Ruthger, The Sergeant of Sorrows

God of War, Weapons, Valor, Sorrow, and Ambition

Titles: The Sergeant of Sorrow, Sarge, The Bloodthirster, The Old Master, The Wrathmaster, The Mad Warrior, Foehammer, The Lord of Battles, Demon of the Battlefields, The Supreme Commander
Favored Weapon: Bastard Sword, Unarmed Attacks
Alignment: Lawful evil
Obedience: Spend an hour cleaning, sharpening, polishing, and otherwise maintaining your combat gear to as high a standard as possible - once the hour is up, write down your greatest ambition and your greatest sorrow on the same medium and put it inside your armor or your clothing, close to your heart.
Effect: You gain a tongues and comprehend languages effect only while in combat, and only in relation to speaking to and understanding your enemies. Whenever you reduce a creature below 0HP, you automatically read their surface thoughts. Once a day, when you kill a creature, you may choose to gain an automatic blood biography effect on them with no save instead of reading their surface thoughts - this information appears upon your armor, clothing, or weapon(Or if none of them are viable, the creature's corpse or the ground around it).

Divine Domains

War, Destruction, Community, Strength, Glory, Law(Loyalty, Judgment, Kyton Subdomains Only), Evil

Holy Books & Codes

The Sanguine Apocrypha

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Downward-Facing Greatsword with three skulls impaled upon the blade

Tenets of Faith

Honor the final moments. Never let a true warrior die alone, and never deny a worthy enemy their final words or requests.

Glory in righteous battle. There is no glory in battles without a cause. Never dishonor your weapons nor yourself with senseless conflict.

Blessed be the Valorous Soul. Never let fear defeat you, and never turn your back or run from a fight. A wound on the back is a warrior's greatest shame.

Your weapons are your soul. Care for your weapons, armor, and tools of war. Keep them maintained, never let them rust, and never let a drawn weapon go unblooded.

Discipline above all. Obey the orders of your superiors without question, and command those under you with efficiency and zeal. Never break or subvert the chain of command.

Stoke the fires of ambition. Further the ambitions you ascribe to no matter the carnage they bring, and never settle for less when you could have more - suffering means nothing in the face of the ambitions that cause it.

Holidays

Festival of the Sanguine Moon

Divine Goals & Aspirations

To teach those who would wage war to do so with a code or purpose and never for the act of carnage alone, to teach all who fight to treasure and keep their weapons safe and maintained and for them to keep their skills razor sharp and ready for battle at a moments notice.

Relationships

Ruthger, The Sergeant of Sorrows

Rival (Vital)

Towards Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon

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2

Dishonest

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Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon

Rival (Important)

Towards Ruthger, The Sergeant of Sorrows

-1

4

Frank

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History

Though in the beginning the two gods were said to get along fairly well aside from their moral disagreements, in time the two greater deities came to harbor a great dislike towards each other as they both became to embody the concepts of war and battle. Ruthger took the rivalry even more serious than Bahamut, who saw Bahamut's eventual addition of war to his portfolio as an insult upon him and all he stood for, which only escalated the simmering dislike they each harbored for each other into full blown rivalry.

Relationship Reasoning

On top of greatly disagreeing on matters of moral compunction, Bahamut and Ruthger harbor an immense rivalry and dislike for each other born from Bahamut's eventual addition of war to his divine portfolio, which served as the catalyst to ignite their simmering dislike into full blown rivalry and hatred. Though Ruthger is said to take the rivalry much more seriously than Bahamut, the two greatly dislike the other due to their differing beliefs of morality and how war and battle should be waged...a fact which is only exacerbated by their shared agreement on matters of law and chaos.

Commonalities & Shared Interests

Both believe in the ways of Law and teach their followers to be familiar with battle and strife.

Savusonn, The Lord in Lethe

Disliked Son (Important)

Towards Ruthger, The Sergeant of Sorrows

2

-2

Dishonest

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Ruthger, The Sergeant of Sorrows

Father (Important)

Towards Savusonn, The Lord in Lethe

1

-4

Dishonest

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History

Born from the loins of the Bloodthirster long before the dawn of time in his one and only tryst with the then matron deity of the elves Lolth before she fell to darkness, Savusonn wandered as a demigod for ages, split between his father and mother's ideals and with none to truly call his own...it was not until his mother attempted to sway him to her side in a failed plot that would have led to his enslavement at her hands that Savusonn saw his parents for who they truly were.
As his father raged and demanded he join him at his side in a conquest against the drow and his mother for what she'd nearly done to him, Savusonn is said to have seen the failings of those who subscribe wholeheartedly to the service of another, even the gods...and found them wanting. He then began to wander, finding his true beliefs of freedom and giving a home to all outcasts and those forgotten.
Now, he actively works against his mother Lolth who he sees as the ultimate tyrant, striving to free her followers from eternal servitude to her even as he ignores the advances of his father, who he sees as better, but still flawed as he demands such strict obedience from his followers. However, the two get along in quite a prickly fashion, unlike him and his mother, who he has sworn to cast down and destroy.

Ruthger, The Sergeant of Sorrows

spouse

Towards Oa'chai, The Gloam-Eyed Queen

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Oa'chai, The Gloam-Eyed Queen

spouse

Towards Ruthger, The Sergeant of Sorrows

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You might not think it, but he's the god who's closest to us - mortals, I mean. He's there for every man from his first ambition to his final breath - hears his final words, feels him die upon the killing fields and his ambitions fall to ruin, then sees that man's children live to do it all over again.

— Thrax Bloodsong, Orcish Chieftain

Ambition makes the man - and the blood shed to achieve it is the measure of a worthy ambition.

— Excerpt from the The Sanguine Apocrypha

Divine Classification

The Major Gods

Religions

• Major Gods

Alignment

Lawful Evil

Realm

The Slaughter Fields

Church/Cult

Church of the Bloodthirster

Spouses

Oa'chai, The Gloam-Eyed Queen (spouse)

Siblings

Children

• Savusonn, The Lord in Lethe

Ruled Locations

• The Slaughter Fields

Area of Worship/Followers

War, Battle for a Righteous Cause, Weaponry, Last Words, The Pain of War, Ambition, Soldiers, Orcs, Brutes, Barbarians, Monsters, Warriors, Knights, Combatants, Leaders

Main Temple and Location

The Sanguine Chapel(Located in The Wild Lands)

Holy Animal

Lions

Holy Colors

Red, Steel-Grey

Holy Number

25

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