Tanadoth

Domains: War, Tempest
Tanadoth “the Warrior” is the supreme god of battle and vengeance, a legendary warrior of an ancient past whose prowess in combat, tactical superiority, and strategic genius led him to such glory that the greater deities, if perhaps out of fear, granted him godhood that they might be spared his vengeance. His followers, the Elves and Orcs of the Bloody Isle, once sought to establish a world-ending army to sweep over and obliterate the Old Continent. In mobilizing and preparing such a force, they fell into disagreement, disarray, and out of favor with one another. As one might expect, followers of such a deity do not relent in the face of a schism, instead choosing to fight - for thousands of years. Tanadoth’ original race, even, is now a… prohibitively dangerous matter to bring up around the fair-haired elves or their muscular counterparts. Each believing Tanadoth an ancestor, giving them the bloodline of their God himself, they each fight with the sustained vigor, mastery, and tactics one might expect. In the astral plane far above, Tanadoth grins as he looks down upon the bloodshed.

Dogma
Tanadoth despises the cowardly, honoring instead those who act with confidence, courage, and bravery. Seeing weakness as the material foundation of potential, of a possibility of strength, Tanadoth’s followers strive constantly towards self-mastery and improvement. To honor Tanadoth, one must defeat one’s rivals, crush enemies utterly and without hesitation, and overcome those stronger than oneself. An appreciator of beauty and power and no stranger to vanity, Tanadoth blesses those who build grand dedications - to both himself, and their own accomplishments. From a simple wooden monument commemorating a great victory to the enormous, monumental statues of an Elvish or Orcish Tanadoth upon the Bloody Isles, the Lord of Battle smiles on both. Many on the Old Continent’s East Coast consider the storms and hurricanes to brace their seas as “tests of Tanadoth,” with the sheer power of such storms and their tendency to cull the weak both clearly associated with the Warrior-god.

Selfishness, strategic genius, and conflict are the scenes of Tanadoth’s favor - and its followers are often too preoccupied with such scenes to concern themselves with ideals of morality or greater goods.