Monster Gods

[♥Zach♥]

Well I figured sonce I look more at the noble and powerful gods of the elves, humans, and gnomes why not the underdog gods of the goblins, kobolds and lizard folk?
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Gnoll Gods:

YEENOGHU (Demon Lord of Gnolls)

Demon Power

male

CE

Portfolio: Gnolls, Cannibalism, Undead

Domains: Chaos, Death, Destruction, Evil, War

Symbol: Three-headed flail

Typical Worshippers: Gnolls, ghouls

Raiment:

Preferred Weapon: flail

Holy Days:


Among the ranks of the Demon Lords, Yeenoghu (yee-NAG-hoo) is one of the most powerful and most feared. He is depicted as a skeletal, furless gnoll, with only a crest of putruid yellow fur, and carries a three-headed flail. He is also called the "Battle Lord" for his cunning in the constant battles for power in the Abyss. He is the patron Power of gnolls, and has strong ties with cannibalism and the undead.

Bugbear Gods:

HRUGGEK (the Blood Drinker)

Lesser Power

male

CE

Portfolio: War, Blood, Torture, Bugbears

Domains: Chaos, Evil, Trickery, War

Symbol: Morning star

Typical Worshippers: Bugbears, warriors, chieftains, mystics

Raiment: Skulls, bare body required for ceremonies, black garb otherwise

Preferred Weapon: Morningstar

Holy Days: Full moon


Hruggek (HRUG-ek), the bloodthirsty Power of the bugbears, shares the blend of insanity and brute force that bugbears are known for through out Wearth. His clerics wield rune-carved morningstars, with which they use most of their clerical powers (however, in a pinch, any morningstar will do). Bugbear clerics are quite capable of cooperating with other humanoid tribes and clerics, something that sets them apart from the other humanoid pantheons. Hruggek appears as a powerfully muscular bugbear with over-sized fangs and claws, wielding a vast, two-handed morningstar.

Hruggek's clerics are expected to aid (or lead) their tribes in the goblinoid war of aggression - any deep that gains power for bugbears, no matter how treacherous or evil, will be rewarded. His clerics will expend lesser humanoid lives without thought, and bugbear lives when necessary.

Hruggek is served by a variety of other lesser Powers, Some of these bugbear Powers have found worship among the tribes. The relationship between servant Powers and the master (Hruggek) is always kept clear.

Services to Hruggek occur on the full moon, or after a especially successful campaign, and involve the blood sacrifice of monsters of intelligent creatures.

Goblin Gods:

MAGLUBIYET (the Mighty One)

Greater Power

male

LE

Portfolio: Depths, War, Discipline, Rulership, Goblins

Domains: Destruction, Evil, Law, Trickery, War

Symbol: Bloody Axe

Typical Worshippers: Goblin and Hobgoblins, especially warriors and chieftains

Raiment: Conical hat, scale mail, gray-green apparel

Preferred Weapon: Battle Axe

Holy Days: New moon


Maglubiyet (ma-GLUB-i-yet), the Lord of the Depths and Darkness, rules over his people with an iron fist, he is the patron of aggression , war, and rulership. He appears as a massive goblin with skin like pitch, and eyes of crimson flame, bearing a coal-black axe dripping with gore. Unlike the orcish tribes, all goblin and hobgoblins worship Maglubiyet first, though they may also honor other Powers. Maglubiyet is similar in many way to Gruumsh, the Orc Power, in that he wishes to see war waged for the glory of his people, and eternally urges them on to conflict and strife.

Maglubiyet keeps a watchful eye on his servant deities, lest one usurp his power. Maglubiyet's clerics keep order within the tribes, but rarely lead them directly, they prefer to guide rather than rule.

Maglubiyet demands human (or demi-human) sacrifice from his people on each new moon. These sacrifices are always decapitated with a single axe blow, following b a burnt offering of their heart. After success in battle (regardless of the phase of the moon), sacrifices will be offered up from prisoners that have been captured. Dwarves and humans are the preferred victims, but orcs, halflings and elves are also welcomed.

(I'll have tohunt down more in a little bit

[Munroe]

From The Book of Vile Darkness:
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Yeenoghu, Demon Prince of Gnolls

It may be that Yeenoghu was once a mortal gnoll. Or it may be that, as a bestial and savage demon, he simply saw a kinship with the gnolls. In any event, this demon prince considered himself the patron of gnolls, and indeed many gnolls do pay him homage.

Yeenoghu is very powerful, but not in the same league as Demogorgon or Orcus in terms of personal power or in influence and armies. Yeenoghu does control a layer of the Abyss, which he creatively calls Yeenoghu's Realm. There, he hunts lesser demons and other creatures while he plots his next attacks against layers with weak rulers in hopes of conquest.

One success which Yeenoghu achieved long ago was his subjugation of the demonic entity that calls himself the King of the Ghouls. Once a vassal of Orcus, the King of the Ghouls controlled his own minor layer of the Abyss. Yeenoghu's gnoll horde invaded and conquered that layer and its ruler. The King of the Ghouls swore fealty to Yeenoghu and pays homage to him even to this day. The Abyssal layer, however, was lost to Yeenoghu because he did not command and army vast enough to defend both it and the layer he already occupied. The King of the Ghouls rules there again, but he is a vassal of Yeenoghu now rather than a minion of Orcus. So far, Orcus's attention has been elsewhere, and he has not acted against the Prince of Gnolls.

Yeenoghu appears as a massive, gaunt gnoll 12 feet in height. Yellow fur appears in mangy patches on his body, with pale gray flesh showing where the fur is abscent. His amber-colored eyes are large and protruding.

Yeenoghu's symbol is a triple-headed flail.

The Cult of Yeenoghu

The cult of Yeenoghu is common among gnolls, but extremely rare among other races.

Yeenoghu demands that his servants make living sacrifices and dedicate them to him in beastly rites. His temples are always located far from any civilized area, usually in some rocky, craggy wilderness area--preferably a cave or underground cavern. The altar is a crude slab of stone, stained with blood and gristle. Rituals devoted to Yeenoghu include guttural chanting and (on the rare occasion when they are held outside) howling at the moon. They always take place at night.

His priests wear dark brown robes, usually accented with a mangy yellow color. If the priests are not gnolls, these robes are often fur-lined. Priests of Yeenoghu never wash their robes, so the amount of splattered blood (from sacrifices as well as battle) on the robes is a sign of experience, worn like an honorific. Clerics affiliated with Yeenoghu usually have access to the Chaos, Demonic, and Bestial domains.

[Munroe]

From Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead
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Doresain, King of the Ghouls

Demigod, Chaotic Evil

The Insatiably hungry Doresain appeals to all creatures whose hunger can never be appeased. The deity looks like an especially thin and wasted ghoul. He has eyes ablaze with a sickly green ghoul-light, and his feet are hooflike. In contrast with Doresain's wasted body, he wears an elegant white cloak of supple man-flesh over pale leather armor studded with tiny skulls. Ghouls are the primary worshippers of Doresain, and his symbol is a ghoul skull.

Though the King of the Ghouls is a powerful entity himself and controls his own layer of the Abyss, he was once a vassal of Orcus. Later, Yeenoghu's gnoll host invaded, and the King of the Ghouls was forced to swear fealty and pay homage to Yeenoghu. Yeenoghu subsequently lost control of the King's layer, and more recently, Yeenoghu has lost the ability to command the King.

The King of the Ghouls teaches that to exist is to eat. A fully experienced existance requires the consumption of prey, preferable sentient. Flesh for sacrifice is dear to the King. When life is quenched under tearing teeth and quivering lips, the eater can finally feal true happiness, at least for a time.

Portfolio: Necromancy, ghouls

Domains: Chaos, Evil, Hunger

Cleric Training: Doresain sometimes makes an appearance when incautious necromancers meddle with the Negative Energy Plane. Taking such meddling as an invitation, the King appears and forcibly converts all those present to ghouls, often thereby creating new worshippers for himself. While many ghouls are ignorant and godless, those that find religion invariably discover the King of Ghouls. Creatures other than ghouls that come to worship the King do so with the knowledge that they will be "drawn into the fold" sooner rather than later.

Quests: All ghouls pay homage to the King. Ghoul lore harkens back to a land sacred to ghouls called the White Kingdom. Though ghouls bound to the mortal plane sometimes create lesser versions of what they believe the White Kingdom to be, it is accepted that the true incarnation of the White Kingdom can be found on the layer of the Abyss where the King rules.

Prayers: Each gluttonous act of consumption is, in its way, a prayer to Doresain, even if the eater doesn't know it.

Temples: Temples to the King of the Ghouls are found only underground. Small shrines can sometimes be found in underground mausoleums or at the catacomb's center, but fully functioning temples are erected only in the deepest subterranean realms, surrounded by a community of ghouls the size of a small city (at least).

Rites: Sharing the sweet flesh of a victim among several ghouls is informally called "passing it around the horn," and serves as a common rite in rememberance of Doresain.

Herald and Allies: Doresain often sends a gravetouched ghoul 13th-level barbarian as his herald. His planar allies are gravetouched ghoul succubus demons, gravetouched ghoul erinyes devils, and gravetouched ghoul ice devils. Doresain has the power to add the gravetouched ghoul template (Libris Mortis pg. 103) to creatures to which the template is normally not applicable.

Favored Weapon: Scimitar

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Replacement Monster Deities in the Forgotten Realms

Sourcebooks such as Defenders of the Faith list deities for some of the creatures in the Monster Manual. In Faiths and Pantheons, the table on page 221 presents information on most of these deities using the format of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.

Not all of the deities from other sources exist in the Forgotten Realms. For example, Panzuriel, a deity worshipped by krakens, sahuagin, and other evil aquatic creatures, has no influence on Toril, and spells are granted in his name by Umberlee (and most of these creatures actually worship her directly rather than through this alias). Any deity not listed on page 221 of Faiths and Pantheons or in the Deities chapter of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting does not exist on Toril. Table FP-90: Replacement Monster Deities (below) is a listing of equivalent for these "absent" deities presented in Defenders of the Faith and other sources.

* That's right, I have Blibdoolpoolp on this table, even though she appears in Faiths & Pantheons in the table on page 221. That's because she wasn't on the version of that table that I turned over; she was added later, and I don't know why. FR already has a CE deity of evil water creatures (Umberlee), so I'm not sure why we need another one (and yet Panzuriel, another evil monster water deity, was left on this table and not added to page 211, strange).

** Clerics of "Eadro" whose native environment is underwater have spear as their favored weapon instead of the maul.

*** Yeenoghu is a demon, and some gnolls may worship him as a demon as described on page 6 of Faiths & Pantheons, so he ought to have an entry on page 221 of F&P. See my corrections to the deity table file for the stats.

An entry of "none" means that there is no one deity that grants spells in that deity's name. Creatures that would worship this deity choose an appropriate patron from those listed here or in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. For example, shadow dragons or undead dragons that would normally worship Falazure (draconic deity of energy draining, undeath, decay, and exhaustion) would choose a deity like Jergal, Shar, or Velsharoon.

From the Sean K. Reynolds website

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For all of you who follow my lore threads, just a heads up that I'll be working on a new thread, dealing with some of what is in this thread, only expanded into full deity descriptions as they are in my other deity and demon/devil threads. It's going to be named 'Expanded Monster Deities' and will take the existing 3.x monster deities that exist in FR and expand on them based on previous editions and other sources. I have put many hours of research into the first entry already, which should be hitting tonight if my latest sources pan out to have all of the information I need.

I am going to attempt to draw some flavor text from dragon magazine and pathfinger RPG where FR did not keep up. Namely I'll be working on entries for Diirinka, Hruggek, Kurtulmak, Laogzed (if ther eisn't one in already), Maglubiyet, Sekloah, and Blibdoolpoolp.

-HH