Idir is my Pathfidner 2nd Edition gnoll. His mother is a high ranking strong warrior whose signature weapon is a polearm. When Idir was born, everyone in the tribe expected him to follow in his mother's footsteps and become good with a polearm too. Unfortuantely, he was so bad that the tribe left hin behind.
What none of them knew was that Idir wasn't destined to be a fighter, but a spell casting witch. His patron is the Devourer of Decay, which I interpetted in two ways:
1) A devourer that decays things that it consumes;
2) A devoruer that consumes decay itself.
I thus concluded that Idir's Patron and therefore his own theme was that he took life in order to give it away.