Necatus¶
"Necatus discovered a way to transfer sharding away from the sleeping god Kalar. Like a floodgate, this has begun a contest between the gods." — Gods & Astral Domains
Necatus is the Lord of Darkness, God of Fear, and head of the Dark Gods. He began the Godswar by learning how to draw shards away from the sleeping Kalar, and the war ended in Kalar's death and the Age of the Dark Sun. In the Fifth Age he is the most powerful god still active, head of the coalition of surviving Old Gods known for him as the Night Gods, and the hidden master of the Sancturi Imperium, whose pantheon is led by his Ascendant and which worships him under the name Tenenec, Lord of Death and Night. He made the Dark Elves, the Goblins and the Shade-Demons.
Also called¶
Tenenec, Lord of Death and Night, among the Sancturi. Lord of the Night, Moon and Darkness in the Compendium.
Nature¶
The 2026 revision gives Necatus two shards: as Lord of Darkness in the Domain of Thought and as God of Fear in the Domain of Union. His symbols in the Compendium are "Black Mark, Moon", and he is "Creator of Dark Elves, Goblins, Shade-Demons and various non-corporeal Undead". He is married to Cordia, Mistress of Frost, "youngest sister to Arya and Vana". The Post-Sancturi notes list an Astral Dust of his, "?? Necatus (Dark)", among the sources of magic of the Fifth Age. An old vampire bat and its nightwing bats sleeping under Kilmarn are "creatures of Necatus".
History¶
Necatus's place in the sources is as the architect of Kalar's fall. "Started by the Dark Gods. Necatus discovered a way to transfer sharding away from the sleeping god Kalar. Like a floodgate, this has begun a contest between the gods who are now almost universally fighting over the unguarded shards of Kalar." When Kalar died and Orandos shattered their shards to keep them from the Dark Gods, the remainder "were split among the Kalari, Rakkari and Necatus" (see The Einar and Age of the Dark Sun).
He holds the heart of a dead primal dragon. When the Dark Gods ambushed and killed Pravustiratel, "Necatus possesses her dragon heart (a crystal made of Kalamite), which he took when he killed her. With the heart, Necatus could kill Pravus at any moment, though only a true God/Einar could pull it off." Pravustiratel "hates him/them bitterly" and sought Asmodeus's help "toward the death of Necatus and the Imperium". Agents of Necatus and of Myrkan gave "conflicting reports" of the volcanic destruction of Sanctorum early in the Fifth Age.
The Night Gods¶
"Old Gods; The Night Gods -- gods which have been well known for much of recent history and remain active (survived the age of the dark sun). They are organized under a single pantheon (known widely as the Night Gods, as Necatus is the head of the pantheon)." Necatus heads the list of nine, "listed in order of relative power", above Tyche, Vengrul, Rakkar, Eris, Thanatos, Pyri, Uaros and Menae. The coalition and its members are described under Dark Gods.
In the Sancturi Pantheon¶
The Sancturi pantheon was built around him. Its head is "Amu'Solk (Necatus-Ascendant) : Sun God is the head of the Pantheon, known as 'The Lord of the Sun', 'The Almighty Sun', 'Sanctuary of the Sun'. His name derives from Sanctorum, from whose ashes he arose to wrest control from the addled Riven Sun God, Anariel"; beneath him "Tenenec : Lord of Death and Night (Necatus)". The Sancturi's "primary objectives" are Necatus's own: "Preserve their power, Defeat Asmodeus and return the demons to their place (the Abyss). Restore or gain control over Mithis and the Sun." Asmodeus's Daemiveus, for its part, means to "defeat Necatus and the other remaining Dark Gods". The pantheon is Sancturi Pantheon; its church is Sancturi Clergy.
His priests serve in the Imperium's instruments of conversion. High Venator Trakin of the Dae'Venari, "a brutal man with a reputation for effectiveness and heavy handedness" who cleared a Hollow "but purged most of the population of the surrounding area as well", is a priest of Necatus. In Proturas the leadership of the Cutters is rumoured to worship a god who requires ritual sacrifice, "Necatus or Namaka are popular choices".
Monks of Necatus¶
An order of monks serves him. A Blackstaff of the Monks of Necatus, "Force, bonus armor, resistance", was among the relics a Sancturi Age party found for sale in Droburg; it could knock back, dispel and drain magic, and channel a monk's power into bolts, walls of force and light. Nothing else is recorded of the order.
Earlier accounts¶
The 2015 Compendium and its 2019 conversion list Necatus among "The Dark Gods, The Rakkai", one pantheon, as "Lord of the Night, Moon and Darkness"; the 2019 conversion adds Shade-Demons to his creations. The 2026 revision separates the Dark Gods from the Rakkarim and gives the moon to Lunaris of the Kalari.
Gap
No source describes Necatus's form, his heaven, his Ascendants other than Amu'Solk, or how he learned to transfer Kalar's shards. The Monks of Necatus are named once. Whether he knows of Pravustiratel's pact with the Divine is not said.