Religions & Philosophies
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Dwarven (Khuzdi) Pantheon
The Dwarven pantheon…
| Name | Align. | Portfolio |
| Lagmud the Torchbearer | LG | Death, cycles, time, fate, peace |
| Puln the Creator | LG | Creation, craft, construction, dwarves |
| Ogdar the Teacher | LG | Knowledge, patience, lore |
| Bodain the Lawgiver | LN | Law, justice, guardians, runes |
| Kodak the Brazen Smith | LN | the Forge, smithing, metals, hard work |
| Brongar the Stonemason | LN | Masonry, stones, mining, caverns, gems |
| Kalgrod the Vaultkeeper | LN | Wealth, trade, contracts, treasures, vaults |
| Nuegar the Taskmaster | LE | Toil, pain, servitude, tyranny |
| Brog the Hearthmaster | NG | Family, drink, food, community, love |
| Rolk the Fierce Warmaster | N | War, strength, tactics, planning |
| Nuegar the Dark Shadow | NE | Darkness, deception, unknown, fear |
| Nuegar the Dark Mage | NE | Dark magic, power, ambition, necromancy |
| Malvrok the Beastlord | CE | Monsters, beasts, slaughter, hunting, hunger |
Lagmud
“the Torchbearer”
God of death, cycles, time, fate, and peace.
Alignment: Lawful Good
Symbol: A burning torch
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: lay bodies to rest, destroy undead
Anathema: create undead, desecrate a corpse, rob a tomb
Follower Alignments: LG, NG, LN, N
Avatar: A torch-bearing dwarf with a gray beard and white robes.
Clerical Orders: The Torchbearers (clergy, tomb-keepers)
Worshipers: Dwarves in mourning, seers, mediators.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal
Divine Skill: Medicine
Favored Weapon: mace
Domains: death, fate, healing, truth, time, vigil
Cleric Spells: 1st: mindlink, 3rd: ghostly weapon, 4th: phantasmal killer
Puln
“the Creator, the Forgefather”
God of creation, craft, construction, and Dwarves.
Alignment: Lawful Good
Symbol: A hammer and a scroll.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: create and craft new things, respect your ancestors and serve your people, be honorable and forthright, keep your word
Anathema: intentionally create inferior craftwork, disrespect your ancestors, tell lies or cheat someone
Follower Alignments: LG, LN, NG, N
Avatar: A large dwarf with a hammer and a scroll.
Clerical Orders: the Scrolls of the Forgefather (clergy/historians), the Hammer Collective (clergy/craftsmen guild)
Worshipers: All Dwarves, craftsman, tinkerers, architects, many communities.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal
Divine Skill: Crafting
Favored Weapon: warhammer
Domains: creation, duty, earth, family, protection
Cleric Spells: 1st: mindlink, 3rd: earthbind, 4th: creation
Ogdar
“the Teacher”
God of knowledge, patience, and lore.
Alignment: Lawful Good
Symbol: A tome covered in Dwarven runes.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: find knowledge and lore
Anathema: keep knowledge to yourself
Follower Alignments: LG, LN, NG, N
Avatar: A gray-bearded dwarf with a staff and a tome.
Clerical Orders: the Teachers of Lore (clergy/teachers)
Worshipers: Teachers, scribes, sages
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal
Divine Skill: Society, or any two Lore skills
Favored Weapon: staff
Domains: knowledge, truth, glyph, perfection
Cleric Spells: 1st: mindlink, 3rd: hypercognition, 6th: scrying
Bodain
“the Lawgiver”
God of law, justice, guardians, and runes.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Symbol: A dwarven shield depicting a hammer covered in runes.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: follow the code of laws, protect the homeland
Anathema: break the code of laws, fail to defend the homeland
Follower Alignments: LN, LG, N
Avatar: A gray-bearded armored dwarf with a sword and shield.
Clerical Orders: the Karakhazi [Mountain-defenders] (knightly order)
Worshipers: Guards, warriors, advocates, judges, most Dwarves
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal
Divine Skill: Society
Favored Weapon: longsword
Domains: protection, truth, glyph, confidence
Cleric Spells: 1st: true strike, 2nd: enlarge, 4th: resilient sphere
Kodak
“the Brazen Smith”
God of the forge, smithing, metals, and hard work.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Symbol: An anvil and hammer.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: respect the forge, work hard and honestly
Anathema: intentionally create inferior works, intentionally procrastinate
Follower Alignments: LN, LG, N
Avatar: A brass dwarf spotted with soot, wearing an apron and wielding a smithing hammer.
Clerical Orders: Order of the Hammer (clergy/labor and smithing guild)
Worshipers: Metalsmiths, blacksmiths, laborers, most Dwarves.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal
Divine Skill: Crafting
Favored Weapon: Warhammer
Domains: creation, fire, earth, perfection, might
Cleric Spells: 1st: burning hands, 3rd: shrink item, 4th: creation
Brongar
“the Stonemason”
God of the masonry, stones, mining, caverns, and gems.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Symbol: A stone wall with a hexagonal gem embedded.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: work hard and honestly, respect the stone
Anathema: intentionally procrastinate, steal, disrespect the stone
Follower Alignments: LN, N, NG, LE
Avatar: A short dwarf with a pickaxe and gemstone eyes.
Clerical Orders: the Brongrungi [stone-miners] (clergy/labor and mining guild)
Worshipers: Laborers, miners, stonemasons, explorers, jewelers, most dwarves.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal
Divine Skill: Athletics
Favored Weapon: Light pick
Domains: earth, darkness, cities, travel
Cleric Spells: 1st: ant haul, 3rd: meld into stone, 4th: shape stone, 5th: wall of stone
Kalgrod
“the Vaultkeeper”
God of wealth, trade, contracts, treasures, and vaults.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Symbol: A golden door embedded with gems.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: earn wealth through hard work and trade, protect the wealth of your people
Anathema: engage in banditry or piracy, steal, undermine the law
Follower Alignments: LN, N, LG, LE
Avatar: A golden dwarf covered in gemstones.
Clerical Orders: the Kalgodi [Wealth-traders] (clergy/bankers/vault keepers)
Worshipers: Traders, goldsmiths, jewelers, most Dwarves.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal or harm
Divine Skill: Society
Favored Weapon: crossbow
Domains: cities, wealth, travel, protection
Cleric Spells: 1st: illusory object, 4th: creation, 7th: magnificent mansion
Nuegar
“the Taskmaster”
God of toil, pain, servitude, and tyranny.
Alternate aspect of Nuegar
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Symbol: A cracked anvil.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: achieve goals at any cost, continually improve your abilities, establish dominance, work ceaselessly
Anathema: fail to work toward goals or grow in skill, relax excessively or give in to sloth
Follower Alignments: LE, LN, NE, N
Avatar: A blackened smith with burning eyes and a hammer.
Clerical Orders: the Rarnoni [eternal workers] (cult of toil)
Worshipers: Toil cults, dwarves obsessed with work.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: harm
Divine Skill: Crafting
Favored Weapon: Light hammer
Domains: duty, earth, trickery, tyranny
Cleric Spells: 1st: ant haul, 3rd: haste, 6th: dominate
Brog
“the Hearthmaster”
God of family, drink, food, community, and love.
Alignment: Neutral Good
Symbol: A fireplace with a cauldron.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: care for your home and family, protect the community, share of your surplus
Anathema: choose yourself over your community, abandon your home in time of need
Follower Alignments: NG, N, LG, CG, LN
Avatar: A kindly, rotund, red-bearded dwarf with a keg of ale and a pot of stew.
Clerical Orders: the Hearthbringers (clergy)
Worshipers: Cooks, brewers, wholesome families, small communities, most Dwarves.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal
Divine Skill: Survival
Favored Weapon: spear
Domains: family, protection, healing, indulgence
Cleric Spells: 1st: shillelagh, 3rd: enthrall, 4th: creation
Rolk
“the Fierce Warmaster”
God of war, strength, tactics, and planning.
Alignment: Neutral
Symbol: Two crossed battleaxes.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: attain victory in fair combat, push your limits, wear armor in combat, protect your people
Anathema: kill prisoners or surrendering foes, win a battle through underhanded tactics or indirect magic, show mercy to the enemies of your people
Follower Alignments: NG, N, LG, CG, LN
Avatar: A heavily armored dwarf wielding two battleaxes.
Clerical Orders: the Garrdain [Order of the Axe] (warriors)
Worshipers: Warriors, guards, tacticians, most Dwarves.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: heal or harm
Divine Skill: Athletics
Favored Weapon: battleaxe
Domains: might, zeal, protection, confidence
Cleric Spells: 1st: true strike, 2nd: enlarge, 4th: weapon storm
Nuegar
“the Dark Shadow”
God of darkness, deception, unknown, and fear.
Main aspect of Nuegar
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Symbol: A black circle with two red eyes.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: spread deception and intrigue, bring darkness to the light, kill the innocent
Anathema: show mercy, help others without compensation, speak truth freely
Follower Alignments: NE, LE, CE, N
Avatar: A faintly humanoid, disembodied shadow with red eyes.
Clerical Orders: the Drengrim (assassins guild), the Drazhgrim (clergy)
Worshipers: Assassins, dark cults, and thieves.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: harm
Divine Skill: Deception
Favored Weapon: shortsword
Domains: darkness, secrecy, trickery, nightmares
Cleric Spells: 1st: illusory disguise, 2nd: invisibility, 3rd: nondetection, 4th: phantasmal killer
Nuegar
“the Dark Mage”
God of dark magic, power, ambition, and necromancy.
Alternate aspect of Nuegar
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Symbol: A skeletal humanoid hand.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: seek methods to become undead, oppose those who seek to destroy undead, protect necromantic secrets
Anathema: harm or destroy undead, sacrifice your life
Follower Alignments: NE, LE, CE, N
Avatar: A black cloaked skeletal dwarf with glowing red eyes.
Clerical Orders: the Osodaroth (clergy/necromancy cult)
Worshipers: Necromancers, death cults, those desperate for power.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: harm
Divine Skill: Deception
Favored Weapon: dagger
Domains: undeath, death, magic, secrecy
Cleric Spells: 1st: grim tendrils, 2nd: false life, 8th: horrid wilting
Malvrok
“the Beastlord”
God of monsters, beasts, slaughter, hunting, and hunger.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Symbol: A blood-red wolf’s paw with extended claws.
Origin: Dwarven
Edicts: sate your appetites, reveal the corruption and flaw in all things
Anathema: deny your appetites, fail to feast on your quarry
Follower Alignments: CE, CN, NE, N
Avatar: A monstrous wolf with three eyes and acidic tongue.
Clerical Orders: Feast of the Slaughter (clergy/hunters)
Worshippers: Depraved hunters, hunting cults.
Devotee Benefits
Divine Font: harm
Divine Skill: Intimidation
Favored Weapon: spiked gauntlet
Domains: might, destruction, nightmares, zeal
Cleric Spells: 1st: magic fang, 3rd: animal form, 4th: dinosaur form, 8th: monstrosity form