The Abyssal Pantheon — The Wicker Anthology

The Higher Abyssal Court

Kin of the Writhing Obelisk

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Beneath the whole Wicker universe runs a deeper mythology: an abyssal court of old powers, each the living embodiment of a single vice. They do not rule with armies or thrones — they rule through dreams, pressing on the softest part of a sleeping mind until desire, grief, or ambition becomes a door. Syraqneth, the Writhing Obelisk, is the one whose hand closes around Wicker Hill; the rest wait in their own stories, patient and starving.

✦Visage Awaiting

I · The God of Wicker Hill

Syraqneth

The Writhing Obelisk

Vice · Domain

Lust as an accelerant for destiny; desire used to reshape reality.

Dream-Form

A towering onyx monolith coiled in endless, shifting tendrils that shimmer with oil-slick iridescence. At its heart: a slit of light that breathes like a living thing.

Influence on Mortals

Invades dreams with heat, longing, and inevitability — making desire itself a prophecy.

✦Visage Awaiting

Thavruul

The Maw Between Hours

(THAV-rool)

Vice · Domain

Obsession; the hunger to possess knowledge, objects, or people at the cost of all else.

Dream-Form

A massive jawless skull with infinite rows of teeth spiraling inward into a clock face, each tooth marking a different hour. The clock hands pierce through dreamers’ chests.

Influence on Mortals

Whispers the one thing you think will complete you — and convinces you to burn everything else for it.

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III

Ozytharreth

The Bloom of Rot

(OZ-ith-ar-eth)

Vice · Domain

Decay disguised as beauty; temptation through inevitable ruin.

Dream-Form

A vast garden of bone-white flowers that open into eyeless faces. The soil writhes with pale worms that hum lullabies.

Influence on Mortals

Makes rot feel like luxury — turning decline into something worshipped.

✦Visage Awaiting

Vhaegroth

The Red Sigil

(VAY-groth)

Vice · Domain

Wrath; ecstasy in destruction.

Dream-Form

A headless colossus made of scarlet glass, within which storms of fire swirl endlessly. Each step burns the dreamscape to ash.

Influence on Mortals

Appears to the aggrieved and shows them how divine annihilation can feel.

✦Visage Awaiting

Nyzqorael

The Needle in the Veil

(NIZ-kor-ail)

Vice · Domain

Paranoia; the inescapable certainty that you are watched and judged.

Dream-Form

A thin, faceless figure threaded entirely from black string, eyes blinking open along its length. The strings hook into the dreamer’s shadow.

Influence on Mortals

Forces mortals to spiral inward, convinced they are prey, until they act out their own undoing.

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Zhaerquuun

The Hollow Feast

(ZHARE-koon)

Vice · Domain

Overindulgence; the pleasure of consuming more than one needs — be it food, people, or moments.

Dream-Form

A banquet table stretching into infinity, piled with delicacies that dissolve into wriggling larvae when touched. Seated around it are mirror-images of the dreamer, each eating the other.

Influence on Mortals

Binds mortals in cycles of taking and taking until nothing remains.

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VII

Iltharyss

The Drowned Choir

(ILL-thar-iss)

Vice · Domain

Submission; the sweet comfort of surrendering will.

Dream-Form

A deep ocean of pitch in which countless pale bodies float, their mouths open in constant song. In the depths, a face the size of a cathedral opens its eyes.

Influence on Mortals

Offers the illusion of peace through total loss of self.

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VIII

Qorynthaal

The Archive of Ash

(KOR-in-thawl)

Vice · Domain

Nostalgia weaponized; the ache for what is gone twisted into servitude.

Dream-Form

A colossal library where every book is made from a loved one’s skin, their voice reading in your ear as the pages turn to soot.

Influence on Mortals

Hooks mortals with the chance to relive what cannot be — at the cost of their present.

✦Visage Awaiting

Phorvazeth

The Lantern of Flies

(FOR-vah-zeth)

Vice · Domain

Curiosity; the dangerous need to see what should remain unseen.

Dream-Form

A rag-covered figure with a hollow ribcage, inside which burns a swarm of golden flies that form shifting shapes — faces, symbols, scenes from your life. The light draws you closer, but stepping too near peels the world open into writhing blackness.

Influence on Mortals

Lures mortals into prying open forbidden truths, ensuring they cannot close the door again once it’s seen.

✦Visage Awaiting

Ulvraethis

The Weeping Crown

(UL-vray-this)

Vice · Domain

Ambition; the intoxicating pull of power, status, and legacy.

Dream-Form

A monarch’s corpse seated on a throne of shattered mirrors, wearing a crown that drips molten gold like tears. Every time the dreamer blinks, they’re sitting on the throne instead.

Influence on Mortals

Promises greatness but demands sacrifice until all you rule over is ruin.

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Below the Court

Servants & the Sealed

The Court does not reach into the waking world alone. Beneath the gods stand those who serve them — and names that have not yet been permitted their full entry.

✢ The Cultists

The devout

Mortals who have answered a god’s dream and kept its rites — the hands that make the Court’s will flesh.

✢ The Dead Ones

Entry sealed

Not gods, not living. What they are, and what they want, is written only inside the books.

✢ Gath-Amagra

Name recorded · entry sealed

A name that surfaces in the deeper record. It will be inscribed here when the page can bear it.

✢ Azrhaqeluun

Name recorded · entry sealed

Another name from the abyss below the abyss. Read first. Then return.

Wicker Hill is for fans of horror who aren't afraid of darker and more taboo subjects. — F.C. Marrow