Hammer
Imperial God, Great Assembler, Gods' Craftsman.
Hammer is an Imperial God of Crafting, Smithing and Metallurgy. All craftsmen can worship him, but most of them have dedicated demigods serving beneath him in his afterlife. While he is oversees all sorts of crafting, his personal interest are blacksmithing and metallurgy. This situation causes a lot of religious strife between guilds, since the blacksmiths often come to see themselves superior to the rest.
Due to the importance the crafting has for the continued existence of Imperium of Karadia (and all other countries too), Hammer is considered one of the strongest Gods of White Pantheon. He is, however, also a legend when it comes to singlemindedness. He cares little for the world beyond the High Forge, his realm in Heavens, and crafters in the Real World that worship him. But even in their case, he has little interest of them beyond the crafting part.
He spends eternity in his personal forge atop the High Forge, where he continuously crafts weapons and armours for the White Pantheon to use when the End Times come.
High Forge
The realm of Hammer is the High Forge. In its center lies Mount Inferno, a massive, perpetually erupting volcano surrounded by lands mostly covered by ash. On its slopes a great city is built, called the The City of the Makers. It is a personal domain of Hammer, granted to him by Ember. Here, untold millions of his Dead (and even more daemons) perpetually work, creating more and more perfect weapons, armours, equipment, and all other items to be used throughout the Heavens.
Despite the volcano perpetually erupting, it was brought under control by the power of Hammer. There are lava rivers, bound in stone, that flow through the city. The lava itself is used as an infinite source of power and heat to the forges, of metals for the smithies, of volcanic glass for alchemical bottles production and so on. Leather and other organic materials can be easily 'harvest' from the ashen wastes surrounding the High Forge, inhabited by terrible beasts that adapted to the harsh environment perfetly.
Servants
During the Great Game - fought in Dark and Light - Hammer commands a vast armies of servile daemons. He has no formations made up from the Dead. Most notable of his servants are:
Forge Warrior - A standard combat daemon of the High Forge, created to ensure that the work of the craftsmen inhabiting it is never interrupted. Manifest as a towering humanoids in a plate armour that can be only describe as beautiful... and almost impenetrable. While their skills seem lacking when compared to average soldiers of other Gods of White Pantheon, they are armed to the teeth with weapons, armours, potions etc. of absolutely masterwork quality.
Forge Dragon - An ancient forge drakes... that grew a lot. Now their serve as mounts for most elite warriors of the High Forge, while also serving as apex predators of the wasteland surronding Mount Inferno. Their scales are said to be almost impenetrable, and they can even spit molten magma on their enemies.
Dragonscale Knight - A warrior of High Forge whose achievements made Hammer himself look outside of his forge for even a short while. For that, they were rewarded with equipment created personally by him. Their armour is made from the scales of the oldest forge dragons, while their weapons were forged from the hottest lava from the very epicenter of the eruption. When manifested in Real World, they are capable of withstanding most archspells and archhexes.
Divine Domains
Crafting, Blacksmithing, Metallurgy.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A hammer. Obviously.
Physical Description
Body Features
Manifests under two forms. First is a black haired man of rather typical, though fit body, 16-20 years old, with blacksmith hammer on its belt and work clothes. Second is a vast humanoid from molten metal, with massive (and partially made from liquid magma, so its dripping a bit) hammer.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
From where exactly Hammer came is his personal secret - just like in case of all Imperial Gods. If one were to believe the mythologies, he is a son of Ember and Death, that become so obsesses with the art of creating objects that he created his own personal realm in the Heavens... and almost never leaves his forge atop the Mount Inferno since.
The only thing that can draw him out to the point of showing up in the myths as a participant (rather than being mentioned as an author of items used by other Gods) is his eternal, unresolved crush on Inspiration, over whom he keeps fighting with Demiurge. The only really visible action of Hammer was being tricked by Shadow to create the first Astral Core, after which he is said to have invaded Perpetual Contraption.
It is, however, not specified how exactly the High Forge only open war ended.
Other than that, he is also known to guide (not openly) a craftsmen, especially blacksmiths, that somehow interested him. Which happens as a form of a Favour, helping them unlock their true potential and become better in their trade. He cares little for their wellbeing other than this, however.
Morality & Philosophy
Hammer is a God of crafting. He exists to modify and create things. He has little interests in anything else. That's all he really cares. He doesn't even care about how his worshippers really live, as there are other Gods that deal with making the society and orderly and just place. Hammer is simply the one that supplies them with tools.
There is one thing, however, that makes him feel genuine anger. Creation and modification of sapient beings. A 'craftsman' (alchemists, in most of cases) that go that way are automatically devoid of entrance to the High Forge and will lose all Favours they have from him. In that particular case, he is even more radical than Imperium.
Divine Classification
God
Children
Eyes
Vary between manifestations.
Hair
Vary between manifestations.
Height
Vary between manifestations.
Weight
Vary between manifestations.
As every God, he understands and speaks all of them.
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