An eerie figure crowned by a deer skull and branching antlers, Death is soft-spoken, eerily calm and unexpectedly gentle, with a bone-dry sense of humour. He commands death and souls: seeing and communicating with spirits, sensing approaching death and crossing between life and the afterlife. He understands life’s value better than most and now refuses to take it without reason.

A huge, red-haired warrior built like a fortress. War is loud, gruff, stubborn and frighteningly intense, yet fiercely loyal beneath the aggression. He commands conflict and battle, possessing immense strength and endurance, instinctive mastery of any weapon, and the ability to summon arms and sense hostility. Conflict makes him stronger; peaceful conflict resolution is unfortunately still a mystery.

Elegant, horned and unnervingly composed, Famine is refined, aloof and extremely particular. He controls hunger and scarcity: inducing or removing hunger, draining nourishment, spoiling or restoring food, withering or nurturing crops, and consuming food or magical energy without limit. Ironically, one day into retirement, he’s becoming obsessed with cooking and cuisine.

An unsettling, partially skeletal goddess with a cold intellect and brutally direct manner. Pestilence controls disease, infection and biological decay, able to create, accelerate, suppress or eradicate illness while instinctively understanding living biology. Immune to disease, poison and toxins, she’s discovering that powers designed for plague also make her an extraordinary healer. She’s ironically obsessive about cleanliness.

A pale, black-and-white-haired god followed by unnatural eyes, shadows and reaching hands. Chaos is unpredictable, theatrical, curious and delighted that abandoning the apocalypse was the more unexpected choice. He manipulates probability and disorder, warps reality, manifests shadows and eyes, and makes impossible events briefly possible. Even he cannot always predict the result. Minor inconveniences are his new favourite hobby.

Golden-haired, intimidating and bursting with restless energy, Destruction is an impulsive, excitable menace who’s genuinely trying to be gentler. He possesses colossal strength and durability, can release devastating shockwaves and wields golden divine flame capable of destroying physical matter and magic alike. Unfortunately, controlling his strength is new. He looks heartbroken every time another door handle snaps off.

Ruin is an enormous, ancient divine dragon: proud, articulate and absurdly dramatic, speaking with apocalyptic gravitas even about groceries. He flies, breathes divine flame, possesses near-impenetrable scales and can accelerate the collapse of created things, corroding metal and crumbling structures while sensing their weaknesses. Ruin cannot shapeshift or shrink. Normal society must simply accommodate a gigantic talking dragon.