Urdlen

Urdlen (), also known as the Crawler Below, was a chaotic evil gnome deity. It took the form of a white mole, blind, hairless, sexless, but with claws of steel. A mindless force of evil and destruction, Urdlen was the only evil gnome deity. It was allowed to remain part of that pantheon by its leader Garl Glittergold as a reminder to all gnomes of the dangers of greed and bloodlust.
==Relationships==
Urdlen hated all the other gnomish deities, and they had no particular love for it either. Its actions also earned the wrath of the gods of halflings, dwarves, and kobolds, as well as Grumbar.
==Worshipers==
Worship of Urdlen was limited to either secretive cults or a lurking threat on the margins of society. Its clerics waged war on the clergy of other gnome deities, or spent their time stealing works of art and other objects of great value and destroying or defacing them.
Some tanar'ri priests were known to pledge themselves to Urdlen's service.
===Dogma===
Urdlen insisted that all living things had to be killed, and that all things created by the living had to be destroyed. It exhorted its followers to hate, covet, ruin, and destroy; to succumb to bloodlust; to revel in orgies of destruction and exult in killing. It claimed the strong would survive and subjugate the weak, and demanded that its followers appease it so it would not come to them.
==History==
In the , nobles of Arabel found themselves in a conflict with the cultists of Urdlen. The conflict was stated to had been prolonged according to the reporting on the pages of the Baldur's Mouth Gazette.
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===Gallery===
Urdlen priest.png|A spriggan priest of Urdlen, giant among men.
===Appearances===
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::Baldur's Gate III
===Further Reading===
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Category:Intermediate deities
Category:Lords of the Golden Hills
Category:Chaotic evil deities
Category:Chaos domain deities
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Category:Envy domain deities
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Category:Gnome domain deities
Category:Greed domain deities
Category:Hatred domain deities
Category:Inhabitants of the Abyss
Category:Inhabitants of the Outer Planes
Category:Inhabitants of the Great Wheel planes
Category:Inhabitants of Hammergrim
Category:Inhabitants of the Fiendish Planes
Category:Inhabitants of the World Tree planes
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