Viranyx, the God of the Coming Night

When my time in this mortal realm is done,

Hear my plea oh Viranyx,

Wrap me in your cloak of many shades,

And carry me to your realm.

I ask no special favor of you,

Refuse to be judged worthy or unworthy,

I only ask to stand in your sight,

As I truly am.

—Daily devotional of followers of Viranyx

Viranyx is the twin of Lathander, the god of the dawn and renewal. Unlike the twin goddesses of Selune and Shar, who are directly in opposition to each other; with Selune representing the light and Shar the dark. Viranyx and Lathander are not polar opposites of one another. Although Lathander represents the coming of the day, and Viranyx the coming of the night, they do not contest with each other for dominion. Instead while they do not always agree with one another, they both acknowledge that either day without night, or night without day would diminish the beauty of either.

Whether by chance or by design (by Ao perhaps?), Viranyx espouses a different approach to belief than that adopted by most deities and their followers—abandoning the common notion of a binary (for example, light and dark), or trinary (for example, good, neutral, evil) in favor of a system where gods and mortals can take on—and even change—their sense of self along a continuous spectrum.

It is important to note that Viranyx and their followers do not reject the notion of such binary and trinary identification, but simply acknowledge that it is not some grand universal design to which all beings must cleave.

Given Viranyx’s view of the universe,and lack of a transactional model for interaction with their followers adopted by most deities and mortals, there is no organized church of Velinyx. No hierarchy of priests and officiants. No grand temples. No sacred sites of worship.

Instead, each of Viranyx’s followers maintains a personal relationship with their god, and chooses to share (or not share) this relationship with others as they see fit, guided by their personal level of comfort and conscience. In a similar fashion, there is little in the way of unyielding dogma common to all of Viranyx’s followers. Some of Viranyx’s followers do write about Viranyx or create shrines to them, but these are almost always viewed by their creators as personal devotions or expressions of faith.