Bhamut

Bhamut is one of the twin sons of Umirra and his consort Marida. His mother died in childbirth and his father committed suicide. His maternal grandfather, a spirit of the sea, gave him and his brother into the care of a tribe of men of Southrun. The infants were traded again and again as slaves until they came into the care of a Barasin noble.

As he grew into adulthood, he began a conquest of neighboring tribes and peoples. Ultimately, he contested with his brother Amir for the love and hand of their sister Sekhat. While he was unsuccessful, his enmity with his brother eventually enveloped all of Southrun, except Barasa, into war.         

For his part Bhamut took strange creatures to wife and produced many offspring by each them. All of these offspring were immortal and extremely powerful -- gifted with many of the powers of their sire, but also given to all the bestial habits of their mothers.

Bhamut eventually withdrew, though some say that he was slain by a weapon of the dark elves. Either way he has left the temporal world in the hands of his volatile children. The sheer number of his offspring means that every tribe and family has its own preferred god or goddess, with most of the rest being benignly neglected.