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image=[[Image:Urdlen01.jpg]]|
caption=Urdlen, the Crawler Below, as depicted in ''Dragon'' #61 (1982).|
 
name=Urdlen||titles       =The Crawler Below, the Evil One|
home=[[Abyss|Infinite Layers of the Abyss]]|rank         =Intermediate|
gender=Neuter|
class=|
alignment=Chaotic Evil|
portfolio=Blind destruction, Blood, Bloodlust, Evil, Greed, Hatred, [[Spriggan]]s, and Uncontrolled Impulses|
domains=Chaos, Destruction, Earth, Evil, Greed, Madness, Pestilence| 
alias=|
super=|
}}
'''Urdlen''' is the [[gnome]] deity of Greed and Blood.

==Description==
Urdlen manifests as an enormous blind mole.

==Relationships== 
Urdlen is the enemy of the gnomish and [[halfling]] pantheons. The hero-deity [[Roykyn]] was formerly a priestess of the Crawler Below.

==Realm==
Urdlen's realm is the ''Worm Realm'', located on the 399th layer of the [[Abyss]]. There, Urdlen tunnels through the ground, completely unconcerned with his petitioners, who dig in the tunnels he leaves behind. The petitioners, mostly evil gnomes, have no society whatsoever; they simply pursue their own greed in the ore-rich earth.

==Dogma==

==Worshippers==

==Clergy==
Urdlen's priests wear white cloaks. Its sacred animal is the white mole.

=== Holy days and observances ===
Urdlen is worshipped in underground caverns. Sacrifices of blood and jewels are made to it annually. Its holy day is the [[winter solstice]].

==Other versions==
''Races of Stone'' includes a similar deity, a god of disaster and greed known as the Glutton and visualized as a massive badger or wolverine. His domains are Chaos, Evil, Destruction, and Strength, and his favored weapon is the heavy mace. His clerics stuff themselves with food while they pray.

==Bibliography==
*Boyd, Eric L. ''Demihuman Deities''. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998.

*Boyd, Eric L, and [[Erik Mona]]. ''Faiths and Pantheons''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2002.

*[[Gary Gygax|Gygax, Gary]]. ''Unearthed Arcana''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1985.

*McComb, Colin. ''[[On Hallowed Ground]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996.

*[[Roger E. Moore|Moore, Roger E.]] "The Gnomish Point of View." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #61. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, May 1982.

*[[Carl Sargent|Sargent, Carl]]. ''[[Monster Mythology]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1992.


[[Category:Gnome deities]]
[[Category:Deities of evil]]
[[Category:Deities of hate and ugliness]]
[[Category:Deities of wealth]]
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