Vargkaras

Vargkaras (VAHRG-car-us) is a deity known by many names including "The Great Hound", "The Seeker", and the "Lord of the Hunt." He is often depicted as a massive shaggy white wolf. Occasionally he is adorned with the antlers of a stag, or totems of other beasts on a string around his neck.

Divine Symbols & Sigils
Dog's Head, ordinarily made of bone or ivory. Wild Predators of all sorts.

Tenets of Faith
Vargkaras is the God of the Hunt in all its forms. Favored by those concerned with pursuit and discovery. If you were to ask a Vargkaran Priest to teach you the ways of Vargkaras, he would inform you that you have already failed just for the asking. It is their belief that knowledge must be sought and earned, and that the true value is not in the knowledge itself, but in the seeking. After all, asking a deer to be your dinner will net you nothing but a rumbling stomach. You must outwit, overpower, and outmaneuver it. Life is an external struggle; a struggle for greatness, for worth, for power, for understanding, and for a simple meal at the end of a long day.

Vargkaras prizes persistence and cleverness over brute strength. It is right and proper that the strong rule the weak, yet it is also proper that the strong be continually tested until that balance is shifted. His desire for his followers is for prey to become predator, that children grow to be strong hunters, and that the lost find their own enlightenment. As part of this tradition, Vargkaras' has no holy documents, his divine will is exclusively passed along in the form of oral traditions: poetry, stories, and on rare and special occasions - a vision quest granted by the god himself. It is considered a grave blasphemy to record Vargkaras' will in text.

Vargkaras is also a guardian for the wild places of the world. An injury to the unspoiled wilderness is an injury to him and his people.

Followers
The orcs of the Worglands almost exclusively venerate Vargkaras. He is heavily associated with the Feywild and many fae also revere him.

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