Garagos (Forgotten Realms)
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Garagos is a lesser Faerûnian deity of war in the Forgotten Realms fictional campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, though he focuses more on destruction and plunder than war itself.
Publication history
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (1989-1999)
Garagos was mentioned in the revised Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (1993).[1] Garagos is further detailed in Powers & Pantheons (1997).[2]
Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition (2000-2007)
Garagos appears in 3rd edition in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book (2001),[3] and was further described in Faiths and Pantheons (2002).[4]
Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition (2008-)
Garagos appears in 4th edition in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide (2008).[5]
History
Garagos and Tempus are the only pair of deities that violate the otherwise strict rule against two gods of the same pantheon sharing the same portfolio, as both have the portfolio of war. Tempus merely tolerates Garagos for reasons of his own; many Realms scholars believe his reasons stem from the fact that Tempus dislikes mindless slaughter and destruction, and would be obliged to take on that portfolio if he slew his rival.
Though both are chaotic neutral in alignment, Garagos is wild and reckless, reveling in destruction and slaughter while Tempus values honorable combat; this distinction between the different modes of war they represent may be the reason that Lord Ao does not enforce his otherwise strict edict against portfolio sharing by stripping one or the other of his dominance over War.
References
- ^ Ed Greenwood (1993). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. ASIN B000K06S2E.
- ^ Boyd, Eric L. (1997). Powers & Pantheons. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 078690657X.
- ^ Greenwood, Ed (2001). Forgotten Realms: Campaign Setting. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0786918365.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Boyd, Eric L, and Erik Mona. Faiths and Pantheons (Wizards of the Coast, 2002)
- ^ Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. Wizards of the Coast. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
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