The Indifferent God was said to reside in a shrine dedicated to his worship in the city of Farrog, which lay twenty-two days and twenty-three nights of travel across the Great Dry.[1][2] The Holy Church of the Indifferent God maintained a Grand Bishop and clergy within the city.[3] The church's symbol was a gilded broken circle.[3]
In Crack'd Pot Trail[]
Two groups of travellers journeyed to Farrog for different reasons. The sorcerer Bauchelain and his companion Korbal Broach and manservant Emancipor Reese were headed to a ferry crossing which would get them to Farrog and the shrine of the Indifferent God. The other group, which hunted the two necromancers, consisted of the Chanter family (Tiny, Flea, Midge, and Relish), the Well Knight Arpo Relent, the Mortal Sword Tulgord Vise, and the woodsman Steck Marynd.[1]
During the ferry crossing, Bauchelain derided the indifference of the Indifferent God, and said that he and Korbal Broach deemed the Indifferent God's life forfeit, for the God had reneged on the most basic of covenants. When Emancipor Reese asked for clarification, Bauchelain confirmed that they meant to kill the Indifferent God. The group was seemingly unaware that the Indifferent God travelled alongside them as the Ferryman conducting their journey.[2]
In The Fiends of Nightmaria[]
Arriving in Farrog, Bauchelain cut off the head of the reigning king, N'Gorm the Lesser, with his sword and claimed the throne as King Bauchelain the First. Korbal Broach invested himself as the Grand Bishop of the Indifferent God's Holy Church, turning all of the God's priests into headless undead and imprisoning the Ferryman possessed by the god within the Royal Palace's dungeons.[4]
The Indifferent God, however, managed to escape from the ferryman's imprisoned body and wander the palace's lower levels looking for a new vessel.[5] When Korbal Broach reported the God's escape, Bauchelain summoned and bound not only the powerful Demon Prince Flail Their Limbs but also a small army of demon minions to hunt and kill him.[6][7]
In its wanderings, the sex-obsessed God[8] terrorized--intentionally or not--those who crossed his path. The Party of Five came across the god in the body of an ape-like demon that was savagely masturbating. It sprayed Barunko with its ejaculate before fleeing the other thieves.[9] The escaped prisoner, Apto Canavalian, encountered the God after falling down a dark stairway. The God held his severed member in his hands and lamented that he had abused himself so much that it fell off just as his mother warned. Apto managed to stave off the God's attempt to possess him by pretending he was dying with a broken back and the God left to seek a more suitable candidate.[10]
In the end, the demons proved to be unable to regain control over the God and so the Indifferent God remained at large.
Quotes[]
Indifferent God: "I remember you... From Crack'd Pot Trail."
Apto Canavalian: "No! Not possible! We've never met, I swear it!"
Indifferent God: "You've caught the attention of the Indifferent God. Very rare gift, this meeting here, oh, yes, very rare!"
[Remarks exchanged - in the depths of the Farrog Royal Palace - between the Indifferent God and Apto Canavalian in The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 23.]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crack'd Pot Trail, Chapter 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crack'd Pot Trail, Chapter 6
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 5
- ↑ The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 3
- ↑ The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 5
- ↑ The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 9
- ↑ The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 13
- ↑ The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 13
- ↑ The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 12
- ↑ The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 23