Blood of Vol
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| Alignment | 3E: Lawful Evil 4E: Unaligned 5E: Lawful Neutral |
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| Pantheon | Eberron | |
| Portfolio | Undeath, immortality, blood, destiny, obedience. | |
| Domains | 3E: Death, Deathbound, Evil, Law, Necromancer 5E: Death, Life |
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| Favoured Weapon | Dagger | |
The Blood of Vol is essentially the general faith that all necromancers in Eberron adhere to, focusing primarily on the divinity within the self rather than believing in any particular gods. Cheating Dolurrh via becoming undead, is just one of those great feats.
Its believers claim that all religion is a delusion and the the only thing that is indeed real is what exists in the material world and whatever afterlife lies beyond it. Blood is the true proof of divinity to them and thus with the power of blood do they believe that they can potentially become literal gods. Those beings that manage to cheat death, though usually revered for their powers to defy the natural order, are also considered no longer eligible for this perfection.
Origins
Once upon a time in Xen'drik, House Vol was a Dragonmarked House that was in the midst of war with the dragons. In an attempt to put an end to the wars between elves and dragons, the matriarch of House Vol decided to have a child with a dragon, one Erandis d'Vol, and present this half-dragon as a means to end the war. Instead, the discovery of this child's existence pissed off both elf and dragon so royally that they joined forces to eradicate House Vol for birthing such an abomination. Desperate to preserve the only thing she had, the matriarch of Vol decided that the only way to save her lovechild was to turn her into a lich.
Though the rest of House Vol and the Mark of Death they carried was eradicated, Erandis herself fled and decided to found her cult based on the belief that blood is life.