| Dungeons & Dragons Deity |
 | | {{{caption}}} | | Gruumsh It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into List of Greyhawk deities. ...
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| | Title(s) | He Who Never Sleeps, the One-Eyed God, He Who Watches
| | Homeplane | Nishrek
| | Power Level | Greater
| | Alignment | Chaotic Evil
| | Portfolio | Orcs, conquest, survival,
strength, territory
| | Domains | {{{domains}}}
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| | Superior |
| In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Gruumsh - also known as Gruumsh One-Eye - is the chief deity of orcs. He is a member of the default D&D pantheon of deities. Gruumsh was created by James M. Ward in the Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia (1980). For other uses, see Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation). ...
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A typical fantasy orc In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, orcs are a primitive race of barbaric humanoids, largely based upon the orcs appearing in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into List of Greyhawk deities. ...
In many campaign settings, the orcish pantheon of gods consists of the leader Gruumsh, as well as Bahgtru, Ilneval, Luthic, Shargaas, and Yurtrus. A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Bahgtru is the orc deity of strength and combat. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Ilneval is the orc deity of warfare. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Luthic is the orc deity of fertility, medicine, and servitude. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Shargaas is the orc deity of darkness and thieves. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Yurtrus is the orc deity of death and disease. ...
Gruumsh lives in the orcish realm of Nishrek.
Gruumsh's characteristic single eye is doubtless inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's Sauron, who commands the orcs of Mordor in The Lord Of The Rings, though Gruumsh bears little resemblance to Tolkien's villain. (For example, there is no textual evidence to suggest that Sauron has only one physical eye.) J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ...
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Gruumsh's priests wear dark red vestments, war helms, and black plate mail. His sacred animal is the giant rat. His holy day is the new moon, and he is worshipped in orcish lairs. A sacrifice of blood is made to him monthly.
History
A figure of fury and driven cruelty, Gruumsh rules his pantheon with brute power. God of orcs, conquest, survival, strength, and territory, Gruumsh is the husband of Luthic and father of Bahgtru. As orcs that are not clerics or adepts are forbidden to speak his name, he is also known as "One-Eye" or "The One-Eyed God", "He-Who-Never-Sleeps", and "He-Who-Watches". A Pantheon (Greek: παν, pan, all + Θεός, Theos, God), is a set of all the gods of a particular religion or mythology, such as the gods of Hinduism, Greek mythology, Norse mythology, and Egyptian mythology. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Luthic is the orc deity of fertility, medicine, and servitude. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Bahgtru is the orc deity of strength and combat. ...
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Gruumsh is a chaotic evil aligned. His symbol is an empty eye socket, or (in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting) his missing unwinking eye. Gruumsh's divine realm is the Iron Fortress in Nishrek; in the Forgotten Realms cosmology this is a plane of its own, while it is a part of Acheron in the standard cosmology represented by the Greyhawk and Planescape campaign settings. As of the third edition, his domains are chaos, evil, strength, and war. In the Forgotten Realms these include cavern, hatred, and orc. His favored weapon is the spear. In Dungeons & Dragons and some similar role-playing games, alignment is a categorisation of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in the game. ...
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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Acheron, also known as The Infernal Battlefield of Acheron, is a lawful neutral/lawful evil-aligned plane of existence. ...
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Gruumsh shares his home in the Iron Fortress with his son Bahgtru and his lieutenant Ilneval.
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Myth In a past time, Gruumsh had two eyes but he lost one in a fight with the chief elven god Corellon Larethian. Gruumsh meant to paralyze Corellon with his magical spear, this attack failed and initiated an epic battle. During the course of this battle Gruumsh injured Corellon and, according to legend, from the blood shed the elven people were created. Corellon ended the fight by putting out Gruumsh's left eye, which is how Gruumsh earned his moniker "One-Eye". Some Orc clerics deny this tale, dismissing it as elven propaganda, and claim that Gruumsh always had one eye. Image File history File links Gruumsh_p72. ...
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Corellon Larethian is the god of the elves in some mythologies of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (in particular the default D&D pantheon as well as the Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms campaign settings). ...
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Gruumsh created the orcs in his image to be his servants in the world but was cheated out of a land for his people by the other gods, according to the following excerpt by Roger E. Moore (from Unearthed Arcana): An early supplement for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons published in 1985 by TSR, ISBN 0-88038-084-5 and product number TSR 2017. ...
In the beginning all the gods met and drew lots for the parts of the world in which their representative races would dwell. The human gods drew the lot that allowed humans to dwell where they pleased, in any environment. The elven gods drew the green forests, the dwarven deities drew the high mountains, the gnomish gods the rocky, sunlit hills, and the halfling gods picked the lot that gave them the fields and meadows. Then the assembled gods turned to the orcish gods and laughed loud and long. "All the lots are taken!" they said tauntingly. "Where will your people dwell, One-Eye? There is no place left!" There was silence upon the world then, as Gruumsh One-Eye lifted his great iron spear and stretched it over the world. The shaft blotted the sun over a great part of the lands as he spoke: "No! You Lie! You have rigged the drawing of the lots, hoping to cheat me and my followers. But One-Eye never sleeps. One-Eye sees all. There is a place for orcs to dwell... here!", he bellowed, and his spear pierced the mountains, opening a mighty rift and chasms. "And here!", and the spearhead split the hills and made them shake and covered them in dust. "And here!", and the black spear gouged the meadows and made them bare. "There!" roared He-Who-Watches triumphantly, and his voice carried to the ends of the world. "There is where the orcs shall dwell! There they will survive, and multiply, and grow stronger, and a day will come when they cover the world, and they will slay all of your collective peoples! Orcs shall inherit the world you sought to cheat me of!" In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, elves are a humanoid race that are one of the primary races available for play as player characters. ...
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, dwarves are a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for play as player characters. ...
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, gnomes are a humanoid race, and are one of the core races available for play as player characters. ...
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Relationships Gruumsh considers himself supreme, and considers every non-orc his enemy, holding special enmity for some. Gruumsh hates Corellon with a passion. He spreads this hatred to all the elven pantheon, especially Sehanine Moonbow, who fooled the orc god many times to protect Corellon and her other family. Gruumsh also loathes Moradin and the dwarf pantheon. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into List of Greyhawk deities. ...
Sehanine Moonbow is an Elven goddess of the moon for the fictional setting of Forgotten Realms. ...
Moradin, the All-Father is the chief deity in the dwarven pantheon in the Dungeons & Dragons game. ...
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In his own pantheon, Gruumsh rules over all the other gods (although Shargaas and Yurtrus bear him little real loyalty beside that made from fear), and has his orders carried out through his lieutenant Ilneval. In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Shargaas is the orc deity of darkness and thieves. ...
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Yurtrus is the orc deity of death and disease. ...
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In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Ilneval is the orc deity of warfare. ...
Forgotten Realms Gruumsh once had an alliance with the conniving drow goddess Araushnee, to bring down the gods of the elves once and for all. His plan failed, despite a divine force brought against the elven gods consisting of the Seldarine's enemies in all the goblinoid and elf-hating pantheons, and Araushnee was transformed into Lolth. The two deities have ever since been great foes, though Gruumsh's alliance with another assisting deity, Malar, has not been so badly corrupted. The Seldarine are the good and neutral elven gods lead by Corellon Larethian, a fictional deity in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. ...
Goblinoids (or greenskins) are a category of humanoid legendary creatures related to the goblin. ...
Lolth, as shown on the cover of the Queen of the Demonweb Pits module. ...
Malar is the Faerûnian deity of the hunt, evil lycanthropes (werecreatures), and bestial savagery and bloodlust in Ed Greenwoods Forgotten Realms fictional world of Abeir-Toril. ...
Similarities to Mythology When archeologists excavated the 'grotto del orco', an Etruscan tomb in Italy, they misidentified an Etruscan painting of a cyclops in an underworld fresco scene, calling it Orcus the god of the dead. Later, it was discovered that the cyclops was not Orcus and that Orcus was never worshipped by the Etruscans. The word 'Orcus' was related closely to the evolution of the word 'orc'. Oddly, the cyclops-Orcus and Gruumsh both have one eye, though it is agreed that Gruumsh was inspired by the one-eyed Sauron. See: Etruscan civilization Etruscan language Etruscan alphabet Etruscan mythology See also: Tyrrhenian, Lemnian, Pelasgian. ...
Polyphemus the Cyclops. ...
Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas. ...
Orcus has several meanings: In mythology, Orcus is a god of the underworld, or a demon. ...
A comic fantasy orc. ...
In Celt-Irish myth, Balor is was one-eyed Fomorian giant who could kill with a glance. In Irish mythology, the Fomorians (Irish Fomóire, Fomórach) or Fomors were a semi-divine race who inhabited Ireland in ancient times. ...
In Norse mythology, the elves were also created from the blood of the dead giant Ymir, who was slain by one-eyed Odin and his brothers. Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ...
For the moon of Saturn, see Ymir (moon). ...
For other meanings of Odin, Woden or Wotan see Odin (disambiguation), Woden (disambiguation), Wotan (disambiguation). ...
References - McComb, Colin. On Hallowed Ground (TSR, 1996).
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