Garagos
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| Forgotten Realms Deity | |
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| Garagos | |
| Title(s) | The Reaver, Master of All Weapons |
| Homeplane | Warrior's Rest |
| Power Level | Lesser |
| Alignment | Chaotic Neutral |
| Portfolio | War, skill-at-arms, destruction, plunder |
| Superior | |
Garagos is a lesser Faerûnian deity of war in Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms fictional world of Abeir-Toril, though he focuses more on destruction than war itself. He and Tempus are the only pair of deities that violate the otherwise strict rule against two gods sharing the same portfolio, as both have the portfolio of war. Tempus merely tolerates Garagos for reasons of his own, a reason that many Realms scholars believe stems from the fact that Tempus dislikes mindless slaughter and destruction, and would be obliged to take on that portfolio if he slew his rival. Though both are chaotic neutral, Garagos is far more heedless than Tempus in what war wreaks, reveling in destruction and slaughter while the greater deity values honorable combat; this distinction between the different modes of war they represent may be the reason that Lord Ao does not enforce his otherwise strict edict against portfolio sharing by stripping one or the other of his dominance over War.
[edit] References
- Boyd, Eric L, and Erik Mona. Faiths and Pantheons (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
- Boyd, Eric L. Powers and Pantheons (TSR, 1997).
