet is savageness, nature, inevitability, mystery, unfairness, death, and strength, all in one neat terrifying bundle. It is a concept humans don’t typically think of, but is important to many people. Tehhet is why you don’t walk alone in the dark. Tehhet is why you will always lose a fight. Tehhet is to show you your own weakness, and demand you not get better. It will always be there, and it will always kill you. That doesn’t mean it’s exactly evil, however. Tehhet is a respresntation of that force that makes you feel small, the one that instills humility, and the one that generates fear, weakness, bravery, and honor. Tehhet is wild, yet lawful.

Tehhet leaks blood from all of its teeth, and these strings of blood allow it to stand and move and such. Its method of locomotion is somewhat strange. Imagine the Indian rope trick, where a rope is thrown straight in the air and stays there, straight. There’s other parts in the trick, but that’s the only part remniscient of Tehhet. It wills its blood, in strings, to move, and then moves along them, from the bloody parts of its hands where its fingers moved from. How it moves is mostly impossible to understand, however. That’s the point. It will sit and stand high in the air, and roar, having blood gush from its hands, heart, and mouth, into the ground and shaking fear and lowliness into every creature that hears it. Not someone you want to be on bad terms with.

Tehhet is the guardian god of no one I can remember, but it did have a run in with the rabbit king Shagaran. Shagaran was a king who had a lot of rabbits. You see, when his wife Shagiralas was queen, and also alive and ruling over the Dark realm with an iron-ish-maybe fist, he kept rabbits and used them to build things and write things, and he taught them in little rabbit schools. It was probably adorable. They were little scholar rabbits. Then Tehhet came because Shagaran wanted it to not do that and killed all but two rabbits. It was terrible. But those rabbits had a lot of babies, as rabbits do, and then one of them grew up and bit Tehhet’s foot and Tehhet frogave her. Quite the story, huh? It’s probably much more entertaining when told in completion by a good storyteller.

When I fought Tehhet, he didn’t do much, but I did kill it, unofrtunately. He’s savage and wild and deadly and unfair, but it’s not deserving of death. This actually caused a bit of fuss later in the adventure, when many became too full of themselves, which Tehhet’s absence allowed.