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The Mutilated One
The god known as the Mutiliated One occupies a strange place in mankind's tales of the gods; the oldest myths, which tell of the games the gods played against each other before the beginning of the world, barely mention it. Neither do the stories of the building of the Wall and the Intercession. It seems that whatever it is, the Mutilated One has few dealings with other gods. Indeed, those who are not of the cult are forced call the god 'it' because so little is known about it. In recorded history, the Mutiliated One has only ever been known to appear in dreams. In such dreams, the appearance of the god is never consistent; its appearance and even gender are variable but are always heavily mutilated, with the face entirley concealed by bandages. These dream manifestations, it is said, are not accompanied by speech, but the dreamer wakes with a conviction that they have seen the Mutilated One, and sometimes with something more; a message or warning. No-one admits to being a cultist of any god, so it is difficult to say for certain, but it is thought that these dream visitations are not restricted to the god's worshippers. Whatever the case, these messages have indicated that the Mutilated One considers itself the adoptive parent of those who are not physically or mentally whole, and is determined to protect them. How such protection is supposed to work in practice is anybody's guess; there are still plenty of people suffering in the Asylum. On the other hand, there are numerous folk stories of villains who have been stricken with ill fates and terrible afflictions after abusing or neglecting the vulnerable and needy. There are also accounts of people considered to be village idiots performing feats of magic and attributing them to 'the man with the bandaged face'. Perhaps these sporadic acts are what the Mutilated One means; the Intercessor warns, after all, that the gods are fickle.The darker side of the Mutilated One's reputation concerns its supposed desire to spread the 'gift' of its adopted children. In these legends the Mutilated One hounds those it wishes to recruit through dreams and the waking world until an 'accident' occurs, and the god gains another child. Such stories may or may not be true, but their circulation has caused some of the vilest incidents that are associated with the faith of the Intercessor, as weak and vulnerable people have been beaten or killed on suspicion of being cultists of the Mutilated One, and seeking to spread the 'gift'.
The Mutilated One has and has had no known avatars or major cults.