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'''Erythnul''' is the [[Oeridian]] god of Hate, Envy, Malice, Panic, Ugliness, and Slaughter. He is known as the Many, and is worshipped by many gnoll, troll, ogre, and bugbear tribes, in addition to humans. Erythnul delights in panic and slaughter. | '''Erythnul''' is the [[Oeridian]] god of Hate, Envy, Malice, Panic, Ugliness, and Slaughter. He is known as the Many, and is worshipped by many gnoll, troll, ogre, and bugbear tribes, in addition to humans. He is called the Many, because in battle his features continually shift from human to bugbear to troll to ogre to gnoll and back to human again. His blood transforms into similar creatures. Erythnul delights in panic and slaughter. | ||
His [[realm]], the [[Citadel of Slaughter]], is in the third [[layer]] of [[Pandemonium]], [[Phlegethon]]. Previously, he had a realm called the Fields of Malice in [[Cocytus]]. | |||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
==Relationships== | ==Relationships== | ||
Erythnul has a long-standing rivalry with [[Hextor]], due to the later stealing Erythnul's portfolio of War. | Erythnul has a long-standing rivalry with [[Hextor]], due to the later stealing Erythnul's portfolio of War. He sponsored [[Roykyn]]'s ascension to the status of [[hero-power]]. | ||
==Worshippers== | ==Worshippers== | ||
Revision as of 01:31, 9 September 2007
| Erythnul | |
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| General information | |
| Portfolio: | Hate, Envy, Malice, Panic, Ugliness, Slaughter |
| Home: | Windswept Depths of Pandemonium |
| Alignment: | Chaotic Evil |
| Superior: | none |
| Rules items | |
| Domains: | Chaos, Destruction, Evil, Trickery, War |
Erythnul is the Oeridian god of Hate, Envy, Malice, Panic, Ugliness, and Slaughter. He is known as the Many, and is worshipped by many gnoll, troll, ogre, and bugbear tribes, in addition to humans. He is called the Many, because in battle his features continually shift from human to bugbear to troll to ogre to gnoll and back to human again. His blood transforms into similar creatures. Erythnul delights in panic and slaughter.
His realm, the Citadel of Slaughter, is in the third layer of Pandemonium, Phlegethon. Previously, he had a realm called the Fields of Malice in Cocytus.
Description
Relationships
Erythnul has a long-standing rivalry with Hextor, due to the later stealing Erythnul's portfolio of War. He sponsored Roykyn's ascension to the status of hero-power.
Worshippers
In civilized lands, Erythnul's followers (including evil fighters, barbarians and rogues) form small, criminal cults. In savage lands, evil barbarians, gnolls, bugbears, ogres, and trolls commonly worship him.
Erythnul is the official god of Stonehold.
Bibliography
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- Gygax, Gary. "The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk." Dragon #71. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
- -----. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.
- Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
- Moore, Roger E. Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998.
- Noonan, David. Complete Divine. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2004.
- Redman, Rich, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt. Deities and Demigods. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2002.
- Reynolds, Sean K. "Core Beliefs: Hextor." Dragon #356. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.
- Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1992.