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Entropy
The Great Nothing, Swallower of Gods,
Magechill
Status: NE, Greater Power, Unknown
Symbol: A field of pure black
Entropy is the deity of the Karanoks. It
is an extremely weird entity, a gigantic
sphere of annihilation that no force,
divine, magical, or mortal, may stop.
Worship of Entropy consists of eldritch
rites and human sacrifices, preferably
of wizards. Priests of Entropy
are brought up to hate magic.
The only known temple in the Realms
dedicated to Entropy is in Luthcheq;
the temple is encased in a large hemisphere
of black glass.

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Entropy
Great Nothing, Swallower of Gods, Magechill
Unaligned Primordial [Oblivion]
Symbol: A sphere of pure black
Befuddling sages and theologians for millennia,
Entropy’s (en-trah-pee) true purpose was at last
revealed upon the calamitous joining of worlds
brought on by the Spellplague. As the Swallower of
Gods and the Devourer of Worlds, Entropy has represented
the single direst threat to the mortal world
since the Age before Ages. In that long ago era, when
Ao banished the primordials to Abeir, the overgod
imprisoned Entropy in the guise of a sphere of annihilation
and discarded the inert primordial on Toril
with a warning to the gods: Govern the world wisely or
face utter oblivion. With Cyric’s folly and the unraveling
of the Weave, Entropy is freed once more to
spread ruin across the face of Toril. Every day the primordial’s
entropic maw grows wider, threatening to
swallow the world whole, while the weakened powers
of the Astral Sea stand powerless to stop it. Priests of
Entropy are known as thaumatoclasts.

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

So back to Luthcheq after a work related break.

Noted a few oddities.

Luthcheq is situated on the shore of the Bay of Chessenta which is noted as being the best natural harbour in the Inner Sea. That says to me that it has deep water and perhaps a steep shoreline (a sudden drop into deep water after a few metres of beach).

The Drakelight is 800 ft high which I find oddly large (although I must profess I don't know how tall normal lighthouses are).

Then Luthcheq is situated against towering black cliffs. But the city has a port quarter. Do people normally build port cities atop cliffs.

I kind of imagine that the Bay of Chessenta is high at the entrance to the bay and more shallow at the back or have I got it the wrong way around. Anyone more geographically minded have an idea.

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

And I've got my Entropy sorted out now.

Dead godkings cause spontaneous formation of sphere of annihilation.

Sphere found by Gilgeam during his wanderings.

Sphere used to kill Anu (fired from a slingshot into his ankle, believed to be a snake bite as per the legend of the Adder River/Swamp)

Sphere used by Ulgar and Gilgeam in dangerous experiments.


At some point sphere gains sentience from people/power consumed. But when Ulgar is exiled and Akanu abandoned the sphere is lost beneath the bluff of Luthcheq (really an old steppe pyramid).

In 1346 DR the Karanoks are torturing some poor sod who happens to be a second born son of one of the godkings (captured from Mordulkin perhaps or Akanax) and they do so in the chamber where the sphere happens to be hidden (it much diminished in size over the millennia of non-use - it had nothing to eat). It consumes the godkingling and is restored to its prime and Entropy is back.

The Karanok's worship it as Nanna-Sin reborn (but in a more evil and malevolent aspect).

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