Dian Cécht

Prideful Dian Cécht, grandfather of Lugh, is the pantheon’s most prominent healer, a God of medicine. One of the eldest, he keeps Tuatha warriors alive after even the most grievous wounds by enchanting wells with herbs and magic so the water can heal almost any injury. When Nuada lost an arm fighting the Fir Bolg, Dian Cécht worked with the craft Gods to replace it with a shining silver one, giving Nuada his best-known epithet. To the leech God’s dismay, his son Miach displayed greater skill with medicine when he grew Nuada a new arm of flesh. Dian Cécht killed Miach in a jealous rage. Since then, relations between the two have been strained.

The physician likes to create Scions from divine prosthetics as well as fathering them by mortals. While primarily a healer, Dian Cécht fights alongside his more warlike brethren and sits among the inner circle of strategists when called to battle. His Scions are peerless doctors, keen scientific innovators, and occult ritualists. They solve problems and meddle in other people’s business as a matter of course. Sometimes they’re asked to do it, and other times they just do it because they can.

Wells, sewers, canals, and other manmade waterways are sacred places for Dian Cécht and can serve as entrances to his Otherworld domain. In this capacity they have healing properties for any who drink or bathe there, though some say that to anyone found unworthy, such waters are poison instead. Hospitals with his blessing produce prosthetics with impossibly lifelike qualities and employ some of the finest surgeons in the World.