> [!infobox]+ Vhaeraun > > <div class="infobox-coat-of-arms"> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"> > <div class="character-name-container"><div class="character-main-name">Vhaeraun</div><div class="character-epithet">the Masked Lord</div></div> > </div> > </div> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.2em;"> > <img src="VhaeraunSymbol.png" alt="Vhaeraun" 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 Shadows, Thievery and Drow Ambition</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Alignment</td><td class="infobox-data">Chaotic Evil</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Symbol</td><td class="infobox-data">A black half-mask</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">Lesser <a href="Deities.md" class="internal-link">Deity</a> (Deceased)</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Home Plane</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>None</em></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Divine Champion</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>None</em></td></tr> > </table> ### About Vhaeraun, the Masked Lord, was the lesser god of shadows, thievery and the ambition of the [[Elves|drow]]. The elder son of [[Corellon]] and [[Lolth]], and twin brother to [[Eilistraee]], he coveted his father's greater divinity and his place as lord of the [[Elves]], and betrayed him during the [[Age of Founding|Schism]] in an attempt to seize it. He was slain by his sister before he could gather any great following, making him one of only two [[Deities]] of [[Aeborhia]] known to have died, alongside [[Sardior]]. Vhaeraun is little known in [[Aeborhia]] today. What is recorded of him comes almost entirely from ancient [[Elves|elven]] histories, in which he is remembered not as a god to be worshipped, but as a warning. ### Depiction Few depictions of Vhaeraun survive. The ancient [[Elves|elven]] records that mention him describe a handsome male [[Elves|drow]] dressed in black, his face hidden behind a black half-mask, and claim that the few who followed him hid their faces in the same way. It is from these accounts that the half-mask is known as his symbol, and from them that he takes the name the Masked Lord. ### Divine Domains No cleric of Vhaeraun is known to history. ### Holy Day Vhaeraun has no holy day. ### Commandments of Vhaeraun No commandments of Vhaeraun are known. If he ever taught anything to his few followers, it was lost with him. ### History - #### The Age of Founding Vhaeraun was born in the [[Age of Founding]], the elder of twin children to [[Corellon]] and his bride [[Lolth]]. While his younger sister [[Eilistraee]] was favoured by their father, Vhaeraun came to covet [[Corellon|Corellon's]] greater divinity and his place in the Pantheon as lord of the [[Elves]]. During the [[Age of Founding|Schism]], as [[Corellon]] fought [[Gruumsh]], the Ruiner, Vhaeraun caused his father's blade to snap in two. As [[Corellon]] fled for [[Arborea]], Vhaeraun and [[Gruumsh]] tracked him down together, and it was then that [[Eilistraee]] appeared and faced her brother in battle. While the two greater gods fought, the twins duelled, and when [[Corellon]] turned to face his children, he found that his daughter had killed her brother. Vhaeraun's death drove both [[Eilistraee]] and [[Corellon]] into a long grief, and drove [[Lolth]] to madness, turning her against the Pantheon. - #### The Age of Arcanum Though Vhaeraun was gone, his death continued to shape [[Aeborhia|the world]]. The [[Elves|drow]] who remained loyal to [[Lolth]] in the [[Underdark]] built their cities into cruel matriarchies in her name, while [[Eilistraee]] spent the age freeing those who wished to escape them. - #### The Dawn-War When [[Lolth]] was released at the start of the [[Dawn-War]], it was her grief for Vhaeraun that drove her final battle in [[Zeshana]], where she unleashed her full power on [[Eilistraee]], her son's killer, before being banished by [[Kord]] and [[Corellon]]. To this day, [[Lolth]] blames [[Corellon]], [[Eilistraee]] and even [[Gruumsh]], who hunted [[Corellon]] alongside her son, for his death. - #### Post Dawn-War Vhaeraun has been all but forgotten. Among the [[Elves]], his story survives as a cautionary tale of ambition and betrayal, and of what becomes of a child who turns on their parent. ### Modern Worship of Vhaeraun There is practically no worship of Vhaeraun in [[Aeborhia]] today. A handful of small cells are thought to exist among the followers of [[Lolth]] in the [[Underdark]], venerating him as her lost son, but they hold no notoriety. In the matriarchal societies of the [[Elves|drow]], where males are held in little regard, the worship of a dead male god earns little respect. ### Known Worshippers of Vhaeraun #### Champions *Not Known* #### Other Worshippers *Not Known*