Pelhun

Pelhun, God of Terror and Silence, the Penultimate of the Old Gods and the Harvester of Hope, was a major multicultural deity in Caera dating to its creation and destroyed in finality in 999 of the Current Age by Jon the Terror's Fear.

The God of Terror has existed at least as long as Caera, as he has been noted in recognizable form in prehistoric drawings on every major continent. Warriors of Pelhun gained control of the Bareter Colonies via a series of bloody massacres in 303 of the Current Age, and prior to that Pelhun is believed to have aided in the final fall of the Cor Empire as his symbols were found in the hands of assassins who had died escaping the city of Cor after the Blood Winter Solstice.

Pelhun was notable among antagonistic deities for his power both over mortals and especially over other deities. At his peak, no other god would even challenge his actions for fear of his reprisal, and this directly led to the War of the Terror God in the last years of the tenth century as none among his peers would attempt to stop him taking physical form on Caera in violation of The Pact to which he was a signatory.

A mid-level Paladin named Jon, later ennobled Jon Acrolla for his actions, was the first to discover that in his physical form Pelhun's powers were limited against mortals--specifically mortals who had been stripped of fear for their duties by their liege gods. Jon was able to confront Pelhun directly, whereupon he destroyed Pelhun's avatar in single combat. Following this event,