Jergal

Jergal
3E: Jawless skull and quill on a scroll 5E: Skull biting a scroll
Aliases	Nakasr, The Bleak Seneschal, the Final Scribe, the Forgotten One, Lord of the End of Everything, the Pitiless One, Scribe of the Doomed, Seneschal of the Crystal Spire
Alignment	Lawful Neutral (formerly Neutral Evil)
Divine Rank	Demigod Formerly: Greater God
Pantheon	Faerûn
Portfolio	3E: Fatalism, guardian of tombs, proper burial 5E: Records of the dead
Domains	3E: Death, Fate, Law, Repose, Rune, Suffering 5E: Death, Knowledge
Home Plane	Great Wheel: Crystal Spire (Hades) World Tree: Fugue Plane
Worshippers	Bureaucrats, monks, necromancers, paladins
Favoured Weapon	White Glove (Scythe)

Jergal is one of the oldest gods in the Forgotten Realms. Once the god of strife, death, and the dead, he's now the seneschal and mentor of the current god of the dead, Kelemvor, having mentored Myrkul and Cyric as well.

History

Jergal was born from the first battles between Selûne and Shar alongside Garagos and Moander. He was worshipped as the god of strife, death, and the dead for many years, but he eventually became bored with his position (or felt remorse for having created Kezef the Chaos Hound), and so secretly guided three mortals Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul on their journey to become gods. At the end of their journey, he revealed his hand in helping them and divided most of his portfolios among the three, and taking the position as the mentor and seneschal to the god of the dead.

Dogma

Each being has an eternal resting place that is chosen for him or her at the moment of creation. Life is a process of seeking that place and eternal rest. Existence is but a brief aberration in an eternity of death. Power, success, and joy are as transitory as weakness, failure, and misery. Only death is absolute, and then only at its appointed hour. Seek to bring order to the chaos of life, for in death there is finalty and a fixedness of state. Be ready for death for it is at hand and uncompromising. Life should be prolonged only when it serves the greater cause of the death of the world.