Karn

God of Earth

With the conclusion of the great work of the flow, the foundations of all magics and tremendous energy, the gods sought a focus for the energies, a place where they could mingle. Their solution was a world, the world of Orizon. The god Karn set himself forwards and began the construction of earth and stone, melding a molten core of rock and metal around a crust of soil. As he worked, building over the foundations of the flow, his work began to be dimly reflected in other planes connected to the material plane. His work was a secondary foundation, one upon which mortal life depends and also served as a foundation for mortal’s birth and creation, though he left it to Tiad and Vesperi to place more on the foundation.
During the God War, Karn acted nearly as an artillery commander. He flung massive stones at the massed armies of fiends and mortals and pinned lesser gods beneath pillars of earth. He muddled the ground their enemies walked on and shook the earth to destabilize their formations.
Worship of Karn is held within deep caves and caverns with a great focus on natural formations inside of the caves and simplistic paintings of spirits and myths featuring Karn. The depths of these caverns help the faithful feel a deeper connection to the stone. Caverns with any exposed magma hold a special significance as it offers a connection to his “blood.” Volcanoes are seen as sacred places as sites of both Karn’s warmth and his wrath; as their eruptions will lay waste to everything in its way, but also leave fertile soil behind. During rituals for Karn worshippers use simple, almost stone age, tools. Priests spend weeks knapping and carving the tools to be used in the rituals.
Karn’s great focus is on the soil, metal, and stone of the earth. He protects and preserves it, and uses it to provide for the things living on top of it. To the people of the underground and underdark, Karn is considered one of the foremost gods. The dwarves especially worship and regard Karn, depicting him as the foremost ancestor of the Dwarven people and the great father of every clan.

Divine Domains

Fertility, Nature, Stone, Volcanoes

Symbol Of Karn

Divine Classification

God

Alignment

True Neutral

Gender

Male