Zuvassin
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Zuvassin is a renegade Chaos God in the fictional universe of Warhammer Fantasy.
Zuvassin the Undoer appeared in the fourth volume of The Enemy Within campaign for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Something Rotten in Kislev (1988) along with the renegade Chaos God Necoho. Both gods were originally intended to be Malal, though this was dropped when the owners of the character left GW. As such these gods fill the void left when Malal was removed. It has been theorized that these two gods are the minor aspects of Malal, and represent the duel sides of Malal's symbol.
Zuvassin is a spoiler, constantly striving to undo the things which others have done and to soil the things which others seek to do. His brand of Chaos leads him to ensure that nothing turns out as expected, and that plans always go awry. He does not confine his sabotage to Chaos, but will quite cheerfully spoil anything for anyone; however, because he is a Chaos God who acts against Chaos, he has been classified by Human scholars as a Renegade God. He may appear to his followers in a variety of forms, often choosing the form of the thing they fear most, or a member of their own race who is hideously deformed. In any form he takes, he is always laughing. Zuvassin's symbol is a double ended Y-shape, normally incomplete or incorrectly drawn in some way; a part may be missing, or something may have been added.
While his chief success to date have been in Bolgasgrad, a town in Kislev, Zuvassin has a handful of cults worshipping him throughout the Old World. Wherever people want things to go wrong, he is there to offer his services - and to make their plans go wrong in the process. He has even been known to take over cults which think they are worshipping other Chaos Gods, in order to revel in the confusion and misery of letting them down.
Zuvassin is able to undo everything, even removing the Chaos influence from an individual by clearing his mutations. Given to his care, even a Beastman can be turned back in human form, but is likely to get killed in the process.
Like most of the other Chaos Gods, Zuvassin is worshipped secretly for the most part, in makeshift temples hidden in cellars or woodland clearings. The temple of the Ancient Allies in Bolgasgrad is the only Known temple in the Old World, but - as always - this does not mean that that there are not any others as yet undiscovered.
Zuvassin is nominally an enemy of all Chaos, including the other Renegade Gods, but he has been known to ally himself with other Gods of Chaos in order to spoil plans elsewhere; for instance, he might decide to help Khorne thwart Slaanesh (or vice-versa), if one of the Chaos Gods has a scheme which looks like it can't fail.
Zuvassin has no holy days as such, although in Bolgasgrad a regular service to him is held on Backertag.
Like most Chaos Gods, Zuvassin will never refuse anyone who is foolish enough to offer him their loyalty; even the most exhaustive of terms will not worry him, as he is confident of being able to make things go wrong if it suits him to do so.
Zuvassin imposes no restrictions upon his followers, since any character who is truly imbued with his spirit would be able to make any instructions misfire.
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