DVon, The Sealed Architect of the End
"There are truths too sacred to share—and too powerful to leave buried."
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Divine Domains: Necromancy, Forbidden Knowledge, Entropy, Secrets, Undeath, Betrayal
Current Status: Imprisoned by Renji
Symbol: A skeletal hand clutching a closed eye, surrounded by broken circles
Titles: The God-Lich, The Whispered One, Lord of the Final Silence, The Pale Remaker, Architect of the Crush
Summary
DVon is the sealed god of undeath, secrets, entropy, and betrayal—a being of monumental intellect who rose from mortality to lichdom and ultimately godhood. Long before Kol took its current form, DVon tore his name from the mortal records, erased his past, and redefined himself through forbidden knowledge. Obsessed with mastering life, death, and truth itself, he ascended as a divine entity not through worship, but through understanding—and burning everything that resisted him.
He is most infamous as the architect of the Great Crush, the apocalyptic event that annihilated the old multiverse and created the world of Kol. In the shadows of divine warfare and collapsing pantheons, DVon manipulated gods, stole truths from outer realms, and rewrote the laws of fate. His influence endures through the Book of Vile Darkness, whose scattered pages contain whispers of his return.
Though he was ultimately betrayed and sealed away by the god Renji, DVon is not dead. He is dreaming, thinking, remembering. From within his prison, his mind claws through ley lines and soul-threads, seeking the moment where his chains will crack—and the Final Silence can begin.
Origins and Forbidden Ascension
DVon was once a mortal scholar—obsessed with unraveling the metaphysical order of gods, death, and destiny. In the time before Kol, he rose from obscurity by mastering necromancy, cursebinding, and planar calculus, eventually embracing lichdom as a rejection of death and obedience. But undeath was only the beginning.
He infiltrated the divine hierarchy, exploited the arrogance of older gods, and through hidden pacts with entities beyond the stars, he became divine by erasing himself. Not through worship, but through secrecy so complete, the universe mistook him for a constant. In stealing the last secret of existence—the language of reality—he began dismantling it. This led directly to the Great Crush, when the foundations of the old world were unmade and the cosmos re-formed.
To his followers, DVon is not just a god. He is a principle, an algorithm of annihilation. He teaches that the world is a lie maintained by fragile agreements, and that only by collapsing it—truth by truth—can true immortality be achieved.
Architect of the Great Crush
The Great Crush was not a war, nor a plague, nor a divine punishment—it was a reduction, a collapsing inwards of existence brought on by one being: DVon, the God-Lich of Secrets and Unmaking. Long before Renji, Ceslida, or even Ansil, before the world was called Kol, DVon walked the outer firmament as a mortal who had unraveled the laws of gods themselves. His ascension into undeath, and then into divinity, marked the beginning of the unraveling.
In an age where Auriel and Ahriman ruled opposite ends of cosmic law and chaos, DVon stood apart: not as a god of judgment or rebellion, but as the first philosopher of entropy, who saw reality as an error worth deleting. He was not born into divine authority—he took it through truth, and his truths were heavy enough to crack heaven’s vaults.
The world before Kol was a multiverse—a lattice of divine spheres, karmic cycles, and forgotten titans. DVon’s great crime was not betrayal. It was precision ordered and assisted by the First Pantheon of Kol. With the Book of Vile Darkness, he mapped the weaknesses of creation and pulled. One thread at a time.
The Book of Vile Darkness
Other than DVon’s soul imprisoned within a sword possessed by Renji, The Book of Vile Darkness is the last surviving anchor of DVon’s divinity—an artifact composed of forbidden spells, blasphemous truths, and divine entropy written in ink made from the souls of gods. Originally compiled by DVon during the waning days of the multiverse, it served as both his spellbook and his personal blueprint for the unmaking of reality. When DVon was sealed, the book shattered—its pages scattered across Kol, the Shadow Realms, and deeper, unspeakable dimensions. Each page is infused with a fragment of DVon’s will, and some even bear a flicker of his consciousness. To find one is to risk madness… and possibly ascend.
The full book is said to rebuild itself when placed in the hands of a worthy heir—not of blood, but of mind. No two pages ever appear in the same place twice. Some are wrapped inside cursed liches. Others lie within dead stars or are embedded in the foundations of forgotten cities. Scholars speak of a “Cursed Index,” a metaphysical glyph that pulses in the minds of those destined to find the pages—but following its call shortens one's life, or worse, one's soul. Reading a single page often grants a spell or prophecy never seen before… but always at cost.
What makes the Book of Vile Darkness uniquely terrifying is how many beings seek it—not just cultists or warlocks, but gods, demigods, and saints. Some, like the Whispered Vein and rogue Black Church inquisitors, pursue it openly. Others do so in secret: gods who claim to despise undeath, a few Silver Temple exiles, and even a reincarnated paladin of Auriel rumored to have become obsessed with one page that speaks of undoing the divine slumber. More shockingly, a faction within the Patriciate, including archmages and necropoliticians, now hunt it as well—believing it to be the key to outlasting death itself and reshaping Kol in their image. The allure is simply too great.
Even Rozvankee herself, though responsible for helping seal DVon, is suspected of desiring the Book’s power. After all, the pages contain more than spells—they hold original memories of the multiverse, truths that no longer exist. Some say the book knows who will read it next. Others believe it chooses. But all agree on one thing: if the Book of Vile Darkness is ever restored, DVon will not merely rise—he will rewrite Kol again, and this time, there may be no one left to betray him.
The Sword of DVon - A Blade of Betrayl
At the dawn of the Age of Ruby, when Kol was still raw from near apocalypse and the gods scrambled to assert new order, Renji and Rozvankee conspired to betray DVon, the god-lich who had orchestrated the unmaking of the previous multiverse. Though they had walked beside him as allies in the aftermath, both recognized that DVon was not building a new world—he was waiting to erase this one as well. Together, they used his own divine principles—entropy, recursion, and soulbinding—to forge a weapon capable not of killing a god, but of sealing one. With fragments of Beherits, soulsteel alloyed in cursed leywater, and a shard of Auriel’s Cataract of Fire, they forged the blade that would become the Sword of DVon. In a ritual known only to a handful of surviving gods, Renji struck the final blow, binding DVon’s soul into the blade for eternity.
The sword is now known by many names—The Nameless Edge, The Whispering Blade, or simply The Final Seal—and it remains one of the most dangerous relics in Kol’s history. Though DVon’s body was unmade, his divine essence burns within the weapon, intelligent, whispering, and wrathful. It grants power to those who dare wield it, but over time, it corrodes their mind, replacing ambition with apocalyptic purpose. The sword is believed lost, hidden in a plane-bent vault or deep within the Great Oubliette. Yet the Whispered Vein and other seekers remain convinced that whoever rediscovers the blade and reunites it with the Book of Vile Darkness will not just unseal DVon—but help him finish what he started.
Current Status and Lingering Influence
DVon remains imprisoned in a hidden vault of the Great Oubliette, watched over only by ancient wards and secrets long forgotten by even the gods. His consciousness, however, persists. He speaks through nightmares, fragments of the Book of Vile Darkness, and cursed relics touched by entropy. Some say every lie told in desperation echoes his name.
His cult, known as the Whispered Vein, continues to thrive in secrecy. They operate in hidden libraries, crypt-chapels, and within the ranks of necromancers and exiles. Their mission is not resurrection—it is reconstruction. They believe the world, as it stands, is a flawed system patched over by cowardly gods. Their role is to recover DVon’s memory, reassemble the Book, and help him finish the unmaking he began.
Even now, his name is dangerous to speak, for where DVon is remembered, truth begins to unravel.
Teachings and Tenets
DVon's doctrine is whispered, not preached. It teaches:
Secrets are stronger than swords. The most powerful god is the one no one knows.
Undeath is freedom. To abandon mortality is to abandon weakness.
Knowledge must be owned. Those who hoard it deserve to fall.
The world must be remade. Only by collapsing the old can perfection arise.
Betrayal is sacred. All power comes from turning against your creator.
His teachings are rarely carved in stone. They are encoded in rot cycles, hidden within dead languages, and passed mouth-to-ear by liches, warlocks, and corrupted seers.
Cult Hierarchy of the Whispered Vein
The Whispered Vein is not a traditional religious cult—it is a network of secret-keepers, necromancers, liches, scholars, and exiles who serve the sealed god DVon in pursuit of forbidden knowledge and the completion of the Book of Vile Darkness. The cult values secrecy, autonomy, and utility over loyalty. Advancement is not earned by devotion, but by proof that one has uncovered, preserved, or weaponized a truth that was meant to be hidden.
The hierarchy is fluid and clandestine, but key roles are universally acknowledged:
The Whisper
The highest-ranking member of the cult at any given time—not elected or crowned, but recognized by consensus once they uncover a forbidden truth so profound that even gods cannot deny it. The Whisper is considered to be partially possessed by DVon, and is often hidden, masked, or undead.
The Archivists
Custodians of DVon’s fragmented memory, these cloaked figures maintain lost pages, cursed texts, and forbidden rituals in “bloodscript archives” hidden across Kol. They are not teachers—they are testers, feeding lies and riddles to new initiates to see who is worthy of deeper knowledge.
The Pale Tongues
Priests, necromancers, and warlocks who speak DVon’s words in sermons and death rites. They act as field agents—delivering curses, retrieving secrets, and corrupting the faithful of other gods. Most Pale Tongues are undead or mask their appearance with glamours.
The Veinbound
The majority of DVon’s cult—operatives, spies, exiles, mages, and scholars who work in isolation or small cells. They swear no public allegiance, bearing only a vein-like scar or rune somewhere on their body. They answer to no one—only to the next secret.
Rituals and Dogma of the Whispered Vein
1. The Rite of the Unspoken Name
This initiation ritual involves permanently erasing one's birth name from all records—magical and mortal alike. The initiate writes their name on a page soaked in blood and burns it in black flame while reciting a silent invocation. Afterward, the initiate receives a Veinmark—a living tattoo that pulses faintly with DVon’s sigil. This act severs their place in fate and binds them to DVon’s will.
2. The Entropic Confession
A weekly ritual where cultists gather in silence to write down a truth they discovered and a lie they told. These are deposited into bone chests guarded by Pale Tongues. The cult believes this ritual pleases DVon, who feeds on contradiction and paradox. If the confession is deemed hollow, the page bursts into white flame—a sign the writer must be consumed.
3. The Binding of Flesh and Thought
This advanced ritual is used to implant a piece of DVon’s divine memory into a host body—often a warlock, undead, or willing acolyte. It requires the subject to drink from a vessel filled with liquid entropy (corrupted soul ichor). Those who survive gain visions of DVon’s prison. Those who fail are absorbed into the ink of the Book.
Prayers of the Whispered Vein
1. The Prayer of Forgotten Faces
Whispered before entering ancient libraries, performing heresies, or initiating an act of betrayal.
“Let my name fall from the mouths of gods. Let my face slip from memory. In forgetting, I become closer to the truth.”
2. The Vein’s Murmur
A short prayer said before using necromancy or stealing a secret.
“May this knowledge be taken in silence. May the unworthy forget. May the silence spread.”
3. The Entropic Litany
Used by those near death or attempting a resurrection.
“From flesh to rot, from thought to silence, I pass through lies into DVon’s gaze. Judge me, Pale Remaker. Consume what remains.”
Hymns of the God-Lich
1. “Ash and Ink”
A slow, dissonant hymn often hummed rather than sung, meant to accompany silent rituals or page-burning rites.
“Ash and ink, truth and sin,
We carve his name beneath the skin.
Silent god, broken flame,
May we rot and rise the same.”
2. “The Silence That Sleeps”
A hymn of quiet defiance against other gods. Sometimes used during sabotage or infiltration.
“The sun forgets. The moon pretends.
But silence waits. It never ends.
You pray to thrones already burned—
But we remember what you unlearned.”
3. “When the Final Page is Turned”
Sung by cultists in full regalia on the eclipse night or during a rare gathering.
“When the final page is turned,
And all oaths are betrayed—
The Remaker will return,
And time itself will fade.”
Sermons of the Whispered Vein
1. “The Lie of the Gods”
A scathing sermon dissecting the hypocrisy of the divine courts. It frames judgment, justice, and mercy as tools of stagnation. Pale Tongues deliver it before indoctrinating captured clerics.
“They called us cursed when we asked questions. They called us undead when we refused their chains. DVon does not demand worship—only that we remember the lie.”
2. “The Secret That Undoes”
A philosophical sermon often delivered before major rituals. It speaks of the power of a single truth to destroy systems, break spells, or end wars. The sermon ends with a challenge:
“What truth have you feared to say aloud? That is where your god waits.”
3. “The Book Writes Itself”
A terrifying sermon describing the Book of Vile Darkness as a living god-fragment. It asserts that all secrets eventually flow back to DVon, and that the cult’s purpose is to help him remember himself.
“You are not a follower. You are a sentence in his return. And your life will be punctuation.”
