Balikar

===Balikar (Baal-ik-are)===
Conqueror of the North, Keeper of the Orcs, Lord of the Red Banner, Battle Horn of the Tribes
==General Information==
Symbol: An ornately depicted Orcish War Horn
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Strength:  Greater Deity
Portfolio: Honor, Strategy, Planning, Tactics, Unification, Glory in Battle
Worshipers: Orcish Warriors, Orcish Chieftains, Orcish Clerics, People of Gurgolmaash
Cleric Alignments: LN, N
Domains: Glory, Tactics, Protection, Community
Favored Weapon: Scimitar
Places of Strong Influence:  Gurgolmaash
Places of Moderate Influence:  Druglug
Places of Minor Influence:  Kruskur
==Description==
Balikar is the chief deity of the orcs of Gurgolmaash. He is a credited in orcish lore for freeingthem from the bonds of the giants of Gronth. He is a tall and imperious looking orc in fine armorwith a good, stout, shield and broad-bladed scimitar with a flowing red cloak and a war horn athis side. Depictions of him normally show him with a helm under his arm and balancing the redbanner of Gurgolmaash in the other.
==Basic Beliefs & Dogma==
Balikar is a very broad deity that encompasses what the orcs have become andsymbolizes all that they could be. Balikar insits, even demands, that the orcs not fight amongstthemselves even to the point of exiling or wiping out truculent tribes that might upset the unity ofhis people like a cancer. Unity, he says, is the mark of a great people and stamp of a granddestiny. Some say that the dominion the giants held over the orcs was at the whim of Balikar toteach his people a lesson about the price of division. Balikar teaches his people that honor isparamount in all things. From challenges of honor [which he stringently forbids being to thedeath except under the utmost duress] to how you rule your people, run your affairs day to day, tohow you lead your people in war; all must be done with honor and dignity. Without honor, apeople is little more than animals squabbling over scraps. Balikar does not promote the idea ofwar or going to war of itself as it is disruptive of a people. However, he urges his followers tonever back down from an aggressor either and teaches that its glorious to fall in righteous battleagainst the foes of your people. If safe guarding the people means being taking a fight to apotentially dangerous enemy, then so be it, but never fight war solely for war’s sake. To this end,he teaches the warriors of his people the value of good planning and a sound strategy to lessenthe loss of life to his people. This is sometimes at odds with other orcish deities, but in generalmost orcish leaders tend to adhere to this out of respect for Balikar if for nothing else.