Vashir is a hollow piece of the heavens that consumes the gifts of others yet can never make what it envies its own.
It does not want what you possess. It wants the world in which you never possessed it.
The absence shaped like a star
Vashir is said to have formed where one fragment of Earin tore through the night sky and left an emptiness that learned to hunger. It appears as a tall figure made from starless space, its edges illuminated by light stolen from nearby things.
The Hollow Star cannot create. It can imitate beauty, authority and affection, but each stolen quality becomes colder in its keeping.
The ministry of envy
Vashir enters through comparison. Its victims cease to desire a good life and begin to desire that another person lose theirs. Cults encourage elaborate public generosity followed by private accounting of who received more honour.
The god's miracles transfer rather than grant: one voice strengthens as another fails, one field blooms while its neighbour withers. Every blessing contains an unseen subtraction.
Starless observatories
Its shrines occupy towers where every window has been blacked out except one narrow opening. Worshippers name something beloved by another and burn a likeness of it beneath the opening.
Senior devotees wear mirrored jewellery that reflects everyone except the wearer. Prolonged service leaves them unable to describe their own face, desires or history without reference to someone else.
The defence of gratitude
Priests opposing Vashir practice specific gratitude rather than forced contentment. They name what is good, what is absent and what injustice should still be changed, refusing the god's lie that another person's joy caused their lack.
Vashir retreats from celebrations where credit is shared accurately. Nothing starves the Hollow Star more reliably than admiration that does not diminish the admirer.
Notes and record
This article combines campaign record, spoken lore and the mythic account preserved in the Earin archive.