Fenmarel Mestarine

The Lone Wolf

Fenmarel Mestarine is the elven deity of the Grugach (Wild Elves), Outcasts, Scapegoats, and Solitude.
Fenmarel Mestarine appears as an elf clad in leaves and scraps of clothing. Like a Cloak of Elvenkind, his skin changes colour to match his immediate environment. He is eternally sullen and serious. He has no interest in communicating with members of other pantheons or non-elves unless absolutely necessary, and when he does speak he is usually bitter and cynical.
Although he tries to avoid commitments of any sort, the Lone Wolf always abides by his word, no matter how reluctantly it is given. Fenmarel watches over the elven borders in disappearing woodlands, jungles, and similar environments, not unlike what Corellon Larethian does in more sizable homelands. Of all the elven races, Fenmarel takes a keen interest mainly in the grugach, hidden deep within the thickest thickets of the Fearwyd Weald.

Divine Domains

Animal, Chaos, Plant, Travel, Trickery.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

His chief symbol is a pair of elven eyes in darkness, though his savage priests are more likely to use the talon or fang of a wild beast slain without assistance.

Tenets of Faith

Fenmarel teaches that the world is harsh and unforgiving, demanding more from those who, like himself, would abandon society to blaze their own trail. He advises self-reliance, for betrayal is all too common. Followers of Fenmarel are taught to be self-reliant and to use the skills that Fenmarel holds dearest: camouflage, deception, and secrecy. They are expected to be hard-working, for hard work allows people to prove their own worth to themselves.
The church of Fenmarel consists primarily of outcasts and small tribes of grugach, and, as such, has little in the way of formal hierarchy. Outcasts from elven society who make their way among other cultures are typically lay followers and not clerics.
The church of Fenmarel Mestarine is seen with some suspicion and hostility by most elven societies, as many of its adherents are exiles and outlaws of various sorts. Only in isolated tribes that venerate the Lone Wolf to the exclusion of other deities are his faithful seen with respect for the skills they practice and the lessons of survival that they teach. Other races view Fenmarel's worshippers as primitives who cling to a god of savages.
Members of Fenmarel's clergy instruct their fellows in the skills first taught by the deity, including how to spy, survive on their own, engage in deceptions and guerrilla tactics, and use poisons to take down enemies with subtlety, but otherwise they have few formal responsibilities aside from ensuring their personal survival. Their favoured weapon is the dagger.
Novices of Fenmarel are called the Lost. Full priests are called the Unbowed. They may also create their own titles or forgo titles altogether. They teach their fellow tribe members in the skills favoured by their god, including guerrilla tactics and poison.
The ceremonial garb of the Lost and the Unbowed usually consists of plastering their bodies in mud and leaves. In more civilized groups they garb themselves in hide armor adorned with bones, teeth, and drawings of wild beasts.

Holidays

Each individual or band worships the Lone Wolf in their own fashion. Fenmarel has no widely recognized holy days. Many elven outcasts observe the day they were banished with private contemplation, while tribes of feral elves observe important events in their own history, often correlating these with easily observable astronomical events.

Divine Classification

God

Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Gender

Male

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