Editing Baravar Cloakshadow (section)

==Jumping the Gender Barrier==
When the gnomish pantheon was expanded upon for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] in "Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes", there was something new about several of the gods. Whereas the gnomish pantheon had originally been an all-male pantheon, the new 5e version was sporting several new goddesses... all made by the quick and easy process of genderbending several of the traditional gods.

The goddess version of Baravar is credited with teaching all gnomes how to hide and to deceive, especially by means of magic. She is also attributed to being the source of the general gnomish resistance to magical mind-fuckery and to the mystical abilities specifically possessed by both forest gnomes and [[svirfneblin]]. Like her male counterpart, she has a particularly hostile reception amongst [[goblinoid]]s, but she lacks his focused drive to war against them; she was once held prisoner by the [[hobgoblin]] god [[Khurgorbaeyag]], and has been trying to avoid being held hostage by him ever since.

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