It’s Saturday and thus time to talk about a god. For
those of you who haven’t been a part of my explorations into the religions of
Golarion, here’s how it works:
Imagine, if you will, you're making a character for a
group. Your only instruction is that you must be a worshiper of a specific god.
You do not need to be a divine casting class, although you can be, but the
party’s purpose is working toward the goals of this specific divine being. I'd
like not just a race/class combo, but a little bit about why the character
would choose to dedicate themselves to this particular deity. Feel free to make
up secret or not-so-secret orders within the church, or even sects outside of
the church that you think might be interesting. With only this one piece of
information that must be true, let your imagination go wild with the rest.
Today's god
Kitumu, Choatic Evil goddess of fireflies, hibernation
and swarms
Kitumu’s Pathfinder Wiki page
Kitumu’s Archives of Nethys Entry
Unlike most of other divine beings Kitumu does not reside
in the outer planes. The firefly goddess resides in a pyramid deep in the
jungles of the Mwangi Expanse. She was revered by the lost Kembe people, who
were thought to have arrived in a silver craft as giants and shrunk to human
size, then halfling size, and then disappeared altogether. Now Kitumu isn’t so
much worshipped as feared and placated by the manifold tribes of the Mwangi
Expanse.
The Hive
Although worship of Kitumu is forbidden in almost all of
the Mwangi tribes, some few have taken to consecrating themselves to the Mother
of Fireflies. Oftentimes these supplicants are misanthropes who can find no
connection among their own people and long for something deeper. In their
search for belonging they come upon The Hive.
Members of this secret society have two things in common:
the ability to create, summon, or control swarms of insects, and the ability to
connect telepathically with other members of The Hive. Each lost soul connects
to one or more others in a sort of telepathic group mind. Many of Kitumu’s
chosen feel lost when the buzzing of other thoughts are no longer present
within their minds. y don’t have someone else in their head with them.
The Sleepers
Kitumu is almost always at rest in her hidden pyramid
sanctuary, and scholars believe that she may be in a state of metamorphosis
while she hibernates away the millennia. Some of her followers look to this
aspect of her and spend periods of their lives sleeping, hoping they awake as
something more powerful. Many of these sleepers are actually powerful dream
mages, able to interact with the world on the astral and ethereal planes.
Kitumu uses these dream masters to further her own
inscrutable goals, feeding the Sleepers power to help her meet her ends. The
gifts of Kitumu come at a price and as the Sleepers cycle into longer and
longer cycles of repose, their neglected bodies waste away until they slowly
die of malnutrition.
The Endless Battalion
Members of the Endless Battalion come from many walks of
life: kidnap victims who are then indoctrinated into the Mother of Fireflies’
worship, outcasts who have gone against their own tribe, and often Mwangi whose
tribes are nearly extinct except for them. The Endless Battalion is one of the
few factions of Kitumu worshipers that have members that are not of the Mwangi
people.
Those who have faced the Endless Battalion say that the
warriors flow from the jungle in a never ending stream. Each warrior fights with
their chosen one-handed weapon and a torch their free hand. Some have claimed
that they appear as a swarm of fireflies in the night.
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