A bloated mass of diseased flesh made into a semi human shape covered by an oiled leather coat, wearing a bird mask, with blackened lenses and a stiff black hat

God of plagues, Doctor of death, Duke of disease, The Good Doctor (only to his worshipers), The Rotting Breath, The Quiet Fever, That Which Comes Unseen

A bloated mass of diseased flesh made into a semi human shape covered by an oiled leather coat, wearing a bird mask with elongated beak stretched far too long, with blackened lenses and a stiff black hat

20' but as with all gods can get bigger or smaller as the situation demands

extremely heavy

The Beaked Mask
Plague doctor mask with:
blackened lenses
elongated beak
The Bleeding Bowl
A shallow bowl filled with:
dark, clotting blood

The Sealed Vial
Glass vial containing:
dark fluid
or shifting matter

The Rotting Feather
Black feather:
frayed
decaying

The Swollen Hand
A stylized hand:
bloated
cracked

The Hollow Eye
a circle:
dark center
faint outer ring

The Mark of Contagion
clustered dots or lesions

disease, medicine turned against its intended purpose, a slow rotting death, inevitability

physical endurance - Nezarath does not feel pain, granting his "gifts", can weaken you, can bestow almost any malady or alignment you can think of (burns, sickness,hypothermia, age, the lessening)

Hubris, medical knowledge weakens him, certain artifacts, mage slayers, God Slayers (a very specific weapon in the shape of a spear)

"lessened", due to his war with Arthur Greykeep, Nezarath was barred from interfering with mortals in any direct manner and would not be allowed to bend that rule for an epoch, so Nezarath did the only thing he could and awoke his mortal Champion Canis Vance from his imprisoned grave and he pumped a large amount of his power into him, allowing him to technically not break the rules

The Quiet Fever Ward

“Nezarath, pass this door.
The breath here is not yours to take.
What is whole remains whole,
What is clean remains clean.

Find no purchase here, Good Doctor.
We have nothing for you.”

The Breath Denial

“Rotting Breath, be still.
Pass us by as wind through stone.
Take not the child, nor the mother, nor the old.

We are not ready for your hand.
Not yet.”

The Measured Plea

“Doctor of Death, we know your work.
We do not deny it.

Take from elsewhere,
weigh another scale.

Leave us this season.”

The Physician’s Praise

“Nezarath, Good Doctor,
you see what festers beneath the skin.

You cut, you drain, you reveal.
What is weak is made known.

Let your work be done through me.”

The Gift Accepted

“Duke of Disease, I receive what you give.
Let it take root, let it spread,
let it show me what I am.

In rot, there is truth.
In decay, there is clarity.”

The Bloodletting Invocation

“Good Doctor, guide the hand.
Let the bad blood flow,
let the hidden rot be freed.

Take what you will—
but leave me useful.”

blood letting, the eating of dieased flesh, the drinking of puss

The Turned Mask
Practice:
A plague mask or cloth is:
hung near doors
but turned away from the home

The Empty Chair
Practice:

During illness in a household:

an empty chair is placed near the sickbed

The Covered Mirrors
Practice:

During sickness or death:

mirrors are covered

The Gentle Contagion
Practice:

Followers will:

subtly spread minor illness
or introduce controlled infection

The Physician’s Kit
Practice:

Followers always carry:

tools:
knives
vials
cloths

The Marked Patient
Practice:

Some individuals are:

deliberately “marked”
cut
bled
exposed

The Quiet Consumption
Practice:

Followers consume:

spoiled or diseased matter
in small, controlled amounts

The Black Ledger
Practice:

A hidden record of:

outbreaks
symptoms
deaths

The Chosen Delay
Practice:

Followers may:

intervene to slow a disease
but never fully stop it

Less often than in the past, he tends to give his "gifts" to mortals

the loss of his mortal champion - some point in either the first or mythic age Zezarath's mortal champion is slain, his body shoved in a blackstone casket, stabbed through with 17 ceremonial Burial Blades, and shoved into a volcano

the first "god war" incident - an ever escalating attempt by Nezarath to rid the world of Arthur Greykeep a foreign body to this land and one who's alternate reality double almost entered the universe with an army capable of taking over turns sour when the demons he'd contracted from Bowlog accidentally kidnap Arthur's romantic partner instead resulting in Greykeep calling in some favors and bringing an army equipped with powered Karpachi exo-armors and weapons specifically designed to kill him to his realm for a fight, it did not go well, even with Greykeep's forces initially losing large numbers, he eventually got to Nezarath's main home and put it to siege, Nezarath had to sue for peace with Tal' Zanithal over seeing and Nezarath was left metaphorically penniless afterword unable to directly interfere with the mortal realm, and he couldn't bend that rule, not with Tal' Zanithal watching him

retrieving his lost champion - in attempt to regain his ability to interact with the mortal world, Nezarath brokers a deal the Hollow Holm dwarves, they retrieve the casket of his champion and he gives them some of the God Slayer spears that fool Greykeep left in his realm, they agreed and even gave Nezarath some extra for helping advance some of their research that had stalled

Nezarath is not just the god of plagues, he's also a god of inevitability, the curse of aging, and death
the something extra the dwarves gave him was the same weapon used on Zamanar during her escape but several iterations later, and much more deadly