Haela Brightaxe Haela Brightaxe ( " hay " - la " brite " - axe ) , also called the Lady of the Fray or the Luckmaiden , was a dwarven demigod of battle and luck . Overview . Haela Brightaxe was one in spirit with good - aligned dwarves who loved battle and who lived to cleanse Toril of evil monsters . Haelan clerics fought monsters whenever they could find them , either to destroy the evil beast , or just for the thrill of battle . Haela , as she was a goddess of luck , took great risks in the battles she fought . Followers . Haela ' s cleric s were called " kaxanar " , which could be translated as " bloodmaidens " . Most of her clergy were females , but the few men who served her didn ' t seem to have a problem with the feminine title . Kaxanar cared little for the rules of dwarven society and built their temples wherever conflict was to be found . Temples were regularly built in the cellars of human ruins , abandoned dwarf holds , or even empty gnome warrens . Most temples also served as armories , and all were trapped with at least one very violent bombastic trap so that no temple could fall into enemy hands . Kaxanar were frequently also barbarians , since their rage engendered joyous destruction . Rituals . Kaxanar prayed for spells in the morning . During these prayers , they traced the elaborate scars on their forearms that had been ritually carved there upon initiation into the order . Most scars showed geometric patterns , but a few iconoclasts used their initiation to carve profanities or lewdness into their skin . On the day of Greengrass , the Haelans celebrated a ritual called the Time of Spawning . In this ritual , they chanted and shattered captured enemy weapons to prepare for the next onslaught of monsters from occupied dwarven holds . Axe Held High was a high holy day for the followers of Haela . On this day , kaxanar and those allied with them gathered on the surface and claimed to see an image of Haela ' s greatsword outlined at the center of the sun . The Commemoration of the Fallen was celebrated with the Feast of the Moon , when the kaxanar remembered all dwarves and non - dwarves who fell in defense of Moradin ' s children . Relationships . Most of her companions in the Morndinsamman respected Haela ' s lively manner . Haela made sure she never acted against the wishes of the other accepted members of the dwarven pantheon , though she accepted only Moradin as her superior . Of her brothers and sisters , she preferred the company of Marthammor Duin and Clangeddin Silverbeard , who respectively shared her interest in the surface and her love for battle . Haela was so focused on the dwarves that she had little time for gods outside her own pantheon . Abbathor , who was always interested in luck , sent ever more dangerous threats to Haela ever since she spurned his interest . Death . Haela , along with Gorm Gulthyn , died in battle with the duergar deities Laduguer and Deep Duerra in 1383 DR . The Second Sundering . In the wake of the Second Sundering , signs indicating the return of Haela , as well as her duergar enemies , have begun to surface . < nowiki > < / nowiki > Ca . 1486 DR , a party of adventurers witnessed a female voice , with no discernable source , utter a Dwarvish battle cry , while the eyes of a statue dedicated to Haela Brightaxe flashed on their own . This event was seemingly a result of the adventurers showing their respect to the late dwarven goddess within the halls of Firehammer Hold , a temple dedicated to the Lady of the Fray and , at that point , recently conquered by a group of duergar , lead by a durzagon known as Nalifarn .