Virden is invoked most often by kings, rulers, governors, and judges. All people who hope to have the fair adjudication of power and justice. People who hold authority and seek to be fair and impartial with their authority. Virden is considered to be an intractable arbiter of fairness and justice, he upholds the law above everything else, and there is no sense of pity or mercy, no favoritism or chances to game the system. Virden’s sole virtue is justice and law, he has no concept of shades of grey. Virden seeks absolute justice absolutely and, if he is invoked, will seek to impose it wherever it is lacking.
Many who seek the justice of Virdin walk away ultimately unsatisfied or even horrified. They cannot deny the justice of the god’s verdict. Though all recognize that the god’s treatment was harsh, nearly inhuman. All of it is made even more distressing by the god’s absolute dispassion.
When Virden calls upon his angels, they serve as bailiffs or judges. Overseeing judicial procedures to ensure that proper process was followed, or imposing order if it may be found lacking.
Virden was once a mortal man, the husband of Verdin and the patriarch of a grand family. Tragically their family was destroyed by rivals. Virden became cold and hard, dedicated to making his enemies see justice. The two of them followed the tremors of a dead god and from its knuckles, Virden constructed a set of scales, perfectly calibrated to weigh a man’s soul. Virden was cold and dispassionate but did not want their destruction without some order, he wanted his enemies condemned, not destroyed. The respect his enemies had slowly become worship as his legend spread and with the power of their tools the two were elevated to divinity.