Chorceus

Chorceus is the god of Piglins, rage, and the piglin-colonized Nether. He is considered a member of the Yvana pantheon, yet has never officially announced his membership of the pantheon. He is spiteful, prideful, and easy to anger. He is one of two gods to rise first as demigods, the other being Vedana. He rarely, if ever, speaks to the other gods. His origins are often disputed much more than any other god, as written history did exist when Chorceus lived as a mortal, so there are two theories as to how he came to be—the scholar Musurad Redsnout presented the much more historically accurate Musuradian theory, which is recognized by most modern scholars.

Origins
Chorceus was born in the Overworld as Chorceus Deadsword to two mucaigein (or piglin) farmers during the Bosluquian Period. He was the youngest of thirteen children, though was physically larger and stronger than any of his siblings. He was the best hunter in his village and is rumored to have downed an entire herd of hoglins in one day-long hunting trip. Despite his success as a hunter, Chorceus was despised by his family, and was often physically hurt by both his parents and his siblings.

Chorceus' hunting prowess soon caught the eye of the mucaigein queen of Gegetin, Baborayna Darkeyes, who enlisted him as a hunter for her kitchen. He moved to the ancient mucaigein city of Ingurube, where he lived in her palace and worked for her chefs, and finally escaped his family. He was eventually asked to join her army, where he quickly climbed ranks until he was a commander of the army.

Chorceus was sent by his queen to defeat the Ender Dragon Bosluq and bring back her egg as a trophy, which he did. After this, the queen made Chorceus her second-in-command and introduced him to the Netheri Project, a secret project her court scientists and alchemists had been working on to access a legendary dimension parallel to the Overworld theorized to possess unimaginable amounts of power in the form of a mineral called netherite.

The queen's scientists had successfully constructed a portal to the Netheri dimension, later just called the Nether, and so she asked Chorceus and his legion, the Thirteenth Legion, to go into the Nether and survey it. Chorceus agreed and entered the portal, leading the Thirteenth Legion into the Nether. The legion examined it and built a small settlement there over the course of five years called Alani. Alani was a mining town that used Tawil slave labor to quickly and efficiently mine the Nether.

During the settlement of the Nether, Queen Baborayna died of an unknown disease. She had no living children (she is known for having eaten all of her children soon after birth, only ever giving birth to prove that she was not barren) and therefore Chorceus, as her second-in-command, was meant to choose the next queen. However, Chorceus instead installed himself as the first reigning mucaigein king and built the first bastion in the Nether to be his castle. A mucaigein king had never taken power in such a fashion, but due to his incredibly good reputation with the Gegetin population and his martial power, he succeeded in taking the throne.

This act of disregard for tradition angered some of the father of the mucaigein, Samudri, who sent a waterborne plague (Annoboteku) to wrack Gegetin. No cure was found, leading Chorceus to order all Gegetin mucaigein to move to the Nether, where Samudri and the other gods had no power. They took their favored crops, truffles, and cattle, hoglins, with them as well along with their Tawil slaves. All other piglin nations that remained in the Overworld fell to the Annoboteku plague.

After saving his people from Samudri's wrath, Chorceus quickly colonized the majority of the Nether, enlisting members of his Thirteenth Legion to build new bastions and start new cities all around the Nether. Most of these cities were mining ones meant to collect netherite and succeeded in that goal. Over Chorceus' thirteen-hundred year rule, the Nether was stripped of almost all of its netherite, which was then used to outfit the king and his army.

Chorceus' rule saw the mucaigein more successful than they had ever been, as their slow-growing mushroom crops grew even faster in the heat of the Nether, reaching the height of trees. This allowed them to plant forests of mushrooms, and as the years went on, these crops divided into two separate species. One of these species, Warped Fungi, could be used to offer even more control over hoglin cattle. Blackstone proved to be a useful material for construction, and fungi were able to be used in a similar fashion to Overworld trees.

During his reign, Chorceus grew even more hungry for power, destroying the Nether's natural ecosystems in search for netherite and also ghast tears, which he believed would make him immortal due to their regenerative properties. Ghasts were nearly hunted to extinction, and striders were domesticated and bred to be mounts to traverse the lava oceans taking up the majority of the Nether. Gold also became a valuable resource in the Nether, being used as Gegetin currency as well as a commoner's substitute for netherite. Tawil were used as slaves to build the great cities of the Nether Gegetin kingdom and were treated similar to objects. During this period, Chorceus also had his family, who had been living in a small mining town far away from the initial portal, all killed for their disrespect of him during his childhood. In a similar fashion, anyone who disobeyed Chorceus would be beheaded with his own netherite axe and their skulls would be gilded and inlaid in his throne. He even managed to imprison Kehena, the sole goddess of the Nether, and chained her in a netherite prison beneath his own palace, drinking her tears to increase his lifespan.

After seeing how ruthless Chorceus had become, his second hand, Proditione Sharptusk, took it upon himself to stop him before he became too powerful. Without any sort of god to stop him, Proditione was the only one who could. He allied himself with Viveka, one of the very few Tawil that still had the capability of rational thought, and used the Tawil to help take Alani, which was now the Gegetin capital. During the Tawilian Siege on Alani, which took place during the Taleyian Period, Proditione chased Chorceus to a cliff outside of Alani and stabbed him, withdrawing and then allowing him to fall into the lava below.

Godhood
After being killed by Proditione, Chorceus rose from the lava as a vengeful spirit powered purely by anger and lurked around the Nether as Proditione chose Nalam Wireback as the new queen of Gegetin. He managed to possess one of Nalam's advisors, Thulo Redruff, and used his body to regain his strength further. He soon transformed into a powerful demigod-like figure and slaughtered all of the residents of the Alani Bastion, including Proditione. He beheaded Proditione and wore his head on his belt. After killing them, Chorceus killed Kehena, absorbing her power, eating her soul, and becoming a true god. He used his newfound abilities to destroy all piglin settlements in the Nether as revenge for his death, as well as destroying most of the netherite they had collected to prevent them from becoming so powerful ever again. He destroyed all portals that had been built to transport piglins into the Nether. He now reigns over the Nether, terrorizing mucaigein and making them live in an almost animalistic sort of fear and anger. He destroys any sort of settlement he finds that has some sort of authority or promise, determined to make himself the last and greatest king of the mucaigein. He has various cults in the Nether, which are called Brutes, and he uses them to inflict violence and greed upon others.

Appearance
Chorceus has the appearance of a colossal piglin with four tusks tipped in gold. He has a sword wound going straight through his chest, allowing one to see through his body to the other side. He wears gilded netherite armor and wields a crossbow and a netherite axe that can burn any mortal to the touch. His eyes are bright, pupilless pits that glow and crackle like fire, and his gaze is hot with rage. He has burn scars covering the majority of his body, though he can no longer be burned after his death. The rotting head of Proditione is tied to his belt, and his shield is made of a hoglin skull. He has three gold rings that are topped with Tawil eyes.