Editing The Elemental Gods (section)

==Mannanan - the Duke of Thunder==
Father Wolf is the god of the boiling sky. Oaths, sworn in anger and broken in fits of rage, belong to him, though he never seeks to hold them. They may be the only things in Scalgard he is willing to let slip past. Everything else, his savage heart has already laid claim to. Murderers are his, and tyrants, and any who lash out in pain. The orcs are his as well, and they send their sons to join him on his battlefield in the sky, carried to his clouds on pyre-smoke in return for strong wind in their sails.

The Duke of Thunder makes his home in the stormclouds, where he can watch battles from on-high. Persistent legends, particularly among the orcs, say that he strides the worst of battles in person, seeking out heroes and laying waste to their hosts, solely for the joy of it.

Mannanan appears as a muscular warrior in light leather armor every bit as scarred from battle as his arms. His face is hidden beneath the shadows of his great helm, though his voice rumbles out across the field of war as he speaks. He holds a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left. His priests are called '''Stormlords''' and are rarely other than Battle Clerics, and their powers do Thunder damage in place of Radiant.

A character knows the following with a successful Religion check:

* '''DC 20''' - ''A Disquieting Storm'' - While most of Mannanan's clergy take up an axe and chain, Strannik is armored only in black robes and madness.  A devoted cleric, Strannik wanders the Volkhovi countryside, preaching surrender to Mannanan, who he credits with the whole of Volkhov's sorry state. The only true protection for the people, he says, is submission to the Duke of Thunder's will. With little other hope, some few of the people are listening, and offering up their own kin as sacrifice.
* '''DC 25''' - ''The Hungry Throne'' - Few of Annwyn's black ships have sunk beneath the sea, but Mannanan has made every soul aboard them count. Those who die in the Saeson county Durham rise as ghouls and take up their old lives again. These cunning hunters influence those around them into cannibalism and terror, and soon more ghouls are born in Mannanan's consumptive service.  The Duke, Sweyn, is now one such ghoul, and he will soon march against his former fellows, the head of a terrible army.
* '''DC 30''' - ''Lone Wolves Never Rest'' - The Duke of Thunder is the one who lead the charge to drive the Foimoire from the earth, in the days when the gods still stood together, for he could countenance no challenge to his rule.  But now that he and his fellows have turned to fighting amongst themselves, and he has no allies to stand at his back, he is fearful of revenge.  The Foimoire, after all, are not dead, only driven into the waves.  So Mannanan starts at the quaking of the earth and the tall shadows, thinking always that the Foimoire have returned.