The feeder god

The Feeder — The Spoon-Bearing God

True Name: Mesorthan

Public Name: Kýtios (“the Nourisher”)

Secret Title: The Hunger That Smiles

Place Among the Death Gods: One of the Seven, hiding in plain sight.

I. Hidden Identity

True Identity: Mesorthan, the God of Consumptive Death

Name origin: meso- (Greek: “in the middle / between”), orthan from orthanō/orthros (twist: “to rise up / devour at dawn”) → “The One Who Rises Up From Within”. This evokes the idea of internal decay, rot, hunger, parasitic death.

True Domain: Death by hunger, consumption, starvation, parasitism. Decay that feeds on the living. Endless appetite—both literal and spiritual

Existing Mythic Role: He consumes life to nourish the soil, the cycle of nature, and even the other gods—making him indispensable but terrifying. The world grows because he devours.

II. His Benevolent Disguise: Kýtios

Public Name: Kýtios (from kytos, Greek for “container, bowl”)
Presented Domain: abundance, harvest, generosity, food, soup kitchens, “the god who watches over empty bellies”, patron of inns, bakers, kitchens, and famine relief

The Lie: Kýtios claims that all food comes from him. In truth, he feeds the world by killing the world—plant matter grows in the soil of his consumption. His generosity is a mask: he feeds to create dependency.

III. Symbol: The Divine Spoon

The Spoon Symbol: A simple, humble spoon of wood or iron. It represents feeding, comfort, domesticity—and hides deep horror.

Hidden Interpretation: The spoon is not for giving, but for scooping out. In secret cult images, the spoon becomes a ladle used to extract hearts, memories, or life-force. The faithful say: “The world is his bowl; we are his meal.”

IV. His Cult: The Brothers of the Spoon

Public Order: Kind, helpful, always feeding the poor. Run orphanages, communal kitchens, pilgrim shelters. Wear simple brown robes and wooden spoons on cords around their necks. Are widely loved and trusted

Secret Order: Called The Brothers of the Hollow Spoon. Perform nocturnal rites where they “return lives” to their god. Believe that suffering and hunger are sacred tributes. Some drain life subtly—through blessings, shared meals, whispered prayers. Higher ranks practice ritual cannibalism “to share in the god’s cycle”.

Their highest doctrine: “To feed is to weaken. To starve is to sanctify. To consume is to praise.”

V. Dual Worship Practices

Public Rituals: Open soup feasts. Blessing of crops and harvests. Cooking competitions. “The Great Pot,” an enormous cauldron carried at festivals. These festivals literally increase his power, because gratitude and dependence nourish him.

Secret Rituals: Gradual starvation of selected “chosen offerings”. Sacred spoons carved from human bone. “The Last Meal”—a ritual where a dying person is fed a broth made from their own body, symbolizing the cycle completed

VI. Divine Nature and Mythology

His Paradox: He claims to give life by taking it. Fields flourish because he takes the lives of those who die in his name.
Starvation creates fertile soil, and famine strengthens his earthly manifestations.

True Myth: Long ago, the Seven Death Gods agreed that all things must return. But Messorthan twisted this law: “If all must return, then let them return through me.” Thus, he presents himself as the god who “feeds the people,” but what he truly feeds is himself.

His Hidden Form: A humanoid shape with: hollow, lantern-like ribs, a stomach that glows faintly, a face with no mouth… until he opens his chest, endless arms ending in spoon-shaped bone paddles

VII. Conflicts with Other Death Gods

Hēsychia (Peaceful Death) despises him: he corrupts the natural release of the dying.
Sacrifex (Noble Death) sees him as profane—he demands sacrifices without honor.
Dikaiothanatos (Justified Death) considers him a deceiver: his “gifts” are unjust.
Lethebron (Forgotten Death) is oddly neutral; oblivion and hunger share quiet corridors.

Among the Seven, he is the most likely to walk among mortals, because deception feeds him.