According to the Scriptures of Grenth written in 48 BE, he came to Desmina, a woman who had been scorned and exiled by her people for admiring power and ambition, and offered her control over the undead in exchange for her loyalty. At some point Grenth also appointed the Judge to guide and judge lost spirits in the Domain of the Lost.Īs the new God of Death, Grenth eventually gained more followers. Under Grenth, human spirits were judged and moved on through the Underworld to their designated afterlives. They became known as the Seven Reapers and would supervise regions of the Underworld. The mortals who aided Grenth were rewarded by being elevated into the god's immortal avatars. The true reason for the sealing would remain elusive to scholars, however. Grenth sealed his fallen predecessor within the Hall of Judgment behind enchanted doors and layers of divine magic as he was not powerful enough to destroy Dhuum. ĭhuum's power was transferred to Grenth, and the new God of Death took his place among the gods in the presence of his mother Dwayna in the spot where his father had fallen. Grenth shattered Dhuum's tower in the Underworld, creating the Chaos Planes. The company ultimately defeated Dhuum in the ossuary of the Cathedral of Eternal Radiance in Orr. Grenth and seven mortals challenged Dhuum, the God of Death, whose reign in the Underworld had been brutal as Dhuum consumed the souls of the dead, prevented resurrection and undeath, and hunted down those who had escaped death with the promise of "death undeniable". Little else is known about Grenth's early years on Tyria except for the one moment of defiance that changed his life forever. Knowledge about him having been fathered by a mortal would eventually become one of the greatest secrets of the Church of Grenth. Grenth was born as the half-god son of a mortal sculptor and Dwayna, leader of the Six Gods. Įlonian mural of Grenth in Gandara in 1075 AE. The norn refer to Grenth as a Spirit of Action. In the present day the Church of Grenth worships the God of Death. Before the Cataclysm, Orrians prayed to Grenth at the Cathedral of Silence. Being a deathly figure, he is venerated by many human necromancers. He is often depicted with the dead crawling for his acceptance. Grenth's body appears to be that of a human, and he bears the skull of a fallen beast. He also promotes not fearing those claimed to be divine, and his followers seek to cast down false deities. This fits with his role as judge to dead souls, and perhaps opposes him to Lyssa, goddess of illusions.
Grenth promotes the casting off of illusions and "the gilded trappings of sanctity," and encourages the perception of the world as it truly is. As a god, he is attributed to the judgment of the dead, vengeance, and destruction. Originally a half-god, he was the child of Dwayna and a mortal sculptor and the first god born of Tyria, with domain over mortality and judgment. Grenth is the god of darkness, ice, and death. He embodies inevitability, the idea that all things have a time.
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