Teroxol the Dying Dragon
Teroxol is a dying dragon living under the city of Viper's Gate. Five years ago, in a battle with an Orcish Servant of the Void, she was struck with a wasting disease. Her wings have almost entirely decayed, and her scales are starting to rot. However, she is far from helpless. She has enslaved a Roden Visionary cult, and has been using their tunnels to hide. The rat man Szith is unwilling allies with Teroxol and would betray him in a second, assuming his goal of creating a living god could be met.
Szith, more than anything, hates what he calls the Lightwalkers, the Roden of the Field. Believing that the gods of the harvest abandoned them for Humanity centuries ago, and the degenerate human gods are not worth his worship. Teroxol enslaved him because he might be one of the small number of creatures that has the knowledge required to build a living god from nothing.
Teroxol is a powerful sorcerer in his own right, and with the ritual knowledge has accrued, the Visionary powers of the Roden, and a series of artifacts have kicked off a ritual, creating a deity of the Harvest. Szith envisions a rat god, a god of mushrooms and lichens and the bounty of caves. The deity who will replace the human harvest gods, and possibly allow him to ally with the dwarves. Teroxol indulges these fantasies to whip the cult into shape, but does not care. All she desires is to create something powerful to give her back her wings.
She started a ritual using a Spark of Creation stolen from the Church of Riddick. By striking a deal with the Thief Lord, one of their runners stole it from a group of adventurers, and the Lord distracted them long enough to allow Szith's cult to do the initial ritual. This meant that there is now the unborn form of a deity sitting in the Roden tunnels beneath the city.
In order to support the growth, Teroxol once again used the machinations of the Thief Lord to aid her plan, she sent the adventurers to confront the Sect of Sixty, letting her get access to the Bone Mirror, which she is using to draw forth the energies of Hell to feed the nascent godling. Unfortunately, that is only a method of maintaining power, she still needs a major source of energy. She has a few she could find (list is non-exhaustive):
- The Censer of Death from Naurardhon
- The Soul of the Paladin
- The Heart of the Bone City
The Godling could be destroyed with:
- Water from the Chrome Pool
