Manus

Manus is the god of adaptability, conquest and masculinity.
Manus is the deity adopted by many humans of various subraces, especially by the Taianese, whose civilisation has spanned much of the western continents' surface. Although known to be a god worshipped by the humans, and held in great fear by many outsider races as a result, his true nature and origin is unknown, said to be a secret guarded by the oldest trolls. Humans neither worshipped this deity during their evolution from whatever forms they previously adopted, nor was he known to the other divinities before his emergence, which coincided with the rise of the first humans.
In truth, Manus is the archetypal conglomerate of the Ancient Ones, and is therefore made in their image - that of humanity. This truth is guarded fiercely by the trolls, and not many even of the other Watchers know of its significance. Due to his intrinsic nature, Manus was born a god of opposite extremes - he embodies both humanity's proclivity for tyranny and oppression and their capacity for heroic acts and spiritual ascention. The Ancient Ones ruled for countless millennia, and Manus is possessed of a broad and adaptable set of abilities, quite unlike any other god known within Thaelis-Y'Aada, each of whom are bound and constrained by their dominions and precepts. This aspect of his nature is reflected often in depictions and idols of him, which are given multiple sets of arms, each competent in a different set of skills.
Manus has rapidly ascended from a deity of fledgling spirit level to intermediate, and is close to becoming a greater deity. He has, since the fall of the Jhoshan Empire and the example set by Sorin-Sam, one of the first nine humans of the Taianese subrace, turned his favour towards the Court of Order, who now hope to gain his membership amongst them.