- Spheres: Life, Death, Mortality
- Gender: Male
- Alignment: True Neutral
- Power: Greater Deity
- Symbol: Circle
- Favored Weapon: Scythe
- Influence: Patron of some necromancers, morticians.
- Domains: Balance, Deathbound, Fate, Undeath, Animal, Plant, Healing, Death, Destiny, Repose, Spirit
Description: Always shown as a gaunt skeletal figure in black hooded robes, bearing a scythe and a dusty tome: the Book of Souls.
Lore and Knowledge: Mortis governs the cycle of life, from birth to death. He does not judge, he merely facilitates the passage of souls from the wellspring of the Positive Energy plane to their eventual residence in the outer planes. Mortis has been around since life first began, and it is said he will close the Book of Souls when the last living creature dies.
Followers: The followers of Mortis are divided into two camps: the good and neutral followers worship Mortis out of a respect for life, and death. They tend to seek to give people an understanding of the cycle, and to ease and comfort those in their time of loss. The evil sects tend to seek power from Mortis by sending as many sacrifices to the god as possible, or to seek ways to cheat death itself. Most sentient creatures are at least aware of, and respectful of, Mortis.
- Affiliated Organizations:
- Church of the Unbroken Cycle: Official church of Mortis.
- Shrine of the Undertaker: Outlawed, evil sect of Mortis
- Brotherhood of the Circle: Organization devoted to defeating those who’d cheat death.
Class Information:
Clerics: Clerics of Mortis must be partially neutral. There is a canon for Mortis, describing the birth-death cycle, and the nature of life and death. Vestments by sect: Clerics of the Unbroken Circle wear black robes, with grey phylacteries, where Clerics of the Undertaker wear black robes with red phylacteries. Clerics of Mortis must be celibate and chaste.
Clerics of Mortis can Turn/Rebuke Undead. They receive a +2 save vs. Death effects.
Class Skills: Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Heal, Knowledge (Arcana, History, Religion, The Planes), Profession, Spellcraft
Favored Soul: Favored Souls of Mortis represent the forces of life, or death. They tend towards either philosophical contemplators, or sociopaths and serial killers. They must be partially neutral. Favored Souls of Mortis gain the Death Touch ability, as if they were Clerics with the Death Domain.
