Vyel the Unloved

Vyel the Unloved was a tribal deity of the Fahrish humans and the brother of Veyn.

Also known as the Forsaken One, the Lord of the Hollow Heart, He Who Waits Beside the Door, Vyel was once a deity of a Fahrish tribe, but when his tribe was accreted by another, which worshipped his sister Veyn, all worship in both tribes turned to her. 

In the silence that followed, Vyel’s form withered. His beauty rotted into bitterness, his youth fell away, and his voice became a whisper that seeps into lonely hearts. He learned a cruel truth: “If love gives life, then to be unloved is to die. And so, I shall make all things unloved, that none outlive me.”

He moved unseen, feeding on the ache of abandonment. Lovers quarrel, children feel forgotten, and even gods feared the slow death of their worship — all in Vyel’s name.

“Better despair than deception.”

Vyel’s priests dwelt in ruins, empty temples, and abandoned chapels. They collected tokens of failed love — rings, letters, portraits — and burned them in rites called The Unbinding.

Some say Vyel granted strength to those who renounce all affection, promising: “I will love you, when all others have turned away.”

When Vyel drew near, warmth faded, and the air smelled faintly of dust and iron. Fires guttered low. The sound of laughter becomes distant.

His cult was accreted into the pantheon of the Grand Temple of Heaven. He is alleged to have descended from the children of Heimos, but the earliest mentions of this deity predate the rise of Heimos in 3700ey.