The Iron God
From Praemal
A mysterious deity of the old Prustan humans, no image of the Iron God is ever seen. He is the patron of all things iron.
Most of the Iron God's current worshippers are dwarves, both Grailwarden and Stonelost. (Originally the Iron God was a purely Grailwarden dwarf deity, but the dwarves who would become the Stonelost adopted him almost as soon as they learned of him.) In the heyday of the Tarsisian Empire, the Iron God had many human worshippers as well.
The lord of all things iron and steel, the Iron God is a master of the forge, of strength, and of weapons of war. More than just that, though, he is a god of tools and machines with iron gears, iron wheels, and iron furnaces burning coal to fire iron pistons. His followers invariably work as craftsmen, smiths, or machinists.
The Iron God's priests wear iron masks in addition to their heavy armor. They typically say little. The Iron God has no holy books and little in the way of dogma. His is a religion of intuition and gut feeling. "You feel the iron, and you listen to the iron," a devotee might say, as though that sums up the religion in its entirety.
In Ptolus, the Iron God's temple lies on Chalice Road. A long, low building with large iron buttresses, it sees only a small amount of activity. (There is also an ancient and abandoned temple of his in Dwarvenhearth, far below Ptolus.) It is possible that, if the Shuul technologists succeed in reinstating the "old ways," the temple of the Iron God may prosper.
One of the gods of Praemal.
The Iron God is Lawful Neutral and his domains are Earth, Fire and Technology. (The Technology domain is found in the Ptolus campaign book.) He offers as his symbol alternatively an iron sphere or a mask of iron. His weapon is the warhammer. Followers of the Iron God do not create images of the god himself; they tend to avoid anthropomorphizing him if at all possible. Thus, the Iron God is not the smith, but the iron itself. He is not the forger, but the forge. He dwells within all worked iron, and any such object is holy to his priests.
