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Dragon Magazine #65
Diancecht
Crossed Oak and Mistletoe Branches
Aliases Physician of the Gods
Alignment Lawful Good
Divine Rank Lesser God
Pantheon Celtic
Portfolio Medicine, Healing
Domains Life
Worshippers Healers

Dian Cecht, or Diancecht as he's called in 5e, is the god of healing in the Celtic pantheon. He is the one who gave Nuada his famous silver hand after the original hand was cut off.

He's also classed as Lawful Good despite the fact that he killed his son, Miach, when Miach was able to replace Nuada's arm with one of flesh and blood; and then later scattered "all the healing herbs of the world" (evidently 365) from his son's grave (after his daughter, whose tears caused them to bloom, finished arranging and cataloguing them), meaning no living humans knew all the secrets of herbalism.