Beltar

The Dark Mother

Though often depicted as a haglike human female, Beltar is known to also appear as a beholder, red dragon, or marilith. Beltar hates nearly everything, even other deities.
Beltar was formerly a goddess of earth and mines, but was supplanted by other gods (as well as nonhuman deities such as Moradin and Garl Glittergold, according to Complete Divine), until her only worshipers were nonhuman slaves. It is perhaps for this reason that dwarves and gnomes number amongst her greatest enemies.
Beltar will often take mates in her various forms, but few survive, as she eats them afterward, as well as any young born from such a union.

Divine Domains

Malice, Caves, Pits, Chaos, Earth, Evil, War.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Beltar's symbol is a huge gaping maw of razor-sharp teeth.

Tenets of Faith

Beltar's followers are encouraged to mine and explore caverns for riches and foes to kill. Her worshipers are mostly savage humans and evil nonhumans, barbaric dwellers in vast subterranean caverns. She encourages her faithful to join together in great armies and ally themselves with beholders, demons, red dragons, liches, and other powerful creatures. Her followers are relentless explorers and raiders who take whatever they can find in the darkness and make it their own.
Beltar's priests preach hatred of one's enemies, rather than fear. They are expected to take positions of leadership in their tribes, or to form their own. The priesthood makes examples of the weak-willed and traitors. They usually fight with their natural weapons, cesti, or spiked gauntlets. Devoted priests, within a year of their deaths, often rise from the grave as undead, often to return to their original tribes.
Services to Beltar are usually held in caves or points of low ground, and often involve sacrifice of sentient beings.

Divine Classification

God

Alignment

Chaotic Evil

Gender

Female

Beltar's Symbol by Unknown