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Fellfire
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 Posted - 28 Aug 2016 : 10:43:08
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I know the elven pantheon got few lesser deities in Dragon mag. Did the dwarves ever get a similar treatment? Specifically, I wonder about a dwarven god of cold, ice, and snow. It seems thematically appropriate, if only to appease him. I looked into the arctic dwarves, but they don't seem to worship the Mordinsamman at all.
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Misanthorpe
Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 28 Aug 2016 : 10:53:50
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| I checked Frostburn as well. No dwarf deities there. |
Misanthorpe
Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
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Gary Dallison
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BadCatMan
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Australia
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Posted - 28 Aug 2016 : 13:24:34
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Races of Stone offers some more dwarf gods, for core 3.5 edition. No cold-related ones though.
Using Norse gods for dwarves would be thematically appropriate.
There is one "small god" in the Vast & Earthfast area: Isakkhu.
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Isakkhu
Isakkhu's more of a barbarian mountain god (and possibly Grumbar), but he's basically a blank slate for development |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Aug 2016 : 16:15:20
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The only fitting entry in the Dragondex is "The Gods of the Dwarves" by Roger E. Moore in #58, but character references are all of the now-common pantheon.
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 28 Aug 2016 : 17:40:54
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"Races of Stone" provides some alternative dwarven deities.
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Ayrik
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Posted - 28 Aug 2016 : 17:53:13
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Im of the opinion that the elves once had a variety of regional pantheons much like humans. But around -10000 DR these all coalesced into the elven pantheon which was a global pantheon.
And yet elven myths explicitly describe their pantheon (the Seldarine, led by Corellon Larethian) being the perfect prototypes who created the elven races in their images.
The dwarves, to my mind, appear as consistent a race as the elves when measured across the Realms - or across different worlds, planes, and settings. They all share common language, runes, cultures, technologies, indeed they all claim to have a common lineage which traces back to Moradin.
I'm not sure if recent (post-4E) Dragon issues have covered dwarven deities yet, but earlier (pre-4E) issues certainly did in great detail. |
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AuldDragon
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Posted - 28 Aug 2016 : 23:46:08
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There was a minor dwarven deity mentioned briefly in the Dungeon #2 adventure Caermor by Nigel Findley, named Cador. He's an evil deity of revenge, even to undeath. That's the only dwarven deity I can think of that isn't from one of the main sources. I'll be writing him up eventually for my Monster Mythology project.
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 29 Aug 2016 : 01:41:57
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| Taking it waay back, AD. Nice find. |
Misanthorpe
Love is a lie. Only hate endures. Light is blinding. Only in darkness do we see clearly.
"Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but.. blinding. The shadows betray you because they belong to me." - Bane The Dark Knight Rises
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moonbeast
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Posted - 02 Sep 2016 : 16:17:32
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If a canonical Frost Dwarf deity cannot be found…. it wouldn't be a stretch to simply allocate them some demigod, some ancient ancestral hero, for local (regional) worship.
Coldain Frostbeard, Lord of the North. Dwarven demigod. Patron deity of the frost dwarves. (hehe…. so I stole that name from Everquest)
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The Masked Mage
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Posted - 04 Sep 2016 : 04:20:24
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| Go through Dragon Magazine - there are several in various issues... sorry but I don't have enough time to look through for them :P |
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AuldDragon
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sleyvas
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Posted - 06 Sep 2016 : 15:44:56
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| On the arctic dwarves, I wouldn't leave them totally out of the divine realm. I'd have them honoring/placating spirits much like spirit shamans. They probably figure all deities are nothing more than powerful spirits (which kind of is true). |
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Forgotten Dwarven Gods
