The Pantheon - Erèbe the god of Death

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Soft-spoken Erebus can tall many a secret, but often chooses not to, for ignorance is bliss. He silently guides, and if you silently follow, you may just uncover some truth yourself.

Domains: darkness, dreams and nightmares, fear, death, mysteries and hidden things
Symbols: moths, poppy flowers, water (and especially deep waters), night, veils and shrouds

Like all gods of the Pantheon, Erèbe regularly undergoes Metamorphosis, where he leaves his godly shell behind to live as a Fae, and then be reborn as a god after death. This is an essential process for these immortal beings to experience change and not remain static.

Their godly form is altered with each Metamorphosis. The first image is what Erèbe looked like before descending on earth for the most recent cycle of Metemorphosis, and the image below what he looks like now that he's been reborn as a god. (Essentially, I’m drawing 1 design for each god for the sake of convenience, but I could make a infinity of them, and I might design some more in the future because I have Ideas™️. You can think of it like character skins in a video game, too, it’s very fun.)



Erèbe is heavily associated with water, and especially the deep dark waters of the sea. As the god of death, he is closely associated with the underwater realm of the Crustaceans and their King Hades, who are in charge of herding the souls of the dead.

The sea is largely uncharted territory. Insect and Spider Faes do not deal well with salted water, and it is too big a body of water to be crossed even by the most experienced flyers. Many dragonflies are known to have tried and failed, most of them simply not coming back to tell the tale. As such, the sea is a symbol of mystery and death, and encountering a Crustacean on the shore is considered a bad omen. The ground-dwelling Faes do not entertain pleasant relations, or any relation at all, really, with the mysterious Crustaceans.