The All-God

Aspects

Tales among humans and demi-humans depict numerous Aspects of the All-God. One is a simple man of nondescript appearance, a storyteller and friend among children, fostering familiarity and warmth among his followers.
To the plainsmen, He manifests as Heng: the Sky-Father and the First Hunter. In this aspect, He appears as a towering, weathered nomad with skin the colour of sun-baked earth and eyes that hold the vastness of the horizon, draped in a cloak of shifting clouds and starlight. To these barbarian tribes, His “Order” is found in the sacredness of the blood-bond and the boundaries of hunting grounds. They believe Heng first “marked the tracks” that all living things must follow, and that the wind itself is His breath, maintaining the world’s balance. To the hillsfolk of Saih, He is The Great Shepherd, the one who keeps the herds moving in their eternal cycles, ensuring life continues through structured movement. When these people speak of “The Law,” they mean the sacred rules of survival He established before the Age of Dreaming — immutable principles designed to preserve life, the ultimate gift, from the consuming chaos of the Wastes.
To the dwarves, He manifests as the All-Father, revered as the Master of the First Forge and architect of cosmic foundations. He appears as a towering dwarven patriarch with a beard of spun gold and living stone, bearing Mundill, the World-Axle — a spear etched with the fundamental laws of existence. To His dwarven worshipers, the All-Father embodies the Great Design, the sacred blueprint of the multiverse that governs the structure of stone, the flow of magma, and the sanctity of the blood-oath. He represents Law’s absolute necessity and the preservation of ancestral wisdom, teaching that the world must be maintained with the same precision as a master-crafted vault. Dwarven worship centres on the belief that He carved the original runes of reality into the world’s core, establishing unshakeable order that holds chaos’s darkness at bay and ensures life remains governed by the divine cycles He first set in motion.
His final form is that of the Father of Divine Light and Creation. No one knows what He truly looks like in this aspect, save that He radiates a light so pure that no being — mortal or immortal — can look upon Him. To His High Priests and the most orthodox scholars of the Great Design, the All-God manifests as a being of such absolute, terrifying purity that He is known as The Unbeheld. Scholarly tradition holds that His divine essence is a luminous void, so concentrated in goodness and order that mortal flesh and imperfect spirits cannot endure its presence. To look upon His true countenance is not merely to be blinded, but to be instantaneously unmade — dissolved back into the primordial elements of the Great Design.