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Ceyannan
The Shepherd (planar psychopomp usher of final words, lost souls, searches [they/them] / N)
Portfolio: Final words, lost souls and searches
Realm: Wanders the Prime and Astral / River of Souls
Alignment: N
Ceyannan is a monitor demipower who arose from the River of Souls itself, born from the energy mortals expend resisting death and clinging to life. This entity is deeply connected to the whole experience of mortality—the chant goes that there’s somehow a fragment of the Shepherd residing in every mortal heart. This connection allows Ceyannan to sense those who attempt to escape death’s embrace, making them a relentless pursuer of lost souls.
Ceyannan’s primary mission is to gather wayward souls—those lost, stolen, or stubbornly resisting their fate—and return them to the Boneyard. There is a belief that when the last mortal dies and Ceyannan becomes whole again, they will finally embrace death themselves. Until that time, they tirelessly hunt for missing souls, harboring a particular animosity towards beings that destroy souls or twist them into undeath. Additionally, Ceyannan holds the responsibility of containing souls that pose existential threats to the cosmos. They possess the ability to trap the soul of a recently deceased sentient creature within a soul gem.
Physically, Ceyannan is described as having bone-white flesh, and a humanoid frame with wings covered in oily, black feathers reminiscent of a carrion bird. They are often depicted wielding the Apostasy, a shepherd’s crook with the power to extract a mortal soul’s faith in the powers. Ceyannan does not claim a specific realm as their own. Instead, they wander the Material Plane and the River of Souls, ever vigilant in their quest to recover the fragments of themselves lost within mortal hearts.
Source: Concordance of Rivals [PF1e] p7
Compiled by: Jon Winter-Holt—drawing heavily from Pathfinder 1e Concordance of Rivals