Moradin

* Moradin
* Holy Symbol

**Moradin, The Allhammer** (or **All-Hammer**) is the lawful good deity of craft, creation, family, and legacy. The Allhammer is patron of craftsmen, blacksmiths, forgemasters, artisans, and miners, granting inspiration where respect and prayer are given. He shaped the mountains during the Founding, and stands as the patron of home and family.

## **Symbols and Appearance**

By his worshipers he is either depicted as a faceless, stout dwarf-like being of immense strength, hunched over, clasping within his massive hands a flaming heart, or a wandering dwarf, travelling in a powerful blizzard atop a mountain.

A common symbol of Moradin's worship is a hammer with ends carved in the likeness of dwarven heads.

## **Places of Worship**

Many of the Allhammer's temples are located in the center of a dwarven stronghold.

### **Phushura**

#### **Uthodurnian Diarchy**

In Uthodurn is a temple called Moradin's Mantle. Followers of the Allhammer are also invited to worship at the Cinderrest Sanctum in Kravaraad.

A haunted temple to Moradin remains in the ghost town of Uraliss; during an orc raid, a high priest locked the sheltering worshipers inside, and they died of starvation.

#### **Menagerie Coast**

The skyline of Port Zoon is dominated by a massive temple to Moradin called Temple Genesis, with lantern-adorned cables stretching to other high points of the city.

One of the three temples that also serves as a place of higher education in Gwarden is the House of Invention, dedicated to the Allhammer.

In Port Damali, a chosen champion of the Allhammer competes in the annual Godsbrawl at the Temple of Khord.

#### **Troms Empire**

The Allhammer is one of the deities that is approved for worship within the Troms Empire. Temples to Moradin are prominent in Grimgolir and Hupperdook.

In the northern side of Yrossa's Pentamarket, there is a shrine called the Hearth of the Allhammer. It is a domed iron structure that is slightly rusty due to lack of upkeep. Its interior has a large central forge and a beautiful heavy anvil with the symbol of the Allhammer on each of its sides. The anvil was used for both ceremonial worship and the crafting of religious artifacts.

## **Principles**

The Allhammer appreciates acts of creation of things outside of oneself and one's progeny, including forging, whittling, building, and other crafts. For this reason, crafted objects are considered appropriate offerings to the Allhammer.

### **Commandments of Moradin**

* Remain stoic and tenacious in the face of catastrophe.
* Uphold and promote loyalty to family, loyalty to clan, and loyalty to your people.
* Legacy is paramount. To create something that lasts the ages is to change the world for the better.

### **Holy Day**

Moradin's holy day is **Deep Solace**, on the eighteenth of Sylar. The dwarves of Grimgolir celebrate with a full day of feasting and drinking. Especially devout worshipers spend the day in isolation, meditating on how to be better family members.

## **History**

The Core Anvil, beneath the undersea volcano called Scaldseat, was created by the Allhammer and for the Storm Lord. There, they both created the first dwarves and many artifacts of the Founding. Khord also used the Core Anvil to craft the Prime Trammels used in the Rites of Prime Banishment.

According to legend, following the Raven Queen's ascension to godhood, she urged three of her champions to ask Melora for guidance about disposing of the body of one of the Raven Queen's heroes. The Wildmother instructed one of her champions, Dust, to carry the trunk of the hero to a volcanic cave (at Kravaraad), burn the remains, and incorporate the ashes into a new kiln. This formed the heart of a temple to the Wildmother, but it was also built as a gift to the Allhammer "to remind him that nature is the origin of material."