BIHROT is one of the youngest Gods of the current age, and yet one of the more powerful. Bihrot is generally seen as a ‘competitor’ to Lekhren, and has his roots in the Human Pantheon.

Bihrot is generally accepted to represent trade, prosperity and innovation—he is effectively the God of Economy, and is popular among human traders and businessmen in Starpeak and some of the remaining royal territories. Bihrot is one of the few Gods in the Human Pantheon to completely survive the Last Words.

As the God of Economy, Bihrot is generally worshipped for success in business. Some of the wealthiest people in the world heavily worship Bihrot, and are responsible for contributing plentiful infrastructure and formalization to Bihrot’s worship. There are multiple temples to Bihrot in Starpeak alone, and scores of them throughout Woodveil and the Worldseam.

People choose to worship Bihrot either for success in personal ventures such as their careers, to more commonly for success in opening and sustaining their own businesses. Politicians and wealthy businessmen are Bihrot’s most common and most devout worshippers, and some businesses formalize worship of Bihrot as an important facet of their work.

This has lead to an interesting rise in power for Bihrot particularly in the last decade. Bihrot, in truth, is a shrewd, unkind man. He represents treachery, corporatism and self-interest. Though Bihrot has many followers who are in poverty or only making a living, Bihrot is most influenced by those who guide the worship and who are the most devout—the wealthy.

Now, though, the wealthy are no longer merely aristocrats; the rise of corporatism in an increasingly modern economy has given way to a new set of powerful folk. Some religious scholars refer to Bihrot as a ‘poisoned’ God, so described because he is vastly different from his original incarnation. When he first became prominent, Bihrot was seen as a cultural ‘splinter’ of Lekhren. Humans simultaneously shunned Lekhren for their foreign origin while also desperately seeking for a God that could play a similar role, giving rise to Bihrot.

As corporatism began to grow, Bihrot’s most devout had become extremely wealthy—and because they were so devout, and had become so successful under Bihrot’s guidance, Bihrot’s followers listened to them and followed in their example. These unethical, exploitative corporate magnates set the tone for an explosion of worship in Bihrot, and so Bihrot steadily became less and less like his original self.

Now, Bihrot is a deal-maker known to encourage pure, unfettered self-interest. Colored by the worst excesses of the business world in Elstren and the increasing worship of wealth, Bihrot is generally regarded as untrustworthy and selfish.

Bihrot is sometimes seen as the successor to En, in that he has a tendency to make unfavorable deals with people. Bihrot enjoys corporate warfare and has a tendency to stoke conflicts whenever possible. However he may toy with them, Bihrot is most favorable towards the kinds of people who would end up magnates anyway—cruelly self-interested, unempathetic and cutthroat individuals.

In a way, Bihrot is both a boon and a bane to the corporate world—his gleeful willingness to secretly help those he finds entertaining leads to the creation of vicious corporate competition, but even though he pits them against each other, the powerful corporate empires he has created all continue worshipping him, and their influence begets more worship from the less wealthy.

To the less wealthy and less cutthroat, Bihrot poses a risk—he is easy to mistake for a more benevolent God, and he revels in tricking people into giving far more of themselves to him than he earns through his support. Small businesses that earn his support may truly be his chosen—or, he may be stealthily dismantling them through misguidance, whether for his own amusement or for the delight of a far more wealthy and influential competitor.

Once a figure representing fair trade, trust and honesty, Bihrot has been steadily corrupted by the path of his followers. Now, he’s capricious, cruel and motivated by power—just like those who worship him the most fervently. Though Bihrot has stayed under the radar as a simple mercantile God that serves humanity, some religious scholars have noticed and documented his unusual ascension, and it is slowly being realized that Bihrot is among the most dangerous and malicious Gods in the history of Elstren.

Worship of Bihrot is not permitted in cities connected to the Verdant Grasp as a consequence of this.