The Dwarven Pantheon
The Pantheon of The Dwarven People
Based out of Moradin's Divine Realm of Dol-Daruhm, The Dwarven Pantheon is one that represents the people who pay it veneration: Hardy, Strong, and Bound irrevocably by ties of family and tradition. Living within Moradin's grand mansion on the slopes of Dol-Daruhm, the gods of this pantheon are considered to be as tight-knit of a family as they can be, and though Moradin has no "wife" in the traditional sense, he nonetheless considers each of the other dwarven gods his children, and they consider him their father. With a familial unity and strength of purpose unheard of by all but perhaps the more chaotic Desert Pantheon, The Dwarven Pantheon serves together as warriors, friends, and family...supporting each other's endeavors, they each strive to protect and uplift dwarven society in some way.
Thrym, The Powderlord was once the outcast and the black sheep of the Dwarven Pantheon. He was disliked by his kin and his father as one who spurned tradition and everything the Dwarven Race stood for...however, he redeemed himself in the opening battle of the Divine Civil War, as Freyja, The Grand Trampler and her Giant Pantheon assaulted the Dwarven Pantheon. About to deal the finishing blow to his brother Brom, Thrym sacrificed himself to save Brom, The Dutiful Defender from Freyja's wrath, proving to all his brothers and sisters and even his father through his sacrifice that the Black Sheep never truly stopped caring about his people. Cast down to the material plane and thus creating The Godfall Crater in the Dwarven Peaks mountain range, he died there, far from his divine kin...remembered not as an outcast, but as a hero, and the first casualty in the ensuing Divine Civil War.
Moradin, naturally, sits at the top of this Pantheon as the father of all Dwarven Gods, while Brom, Murdine, Isla Rhona, and until previously, the former Dwarven God of gunpowder, Thrym, sat beneath him as aspects of the Dwarven People, and his children. Though they bicker and sometimes don't get along, their dwarven natures mean they often approach each other with level heads and even tempers. Brom is said to maintain the defenses of his father's realm with stoicism and dutiful silence, while Isla Rhona continuously seeds the rich lands of Dol-Daruhm with minerals, gems, and other ores for the dwarves who live within the realm to find and uncover, her dedication constantly unearthing new tunnels and digging new passageways that spiral through the mountain ranges of Dol-Daruhm like the beating veins of the plane itself.
Murdine, though sometimes at odds with his brothers and sisters, is said to make his home with his father's citadel while he continuously maintains the Dwarven book of Grudges, adding and removing the names of those who have done the Dwarven People wrong in the past or present...and while he lived, Thrym was said to make his home far removed from his father or his siblings...an outcast among the Dwarven Pantheon, he was a rebel who preferred to make his home at the very edges of Dol-Daruhm's massive expanse, setting up a citadel for his followers to call home far from his kin...though, it now lays empty and dead with his death at the hands of the Giant Goddess, Freyja.
Type
Religious, Pantheon
Leader
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