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Do gargoyles have a god?

Pazuzu is always fun, and certainly thematically appropriate.

Personally, I'd create an abyssal lord or baatezu noble specifically to fill the role of their patron (and having multiple archfiends competing for their worship would let you have rival flocks of gargoyles staring at each other from different rooftops and towers within a given city, and they'd likely be highly territorial, etc).
 

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Golarion has a Demon Lord named Xoveron, the Horned Prince, Lord of Gargoyles and Ruins. He doesn't have Domains listed, but Chaos, Destruction, Earth and Evil seem to make sense. In that setting, Xoveron appears to loathe cities and civilization, and want to bring them all to ruin, haunted only by his children.

White Wolf went another route, with a sorceress named Malgorzata being primarily responsible for the creation of the Gargoyles of that setting (which served the vampiric sorcerers of Clan Tremere, with the spilled blood and broken bodies of rival vampires used in the crafting). The Gargoyles worshipped her as their mother, and she doted on them as her children (to the point of fleeing with many of her children when ordered to destroy some).

Either take could be used to build up a Gargoyle god.

If they started as magical constructs, designed by wizards (or even priests), as guardians of the cities from aerial threats or nocturnal undead, they, like the elemental-spirit empowered Golems, might have broken free, and the God of the Gargoyles could be the first gargoyle to 'go berserk' and break free from the control of the spellcasters who had created and enslaved them. Freeing its fellow gargoyles from bondage, and somehow transforming from stony construct-nature to something brought to fleshly life by the elemental spirit trapped within (and thus being able to breed), this First Gargoyle would go on to become a demon lord or demigodling. Perverting their original lawful nature and purpose of guardianship and protection of the cities of men, they now want nothing so much as to tear down and destroy those same cities, embracing chaos and destruction.

They are too dim-witted to recognize that they still define themselves by the ancient shackles placed upon them, reactively doing the opposite of their original orders, rather than discovering any purpose of their own.

If going with the more Malgorzata route, the blood of vampires may have been used to bring these stony guardians to life, but incidentally also tainted them with a hunger for flesh and blood, and a chaotic evil nature that made them completely unsuited to their original intended purpose, as guardians and protectors of civilization and man.
 

None that I've ever been aware of.

Was there ever an ecology of the Gargoyle article?

See this ENWorld thread for an index to all old Dragon Ecologies. The poster Richards who supplied the index is the author of several Ecology articles. He has posted more Ecologies that he submitted but didn't get published. Check out his signature...

But alas no Gargoyle ecology.

Gygax once wrote an article titled "Why Gargoyles Don't Have Wings but Should" in Polyhedron #21. But i've never read it. And of course there's the infamous Greyhawk module WG9 Gargoyle, which causes most Greyhawk fans a seizures


Blackdirge did an interesting Gargoyle NPC Story Hour, complete with stats: http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-...assin-updated-2-26-04-epic-grummok-3-5-a.html. Maybe in the end the epic Grummok ascended?
 

See this ENWorld thread for an index to all old Dragon Ecologies. The poster Richards who supplied the index is the author of several Ecology articles. He has posted more Ecologies that he submitted but didn't get published. Check out his signature...

But alas no Gargoyle ecology.

Gygax once wrote an article titled "Why Gargoyles Don't Have Wings but Should" in Polyhedron #21. But i've never read it. And of course there's the infamous Greyhawk module WG9 Gargoyle, which causes most Greyhawk fans a seizures


Blackdirge did an interesting Gargoyle NPC Story Hour, complete with stats: http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-...assin-updated-2-26-04-epic-grummok-3-5-a.html. Maybe in the end the epic Grummok ascended?

Thanks.
 


Fraz-Urb'luu, Prince of Deception, looks a lot like a gargoyle so they might revere him.

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Plus there's that whole deception angle, and with gargoyles constantly practicing deception ("I'm just a statue!"), that makes a lot of thematic sense to me.

Johnathan
 

I vaguely recall FR 3e having anti-deist gargoyles - not merely atheists. The fluff was that the race of gargoyles actively sought to destroy deities.

I am not an expert on FR and YMMV - but this was an interesting option that differentiated gargoyles from the typical model of "evil race" has "distinct evil god" to worship.
 

Sorry, I like my gargoyles, if I use them, to be creatures. Just like bats, horses, and snakes...they don't pray, they don't talk. They are flying eating machines that like to burrow into rocky caves or other natural or well cut rock formations.

Gargoyles as D&D monsters seem to have been of low intelligence (Int 5-7), at least since 1st ed AD&D. That puts them on par with ogres and minotaurs (though not all 4e and Dragonlance minotaurs).

I think that some connection to powerful entities sounds reasonable, though many would not worship anything.
 

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