Where gods whisper and empires rot.
Title: The Graveborn King, Harbinger of Plague, Scythe of the End
Alignment: Decay, Silence, Balance through Ruin
Dominion: Death, Disease, Entropy, Natural Finality
Symbol: A skeletal hand clutching a wilted flower within a broken circle
Sacred Artifacts: The Scythe of Unmaking, The Rot-Crown, The Book of Final Names
Divine Domain: The Bleeding Threshold (Sixth Dimension)
Servants: Carrion Heralds, Scourge Priests, Bonebound, Rotwalkers
Opposed Powers: Tianara, Isisara Mirella, Elyonel
Worshippers: Plague cults, undertakers, necromancers, fatalists, ascetic monks, outcasts of the divine cycle
Divine Biography
Thanarok is older than grief and closer than breath. He is not a daemon in the traditional sense, nor a god driven by wrath or ambition. He is a force made manifest, born when the first heartbeat fell silent and the first creature rotted into soil. He did not choose his role — he was created by the ending of all things.
In the Age of Primordials, Thanarok was silent, solitary, and shunned. Where other gods shaped cities, forests, fire, or stars, Thanarok simply waited. He appeared wherever something was lost, or where disease bloomed — not to revel in ruin, but to ensure balance through inevitable decay.
It was Mordhekan who first called Thanarok brother, seeing in him not weakness, but the raw authority of finality. During the rise of the Daemons, Thanarok stood apart — but when the Cycle of Creation was broken by divine rebellion, Thanarok rose not to choose sides, but to remind all that even gods die.
His intervention in the Celestial War was cataclysmic. He cleansed entire dimensions, silencing armies and unmaking gods whose time had ended. To worship Thanarok is to understand that all light dims, and all glory fades.
Nature and Appearance
Thanarok is a towering skeletal figure, draped in robes of ancient rot, his body formed not from flesh, but from the veins of the world itself — roots, bones, ash. His eyes glow with the dim embers of existence — not rage, not life, but certainty.
His presence is accompanied by withered air, the scent of dust and iron, and a silence so total it deafens. He carries no emotion, no hatred. His scythe is not a weapon of vengeance, but a tool of fulfillment.
Where Larythis seduces, Mordhekan conquers, and Virekos fractures, Thanarok simply comes.
Cults and Worship
The cults of Thanarok are paradoxically both feared and respected. While the Inquisition outlawed open worship, even they whisper prayers to him before mass burials. His followers include death-priests, plague-bearers, and wandering monks who wear no shoes and speak only in funerary chants.
Worship is often somber and ritualistic: offerings of wilted herbs, silent fasts, and acceptance of personal mortality. Unlike other daemon cults, Thanarok’s followers do not seek power — they seek clarity, release, and the strength to let go.
To worship Thanarok is not to beg for life — it is to be unafraid of losing it.
Legacy in Astravara
Thanarok is death without cruelty, disease without punishment, and the end without malice. He is a god of inevitability — one who neither seeks converts nor rejects the faithful.
Legends say that even the other gods fear Thanarok — not because he is cruel, but because he cannot be bargained with. He is the only one who answered the Creator’s Silence with silence of his own, and it is said that when the final god falls, Thanarok will speak the Creator’s name one last time… and then vanish.
Chronicles of Astravara 