Xyas, Goddess of Pestilence

Xyas is the Goddess of Pestilence and Disease. She was greated by Guul during the First Era.

The Librum ad Finem lists Xyas as one of the deities that will bring about the end of Somara.

Origins and Creations
Xyas was created alongside Nox and Caius as part of the Triad of Entropy. Xyas was responsible for the introduction of plague and disease to the world, as a means of corrupting and destroying Valazar's creations.

Appearance
Xyas typically appears as an emaciated humanoid female, with unruly black hair, wild green eyes, and gaunt facial features. Her skin is pale and pockmarked, with a sickly green tint. Xyas wears a white robe that has been tattered and dirtied, and she often carries a well-worn scourge on her hip, the touch of which is said to inflict anyone with an incurable illness.

Personality
Xyas is a fickle mistress, granting favor one moment, then curses the next. She seems to delight in the corruption and withering of all creation, and for that reason is a very dangerous goddess to serve.

Some religious scholars believe that over the years Xyas has gone insane, owing to her erratic behavior and rapid personality changes.

Worship
Worship of Xyas is often dangerous due to her tendency towards rapid mood shifts. She may reward a follower for loyal service one day, then strike them down the next for no apparent reason.

Xyas is most worshiped by those who suffer from disease. They believe that the goddess can bring them either relief from or a cure to their illness, though she rarely does either.

Xyas often chooses humanoids suffering from disease as her champions, making them clerics of the Death Domain or paladins of the Oath of Treachery. She has also been known to create sorcerers of the Deathtouched Origin. Because of this, society widely views servants of Xyas as plaugebringers, and avoids and shuns them at all costs, even though many do not strive to this end.

In Somara, though there are plenty of smaller cults dedicated to Xyas, there are two main organizations that are devoted to her. The Rotbringers are are subgroup of druids from the Circle of Spores that are devoted to Xyas. The other organization is the Order of the Long End, a group of monks following the Way of the Long Death that are devoted to Xyas. Their members are all dying from various incurable diseases, and use their teachings to channel energy and remain alive as long as possible.