Gorath - the God with the Stone-Grip

Background

Gorath was one of the Old Gods of Nokadran, representing raw physical strength, endurance, manual labour, and the crushing power of bare hands. Unlike the gods of war who favoured forged steel and battle tactics, Gorath believed that true power only came from one's own flesh and bone. Because of this, he refused to ever touch a weapon or tool, deeming blades a crutch for the weak. Before the Ascension Wars, he was widely worshipped by miners, quarrymen, stonecutters, and pit fighters across the continent. Those who prayed to him never kneeled; instead, they showed devotion by holding heavy river boulders in their bare palms until their muscles gave out. Just as the tensions of Nalar’s ascension began to divide the world and mortals turned toward arcane power and necromancy rather than physical might, Gorath mysteriously vanished. Overnight, statues in his subterranean shrines split down the middle, and his presence disappeared from the world before the Ascension Wars truly erupted. How or why he vanished remains completely unknown.

He is depicted as a broad-shouldered, hulking humanoid with rough, slate-grey skin covered in dust and calluses, possessing disproportionately massive forearms and colossal, stone-like fists A known quirk of Gorath was his near-total silence; he rarely spoke a word, communicating instead by grinding his stone knuckles together, a sound that echoed through mountain valleys like shifting tectonic plates. His symbol is two massive, clenched stone fists crushing an iron anvil between them.

Domains: Strength, War, and Nature
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral