Dugmaren Brightmantle

(a.k.a. The Errant Explorer, The Gleam in the Eye, The Wandering Tinker)

Dugmaren Brightmantle, also known as the Errant Explorer, is the dwarven deity of scholarship, discovery and invention and an exarch of Moradin. Just as Marthammor Duin exemplifies the urge to explore the world beyond the mountain, Dugmaren Brightmantle signifies the exploratory striving to blaze the trails of creativity by using accumulated knowledge to create that which is new and good. Brightmantle represents the progressive elements of a naturally conservative race that nonetheless prides itself on its infrequent innovations.

Divine Domains

Chaos, Craft, Dwarf, Good, Knowledge, Patience, Rune

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Tenets of Faith

Dugmaren's clerics draw from the most creative tinkers and free thinkers of dwarven communities, on rare occasions even allowing gnomes to join their orders. They follow a doctrine of knowledge for knowledge’s sake, seeing equal value in learning a once-lost recipe for toasted zygom stalk and discovering the crucial flaw in an enemy's defensive fortifications. In fact, since the clergy strongly favors creation over destruction, there's a good chance many of them would have preferred the recipe. Temples of the Errant Explorer, usually sprawling edifices filled with the scattered detritus of a half-hundred abandoned experiments and twice as many open books, can be found both above and below the surface.
Dugmaren's clergy pray for spells in the morning. They observe few official holidays, instead whispering a prayer of thanks to the Errant Explorer upon the discovery of some new bit of lore. On the Day of Joining and Harvest Festival, they begin the day with several hours of private meditation, usually staring at the flame of a candle. Thereafter, neighboring worshipers will gather to discuss their discoveries and creations since the prior convocation.
Dugmaren Brightmantle's specialty priests are called xothor (dwarven for "those who seek knowledge", roughly), with the singular form of xothar.

Divine Classification

Exarch