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<blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 1854351" data-attributes="member: 552"><p><span style="color: Darkgoldenrod"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Mongrel</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>"mahn-grell"</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>The Stray Dog</em></span></p><p></p><p><strong>Enworldian Demigod</strong></p><p><strong>Symbol:</strong> A trotting dog, usually of uncertain breed.</p><p><strong>Home Plane:</strong> The roads on Enworld.</p><p><strong>Alignment:</strong> Chaotic Neutral.</p><p><strong>Portfolio:</strong> People without home or ancestry, possessions lacking ownership. Anything or anyone that's been lost.</p><p><strong>Worshippers:</strong> Gypsies, bastards, orphans and other homeless wanderers who have been left to their own fate. Occasionally rogues and thieves.</p><p><strong>Cleric Alignments:</strong> Any non-evil, non-lawful.</p><p><strong>Domains:</strong> Luck, Travel, Trickery.</p><p><strong>Favored Weapon:</strong> "Hound's Tooth" (bastard sword).</p><p></p><p>Mongrel is a carefree god. Released from the constraints of relations and responsibilities, he urges his followers, the estranged and disinherited, to make a family of each other and an estate of lost salvage. By their very nature his worshippers live day-to-day on the virtue of their own wits and skills. He can occasionally be found in his earthly aspect, wandering the byways of Enworld as a friendly stray dog.</p><p></p><p><strong>History/Relationships:</strong> Mongrel is the bastard son of Taka and Grendath. Much as she wished to have her race of followers, she desired to have a child all her own. Yet even so, the only god willing to take a chance on her proposal was the risk-taking Grendath. After one hundred and one nights with the God of Fools, the seed within Taka quickened and she bore a child godling. At once, however, the child, born with all the fortunes of Grendath, all the wile of Taka, and an independence all his own, left his mother to wander the mortal realms. Thus he became Mongrel, the Itinerant Bastard, Owner of the Unclaimed, Host of the Homeless, Creator of His Own Fortunes.</p><p></p><p><strong>Dogma:</strong> Mongrel epouses the ability to live by one's own wits, to make use of those things no one else wants and to take hold of opportunities that present themselves. In light of this, Mongrel has no compunctions of claim that which no one else obviously wants or owns. The outright theft of a necessity to survival or blantantly claimed object is practically a cardinal sin. </p><p></p><p>Hospitality is another prime doctrine of Mongrel. Though prized possessions are considered the sole property of the owner, "share and share alike" is just a common saying amongst the Mongrelites as "finder's keeper's". Especially when survival (or celebration) is at stake, sharing is codoned if not explicitly expected.</p><p></p><p>Mongrel, as a god of the homeless and wandering, has no shrines or temples. Devotions to him are most often undertaken around a friendly campfire storytelling, a raucous barroom sing-along or a simple mealtime prayer of thanks. Likewise, as a fiercely independent demigod, Mongrelites have no set doctrine. Only the Rules of Salvage and the Rules of Hospitality, which have never been written down, and are simply passed along by word of mouth.</p><p></p><p>-Created by Jack Haggerty</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creamsteak, post: 1854351, member: 552"] [color=Darkgoldenrod][size=5][b]Mongrel[/b][/size][/color] [size=1][i]"mahn-grell"[/i][/size] [size=3][i]The Stray Dog[/i][/size][i][/i] [b]Enworldian Demigod[/b] [b]Symbol:[/b] A trotting dog, usually of uncertain breed. [b]Home Plane:[/b] The roads on Enworld. [b]Alignment:[/b] Chaotic Neutral. [b]Portfolio:[/b] People without home or ancestry, possessions lacking ownership. Anything or anyone that's been lost. [b]Worshippers:[/b] Gypsies, bastards, orphans and other homeless wanderers who have been left to their own fate. Occasionally rogues and thieves. [b]Cleric Alignments:[/b] Any non-evil, non-lawful. [b]Domains:[/b] Luck, Travel, Trickery. [b]Favored Weapon:[/b] "Hound's Tooth" (bastard sword). Mongrel is a carefree god. Released from the constraints of relations and responsibilities, he urges his followers, the estranged and disinherited, to make a family of each other and an estate of lost salvage. By their very nature his worshippers live day-to-day on the virtue of their own wits and skills. He can occasionally be found in his earthly aspect, wandering the byways of Enworld as a friendly stray dog. [b]History/Relationships:[/b] Mongrel is the bastard son of Taka and Grendath. Much as she wished to have her race of followers, she desired to have a child all her own. Yet even so, the only god willing to take a chance on her proposal was the risk-taking Grendath. After one hundred and one nights with the God of Fools, the seed within Taka quickened and she bore a child godling. At once, however, the child, born with all the fortunes of Grendath, all the wile of Taka, and an independence all his own, left his mother to wander the mortal realms. Thus he became Mongrel, the Itinerant Bastard, Owner of the Unclaimed, Host of the Homeless, Creator of His Own Fortunes. [b]Dogma:[/b] Mongrel epouses the ability to live by one's own wits, to make use of those things no one else wants and to take hold of opportunities that present themselves. In light of this, Mongrel has no compunctions of claim that which no one else obviously wants or owns. The outright theft of a necessity to survival or blantantly claimed object is practically a cardinal sin. Hospitality is another prime doctrine of Mongrel. Though prized possessions are considered the sole property of the owner, "share and share alike" is just a common saying amongst the Mongrelites as "finder's keeper's". Especially when survival (or celebration) is at stake, sharing is codoned if not explicitly expected. Mongrel, as a god of the homeless and wandering, has no shrines or temples. Devotions to him are most often undertaken around a friendly campfire storytelling, a raucous barroom sing-along or a simple mealtime prayer of thanks. Likewise, as a fiercely independent demigod, Mongrelites have no set doctrine. Only the Rules of Salvage and the Rules of Hospitality, which have never been written down, and are simply passed along by word of mouth. -Created by Jack Haggerty [/QUOTE]
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