Urogalan

Urogalan is the halfling deity of earth and death. He is a gentle deity for a god of death, respected and revered by his chosen race but never feared. Because the halfling dead are usually buried, he is also the guardian of the earth itself (as opposed to the plants that grew in the earth, which are under the portfolios of other halfling deities).

Description

Urogalan's avatar appeared as a slim, dusky-skinned halfling dressed in brown or pure white, representing his two primary aspects of earth and death. He rarely spoke or showed emotion, but his rarely heard voice was tinged with loss.

Divine Realm

Urogalan's realm, Soulearth, is found on the plane of Elysium. This realm is a cavern beneath the surface of Eronia, Elysium's second layer. The souls of halflings go to Urogalan's realm before being assigned their proper places in the afterlife.

Worshippers

Most halflings honored Urogalan, however, his priesthood was rather small. They administered last rites, presided over burials, and cared for halfling graves. They also maintained much of halfling genealogies and histories, and consecrated the foundations of new buildings and burrows. Worshipers of Urogalan favoured using the flail in combat, as well as slings, short swords, and daggers.

Urogalan's novices were called Earthlings, while his full priests were called Vassals of the Black Hound. They wore humble, long robes tied by rope belts and did not wear shoes. Priests usually shaved their heads and priestesses wore their hair in a double-braid style.

Dogma

Urogalan's faithful believed that just as the earth is the giver of all life, so it ultimately receives all life into its embrace. They revered the soil and embraced death when their natural lives came to an end.

Temples

Urogalan's temples were often found in caves, skyless basins, or in halfling catacombs. They emphasized the natural terrain and their floors were always covered in six or more inches of dirt.

Rituals

Offerings to Urogalan included uncut gems and clay images of He Who Must Be. They were placed on flat rocks at the centers of natural earthen basins while soft dirges and elegies. These were sung and read while percussion was provided by the pounding of the priests' feet, as they rotated around the central stone.

Halfling bodies were interned in stone or wooden caskets with a stone tablet graven with the name of the deceased and a symbol of the Black Hound on their chests and on their palms. Mementos of their lives were often buried with them.

Urogalan's holy times were the nights of the full moons, that were called Earthrisings. Halflings believed the full moon to be one of Urogalan's manifestations.

Relationships

Urogalan was on good terms with members the halfling pantheon. He was also allied with Callarduran Smoothhands, Dumathoin, Flandal Steelskin, Geb, Grumbar, Segojan Earthcaller, and Sehanine Moonbow. As well as this, he considered human deities associated with earth and the protection of the dead such as Kelemvor, Jergal, and Osiris, as his allies.

Urogalan was opposed to Abbathor, Cyric, and Urdlen. He detested Velsharoon, Myrkul, and other gods associated with necromancy and the undead.

Urogalan

Demigod

Basic Information

Titles

He Who Must Be
The Black Hound
Lord in the Earth
The Protector
The Shaper

Adjectives

Urogalanan

Pantheons

Yondalla's Children

Serves

Yondalla

Attributes

Alignment

Lawful Neutral

Symbol

Silhouette of a dog's head

Realm

Blessed Fields of Elysium/Eronia/Soulearth

Portfolio

Earth, Death, Protection Of The Dead

Favored Weapon

Doomthresher (dire flail, flail)

Following

Worshippers

Genealogists
Grave diggers
Halflings

Alignments

LG, LN, LE

Domains

Earth (-)
Repose (Psychopomp, Souls)

Favored Aspects

Animals/Plants

War dogs (typically black hounds)

White lilies

Monsters

Baku
Blink dogs
Brownies
Crawlers
Earth elementals
Einheriars
Galeb duhr
Hollyphants
Hound archons
Hound of ill omen
Lupinals
Maruts
Mist wolves
Moon dogs
Oreads
Pechs
Pers
Sapphire dragons
Stone wolves
Weredogs

Minerals

Chalcedony
Chrysoberyl
Diarun
Epidote
Ivory
Jade
Meerschaum
Samarskite
Silkstone
Tiger eye agate
Tomb jade

Colors

Brown
White

Manifest- ations

Sounds of baying hounds

Stones that speak

Tremors in the earth

Visions of black hounds