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Gruumsh, The Furious King

Orc God of Necromancy
Deity

An unnamed Orc killed Momoka, the Goddess of Necromancy of the First Era, thus starting the end of it. Gruumsh was reborn between the First and Second Era, and, until Veritt rose as the goddess of Drows, was the only God tied to an Ancestry. His revival also allowed him stronghold over the mind of many Orcs, forcing them abandon their ways to become the Orcs that he created millennia ago even against their will.


Alignment: Lawful Evil

Symbol: A skull looking up, with a single, living eye looking down, adorned with chains with broken links.

Portfolio: Necromancy, Tyranny, Suffering, Slavery, Orcs

Titles: The Furious King, The Revived One

Edicts: Rule tyrannically and torture weaker beings; show subservience to your betters; revive those who died in battle and glory, alive or undead.

Anathema: Free a slave, kill a non-hostile intelligent undead, show mercy to your enemies

Follower Alignments: LE, CE

Devotee Benefits

Divine Ability: Strength or Intelligence

Divine Font: harm

Divine Sanctification: must choose unholy

Divine Skill: Occult

Favored Weapon: Greataxe

Domains: Magic, Pain, Tyranny, Undeath

Alternate Domains: Death, Destruction

Cleric Spells: 1st - Grim Tendrils, 2nd - Worm's Repast, 3rd - Paralyze, 4th - Necrotic Radiation, 5th - Ravening Maw, 6th - Raise Dead and Dominate, 8th - Hypnopompic Terrors, 9th - Seize Soul.

History

At the height of the First Era, at the height of the most peace this world had had millennia, the Goddess of Honor, Justice, Necromancy and Healing, Momoka, was killed. Not in battle. Not in a war. But by deceit. Her death was gruesome, wretched, loathsome. But it was what was needed to acquire the divinity shard of Necromancy. The orc that killed her, however, did not want to become a god. He did not have anything against Momoka specifically. He wanted the shard of Necromancy to do what only the raw power of the embodiment of necromantic magic could: Revive the first Orc, dead by an unknown amount of millennia, the God of Rage, Gruumsh.

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