EIRONEOUS

(THE INVICIBLE) 

Lesser god, LG - Chivalry, Honor, Justice, Valor, Daring 

Heironeous is the champion of rightful combat and chivalrous deeds. Likewise he is the deity' of those who fight for honor and strive for order and justice. Heironeous often leaves the Seven Heavens in order to move around the Prime Material Plane in order to aid heroic causes and champion lawful good. 

Heironeous is tall, with coppery skin, auburn hair, and amber eyes. However, he has the power to create an illusion, which makes him appear as a young boy, a mercenary soldier, or an old man. In the latter guises he will be garbed appropriately, but he always wears a suit of fine, magical chainmail. At his birth, Heironeous had his skin imbued with a secret solution, which protects him from many weapons, magical and non-magical alike. 

His personal weapon is a great magical battle axe which shrinks to one-twentieth of its normal five feet of length, or back to full size, upon Heironeous willing such. Thus, in another guise, his weapon is not noticeable. 

In addition to his normal attacks, Heironeous can loose a bolt of energy drawn from the Positive Material Plane. These bolts are more destructive to creatures from the Prime Material plane than to those of the Elemental Planes or the lateral neutral planes. The energy bolt does no harm to inhabitants of the Positive Material Plane or those of the Upper Planes. It is dangerous to creatures native to the lower planes, and to all undead creatures as well. Denizens of the Negative Material Plane are particularly vulnerable. 

Heironeous has all of the powers typical of a lesser deity. 

There is great enmity between Heironeous and his brother, Hextor (q.v.), who chose a different course. Each seeks to destroy or thwart the other. 

Worshippers of Heironeous are found everywhere, but particularly where those who follow military professions or do heroic deeds are found is a chapel of this deity likely to be found. Clerics of Heironeous are particularly warlike, always wearing chainmail. Their robes are dark blues with silver trim indicating their station. Places of worship of Heironeous usually are adorned with blue trappings, silver, and occasionally windows of colored glass depicting scenes of Heironeous triumphant. A copper statue of the deity, armed with a silver battle-axe and covered in silver mail, with seven silver bolts radiating from behind his head, typically stands behind the altar.