Vicus

=Vicus=

Alternate Names: Viree, He With Fur, Dango

Alignment: can lean in favor of good or evil

Domains: The bound between man and beast, protector of animals {| class="toc" id="toc" style="font-size:12px;border-color:rgb(170,170,170);"

Contents
[hide] *1 Personality
 * 2 History
 * 3 Physical Manifestations
 * 4 Alliances
 * 5 Followings
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Personality
Vicus is a stern god, seen to guide and protect animals or to use them to brutally punish humanity for recklessness. As a wolf god he understands the need for the hunt and even promotes it. He is known to give favor to those who serve him and offer kindness to animals, offering enchanted items to them, such as wolf straps and magical reins to a peasant. These wolf straps are often used in protection against predatory animals, though and rarely, they allow the user to manifest animal form.

History
An elder and one of the first animals born unto Ardus through the four great gods. He marveled at their will and followed all gods well. Vicus spent much time with the other animals asking them of how they fared and laying in open fields with cattle and grazers. It was there he came to the realization that he could not eat those that passed near him for he loved them all. His respect for his fellow beast was too great and so Vicus began to starve, too frightened for the wellbeing of the animals to leave the fields in search of other food. The gods who had been pleased with his creation often came to him and asked why he would waste the gift of life which they had given him. Vicus would tell them the thought of eating his kin made him sick to the heart, nor could he eat the food allocated unto them.

The gods at first found this amusing and then distressing. They had not intended that Vicus live only to die so suddenly and foolishly. They sent another of Vicus’s kind to take a sheep under his watch. The thought of blood would surely appeal to Vicus. Instead the wolf rampaged through the fields stirred by the scent of blood. With the last of his strength Vicus destroyed the wolf and wounded he lay down to die. It was at this point the gods raised him and took him to be among them.

Vicus became protector of animals. He returned to Ardus and roamed the world spending time speaking with his kin and protecting them.

Physical Manifestations
Vicus appears in three different ways, as a young child with golden eyes, as a wolf-headed man, and as an enormous black wolf.

Alliances
Vicus is said to love all gods equally; this includes Kull.

Followings
The Sacred Hand, a group of elven Spectra-users who take on familiars and respect Vicus’s teachings.