Teàrrachar Analach, The Breathing Tar
“What breathes beneath the tar is not life, but vengeance, and it hungers for a world it can burn into silence.”
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Realm of Influence: The Outer Realms, Caverns, Flame, Oblivion
Current Status: Imprisoned in the Great Oubliette of Somnuria, Spreading Corruption through the Murk, Worshiped as the Breathing Tar
Summary of Teàrrachar Analach
Teàrrachar Analach, also known as The Breathing Tar, is an Outer God of apocalyptic rage, chaos, and elemental destruction. It is a being beyond comprehension, originating from the primordial chaos that predates Kol’s creation. Unlike its fellow Outer Gods, Teàrrachar Analach embodies not subtlety, but overwhelming ruin, consuming reality itself wherever its influence spreads. It is a corruptive force of arson, senseless violence, and eldritch entropy, leaving behind nothing but warped landscapes and mutated horrors. Its hatred for Kol is unmatched, fueled by its imprisonment and the insult of being chained beneath the surface of creation.
This Outer God is flame, shadow, and oozing tar into one terrible visage. Wherever Teàrrachar Analach touches, the world fractures: burning skies rain embers, and the ground roils as if breathing. Its influence is marked by the spread of the Murk, an unnatural corruption that warps lifeforms and reshapes terrain into cavernous abysses. Teàrrachar Analach is not merely a destroyer, but a desecrator, reveling in the act of unmaking and distorting the natural world.
Once a high god seated on the Court of Citragadda, Teàrrachar Analach ruled alongside other cosmic forces until it was sealed away in the Great Oubliette beneath Somnuria. Though physically imprisoned, the Breathing Tar’s corruptive power seeps upward, tainting ley lines, mana wells, and life itself. Its hatred festers across the Old Lands, driving mortals mad and spawning cults that seek its favor. It sees all creation as a blasphemy, an insult against the void from which it emerged.
The true form of Teàrrachar Analach defies mortal comprehension. Witnesses describe it as a formless conflagration of burning tar, molten ichor, and writhing tendrils that stretch into infinity. Some speak of eyes that bleed stars and mouths that exhale flames capable of consuming entire realities. In truth, each encounter with the Breathing Tar manifests differently, reflecting the chaotic nature of its existence.
Teàrrachar Analach’s ultimate purpose is annihilation. It seeks to devour Kol, reduce it to scorched caverns, and drink the mana from the Great Tree, the vital anchor of the world’s lifeblood. Where rival Outer Gods like the Crawling Chaos manipulate, Teàrrachar Analach obliterates. It is a living cataclysm, a cosmic inferno hungry to engulf existence itself.
Images and iconography of Teàrrachar Analach
Summary of the Cult of Teàrrachar Analach
The Cult of Teàrrachar Analach is a loose and violent network of zealots, warlocks, witches, and corrupted mystics who worship the Breathing Tar as a god of obliteration. Its followers revere chaos, destruction, and eldritch transformation, seeking to unmake Kol and hasten the Outer God’s return to power. Unlike more orderly cults such as Ahriman’s, the followers of Teàrrachar Analach embrace madness and seek communion through bloodshed and sacrificial fires. The Murk is considered sacred, and cultists actively spread its corruptive taint.
The Cult believes that the Somnurian prison weakens daily. Each act of arson, each life taken in Teàrrachar Analach’s name, tears at the walls of the Great Oubliette. Cultists often conduct dark rites in forgotten caverns and ruins, opening temporary portals for the Breathing Tar’s influence to seep through. Their rituals focus on summoning abominations or reshaping mortals into grotesque forms resembling their god’s avatars.
The Cult’s structure is fractured, mimicking the chaotic essence of Teàrrachar Analach itself. Factions often splinter and war among themselves, only uniting during rare moments when a powerful leader channels visions from the Breathing Tar. These visionaries are considered vessels, mortals partially consumed by their god’s flame and shadow, granting them prophetic insight. While cooperation between cells is rare, all share the same mission: to unmake Kol and serve the will of Teàrrachar Analach.
Cult members actively defile natural sites, holy relics, and sacred leylines. They frequently attack druids, clerics, and mages who guard these places, as weakening Kol’s magical lifelines allows the Breathing Tar to exert more influence. Many cultists are mutated by prolonged exposure to the Murk, developing tar-like skin, smoldering veins, or ember-filled eyes, becoming living blasphemies of Kol’s natural order.
Despite their chaotic nature, the Cult is terrifyingly effective in spreading destruction. Wherever they appear, forests burn, cities fall into sinkholes, and eldritch storms blacken the skies. The Cult serves as both worshipers and harbingers, hastening the Breathing Tar’s eventual release with each catastrophe they unleash.
Tenets of Teàrrachar Analach
Burn the Roots: Destroy the foundations of creation and desecrate all sacred spaces.
Chaos Over Order: Reject law and structure; embrace the primal urge to destroy and devour.
The Murk is Sacred: Spread the corruptive taint of Teàrrachar Analach to reshape reality in its image.
Feed the Breathing Tar: Sacrifice life, mana, and leyline power to awaken the slumbering god.
Annihilation is the End: Accept that unmaking is divine. Oblivion is the rightful fate of Kol.
Structure of the Cult of Teàrrachar Analach
The Tar-Swaddled Oracle
The highest-ranking visionary of the cult, the Tar-Swaddled Oracle is a seer corrupted directly by Teàrrachar Analach’s influence. They are chosen through apocalyptic visions and bear severe mutations, including blackened, tar-dripping skin and a crown of bandages that wraps heavily around the entirety of their head and is set ablaze. The Oracle speaks the Breathing Tar’s will and leads mass sacrifices to weaken the Great Oubliette’s bindings. Though feared and revered, most Oracles are believed to be living conduits rather than autonomous leaders.
The Embersworn
The Embersworn or “the Untouchables” are high priests and warlocks who channel fragments of Teàrrachar Analach’s destructive essence. They serve as commanders of cult factions, overseeing ritual sites and directing the spread of the Murk. Each Embersworn is marked by volcanic scars, molten veins, or burning sigils branded onto their flesh due to being embraced by the Breathing Tar itself. They are responsible for bestowing “gifts” of madness upon the world, such as forging new monstrosities and avatars in their god’s image.
The Blighted Flames
The Blighted Flames are the cult’s militant arm—fanatical warriors, mutated brutes, and aberrant horrors birthed from corrupted rituals. They act as shock troops in raids against temples, leyline nexuses, and settlements. Many Blighted Flames are former mortals reshaped into warped amalgamations of flesh and tar. They fight with reckless abandon, immune to pain and often burning with internal fire.
The Ashen Choir
A group of corrupted mystics and cultists who conduct the cult’s sacred rites, the Ashen Choir specializes in summoning rituals, sacrifices, and the crafting of cursed relics. Their chants are said to call forth the breath of Teàrrachar Analach itself, warping nearby reality. The Choir is notorious for creating portals to Affwys or tearing open minor rifts leading directly to their god’s influence.
The Cult of Teàrrachar Analach in the Age of Ruby
In the Age of Ruby, the Cult of Teàrrachar Analach thrives in the wake of faltering divine order. With the gods of the Court of Citragadda dormant, the leyline barriers once guarding Kol from the horrors of the Great Oubliettes have begun to weaken. As Murk spreads from beneath Somnuria and leeches into the surface world, cult activity for the Outer Gods has escalated. The Cult of Teàrrachar Analach proudly helps spearhead their unknowable lords efforts. Entire forests now fester with tar-choked roots, and wildfires fueled by unnatural black flames rage across vulnerable regions. The Cult openly declares these disasters as holy signs of Teàrrachar Analach's growing reach.
The Cult is notorious for creating monsters of the Breathing Tar, eldritch horrors crafted from corrupted wildlife, warped mortals, and the residual energy of breached leylines. These aberrant creations are used as instruments of terror, sent to devastate settlements and drain vital mana sources. In secret, cult leaders attempt to summon manifestations or avatars of Teàrrachar Analach itself—lesser incarnations that temporarily allow their god to roam Kol in fragments. These unstable entities leave devastation in their wake, setting entire regions ablaze before collapsing into molten tar.
The Cult’s influence has drastically reshaped the landscape of Somnuria. Abandoned cities have become sacrificial pits, leyline nexuses have warped into blackened rifts, and corrupted temples now serve as breeding grounds for monstrous abominations. The Black Church, Golden Clemency, and druidic circles have all attempted to contain the cult’s influence, but few succeed for long. The Cult's ultimate goal in the Age of Ruby is to fully unbind Teàrrachar Analach, allowing the Outer God to emerge and consume Kol.
The Imprisonment of Teàrrachar Analach
Teàrrachar Analach was once a ruling god on the high council of Citragadda, seated beside the Crawling Chaos and other deities. However, during the final war against the Outer Gods at the end of the Age of Citrinitas, it was defeated by a coalition of newly ascended gods from Kol’s pantheon. Unlike its brethren who were slain outright, the Breathing Tar was too dangerous to destroy and was instead imprisoned beneath the earth in the Great Oubliette of Somnuria. This ancient seal binds the Outer God, restraining its apocalyptic power and preventing it from unmaking Kol.
The Great Oubliettes are leyline anchors located at key nexus points where the currents of reality intersect most heavily. These colossal structures are vital in maintaining the balance of Kol’s planar energies. The Oubliettes not only contain powerful entities like Teàrrachar Analach, but also serve as keystones stabilizing Kol’s relationship to the divine realms, the Feywild, and the Murk. Should the Great Oubliette of Somnuria fall, reality itself could warp and fracture, accelerating the end of the Age of Ruby.
Despite the divine craftsmanship that binds it, Teàrrachar Analach’s imprisonment is steadily eroding. Every infernal summoning, desecrated leyline, and act of apocalyptic destruction weakens the Oubliette’s walls. The Cult’s efforts are thus twofold: corrupt Kol to hasten the Breathing Tar’s release, and unbind the magic sealing the god below. The land surrounding the Oubliette is now heavily tainted, and some scholars fear that Teàrrachar Analach will soon be free to resume its annihilation.
Motivations of Teàrrachar Analach
Teàrrachar Analach is driven by boundless rage and cosmic hunger. It desires nothing less than the obliteration of Kol and the dissolution of all its realities. For this Outer God, the very act of creation is an offense—an insult to the void from which it was born. Teàrrachar Analach takes grim pleasure in burning, melting, and consuming worlds, leaving behind blackened craters where stars once shone and forests once grew. Its hatred is not personal, but existential; it is a force that sees oblivion as the only rightful end for all things.
Beneath this destructive urge lies a secondary motivation: to consume the mana of the Great Tree, the divine reservoir of Kol’s life force. The Great Tree nourishes ley lines, empowers deities, and sustains reality. If Teàrrachar Analach were to drain it dry, Kol would begin to collapse into a molten abyss, torn from the divine framework of Citragadda. The Breathing Tar would then be free to extend its influence into other realms, devouring them as it has done countless times before.
3 Rituals and Dogma of the Cult of Teàrrachar Analach
1. The Rite of Blighted Flames
A blood-soaked ceremony where cultists set entire sacred groves or leyline nexuses ablaze, using infernal fire imbued with the Murk. These rites corrupt the area, allowing Teàrrachar Analach’s power to seep further into the mortal realm.
2. The Maw’s Awakening
Performed during lunar eclipses, this rite involves sacrificing a leyline guardian or powerful druid to summon a partial manifestation of Teàrrachar Analach. The summoned horror often appears as a molten, tar-drenched monstrosity that burns through planar barriers.
3. The Breathing Choir
Cultists gather to chant in ancient tongues beneath caverns marked by the Murk. Their chanting thins the veil between Kol and the Breathing Tar, allowing the cult to receive visions or temporarily corrupt leyline flows nearby.
3 Prayers of the Cult of Teàrrachar Analach
1. Prayer of Melting Skies
"Breathing Tar, blaze the heavens,
Melt the stars and shatter skies.
Drown the world in blackened flame,
Till all is dust beneath your eyes."
2. Litany of the Abyssal Flame
"Teàrrachar, blacken the roots,
Let fires feast and shadows bloom.
Tear the ley from earth and stone,
Make the world your molten tomb."
3. Whispers Beneath the Murk
"Breathing Tar, hear my plea,
Breathe through me, let Kol decay.
From cavern deep and ember sea,
We call you forth to burn the way."
3 Hymns of the Cult of Teàrrachar Analach
1. Hymn of the Smoldering Depths
"Down where fires whisper low,
And breathing tar does ever flow,
We chant the ruin, praise the flame,
And call our god by dread-wrought name."
2. The Maw’s Lament
"In caverns deep, the heart does quake,
The molten god begins to wake.
With every spark and every cry,
The Breathing Tar will scorch the sky."
3. Chorus of the Burning Void
"Burn the roots, break the stone,
Let the gods be overthrown.
The flame shall rise, the stars shall fall,
Teàrrachar devours them all."
3 Sermons of the Cult of Teàrrachar Analach
1. “The Sacred Flame of Despair”
"What is Kol but a fleeting dream? A momentary flicker in the void, waiting to be consumed. We are blessed to be the vessels of Teàrrachar Analach, to set alight the fragile illusions of life and rebirth. Let every blade of grass burn, every leyline fracture, for this is not cruelty but mercy. Oblivion is the only truth, and we are its harbingers."
2. “The Oubliette Weakens”
"The chains that bind the Breathing Tar rust with every sacrifice, every sacred grove we defile, every guardian we slay. The Oubliette cannot hold forever. Beneath our feet, our god stirs, and with its awakening, the veil shall split. You who chant beneath the molten eye, rejoice, for we are the hands that unbind the apocalypse."
3. “The Breath That Consumes”
"Do you feel it? The Murk, the breath of Teàrrachar Analach. It is not poison but baptism. It remakes the faithful and curses the weak. As the world rots, we are reborn. Embrace the ash, the flame, and the tar, for soon the world will breathe no more—but we shall feast on its bones."
