Fuku
God of curses
(also shadowy sinister things)
The first mention of fuku comes in the writings of peoples conquered by the Empire that spanned a continent, as a way of explaining what had happened to them. The disease that ravaged their people was fuku. The weapons the intruders brought, so unlike anything they'd ever seen before was fuku. The political turmoil that allowed these invaders to access local help was fuku. Basically fuku was used as a term to collectively refer to the elements that made imperial conquest possible. Literally translated it means "fate" although "curse" would be a more accurate translation. Anyways, what initially referred to the curse of the empire on its subject peoples later seeped into the general language and ideas of the populace. Now fuku could refer to one's misfortune in their love life. It can refer to feudalism and rigidity of the power structure.
After the eventual conversion of conquered people's to some form of the imperial faith, fuku became a god in the newly introduced pantheon, as many missionaries who came from an imperial back ground, could not understand the concept of fuku and assumed it to be some sort of god. He was never a major god in any of the conquered people's pantheon no matter what word they used for him. He had no temples, had no priests dedicated to his worship, for what use did people have for a curse? Into him was folded other negative gods like chaos and despair. Then during the decline of the Empire, when barbarian waves sapped imperial manpower, disastrous storms harmed trade and the breakdown of imperial authority in the face of civil wars, the Imperial elite was forced to grant more rights to locals and local authority increased. And quietly the people whispered "Fuku has descended on the empire". And so temples were dedicated to him as the savior of the people and their autonomy. His role was also greatly expanded. He became a patron of thieves and other figures considered curses upon polite society, and with this, he became the god of collusion and treachery and betrayal and all manners of shadowy sinister things.
Currently: He is envisioned as an invisible mist throughout lands where belief in him is held, that indirectly causes misfortunes. Sometimes he might be more present near a place or a person in which case he causes curses. And then sometimes he can materialize in a location due to the density of the mist, and play a more active role. Thus he is most often reported being seen in paces with great curses, such as the site of genocides, or the lands of an unjust king. He can with great focus, keep himself together and go elsewhere, but it requires effort on his part, and he prefers to work through agents imbued with his power.
How he works: He is a god to be feared, respected and venerated though few love him. He can be called upon to lift curses, although he more often than not places them as means of punishment and teaching.
Personality: A sardonic man, with a dry wit and an easy smile, he loves theatrics, and when he personally places a curse (as he did on the king who salted a city and sold its people as slaves for a minor crime) he does so with theatrical relish and makes the punishment fit the crime (the king for his petty vengeance was cursed so that his heart would grow smaller and smaller, until it became too small to support the body and the king died of lack of oxygen). He is not without a sense of justice and will sometimes visit retribution through curses, but this is only for those people would expect better from. For example, he will patron thieves and punish kings because of what he expects from both are different.
Major action: create a book of secrets. And I mean all the secrets. So the average human will be flipping through the book trying to find the secret they want, and find like a hundred about how the butcher is having an affair with the baker's wife (trivial to you but not the baker) or some trivial thing like that.
Minor action: Sprout a temple from an area there has been a great curse.
Minor action: Imbue a follower with power to place a curse on a man that has been too arrogant and teach him a lesson.
