Juteus Azra

Juteus is the god of perfection, poison, and degradation. He was a twin god, born alongside his sister, Azra. He’s currently a fiendish lord of the Abyss and is especially worshipped by cults from reptilian races and whoever they manage to indoctrinate.

Originally, they were both humans who sought ascension to perfection and worked together to assimilate the reptilian form, going from human to reptile to monster to god. Some tribes of Yuan-ti worship them as the first of their kind, while some of their more skeptical brethren insist that they were simply the most successful of their kind. But all Yuan-ti agree on one thing; Azra was a traitor to her people. She did not pity or hate those who were different from her. After attaining perfection, she looked at lesser beings and sympathized with them. Cared for them. Wished to coexist with them. And it was disgusting. Disgusting enough that her brother had to do what was right and devour her whole. He, a god of degradation, swallowed the goddess of poison, and they became the god of perfection.

Unfortunately, this meant that many Yuan-ti still shared some of Azra’s foolishness in them. Usually, they were Yuan-ti Pureblood. Every once in a while, they would pop up in the genealogy and Juteus Azra would rightly punish them with a cruel immortality. The ‘Azra’ would feel pain and suffering like all living things, but they would always return after death to continue their suffering. There was no relief in death, just more pain to be had. Their corpse would rise, their heart would beat, and their soul would rot, chipping away bit by bit from the cruel stress. And Juteus would laugh all the while, reminding the victim that it’s all their fault for sharing the same idiocy as his sister.

During the Great Event, Juteus participated out of morbid curiosity, using his cunning and manipulative tactics to find out just how many gods and titans he could get away with killing. Supposedly, the number surprised even him. He also has worshippers among other reptilian races, such as Lizardfolk and Kobolds. He has a hobby of sewing further chaos among the denizens of the Abyss, manipulating events to a result he prefers. Juteus asks a lot of his followers in exchange for power and perfection, likely because he likes the control, and he commonly demands ritual sacrifices. The cult is popular among some individuals among other races, usually serial killers and the insane. Bermia Shallour, a wealthy human noblesse, was suspected to have murdered over a hundred servants, homeless people, and other wanderers over the course of a decade all in the name of Juteus.