Great Mother

''' Great Mother '''

''Mother of Aberrations, Portal to the Far Realm ''

 Symbol:  A single, bulbous eye (most common, her symbols vary wildly) Portfolio: Insanity, The Far Realm, Aberrations''' Worshipers: '''Aberrations, the Insane Cleric Alignments: CE Domains:  Entropy, Insanity, Dark Tapestry, Destruction, Strength Favored Weapon: Greatclub

 History/Relationships:  The Great Mother is from a distant world known as “The Far Realm”, a world beyond our reality from which many aberrations come from. What she was in her home reality is unknown, and almost as little is known about the Great Mother as is known about the Far Realm itself. The Great Mother has all the knowledge in the world, likely the cause for her complete insanity. Unfortunately, she is unable to communicate with her children or anybody else in any coherent manner. She is known to take fickle to a new level, sometimes allowing thousands of her children to perish, while intervening on the behalf of a single or a handful. While she is most commonly depicted as a great, if highly warped, beholder, she is known to take the form of a number of other aberrations. Many aberrant breeds take offense to the idea that The Great Mother is not only of their race, though scholars believe that she may be the ancestral mother of most of the aberrations in the known world.

 Dogma:  The Dogma of the Great Mother varies depending on who is asked. Ranging from world domination to blotting out the sun, to altering the current reality to be more like the Far Realm. Ultimately, it’s impossible to say and seems to be impossible for the Great Mother to correct anybody. Quite possibly, her own dogma changes as often as she herself does.  Clergy and Temples:  Very few mortals except the truly insane worship the Great Mother. Often her worship is banned in civilization, since almost invariably her cults result in aberrations running wild or mass destruction. Religious aberrations however almost exclusively worship her, and beholders are known above all to worship her.