Moradin

Moradin, the All-Father, Creator, Dwarffather and Soul Forger is the lawful good god of family, community and creation. He is the patron of dwarves and smiths.

Followers
Moradin's clerics are usually drawn from family lines, like most dwarven occupations; they wear earthy colors, with chain mail and silvered helms. Moradin charges his followers to destroy orcs and the followers of Gruumsh. The church of Moradin has an active role in guiding the morals of dwarven communities; they emphasizes his hand in everyday dwarven activities such as mining, smithing, and engineering, and invoke his blessing when these tasks began. They lead the push to found new dwarven settlements and increase their status among surface communities.

Relationships
Moradin has an alliance with Bahamut, Pelor and Erathis and is civil with the other non-human patrons, Avandra, Corellon, and Sehanine. He opposes primordials and the gods of the goblinoids, orcs, evil giants, and the banished dwarfs, duergar.

History
Dwarven mythology claims that Moradin created the dwarfs rock, stone, gems and metal, then infused them with souls when he blew on his creations to cool them. Moradin helped the dwarfs escape enslavement by the giants and banished the evil duergar from the surface.

The Age of Strife
For a period of centuries during the Dawn War, the giants overtook the dwarfs and enslaved them to build their kingdom. Moradin had abandoned his creation to aid Erathis in mending the broken Lattice of Heaven. However, the primordial onslaught would not relent, and the Lattice was shattered. When Moradin finally gave up hammering, he could hear the screams of his people.

Dogma
He demands these behaviors of his followers:
 * Meet adversity with stoicism and tenacity.


 * Demonstrate loyalty to your family, your clan, your leaders, and your people.


 * Strive to make a mark on the world, a lasting legacy. To make something that lasts is the highest good, whether you are a smith working at a forge or a ruler building a dynasty.

Temples
Moradin is the only god in the Evenfall to be honored with a major temple in two cities: Azgeran and Geldn. Temples and shrines attributed to Moradin are typically places of communal gathering and ceremonial rite of passage.