Leviathan

Leviathan, alos known as The Sleeping God, is a powerful prince of Hell. He communicates to his Lemure and Aboleth servants mainly through telepathy, and he is locked in slumber at the bottom of the River Styx. He tempts men into caution and inaction when what they love is at stake, and then breaks them into mere glass-eyed shells, incapable of changing their fate after all is lost. He embodies the Sin of Sloth.

Domain
Leviathan rules over the level of Hell known as Styx, where the River of Despair intersects the Nine Hells of Baator. It is a watery grave for some city long forgotten, its inhabitant's corpses still rotting, floating in the kelp filled morass, their souls ripped from their bodies many years too early. When Leviathan wills it, their corpses begin to move again, and drag unlucky explorers down to a watery grave. In the center of it all, Leviathan sleeps, his form too massive to be comprehended, in what was once the Citadel of this mighty Empire. He is surrounded by his Aboleth servants, horrors from before, which pipe eternally on their demonic flutes, to soothe their master's mind, and let him sleep. Leviathan will awake again from his slumber at the end of days, when he is fortold to make a waste of the happy fields of Elysium. For reasons unknown, Leviathan sleeps. But his hellish servants whisper in hushed tones of evils still darker than Kuthian himself. Perhaps it is to combat them that Leviathan gathers his strength.

Summoning
To summon an avatar of Leviathan's sleeping mind, the sunmmoner must first go to a body of water. She must throw a lovely piece of art, whetted with their own blood into the rushing liquid, and smash it. A prayer must then be chanted-

"Oh great Leviathan, King of the Deep, Sleeping lord of my soul, I rouse you from your slumber! For all my life, I lived uninlightened, scurrying about this way and that, unitl I beheld your unholy visage! I belong to you, now, and my will is yours, if you but grant me this small boon, my lord and master, in this world and the next! I forsake the gods of action and light, and pledge my soul to thee, king of all I know!"

The summoner must then "let go" and allow themselves to fall into the water, where they will begin to drown. The summoner must not fight against the water rushing into their lungs, nor thrash as the darkness of death closes in on them. This symbolizes the summoner's willingness to have his own will supplanted by that Leviathan. If they have pleased Leviathan with their actions, they will awake on the edge of the water, with a vision of his visage staring down at them.