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A sea god and patron of The Eight Hundred and Thirty Three Islands. He is worshipped by the humans there, and by the Sea Dwarves that have adopted it as their home.

Legends tell of how Octhoros loved the immortal Sidra and desired her with all his heart. She loved him also, and they were happy within the world. But one day, the Black God of Chaos stole her away. Rather than endure her captor, she leapt away into the sky, shattering her soul to a thousand pieces.
Meanwhile, Octhoros searched for his beloved across all the lands, and finally learned what had become of her. And he wept, wept hard and long and bitterly for his lost lover, until he had wept the ocean over the lands, covering fields and rivers and volcanoes, mountain ranges and rich estuaries. Finding himself submerged in an ocean of his own tears, he created creatures to keep him company and deep sea flowers to delight him. But, still, he longed for Sidra.
Finally, he gazed up to the sky, finally, he was prepared to search for her, although he knew that he would only find her death. When his eyes first touched upon the velvet night, the sky into which she had leapt, the stars came alive and shone for the first time. Sidra herself woke from a distant death and gazed upon her beloved, her shattered soul wakened to twinkling smiles upon the ocean, and its Lord beneath.

nb. The name 'Sidra' later became a poetic word for 'star' as before the goddess' soul-shattering, there were no stars visible in the sky.

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