Burning Hate

The Burning Hate is a horrible chimeric monster that exists only to destroy all that is good. It loves to breed and to subsume horrible things within itself, creating and absorbing evil in equal measure.

The Burning Hate is both male and female, and pestilent fertility is sacred to it -- for this reason, its followers favor heterosexual polygamy and concubinage. However, devout followers of the Burning Hate who are unable to conceive children naturally are occasionally blessed with supernatural pregnancy generally resulting in, for humanoids, tieflings. Demons, orcs, goblins, harpies, beholders, oozes, chimeras, vermin, hydras, chromatic dragons, all are thought to ultimately draw their ancestry back to the Burning Hate.

The Burning Hate does not plan or subjugate or rule; it leaves those trifles to its followers. The Burning Hate only destroys. Fire, carnivorous beasts, tattoos, destructive and hateful insects, cats, the number zero, its descendants listed in the previous paragraph, and anything else that destroys or corrupts is sacred to the Burning Hate.

Occasionally, a demon, dragon, or other monster will grow powerful enough and gain enough followers to declare itself a Pope of the Burning Hate, its representative in the Material Plane. Sometimes, more than one such pope will exist at once. The current such pope is Omarax the Beholder.

When a follower of the Burning Hate dies, it is customary for his companions to burn his corpse on a huge funeral pyre while yelling, screaming, and banging drums, to warn the afterlife that another mighty warrior is coming to pillage their loot.

It hates every other god.

The Burning Hate lives on the Abyssal Plane of Fire.

The Burning Hate is chaotic evil.

Its holy symbol is fire.

Priests of the Burning Hate wear robes of fiery orange.

Its favored weapon is the flail.

The Burning Hate has no one canon text. Most followers of the Burning Hate disdain written wisdom, although some study various texts written by some past popes.

The domains associated with the Burning Hate are War, Tempest and Death.

Historical Popes of the Burning Hate

 * 698-687ai - Charir'svitran the Red Dragon
 * 687-616ai - Vutha'kivan the Black Dragon
 * 590-517ai - Ul Arurongong the Ogre Mage
 * 533-526ai - Shedimpool the Salamander
 * 512-490ai - Nigfyrus the Tiefling
 * 458-424ai - Valignat'tonash the Pyroclastic Dragon
 * 333-329ai - Jinolivine the Rakshasa
 * 330-322ai - Yrev'ternock the Yellow Dragon
 * 327-323ai - Golmenti the Geruzou Demon
 * 312-310ai - Oxulpimut Athisosda the Minotaur
 * 223-199ai - Slalsto Omkunaslo the Nilbog
 * 161-163ai - Malarax the Beholder
 * 81-71ai - Añauñam, daughter of Rumagic'mrith'jevai, the Half-Dragon Harpy -- pioneered the theology of Our Lady of Perpetual Conflagration
 * 71-57ai - Tekudussmi, daughter of Añauñam, the Quarter-Dragon Harpy
 * 57ai - Usmorulac, daughter of Tekudussmi, the Eighth-Dragon Harpy -- refined the theology of Our Lady of Perpetual Conflagration
 * 55ai - Drietnekil the Half-Dragon Bugbear
 * 38ai-11ii - Plakturjasper the Sibriex Demon
 * 23ai-187pi - Vulthoomburning the Cacodaemon
 * 14ai-12ai - Mastrospmater Mithrupstral the Doppelganger
 * 10-24ii - Rithma Posekspepip the Annis Hag
 * 51pi-151pi - Exapax the Tarry Demodand
 * 55pi-64pi - Rithma Posekspepip the Cloud Giant
 * 224-238pi - Åtôz Suxutuznuk the Fire Troll
 * 250-298pi - Nasñokfek Gisu the Yuan-Ti
 * 316-320pi - Tsruvon the Howling Dragon
 * 322-441pi - Fasciarapture the Alkilith Demon
 * 329-403pi - Fanuceru Darokthad the Fire Giant
 * 352-353pi - Rithc the Kython
 * 440-483pi - Mazdak'gix the Orange Dragon
 * 18pd-present - Omarax the Beholder

Our Lady of Perpetual Conflagration
Where the mainstream cult of the Burning Hate -- insofar as such a thing can be said to exist -- focuses on reducing the current number of undestroyed things towards a minimum, the sect of Our Lady of Perpetual Conflagration hinges on the doctrine that the spirit of every destroyed thing ends up in the hoard of the Burning Hate, and therefore focuses on increasing the number of things that have been destroyed towards a maximum. To this end, some followers of OLoPC will actually devote much time to creating beautiful works of art or industry, only to destroy them immediately upon completion, as gifts for the Burning Hate.

The pope and theologian Usmorulac daughter of Tekudussmi took this logic one step further, reasoning that there is ultimately no difference between a beautiful thing created and then destroyed versus a beautiful thing conceptualized but never created. The followers of the theology of Usmorulac therefore spend their time thinking up beautiful ideas, sharing their ideas with others, and then never completing them.