Tlazolli (3.5e Deity)

=Tlazolli=

The bloated Tlazolli appears as a grossly overweight brachyura with expanded shell to handle his mass, and no face mask or lower half, his lower body erupting into a cancerous swarm of tentacles worming around. He has no face, his face instead an explosion of tentacles to which he gives birth to various monsters of the deep. In spite of his terrible appearance, he is seen as a generally calm, nay, loving figure, as it is he who tends to the dead souls of the brachyura, reincarnating them as proud sea creatures.

Dogma
brachyura have to a "god of nature". Worshiping him is as simple as respecting the natural underwater environment.]]  Such respect does not extend to the surface, but unlike the other gods he tends to be somewhat passive in his desire to consume the land under endless waves.

Clergy and Temples
Tlazolli's temples appear organic, sometimes made out of shells and bones of giant sea creatures, also fitting into the death theme as his role of watcher of the underworld. Clergy to him are often druids or druidic in theme.

Pantheon
Tlazolli is part of the brachyura pantheon.