Thalran, the Martial Lord

is one of the five Lords of the Pentacle and a member of The Great Pantheon.
== Summary ==
Once an angel of Kirva, Thalran grew too ambitious, enslaving mortal worlds for himself. At every turn, Kirva would extend mercy when Thalran wanted executions, call for flame when Thalran wanted slaves. The frustrated angel and several lesser companions sought the aid of Shantara and Valdos, breaking free of Kirva in a spectacular betrayal.
If Shantara broke with the Triad out of deepest hatred, Thalran rebelled out of resentment and frustrated ambition. Thalran's greatest angels are mostly, like him, former Kirvanites; Thalran, however, chose to build his own hierarchy from this core of companions: where Shantara assembled her collection of renegades, Thalran has a stricter order more like Valdos's. His angels are often brutal and uncompromising, like Kirva's own zealots but without a belief in purity or salvation. His mortal servants are, at the top, warlords and conquerors; nearer the bottom, jumped-up marauders who assert a warrior code only to separate themselves from the scum. As Thalran and Shantara both briefly fell under Dalthad's hierarchy, they also possess the ability to create angelic-mortal hybrids (see also the Fialta in the modern age); Valdos and Qualos do not adopt such measures.
It is now fairly accepted by occultists that, as gods are a reflection in part of the souls they consume, and Thalran was a Prime Angel born of Kirva, that he represented a reaction (perhaps involuntary) of Kirva to the influx of millions of souls who came to her from the crusades fought by her followers and who represented a level of bloodlust and will to power that was at odds with Kirva's principles of purity and liberation. In this narrative, Thalran's rebellion began essentially with his very birth, dooming him to push eternally against Kirva, who would not allow her identity to be drowned in blood.
Category: Major Gods