The gestalt demiurge of light and shadow, the returned creator of the world and the one true god- or so it claims. The deity of light and shadow first appeared about one thousand years ago and defeated the gods of the Altrium region, embarking on a path of divine warfare that shattered the world and lead to the rise of Jeddos. After their battle with Taosh the Ten-Headed Serpent, Mazra-Asae disappeared, leaving behind their aeons, relics of great power and a promise to return from the Isle of the Sun one day to complete their task. In his absence, the Mazraean Church has been charged with protecting his faith and using his relics to “tame the ignorant false gods”.

I decided to start illustrating some of the world building stuff I'm doing for my homebrew DnD campaign, and I figured the gods were a good place to start. The world I'm making is one heavily inspired by the fall of Rome and the Migration Period of Eurasian history. Mazra-Asae is inspired by the many gnostic and messianic cults that sprung up around the Mediterranean at before and during this period, with the main influence coming from Manichaeism, Paleochristianity and Valentinianism. Essentially, Mazra-Asae just sort of showed up one day accompanied by their five aeons, beings of immense power that could easily be gods in their own right. Mazra-Asae declared itself the one true god and decided to purge the world of the false deities. Now, in this campaign world, the gods will take physical form pretty regularly, so the war quickly turned the world into a literal battleground. Mazra-Asae and its followers carved such a trail of destruction and chaos through the world that the old order of balance was forever shattered. It was from the ashes of this divine war that the Jeddosian empire (basically this world's version of Rome) would rise (Mazra-Asae also kind of acts as an Alexander analogue with their destruction of the former powers leading to a new empire emerging).Now that the empire has fallen, there are some cults claiming that Mazra-Asae has abandoned the Jeddosians as punishment for some great sin. Others believe that the end of the empire's temporal power heralds the second coming of the demiurge. Still others believe it is a sign that Mazra-Asae has died or fled the world entirely. Which of these beliefs, if any, is the truth is still unclear...