Tharmekhûl

God of Forges
Tharmekhûl is the personal smith of Moradin (Helm ) to the Dwarves. The Tender of the Forge is revered as a diety of fire's many aspects: as an engine of creation, a weapon of destruction, and a tempering purifier.

"Forge and Furnace, melt me and mold me..."
     - The start of a prayer to Tharmekhûl, offered by Forgelord Therigrig Magmabreak

Tharmekhûl is said to have been a gifted mortal dwarf who lived in Pannonia prior to The Sundering. Helm saw the potential in this mortal and presented him with a challenge, the details of which have been lost to time. Whatever this challenge was, he passed it and was granted a godhood under the Eternal Watcher himself. 
Naturally, now with the power of a god, he created his magnum opus, a weapon which has come to be known as Chain Breaker which is the well known warhammer of Helm himself.

Divine Domains

God of Forges

Divine Symbols & Sigils

An axe wreathed in flame.

Tenets of Faith

Worshipers of Tharmekhûl are primarily smiths and other dwarves inspired by the creative applications of the forge, but due to the destructive forces of fire and molten rock, as well as the forge's role in weapons manufacturing (especially siege weapons), he also has a minor following as a war deity. In either case, true clerics of Tharmekhûl are rare, and most communities had only one priest and their apprentice that would take up the role upon their master's death and then adopt a new apprentice of their own.

Holidays

Liturgy for Tharmekhûl is chocked with fire imagery, representing, for example, external dangers that tempered the dwarf race as a whole. Rites honoring him all involved tending to an actual forge, preparing it for use, stoking the flames, and then damping them. The Tender of the Forge doesn't have his own temples, his clerics instead offering prayers as they tended to the forge in the heart of Moradin's temples.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Tharmekhûl is depicted as either an azer, or as a dwarf with bronze skin and whose hair and beard was made of black smoke.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Said to have been ascended to godhood by Helm.

Divine Classification

Demi-God

Realm

Revery

Honorary & Occupational Titles

The Tender of the Forge