Ryxaros

Details
Symbol: A stylized infant curled in the fetal position

Homeplane: x's Cradle

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Portfolio: Suicide, loss, forgetfulness, stillbirth, undeath

Worshippers: suicidal people, grieving mothers (occasionally), necromancers, intelligent undead

Domains: Evil, Darkness, Magic

Favored Weapon: Unarmed strike

History
The stillborn child of Iara, The Dreamspeaker and Raz, Lord of the Vortex lay dead in the void for what could only be described as ages. As that pale, tiny body floated there, it gradually picked up enough psychic energy to come to a somewhat half-life...an un-death. Once he had gained enough power, he took hold of the portfolio most precious to him.

Obedience
Wrap yourself in a black shroud and curl up in a fetal position. Weep and wail bodily, as if you were an infant abandoned by its mother. After a time, lie still as if dead. Remain as still as you can and do not respond to anything that may be happening around you. At the end of your devotion, take off your shroud and toss it over your left shoulder, as if throwing it away or forgetting it.

+2 profane bonus to Bluff checks made to seem innocent; +2 to saves against death effects

Scripture
A tiny child walked a very long way

Until a beautiful night became an ugly day

Under the sun the blood dried quick

Mother didn't care, or she'd be quite sick!

The child rose but did not cry

It was not a scary thing to die

The fearful thing was to be forgot

The child lost was never sought

The tiny child walked again

And walked some more, and more, and then:

"A new place, a new Mother," the child said,

"Will she miss her offspring turn'd up dead?"

This Mother did weep, the child found

Which was quite an awful, painful sound!

Not all Mothers would forget

And this did make the child fret

The child found the road again

To find the way back home, and then:

[remainder of text destroyed by fire; the discoverer opted not to have it restored]

--found in the diary of Jekil Jinson, a halfling necromancer posing as a human orphan, after 'liberating' a rural orphanage by fire as an act of 'mercy for the forgotten'. Jekil was apprehended and put to death in Koussir. The remains of the children escaped into the frozen wastes.