> [!infobox]+ Torog > > <div class="infobox-coat-of-arms"> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"> > <div class="character-name-container"><div class="character-main-name">Torog</div><div class="character-epithet">the Crawling King</div></div> > </div> > </div> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.2em;"> > <img src="TorogSymbol.png" alt="Torog" style="max-width: 250px; height: auto;" class="internal-image"> > </div> > <table class="infobox-table"> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Province</td><td class="infobox-data">God of the <a href="Underdark.md" class="internal-link">Underdark</a>, Imprisonment and Torture, Patron of jailers, torturers and slavers</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Alignment</td><td class="infobox-data">Neutral Evil</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Symbol</td><td class="infobox-data">Three pale arms clawing from a dark void</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Holy Day</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>None</em></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Type</td><td class="infobox-data">Greater <a href="Deities.md" class="internal-link">Deity</a></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Home Plane</td><td class="infobox-data">Bound at the borders of the <a href="Far Realm.md" class="internal-link">Far Realm</a>, beneath the deepest pits of the <a href="Underdark.md" class="internal-link">Underdark</a>, since his banishment at <a href="Zur-Irqaz.md" class="internal-link">Zur-Irqaz</a> in the <a href="Dawn-War.md" class="internal-link">Dawn-War</a></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Divine Champion</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>Not Known</em></td></tr> > </table> ### About Torog, the Crawling King, is the greater god of the [[Underdark]], imprisonment and torture, and one of the [[Betrayer Gods]]. He is the patron of jailers, torturers and slavers, and those who rob others of their freedom offer him their prayers in cellars, dungeons and other places beneath the earth. In the [[Age of Founding]], Torog carved the endless tunnels and caverns of the [[Underdark]], making a world beneath the world where darkness could thrive, and many of the creatures that dwell in that darkness still revere him as its maker. Since his banishment at the end of the [[Dawn-War]], he has been bound at the borders of the [[Far Realm]], in a sliver of that alien plane that now lies beneath the deepest pits of the [[Underdark]], where the boundaries between worlds grow thin and give birth to terrible abominations bent on subjugation. ### Depiction The Crawling King is depicted as a swollen, malformed worm that slithers through the dark below, with a screaming, hairless human head at its helm and three arms carving through the lightless rock. The crude idols found in his hidden shrines often show only those three pale arms, reaching out of a void of darkness, and it is this image that his worshippers carry as his holy symbol. ### Divine Domains Torog's clerics are most often granted powers of Death, Trickery or Order. ### Holy Day Torog has no holy day. His worship has always been a thing of secrecy and darkness, and his followers offer their prayers whenever they take a new prisoner or inflict new pain in his name. ### Commandments of Torog - Seek and exalt places where no light touches. - Revel in the pain you inflict on others, and relish the pain you suffer yourself as an offering to Torog. - Imprison those who cannot resist you, and drag all life into the darkness. ### Enemies of Torog Above all others, the Crawling King hates [[Moradin]]. It was the All-Hammer who hunted him through his own tunnels at the end of the [[Dawn-War]] and dragged him into the borders of the [[Far Realm]], and Torog has never forgiven him. That hatred extends to [[Moradin|Moradin's]] children, for the [[Dwarves]] share the realm beneath the earth that Torog claims as his own, and their great holds are bright with forge-fire where he would have only darkness. Torog also loathes [[Pelor]], whose light he despises above all things and whose sunlight pierced him in the [[Age of Founding|Schism]], and [[Erathis]], whose trickery drew him out of the dark to his first defeat. ### History - #### The Age of Founding In the [[Age of Founding]], while the other [[Deities]] shaped the lands and seas and the peoples who would dwell upon them, Torog looked beneath them. He carved the [[Underdark]] out of the deep rock of [[Aeborhia|the world]], a vast web of tunnels and caverns where no light could reach, making places where darkness could thrive. Every one of those tunnels, however far it wound, he made to converge at a single point beneath what is now [[Vangrallag]], the place where [[Zur-Irqaz]] would one day stand. During the [[Age of Founding|Schism]], Torog joined the [[Betrayer Gods]] against the Pantheon. His servants rose from the [[Underdark]] to fall upon the young cities of [[Erathis]], dragging their people down into the dark to be imprisoned and tortured in his tunnels. [[Erathis]] drew him out by offering herself as bait, walling one of her cities in [[Stacia]] and letting it seem unguarded, and the Crawling King came up out of the earth to claim it. Once he was above ground, [[Pelor]] pierced his body with ten thousand lances of sunlight, and together the two gods cast Torog deep into the [[Far Realm]]. The city itself has long since fallen to ruin, and its name and location have been lost. - #### The Age of Arcanum Torog spent the [[Age of Arcanum]] imprisoned deep within the [[Far Realm]], though the creatures of the [[Underdark]] kept his worship alive in the dark places he had made for them. - #### The Dawn-War At the start of the [[Dawn-War]], Torog was released along with the other [[Betrayer Gods]]. With every tunnel of the [[Underdark]] converging beneath [[Zur-Irqaz]], the colossal mountain fortress of the [[Betrayer Gods]] in [[Vangrallag]], the Crawling King became its jailer. Its depths filled with prisoners of war taken from across [[Aeborhia]], and the dungeons beneath it became the most feared place in [[Aeborhia|the world]]. His servants moved unseen through the [[Underdark]], striking at cities from below and dragging their captives down into the dark. His end came when [[Pelor]] and [[Moradin]] led an all-out assault on [[Zur-Irqaz]], one of the most devastating battles of the [[Dawn-War]], in which thousands of warriors, demons and many of [[Pelor|Pelor's]] [[Pelor's Swords|Swords]] fell before its walls. By its end, three of the [[Betrayer Gods]] were banished: [[Bane]] cast into [[Acheron]], [[Zehir]] hurled into the [[Astral Sea]], and Torog bound to the borders of the [[Far Realm]]. As the fortress fell, Torog tried to flee into his own tunnels. [[Moradin]] and his [[Dwarves]], at home beneath the earth, pursued him through the dark, and when at last they caught him, the All-Hammer physically dragged the Crawling King into the borders of the [[Far Realm]], binding him there. The ordeal left [[Moradin]] grievously wounded in both body and mind, and he would not return to the field for the remainder of the war. - #### Post Dawn-War Torog has remained bound at the borders of the [[Far Realm]] since the [[Divergence]], in a sliver of that plane beneath the deepest pits of the [[Underdark]]. Though he can no longer crawl through the world he made, his worship endures in its darkness, and in the cellars and dungeons of the world above. ### Modern Worship of Torog No nation or city openly worships the Crawling King, and his faith is outlawed across [[Aekacira (Country)|Aekacira]] and [[Stacia]]. On the surface, he is prayed to in secret by jailers, torturers and slavers, in cellars, dungeons and other places hidden beneath the earth. In the [[Underdark]], his worship is far more open. Many of the creatures that dwell in the dark below, among them the [[Dwarves|grey dwarves]], troglodytes and kuo-toa, revere him as the maker of their world. A few of the [[Elves|drow]] pay him homage too, though most of their worship, even in the taking of slaves, belongs to [[Lolth]]. Where the [[Far Realm]] presses against the deepest pits of the [[Underdark]], the borders of his prison are said to breed abominations bent on subjugation, and some scholars tie this to the theory that the [[Illithids]] first came into [[Aeborhia|the world]] through the [[Far Realm]]. In [[Togas]], the slavers who ship their captives out from the port of Roca pray to a nameless god of slavers, and most have no idea who he truly is. The learned among them know, and openly worship Torog by name, though only deep in the jungle, never in a civilised place, not even in Roca itself. At the foot of [[Zur-Irqaz]], the scholars of [[Greywatch]] have begun to uncover entrances to the fortress's old dungeons. Strange things are reported there, from tools vanishing without trace to dreams shared among strangers, and some blame them on the tunnels of the Crawling King below. ### Known Worshippers of Torog #### Champions *Not Known* #### Other Worshippers *Not Known*