THRAG
THE DOG-FACE GOD
From what we have been able to gather
from the multiple
exclamations of Mirakles of the Elastic Tendon, historians have been
able to
learn the following about Thrag, one of the many Pseudo-Gods, known as
the
Dog-Face God, the God of Smiting, and the God of "Just This Kind of
Thing"
(referring to the continual bloodshed on the Plain of Constant
Conflict).
By others, he was known as: Thrag the Well-Hated, the Cordially
Despised, the Generally
Abhorred, the Ultimate Conquerer, the Commonly Detested, the Rarely
Invited,
and the Undelighted.
His face resembled that of a dog with lidless eyes, a black
swollen tongue, and a steely beard. His bloody lips frequently sported
a
deathly grin. Other features included scarlet skin, a neck, squared
shoulders,
double navel, and at least at once time had pierced palms. Riding in a
crimson
chariot, wielding a sacred spear, he led forth many minced minions with
his
eternal fury, fierce favor, and thirst. Entire religions, equipped with
priest and
temples have been constructed by those seeking to worship his
wickedness.
Sometime during the tenth century,
Thrag sought to
impregnate the wife of King Hyperenor, Queen Desiphae. In order to
defile this
royal virgin, Thrag visited her once in the guise of a year’s supply of
microwave popcorn. Nine months later, she gave birth her son Mirakles,
as well
as to a hideous monster known as Smorma, the great ravenous anemone.
(No one ever knew what happened to the other three months’ of
popcorn.)
While the
cause is unknown, sometime following this event, Morgrom the Essence of
Evil, slew
Thrag, thus earning himself the title of Thrag’s Bane. Mirakles grew up
believing that he was the true son of Hyperenor, never realizing that
he was
Thrag’s son until Glorian of the Knowledge revealed it to him prior to
the
close of the First Age of Magic in 966.
When Mirakles was temporarily killed
and sent to the Plain
of Constant Conflict in Hades, his opponents hated him the most because
he was
the son of Thrag. For it was because of Thrag's bloody hands that their
happy
lives had ended and they had been sent to Hades before their time.
Through
Mirakles, they were able to blame Thrag for the years they did not
spend with their
wives and children, ruling their idyllic lands. Thus his belligerent
son
inherited that hate, and Thrag was not there to protect him.