Flandal Steelskin

Flandal Steelskin is the gnomish god of mining and smithing, an excellent craftsman with an unerring nose for finding metals in the earth. He is also concerned with the skills of gnomes working as artisans and craftsmen of all kinds.

Description

Flandal had a sentient warhammer named Rhondang that, among its many other abilities, could speak with all fire-using creatures.

Activities

Flandal rarely sends an avatar to instruct gnomes in some very tricky smithing process, or to guide them to untapped metal ores. He might also send an avatar to deal with any disputes between gnomes and fire-dwelling creatures. His omens are always fiery, involving sudden flares of fire in forge or hearth or in small jets of flame moving around on a bare floor or earth.

Worshippers

Flandel Steelskin's church was organized similarly to a guild serving mostly as a forum to enable gnomes to improve their skills as craftsmen. Most clergy were master smiths and were known for producing exceptional armor and weapons. His priests prayed for spells at noon when the forge of the world was hottest.



Specialty priests of Flandal were known as pyrosmiths.

Rituals

Flandel Steelskin's holy day was the High Forge celebrated on Midsummer day when the faithful gathered to sacrifice weapons and sing percussive hymns.

Relationships

He helped forge Arumdina, the intelligent battleaxe of Garl Glittergold, so Flandal often had the pantheon leaders' ear as needed.

Flandel was on good terms with the other gnomish deities with the exception of Urdlen. He also counted Gond and the good aligned gods of the dwarven pantheon as allies. He was opposed to the kobold pantheon as well as other humanoid deities.

Flandal Steelskin

Intermediate deity

Basic Information

Titles

Master of Metal
The Great Steelsmith
Lord of Smiths
The Armorer
The Weaponsmith
The Pyromancer

Adjectives

Flandalian

Pantheons

Lords of the Golden hills

Serves

Garl Glittergold

Attributes

Alignment

Neutral Good

Symbol

Flaming hammer

Realm

Twin Paradises of Bytopia/Dothion/Golden Hills/Mithral Forge

Portfolio

Mining, Physical Fitness, Smithing, Metalworking

Favored Weapon

Rhondang (Warhammer)

Following

Worshippers

Artisans
Fighters
Gnomes
Miners
Smiths

Alignments

LG, NG, CG

Domains

Artifice (Industry, Toil)
Earth (Metal)
Good (-)
Strength (Competition, Resolve)

Favored Aspects

Monsters

Earth elementals
Fire elementals
Helmed horrors
Iron golems
Rust monsters
Xorns

Minerals

Beljuril
Fire agate
Fire opal
Steel

Colors

Red-orange

Manifest- ations

Hearth fire flames

Jets of flame over bare ground

Little earthquakes

Metal shattering