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<blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 7115923" data-attributes="member: 6855057"><p>You know, one of the little things I like about 4e Lore is that it can still surprise me what there is to see by delving into the 4e Dragon & Dungeon Magazines, particularly the new spins on many old classics.</p><p></p><p>For example, a Channel Divinity: Nerull reveals that there's quite a difference in the Dawn War version of this classic evil reaper. Now, I never really followed Greyhawk - before my time - so I don't know what Nerull's deal really was there; as far as I know, he was just a generic "kill 'em all!" evil death deity.</p><p></p><p>In the Dawn War Pantheon, Nerull was a human who was one of Corellon's first students. Desperate to help the gods win the Dawn War, and driven to help his fellow mortals be free from the fear of dying in battle, he invented necromancy. However, when he presented this new weapon to the gods, Aurom, the God of Life & Death, rejected it as a blasphemy against himself/herself, and the other gods, even those who thought Nerull's idea had merit, submitted to Aurom's judgment. Incensed, a vengeful Nerull decided to prove the superiority of his new weapon, killing Aurom and stealing his portfolios. When the other gods, previously allied to Aurom, readily overlooked this when Nerull willingly gave away all of Aurom's portfolios bar those relating to death, it convinced Nerull that the other gods were hypocrites. This led him down the path to become arrogant, cruel and corrupt as he disdained the other gods to be; still a villain, but one who actually might not have been so bad, if things had just gone differently so long ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietBrowser, post: 7115923, member: 6855057"] You know, one of the little things I like about 4e Lore is that it can still surprise me what there is to see by delving into the 4e Dragon & Dungeon Magazines, particularly the new spins on many old classics. For example, a Channel Divinity: Nerull reveals that there's quite a difference in the Dawn War version of this classic evil reaper. Now, I never really followed Greyhawk - before my time - so I don't know what Nerull's deal really was there; as far as I know, he was just a generic "kill 'em all!" evil death deity. In the Dawn War Pantheon, Nerull was a human who was one of Corellon's first students. Desperate to help the gods win the Dawn War, and driven to help his fellow mortals be free from the fear of dying in battle, he invented necromancy. However, when he presented this new weapon to the gods, Aurom, the God of Life & Death, rejected it as a blasphemy against himself/herself, and the other gods, even those who thought Nerull's idea had merit, submitted to Aurom's judgment. Incensed, a vengeful Nerull decided to prove the superiority of his new weapon, killing Aurom and stealing his portfolios. When the other gods, previously allied to Aurom, readily overlooked this when Nerull willingly gave away all of Aurom's portfolios bar those relating to death, it convinced Nerull that the other gods were hypocrites. This led him down the path to become arrogant, cruel and corrupt as he disdained the other gods to be; still a villain, but one who actually might not have been so bad, if things had just gone differently so long ago. [/QUOTE]
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