Corellon Larethian

Corellon Larethian
Alignment	Chaotic Good
Divine Rank	Greater God
Pantheon	Elf
Portfolio	Arts, Bards, Crafts, Elves, Magic, Music, War
Domains	Arborea, Chaos, Community, Elf, Good, Magic, Protection, War
Home Plane	Arvandor
Worshippers	Elves, Eladrin, Half Elves, Archers, Bards, Good Leaders, Fighters, Poets, Rangers, Sorcerers, Wizards, Butchers, Bakers, Candlestick makers.
Favoured Weapon	Sahandrian (Longsword)

Corellon Larethian is a Chaotic Good, Greater Deity in the Elven Pantheon in the majority of the D&D cosmologies. Though his exact portfolio changes from edition to edition, and between campaign settings. Wherever there is a Seldarine you are likely going to find Corellon leading it. He was briefly the patron of Arcane magic, supposedly having seeded the world with the stuff, as well as having a Neutral alignment. However in the majority of editions he is a CG god of War and Protection, only occasionally branching out into Spellcraft, Community Spirit, Arts and Artisans, Craftsmen and Commanders and all round Mary Sue.

History

When the Gods were born, they set about dividing creation into their kingdoms. Corellon and a bunch of other deities banded together and started calling themselves "the Seldarine". Corellon took the sexiest goddess: Araushnee as his wife and together they started planting forests, introducing animals and generally breathing life into the cosmos. Unfortunately for Corellon, Araushnee had figured she could do the business of running the cosmos herself and was resolved to push her husband off a cliff as soon as he finished building it. She was sleeping around with the other gods, taking Fenmarel Mestarine to get bed in an attempt build alliances for her big takeover. The plot was discovered by Sehanine Moonbow, though for varying reasons the truth isn't revealed straight away.

When Gruumsh arose from whatever drunken stupor he'd been in since the dawn of time, he realised that there was nothing left for him to claim and flew into a rage and started chopping down the forests to build walls and machines with in order to make a gigantic fortress for himself. When Corellon politely requested Gruumsh stop what he was doing and maybe go somewhere else, Gruumsh then "kidnapped" Corellon's supermodel wife and held her hostage in his castle, though it was all part of the plot to get rid of her husband.

Corellon did the only reasonable thing you do when you need to storm the battlements: he made a bow. Taking careful aim from a safe distance, he fired over and over. Each hit somehow getting past the emplaced defenses and striking Gruumsh in the ass. Eventually Gruumsh's ass had bled so profusely that the fortress was filled with so much blood that the foundations were weakened, causing the fortress to collapse and Araushnee to escape, though she wasn't happy with the result.

From here the story diverges slightly depending on who's telling the story: either Gruumsh pulled himself from the wreckage then fought Corellon hand to hand and knocked seven shades of shit out of him, and Corellon only wins due to a lucky strike that puts out Gruumsh's eye and ending the fight. After dealing with the duplicity of Araushnee and exiling her, one of the other Goddesses: Sehanine Moonbow, (who may or may not be Corellon's daughter) tends Corellon's wounds and creates the Elven race from mixing her tears with his blood.

In a different telling of the story, it could have been that Sehanine interrupted the fight, crying over Corellon's body; her tears giving him the strength to fight on and put out Gruumsh's eye. Corellon would later marry Sehanine (if she isn't his daughter then) after exiling his unfaithful wife. In this case the race of Elves already existed, or they would be created some other way. Presumably the old fashioned way.

In yet a different version of the story, Corellon managed to shoot out Gruumsh's eye while he was firing arrows over and over, never getting wounded in the first place and the creation of the Elves goes unmentioned. This is presumably the story told whenever Elves aren't the preeminent species, so other races (like Humans or Dwarves) can arise before the Elves do, or when the creation mythology requires the races to arise some other way (like in the Broken Mold story).

A Fourth telling of the story of Araushnee's exile is entirely separate from the conflict with Gruumsh and the race of Elves already exists in their infancy. Instead, Corellon is accidentally struck by an arrow fired by his daughter Eilistraee that had been cursed by his wife to seek out the heart of her husband, while everyone is in despair, Araushnee would invite the gods of evil and their armies into Arvandor to overthrow it. However, consistent with the other tellings of the story: Sehanine Moonbow had still been aware of the plot from earlier and heals Corellon as before, while revealing the truth. When the villainous gods are defeated, Araushnee is still exiled, but Eilistraee goes with her due to the guilt she feels from shooting her father and understanding that Araushnee's mortal followers will need a "good" deity to give them an example to aspire to.

Realm

Corellon and Sehanine reside in the Crescent Grove in the realm of Arvandor, which sits in the plane of Arborea at least in the Great Wheel cosmology.

The Crescent Grove isn't actually a "grove" at all, but is a architectural masterpiece of marble and plantlife towers over the plane and makes for an excellent tourist location.

Worshippers

WIP

Champions of Corellon

Followers of Corellon get their very own prestige class.

Seekers of the Misty Isle

Another Prestige Class related to Corellon's defeat of Gruumsh