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1d4chan>The Hat That Was at 14:47, 6 April 2020

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	\|Symbol = [[File:Vhaeraun02.jpg\|150px]]		\|Symbol = [[File:Vhaeraun02.jpg\|150px]]
	\|Alignment = Chaotic/Neutral Evil (see below)		\|Alignment = Chaotic/Neutral Evil (see below)
			\|Aliases = The Lord of Shadow, the Masked God of Night, the Masked Lord, the Masked Mage, the Shadow, the Shadow Lord
	\|Divine Rank = Lesser God		\|Divine Rank = Lesser God
	\|Pantheon = [[Dark Seldarine]]		\|Pantheon = [[Dark Seldarine]]

1d4chan>The Hat That Was at 15:32, 19 July 2019

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			'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more interesting gods in D&D. He is a member of the [[Dark Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.
	'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more ~~intneresting~~ gods in D&D. He is a member of the [[Dark Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.

	We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male [[drow]] treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguely reminiscent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to other races; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.		We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male [[drow]] treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguely reminiscent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to other races; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.

1d4chan>Skadooshbag: to clarify that he is in between chaotic evil and neutral evil rather than between True Neutral and Chaotic Evil.

2019-05-25T21:02:15Z

to clarify that he is in between chaotic evil and neutral evil rather than between True Neutral and Chaotic Evil.

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	\|Name = Vhaeraun		\|Name = Vhaeraun
	\|Symbol = [[File:Vhaeraun02.jpg\|150px]]		\|Symbol = [[File:Vhaeraun02.jpg\|150px]]
	\|Alignment = Neutral~~/Chaotic~~ Evil		\|Alignment = Chaotic/Neutral Evil (see below)
	\|Divine Rank = Lesser God		\|Divine Rank = Lesser God
	\|Pantheon = [[Dark Seldarine]]		\|Pantheon = [[Dark Seldarine]]

1d4chan>LGX-000 at 05:29, 7 May 2019

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	'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the ~~Dark~~ [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.		'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the [[Dark Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.

	We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguely reminiscent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to other races; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.		We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male [[drow]] treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguely reminiscent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to other races; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.

	==Divine Titles & Role==		==Divine Titles & Role==
	Vhaeraun (pronounced: /veɪˈrɔːn/ vay-RAWN), also called the Masked Lord, the Masked God of Night, The Shadow, and, less frequently, the Shadow Lord, the Masked Mage and the Lord of Shadow. He is the drow god of drow males, thievery, territory, shadow magic, [[spellfilcher]]s, and evil activities on the surface, aimed to further drow goals, interests, and power there.		Vhaeraun (pronounced: /veɪˈrɔːn/ vay-RAWN) is also called the Masked Lord, the Masked God of Night, The Shadow, and, less frequently, the Shadow Lord, the Masked Mage and the Lord of Shadow. He is the drow god of drow males, thievery, territory, shadow magic, [[spellfilcher]]s, and evil activities on the surface, aimed to further drow goals, interests, and power there.

	==Avatars==		==Avatars==
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	==Personality==		==Personality==
	Like most [[drow]] deities, Vhaeraun is arrogant (often vain) and vindictive, championing the superiority of the drow over all other races and encouraging his followers to unite across the gender lines in the name of better conquering the other races. Scheming and underhanded, he bears a hypocritical fury at being deceived and will not tolerate the use of underhanded tactics against himself or the drow.		Like most drow deities, Vhaeraun is arrogant (often vain) and vindictive, championing the superiority of the drow over all other races and encouraging his followers to unite across the gender lines in the name of better conquering the other races. Scheming and underhanded, he bears a hypocritical fury at being deceived and will not tolerate the use of underhanded tactics against himself or the drow.

	Despite these traits, he's also a pragmatist, and believes in the importance of cooperation - especially when it comes to undermining or otherwise battling the influence of his mother, [[Lolth]]; he is known to try and unite the other members of the [[Dark Seldarine]] against her.		Despite these traits, he's also a pragmatist, and believes in the importance of cooperation - especially when it comes to undermining or otherwise battling the influence of his mother, Lolth; he is known to try and unite the other members of the Dark Seldarine against her.

	By the standards of most gods, and of drow gods in particular, Vhaeraun takes a great deal of interest in his followers and makes himself actively involved in their lives - he answers the pleas of his faithful worshipers about 15% of the time, even in the form of sending divine servants in cases of real need. In events where Vhaeraun has actively interacted with his followers, he's seemed legitimately protective of them - he's even been seen providing protection to those in his vicinity when he could, and the means to avert self-sacrifice to those working for him. His own followers have been known to call him a caring god, and by drow standards in particular, they're not exactly wrong.		By the standards of most gods, and of drow gods in particular, Vhaeraun takes a great deal of interest in his followers and makes himself actively involved in their lives - he answers the pleas of his faithful worshipers about 15% of the time, even in the form of sending divine servants in cases of real need. In events where Vhaeraun has actively interacted with his followers, he's seemed legitimately protective of them - he's even been seen providing protection to those in his vicinity when he could, and the means to avert self-sacrifice to those working for him. His own followers have been known to call him a caring god, and by drow standards in particular, they're not exactly wrong.
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	==External Links==		==External Links==
	* https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Vhaeraun - An exhaustively detailed writeup of Vhaerun's history and lore spanning his every appearance from 1st to 5th. It does use the past-tense for the article, since he was killed off during the [[Spellplague]], but also notes that he was brought back to life after the Second Sundering.		* [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Vhaeraun An exhaustively detailed writeup] of Vhaerun's history and lore spanning his every appearance from 1st to 5th. It does use the past-tense for the article, since he was killed off during the [[Spellplague]], but also notes that he was brought back to life after the Second Sundering.

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1d4chan>QuietBrowser: Fleshed out the article some more... maybe we could port over more from the Realms wiki, but I leave that up to Realms-lovers.

2019-05-06T22:49:44Z

Fleshed out the article some more... maybe we could port over more from the Realms wiki, but I leave that up to Realms-lovers.

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	{{Infobox Deity		{{Infobox Deity
	\|Name = Vhaeraun		\|Name = Vhaeraun
	\|Symbol = [[File:Vhaeraun02.jpg\|150px]]		\|Symbol = [[File:Vhaeraun02.jpg\|150px]]
	\|Alignment = Chaotic Evil		\|Alignment = Neutral/Chaotic Evil
	\|Divine Rank = Lesser God		\|Divine Rank = Lesser God
	\|Pantheon = [[Dark Seldarine]]		\|Pantheon = [[Dark Seldarine]]
	\|Portfolio = Thievery, drow males, evil activity on the surface		\|Portfolio = Thievery, drow males & rebels, evil activity on the surface, [[Shadow Magic]]
	\|Domains = '''3E:''' Chaos, Drow, Evil, Travel, Trickery<br>'''5E:''' Trickery		\|Domains = '''3E:''' Chaos, Drow, Evil, Travel, Trickery<br>'''5E:''' Trickery
	\|Home Plane = '''[[Great Wheel]]:''' ''Ellaniath'' ([[Carceri]])<br>'''[[World Tree]]:''' ''Demonweb Pits'' ([[Abyss]])		\|Home Plane = '''[[Great Wheel]]:''' ''Ellaniath'' ([[Carceri]])<br>'''[[World Tree]]:''' ''[[Demonweb Pits]]'' ([[Abyss]])
	\|Worshippers = Drow (Males, Halfbreeds, Rebels, Disenfranchised, Surface-Dwellers), Rogues, Assassins, Poisoners, Wielders of Shadow Magic		\|Worshippers = Drow (Males, Halfbreeds, Rebels, Disenfranchised, Surface-Dwellers), Rogues, Assassins, Poisoners, Wielders of Shadow Magic
	\|Favoured Weapon = ''Shadowflash'' (Short sword)		\|Favoured Weapon = ''Shadowflash'' (Short sword)
	}}		}}

	'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.		'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.

	We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are ~~vaguley reminescent~~ of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to races; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.		We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguely reminiscent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to other races; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.

			==Divine Titles & Role==
			Vhaeraun (pronounced: /veɪˈrɔːn/ vay-RAWN), also called the Masked Lord, the Masked God of Night, The Shadow, and, less frequently, the Shadow Lord, the Masked Mage and the Lord of Shadow. He is the drow god of drow males, thievery, territory, shadow magic, [[spellfilcher]]s, and evil activities on the surface, aimed to further drow goals, interests, and power there.

			==Avatars==
			When appearing to mortal eyes, Vhaeraun appears as a handsome male drow covered by a protective cloak of shadow, which he can use to become invisible and to teleport. Stories claim his eyes change color to indicate his mood; red for rage, blue for happiness, green for puzzlement. To try and counter the effectiveness of his seditious preaching, [[Lolth]]ite-spawned myths claim variously that either his iconic mask hides scars left on his face as punishment by his mother, or that his mother cut out his tongue.

			==Personality==
			Like most [[drow]] deities, Vhaeraun is arrogant (often vain) and vindictive, championing the superiority of the drow over all other races and encouraging his followers to unite across the gender lines in the name of better conquering the other races. Scheming and underhanded, he bears a hypocritical fury at being deceived and will not tolerate the use of underhanded tactics against himself or the drow.

			Despite these traits, he's also a pragmatist, and believes in the importance of cooperation - especially when it comes to undermining or otherwise battling the influence of his mother, [[Lolth]]; he is known to try and unite the other members of the [[Dark Seldarine]] against her.

			By the standards of most gods, and of drow gods in particular, Vhaeraun takes a great deal of interest in his followers and makes himself actively involved in their lives - he answers the pleas of his faithful worshipers about 15% of the time, even in the form of sending divine servants in cases of real need. In events where Vhaeraun has actively interacted with his followers, he's seemed legitimately protective of them - he's even been seen providing protection to those in his vicinity when he could, and the means to avert self-sacrifice to those working for him. His own followers have been known to call him a caring god, and by drow standards in particular, they're not exactly wrong.

			Vhaerun's pragmatism also makes him a realist. He knows that Lolth far outclasses him in terms of divine power, so he takes the subtle approach, focusing on moving against her in secretive ways. His primary concerns focus on increasing the power of himself, his worshippers, and the drow as a whole, and decreasing the power of his enemies. He preaches the importance of passive resistance to his people, especially when this builds up momentum to become open action. He supports teaching the ideas that contradict Lolth's dogma. When he has the chance to act directly against another god, he's known to be willing to enter the front line himself.

			One weird bit of D&D lore concerns Vhaeraun's [[alignment]]: in the [[Greyhawk]] setting, he's Neutral Evil, but in the [[Forgotten Realms]], he's Chaotic Evil. [[Planescape]] tries to handwave this as being a result of different aspects existing in different crystal spheres.

	==Dogma==		==Dogma==
	''"The shadows of the Masked Lord must cast off the tyranny of the Spider Queen and forcibly reclaim their birthright and rightful place in the Night Above. The existing drow matriarchy must be smashed, and the warring practices of twisted Lolth done away with, so that the drow are welded into a united people, not a squabbling gaggle of rival Houses, clans and aims. Vhaeraun will lead his followers into a society where drow once again reign supreme over the other, lesser races, and there is equality between males and females."''		''"The shadows of the Masked Lord must cast off the tyranny of the Spider Queen and forcibly reclaim their birthright and rightful place in the Night Above. The existing drow matriarchy must be smashed, and the warring practices of twisted Lolth done away with, so that the drow are welded into a united people, not a squabbling gaggle of rival Houses, clans and aims. Vhaeraun will lead his followers into a society where drow once again reign supreme over the other, lesser races, and there is equality between males and females."''

			==External Links==
			* https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Vhaeraun - An exhaustively detailed writeup of Vhaerun's history and lore spanning his every appearance from 1st to 5th. It does use the past-tense for the article, since he was killed off during the [[Spellplague]], but also notes that he was brought back to life after the Second Sundering.

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1d4chan>Skadooshbag at 03:14, 2 April 2019

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	'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.		'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.

	We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguley reminescent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes ~~applies~~ to ~~drow only~~; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.		We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguley reminescent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to races; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.

	==Dogma==		==Dogma==

1d4chan>LGX-000: Maybe don't feed into /pol/'s boogeyman if you don't want to attract them? Like use your brain pls

2019-04-02T02:32:33Z

Maybe don't feed into /pol/'s boogeyman if you don't want to attract them? Like use your brain pls

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	'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature. We say mostly because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact the way he and his priests are written~~, they're basically civil-rights activists from the~~ 60s and 70s, ~~like reverse-feminists (from back when that word referred to reasonable folk who wanted equal treatment for women);~~ the ~~only problem is~~ that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes ~~does not extend~~ to ~~races, and~~ once he has male and female drow united he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.		'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature.

			We say "mostly" because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact, the way he and his priests are written are vaguley reminescent of 60s and 70s era feminists, with the caveat that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes applies to drow only; once he has male and female drow united, he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.

	==Dogma==		==Dogma==

1d4chan>Skadooshbag: if someone can rephrase this so as to not attract /pol/-tards, be my guest.

2019-04-02T02:12:37Z

if someone can rephrase this so as to not attract /pol/-tards, be my guest.

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	'''Vhaeraun''' is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is ~~not even remotely benevolent~~ in his ~~nature~~.		'''Vhaeraun''' is one of the more intneresting gods in D&D. He is a member of the Dark [[Seldarine]] that actively seeks to rebel against his mother, [[Lolth]], although unlike [[Eilistraee]] and [[Zinzerena]] he is mostly malevolent in nature. We say mostly because one of his biggest criticisms of his mother is the way she has male drow treated. In fact the way he and his priests are written, they're basically civil-rights activists from the 60s and 70s, like reverse-feminists (from back when that word referred to reasonable folk who wanted equal treatment for women); the only problem is that their egalitarian attitudes towards the sexes does not extend to races, and once he has male and female drow united he wants them to take their rightful place as the masters of the world by returning to the surface and enslaving everyone there.

	==Dogma==		==Dogma==