Idzknot-Fehr

Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence: 6 Precision: 6

Celestial Forces: 4 Will: 4 Perception: 12

Vessel: Whiney little git/6, Charisma -2

Skills: Dodge/6, Fighting/1, Knowledge (the Marches/1, the Tsayadim/1), Running/6

Songs: Dreams (All/1), Motion (Celestial/6), Tongues (Ethereal/6)

I'm sorry. That isn't a typo. This sorry excuse for an ethereal is the God of Whining.

I know that it's a bit hard to get one's head around the fact that humanity could be said to worship this miserable little specimen, but the facts have to be faced. Most humans have whined at least once in their lives. Many, many, many people do it all the time. Nobody actually likes whiners, so there's some question about why they do it. The answer is actually fairly simple: every whiner secretly believes that somewhere, out there, is something that's listening to their perfectly justified complaints about how the universe is being totally inconsiderate by not constantly rearranging itself to suit the whiner's every whim.

This is where Idzknot-Fehr comes in. He does listen (considering that whining is a worship Rite to him, it's not too surprising). He listens constantly. Idzknot-Fehr can't shut off the continuous roar of 'prayers' to him, in fact. Nobody cares about that, of course: nobody understands that he never asked to be the God of Whines. Sure, it keeps him in Essence, especially these days, but it's just not worth it. But nobody wants to take the time to listen to his perfectly justified complaints about how the universe is being totally inconsiderate...

Sorry.

Anyway, Idzknot-Fehr has precisely one thing going for him: he's effectively indestructible. This has been tested, in fact: when the Tsayadim took up residence in the Marches, he was one of the first ethereals that they targeted. They tracked him down and easily killed the ethereal.

He came back.

They killed him again.

He came back again.

They kept killing him, and he kept coming back (on one occasion, before they were quite finished killing them. Idzknot-Fehr complained about the resulting headache for ... actually, he's still complaining about it). Eventually, they got the point: the only way to get rid of the ethereal would be to get the human race to stop whining all the time. Good luck on that happening anytime soon. Besides, the obnoxious little twit was effectively harmless, provided that one could stop up one's ears to ignore his constant, endless whining...

Well, the Tsayadim still kill him, from time to time, but only for good reasons (like, say, to test the edge of a new sword). They sort of find him useful, in fact: sometimes they need to send a message to a pantheon, and Idzknot-Fehr at least knows where all the major dreamscapes are. They don't have to take safety into consideration when sending him out, either: considering that the only messages that a Tsayadim would deign to send to an ethereal are all variations of "All your Tether are belong to us. Hahahahah!", this is a nice bonus.

The odd thing is why Idzknot-Fehr goes along with it (he's very good at running away). Either he's the Platonic Ideal of Masochism, or he's hoping that someone will finally be able to permanently kill him, or (probably) both. Alas, nobody seems to have managed to get rid of him: considering the levels of power available in the three planes, and the fact that nobody likes this ethereal at all, surely somebody would be able to get rid of this pathetic bastard. I mean, what does it take to get rid of one ethereal? Doesn't anybody care? Really, sometimes the universe seems to go out of its way to be totally inconsiderate of everyone's feelings...

Sorry.