Editing Belenus

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'''Belenus''' is the Celtic God of the Sun, who has made several appearances in various editions of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. He first appeared in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], where he was fleshed out as part of the [[Planescape]] setting. In 3rd edition, he was left out of the core game, but remained part of the [[Ravenloft]] setting due to his historical association with that setting. In 5th edition, he was one of multiple real-world deities listed in the back of the Player's Handbook.

==Historical Fantasy Belenus==
[[File:Isles of the blessed OHG.jpg|left|thumb|Belenus' realm]]
{{Infobox Deity
|Name = Belenus
|Symbol = Solar Disk and Standing Stones
|Aliases = The Sun
|Alignment = Neutral Good
|Divine Rank = God
|Pantheon = Celtic
|Portfolio = Sun, Light, Warmth
|Domains = '''5E:''' Light
|Home Plane = ''Isle of the Blessed'' ([[Elysium]])
|Worshippers = Celts 
|Favoured Weapon = Sickle
}}
'''Belenus''' is one of the many historical deities suggested as possibly being real in the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] [[multiverse]]. As such, he was a resident of the [[Great Wheel]], residing on the Isle of the Blessed on the [[Elysium]] layer of Thalasia.

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==Ravenloft Belenus==
{{Infobox Deity
|Name = Belenus
|Symbol = [[File:Belenus Ravenloft symbol.jpg|150px]]
|Alignment = Neutral Good
|Divine Rank = God
|Pantheon = Ravenloft
|Portfolio = Sun, Light, Warmth
|Domains = '''3E:''' Fire, Good, Sun
|Home Plane = Demiplane of Dread
|Worshippers = Nidalans, Forfarians, Tepestani
|Favoured Weapon = Sickle
}}
'''Belenus''' is worshipped in several regions of the [[Demiplane of Dread]], with three different cultures putting different spins on him.

The Forfarians, the beleaguered human denizens of ''Forlorn'', worship him in the purest form as part of the Celtic Pantheon. They are such a non-entity that they aren't even mentioned in the [[Ravenloft]] [[Player's Handbook]], and their faith is instead covered in the first [[Ravenloft Gazetteer]].

The Tepestani, the benighted human denizens of ''Tepest'' (which is a Domain built on being one-part Witch Trials Salem and one part Fairy Tale Europe), worship Belenus in a Henotheistic fashion, acknowledging the existence of the other Celtic gods, but placing Belenus as the supreme god, something being enforced by the anti-fey Inquisition of that Domain.

The Nidalans, occupants of the domain of ''Nidala'' in the Shadowlands Cluster, worship Belenus as a Monotheistic god, as their [[Darklord]], Elena Faithhold, is a [[Blackguard|Fallen]] [[Paladin]] of Belenus who damned herself through her self-righteous purges of innocents whose only crime was their inability to meet her impossible standards of holiness. In a reflection of Elena's's own ignorance of her fallen state, the Nidalan form of Belenus's religion bears little to no resemblance to his actual teachings, which ironically have been branded as a heresy to be wiped out. 

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