Morte

God of Death

As the god of Death, Morte is responsible for collecting the souls of the dead on Mundus and Acernos. When a being dies its soul leaves the body. If the soul is weak, like an animal’s soul, it is dissolved and it is used to create new life. If the soul is strong enough, which means it is at least almost as strong as a human’s soul, it just hovers near the body and it is invisible and untouchable to almost everyone. On Acernos, Morte uses his powers to collect souls every ten minutes or so. As Morte can’t directly influence Mundus, he sends his demigods to collect the souls of the dead. Also, as we mentioned in our Matinia blog post, Morte is responsible for creating new life on Acernos.

Morte is often portrayed as a bent old man with a long beard and a cane. Morte is rather cranky and somewhat austere and as such he rarely gets along with other gods. He has an especially poor relationship with Inmicus, god of War. Morte makes public appearances extremely rarely as he tends to show his physical form only to his carefully selected elite.

Morte’s sub gods are a special case as they all have a permanent physical body and they do not represent anything in the same sense as other sub gods do. Also Morte or his sub gods don’t have any lords. Instead each sub god governs his own group of demigods. These demigods are responsible of personally collecting all the souls on Mundus. Each of these groups is responsible for a single nation on Mundus. Ankou and his Grim Reaper’s are responsible for collecting souls on Alerian soil. The northern lands of Seigrike are governed by Odin and his Valkyries. The last and largest of these groups governs the nation of Tentaika. They are Shinigamis led by Enma.

See you next Sunday!