Yezud

Also known as: The Spider God.

Symbol: A spider. A web. A black sphere.

Worshipped Where

Strongly present in Zamora. The current cult of the Spider-God, also known as the cult of Yezud, centers itself in the city of the same name. There, a giant temple to the Spider God looms over the city, just as the stone effigy of the Great Spider looms over its worshippers.

There are rumours of a city of Yezud worshippers deep in the desert (north of Turan, northeast of Brythunia).

Quick Description

Spider worship predates the Cataclysm. It goes as far back as those atavistic memories can travel. It originated as a fertility cult. The spider’s eggs gave birth to the universe and stars. Each star was another egg which in turn gave birth to whole galaxies. When the stars all connect, they form a web, a circular cocoon which encompasses the whole of the cosmos. Rude men, degenerates really, left paintings of their spider gods and their cosmos in caves around continents older than the Thurian Age. Some of these places survived the Cataclysm and are considered sacred and many of those burrow through the hills of Zamora.

Yezud is also the god of spies and assassins, that which lurks in the dark corners where shadow reigns and webs are spun.

Primary Beliefs

All people are connected, as are all societies.

Nameless Cults ch.3, pp.44–46.
Conan the Thief, pp.73–76.

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