Editing Abbathor (section)

==1st Edition==
Detailed, as mentioned above, in [[Dragon Magazine]] #58, Abbathor is described as a distrusted and unpredictable occasional-ally, occasional-foe of the other dwarven deities. Selfish and greedy to the core, he will only aid dwarves, when he can bothered to aid anybody.

That said, he wasn't always a jerk; once, long ago, he was merely the dwarven god of gems and precious metals, responsible for their admiration but in an artistic sense more than an avaricious one. And then [[Moradin]] chose to appoint [[Dumathoin]] as the racial protector of the mountain dwarves, and this embittered Abbathor; he believed that such a role belonged to ''him''. So, he distanced himself from the Morndinsamman, sinking into deviousness and self-serving behavior as he became consumed with the urge for revenge. To this end, he seeks to encourage the growth of greed as the dominant force within the dwarven psyche, as an act of spite against his one-time family.

Abbathor is described as being literally compelled by his greed; his statblock gives him a 40% chance to be overwhelmed by greed should he set eyes upon any magical item, or on treasure with more than 1000 gold pieces. If that happens, he has a 50-50 chance of either trying to steal what's caught his eye or trying to kill the original owner; if he can't steal it, he'll try to destroy it out of sheer spite.

He is described as maintaining an uneasy truce with [[Vergadain]], over their shared love of roaming the [[Prime Material]] in pursuit of treasure.