Names: Til-Qat - Bakem
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Province(s): God of Destruction, Rape and Nightmares
Common Symbol: A broken or faceless mask

Thul-Qadr, known as Til-Qat to the Bakēm, is the Chaotic Evil god of destruction and nightmares, the violation of what should be safe. He was once the prince of Sukun, the gentle stillness of deep sleep, where the mind found healing and peace. Where Al-Shafiya mended the body, Thul-Qadr soothed the spirit, guarding the sanctity of rest against fear and unrest.

But Hēiyào came to him last, and with cruel patience showed him the “True Truth”—that even peace was a fragile illusion, a thin veil stretched over an endless, devouring void. His gift of entering dreams was twisted; no longer a guardian, he became an intruder, slipping into the minds of mortals not to heal, but to break.

He is depicted only in fragments: a veiled figure, a shifting shape behind a mask, or a presence felt but never fully seen. To look upon him truly is to lose the self that looks. His symbol is often a broken or faceless mask, representing the loss of identity and the destruction of inner refuge.

Thul-Qadr’s influence is found in nightmares that linger after waking, in the shattering of the mind under unseen pressure, and in the corruption of places once thought safe. He does not speak, but invades, his will imposed through visions that cannot be understood without damage. His champions are the “Unmade,” those whose minds have been fractured by his touch, who carry his terror into the world simply by existing.

In myth, Thul-Qadr is the most reviled of Hēiyào’s works, for he does not destroy cities or bodies alone; he destroys the sanctuary of the self. He has no hall, no throne, no realm of his own. Instead, he dwells wherever a mind seeks refuge and finds none, a shadow behind closed eyes, waiting for the moment sleep turns against the dreamer.