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The Shepherd was a primordial god and the guardian of the Veil. The Shepherd is the only primordial to have never adopted an official dominion, leading to it being classified a god of the concepts it seemed to represent. With the Shepherd’s only true goal being to protect the Veil, this made it a god of anti-magic (as arcane magic is sourced from the Veil) and undeath (as it stopped mortal souls from coming back through).
The exact reason why the Shepherd chose to devote itself to protecting the Veil is unknown. Originally, it was thought that the primordials may have wished to have more jurisdiction over the arcane, rightfully fearing the power it might have in mortal hands. In recent years, it is also theorised that the primordials may have been protecting Eternus from something from beyond the Veil, such as a Godeater.
It created Dimeritium as a side-effect of its attempts to sever the Veil from the physical realm, which was most concentrated in the plane of Pandemonium.