Bceilieod (3.5e Deity)

Summary::Bceilieod teaches that all lives are equal.

The hurried shiftings of septillions of bacteria slowly created a deity that felt every life to an equal extent. Due to the vastly greater number of microbial organisms than larger entities, Bceilieod understands the lives of multicellular organisms primarily from their affect on the diseases and gut bacteria living inside them. The short lifespans of most living things quickly made him accept the inevitability of death.

Even though Bceilieod is a god of life, he gladly accepts creatures such as zombies.

Dogma
Guts are one of the best places for bacteria and other microorganisms. Thus, all Bceilieodites support the existence of guts by only eating entities that don't have them, such as plants. Most people don't really enjoy suffering from diseases; Bceilieod accepts this, and does not require the laypeople to seek out infections.

Bceilieodites do not bury their dead; instead, they respectfully cut their dead into small pieces and scatter those pieces in the general area around their town.

The goodness of an action is primarily measured by the number of lives it creates or destroys. For example, annihilating a million disease-less creatures is millions of times less horrible than casting remove disease on someone. Murder is still a capital offense, but your death will only be horrific and slow if you disposed of the body in the wrong way.

Certain splinter groups of Bceilieodites reject that the lives of microscopic organisms are worth respecting. They eat only fruit, bacterial mats, mold, algae, and magically created food. Members of these splinter groups are generally intensely pacifistic, going to great lengths to avoid harming insects, often brushing the ground where they are about to step or levitating to avoid walking on bugs and flowers. While members of these splinter groups are often trusted and accepted by non-Bceilieodites, true Bceilieodites hate them with a passion for what they perceive as completely misdirected empathy.

Clergy and Temples
The temples of Bceilieod are really just massive mounds of rotting organic matter. Preachers of the faith stand atop (or in, when it's mushy) these mounds to tell their stories of the glorious disease-spreading heroes, martyrs, and terraformers of Bceilieod.

Clerics of Bceilieod, and others who are truly devout, will usually be host to a myriad of visible diseases. The instinctive revulsion felt by those who observe them is carefully turned to feelings of awe and horror at their presence, in order to control the laypeople.

Mechanical Effect: Clerics of Bceilieod can spontaneously cast both Inflict and Cure spells independent of their alignment, although they have to choose which type they can use for a day when they do their prayers. However, they cannot cast any spells that could remove a disease, provide a save against a disease, or provide a bonus to a save against a disease.

Pantheon
Bceilieod is a natural counterpart to Vratimsgot, but he's also slightly redundant in a setting where she exists.