Editing Deep Duerra (section)

==History==
According to the tales that the duergar tell, Duerra was once a queen amongst their people who expanded her empire mightily, to the point of conquering an [[illithid]] city. In revenge for the long and terrible enslavement of her ancestors, she had her clan conduct terrible [[fleshcrafting]] experiments on the captured illithids, ultimately finding a way to transplant the illithid gift for [[psionics]] into her people, cementing them as their own distinct race at last.

The illithids, on the other hand, claim that Duerra was merely the leader of a slave rebellion, claiming that the duergar potential for psionics was something they engineered into the race in order to make them more useful. Duergar don't buy it.

Whichever was the reason, Deep Duerra ascended to become the only other goddess of the duergar race.

Deep Duerra first appeared in the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] sourcebook "Demihuman Deities" for the [[Forgotten Realms]]. She subsequently appeared in the 3e FR sourcebook "Faiths & Pantheons" and in the 5e FR sourcebook "Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide".