SKORKOS

God of Fire

Skorkos is the Sun God, the one who assumed the Fire mantle after the Elemental Lords were exiled.  He is said to reside in the Sun, by obligation as much as by choice.  It is his duty to ensure that the Sun continues its daily pursuit of the Moon, rising from the East and setting in the West.  There was a time when Skorkos was amongst the most frequently seen of all the Younger Gods, a man wreathed in flame and generally laughing.  However, that was long before the gods are said to have departed.

Skorkos caused the first major upset amongst the Younger Gods, with one of the greatest single improvements to the sentient race of Man.  He gave to them the ability to make fire, which improved their quality of life no end.  However, this was an action that had already been forbidden by the other gods, and as such Skorkos was acting without their consent.  His work was too important to leave undone, and none wished to abandon their own tasks to take his in hand, and so Skorkos was banished to the Sun, and told not to step foot on Erythia itself again.  Still, he watched the world below him, and grew unhappy as he could watch but not take part in what he could see below.

Skorkos is a highly impetuous god, earnest and proud.  He takes his work extremely seriously, and would not neglect it, but his impetuous nature, and the ignominy of his banishment combined to put a bitterness in the Sun God that had not been there before, and that would lead to problems later in Erythian history.