Irsman Dwarfather

Irsman Dwarfather is the head of the Dwarven Pantheon. He also appears in the Elven Pantheon in his capacity as Nictalv's husband. He is notably paranoid, especially after the betrayal of Gera Forgemother.

## Aspects

### Irsman Deepfather

Irsman Deepfather is identical to the standard form of Irsman Dwarfather, just with a different surname to emphasise his relation to a number of elven deities.

### Puderey

Puderey is the draconic aspect of Irsman. He takes the form of a colossal deep dragon but lacks all the mould and fungus common to the species, giving him a deep purple, serpentine appearance. He dislikes all who would enter his domain, especially those with some sort of drugs in their possession.

## Myths

The first myth of Irsman details his birth and early life. Irsman was born fully formed in the depths of Erah. Deciding he needed more space, he started pounding on the rocks around him with his fists, carving out a chamber. From there, he carved the entirety of Dowerah with his bare hands. This act of creation unbalanced existence, forcing Derwo out of the First Sphere and necessitating the construction of the Second Sphere. Irsman was both unaware and apathetic towards his unstabling of the cosmos. Erah came before him and asked him to come to the surface world with her. Irsman refused because that would mean abandoning all the work he had done so far. She offered to make him prince of the surface. He refused, saying he would rather be a king in the depths than a prince in the light. She told him that he was her son and that she just wanted to do right by him. He said that he was born of the rock of this realm, and he would recognise none other than this rock as his parent, and that he saw through the lies of her soft words. He vowed that neither he nor his dwarven children would ever fall for the soft words of surface-folk. He then cast her out of his realm and went back to digging.

The goddess Nictalv was eventually exiled from Alvheim and came to Dowerah. She wandered through the caverns, where she was found by Irsman. Irsman was immediately smitten by her beauty and introduced himself by proposing. Nictalv, impressed by both Irsman's sincerity and his craftsmanship of his realm accepted, and they were soon married.

When Nictalv's sister Higa was captured by Ruptnoc and taken to the Shadow Realm, Irsman was initially against getting involved in a war to rescue one of the deities who banished his wife, but at Nictalv's request he joined the coalition. Irsman and Alvan were the two deities who put down Manshu after Ruptnoc' corruption turned him into a terrifying monster.

Meno, son of Irsman and Nictalv, tried to gain his father's approval by travelling from home to find wealth and glory. He was soon kidnapped by the draconic deity Crema. Irsman rallied the dwarven gods to rescue their comrade. After a difficult fight, they managed to rescue Meno, broken and burned as he was. On the way back to Irsman's Halls though, the goddess Gera Forgemother broke ranks with the other dwarven deities and seized Meno, running off into the tunnels with him. Irsman tried giving chase, but Gera escaped his grasp. Gera took Meno to her Halls, and rebuilt him, using the metals from the mountains to do so. When Mina was rebuilt, she returned to Irsman's Halls, Irsman refused to listen to her, saying that Gera had performed sorcery on Meno when she rebuilt him, forcing him to be what she wanted him to be instead of what he wanted for himself, and that if Meno had wanted to be rebuilt like this, then Gera would have had no reason to kidnap him. When Mina tried defending Gera, Irsman banished her, and Mina has lived with Sith in happiness ever since. Irsman doesn't know whether Mina and Meno are the same dwarf, whether Mina was built from Meno's corpse, and if so, whether Gera messed with their mind in the process. Most importantly of all, he wants to know if his child truly lives, something he can't trust Mina to prove to him. Due to the toll this incident had on Irsman, when his daughter Ferra was kidnapped by Urstar soon afterwards, he refused to rescue her, saying that if he did then she would suffer more afterwards as a result.

After the creation of the zwergind race, Irsman, while initially seeing them as aberrant mockeries of his children, saw their eagerness to accept dwarven culture. This eagerness, along with their appearance he found interesting, caused him to adopt them and become their patron god.