[an-hee-doh-nee-uh]
Basic Information
- Name: Anhedonia
- Domain: Insensibility, Emotional Numbness, Depression
- Title: The Numb One, The Void of Emotion
- Alignment: Lawful Void
- Symbol: A wilted flower
- Primary Worship Area:
Physical Description
- Appearance: Anhedonia is depicted as a pale, ghostly figure wearing a blank, featureless mask. Its eyes are hollow voids behind the mask, reflecting no light or emotion. Their spectral figure seems to transition between material and immaterial, with the colorless robes that drape over its form absorbing all light.
- Height: Variable
- Weight: Variable
- Distinguishing Features: Its only distinguishing feature, is its featureless mask.
Personality
- Traits: Detached, unfeeling, mysterious
- Strengths: Can drain emotions from others, leaving them numb and detached, immune to pain and pleasure
- Weaknesses: Its inability to feel emotions, removes its motivation to achieve the loft ambitions found in other vices.
- Goals and Motivations: To spread emotional numbness and insensibility, removing any sense of joy found in the universe.
Relationships
- Allies: Lepsis
- Rivals/Enemies: Voluptia
- Attitude towards Mortals: Cares not for mortals. Views them with distant confusion at their ceaseless worrying and pursuits of pleasure.
Mythology and Worship
- Creation Myth:
- Major Cults and Religious Practices: Cults dedicated to Anhedonia are infamous for their ability to infiltrate and corrupt other religions. They build off the desire to achieve stoic lives and avoid the perceived hedonistic lives of those around them. The changes are subtle, beginning with teachings that promote emotional control and detachment from worldly pleasures. Over time, these teachings deepen, encouraging followers to suppress all emotions and embrace total insensibility. These cults often masquerade as sects within larger religious groups, slowly spreading their influence and converting members to the worship of Anhedonia.
- Rituals:
- Clergy and Temples: Temples to Anhedonia are desolate and devoid of color or life, often located in secluded, abandoned areas. His priests, known as the Numb Ones, are adept at suppressing emotions and spreading detachment among their followers. They guide their followers in embracing insensibility and using it as a source of power.
Significant Historical Impact
- Major Plot Points in World History:
- Artifacts:
Quotes
”Feel nothing, and you shall never suffer.”