The True Judge

The True Judge (TTJ) is a primordial entity that is not quite like a god, this being has not true name, nor true form but is most often referred to as "The True Judge" by scholars, this being enforces justice and order, but in ways a mortal can never fully understand. Rarely will the Judge appear in its full presence, instead sending scions of itself around the world, to deal with injustice from a warlord who murders innocents, to a child who steals a sweet. The Judge is the source of guilt, regret and grief, and almost never directly enforces its strange and terrifying codes. Only when something threatens the stability of the world, will it manifest itself in reality.

There have been very few known instances of The True Judge manifesting, having been at least centuries since the last known instance, but it can be inferred by the accounts of those who lived at the time, as whenever it enters our world, every man, woman and child feels intense guilt over even the smallest of small acts of injustice. Something as simple as stealing a loaf of bread years previously apparently lead to weeks of nightmares, depression and traveling for miles in search of someone to apologize to. What the actual manifestation was doing, we cannot know, but we do have an idea where it was, as every single person within a hundred miles was discovered to have gone insane, and those who had committed more serious crimes appear to have died from shock.

While The True Judge itself is relatively unknown to most, many its various scions are known an often mistaken as gods by commoners. While the total number may be in the thousands, if not more, there are about 100 named scions, including several well known "minor gods" such as Phalix the Kind, Melto who Purges, and Drave, the executioner.
The True Judge's Scions are not gods in the same sense that offspring of other primordials are, but are more like reflections of certain aspects of The True Judge's nature.

It's children are not gods, and not divine servants in the same way other gods and primordials spawn them. TTJ's children are fragments of its own presence and power called Scions.
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Drave, the Executioner is one of the most feared scions of TTJ, because of how active he is. Drave, like the other scions, only manifests in physical form in extreme and epic situations, but he is constantly present on the world, and is usually the last scion to affect someone, because few survive meeting him. But he does not kill anyone, as that is not his way. Instead, as the more direct scholars refer to him, he is the god of suicides. It is unknown why some people are driven to suicide for minor things, while others are spared. Maybe they are resistant, or maybe we cannot understand the way universal justice and penance works. But for whatever reason, once someone has been affected by Drave, they will almost certainly attempt to take their own life.
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Phalix the Kind is one of the most unique scions of TTJ. It appears often in physical or at least partly physical form, and communicated directly to people. For a while it was thought to be its own being, but it revealed its true nature.

Despite appearing to many, it seems to rarely stick to the same form. Sometimes it appears as male, sometimes female, often neither, but its most common form is ghostly in appearance.

Phalix claims to exist to help us. He claims that guilt is more of a side effect of TTJ's power, and wants to help mortals avoid its wrath. However, Phalix, while called kind, is still not thinking remotely similar to how a mortal does, and its true motivations are unknown.

While it is currently not disputed that Phalix is a scion of TTJ, many different account of its activities combined with intense readings of its statements has led many scholars to warn that Phalix is still very dangerous and capable of committing terrible acts on those who sin.
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Melto who purges is a very conflicting god. A scion of TTJ, it never manifests itself physically, but it does appear to those it mentally latches onto, in the form of a horrible mass of tentacles and eyes. It finds those who are truly repentant, and supposedly strips them of their guilt, and they emerge changed people, often becoming monks or priests. For those who are visited by Melto and successfully give up their guilt, Melto gave them a blessing, which allowed them to do good. But many scholars see the dark side of Melto. Many of those who are visited by the scion are driven insane, with too many of their memories and too much of their personalities tied to the guilt that is suddenly ripped from their minds. Melto is also considered the most direct of the scions. While the others create emotions that can be resisted by those with strong will, Melto rips into the minds of its victims directly, effectively depriving them of free will. And many of those who accept Melto as a blessing find that as time goes on, the memories are never quite gone, lingering inside of them until they are able to break into the mind of the individual, crippling him or her with terrifying images. Still, the promise of a fresh start is attractive enough that many people worship Melto, hoping for its blessing, even though most scholars argue that it cannot even comprehend devotion, much less desire it.