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 (more fully 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's 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 trying to build alliances for her big takeover.
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 colonise elsewhere, Gruumsh then kidnapped Corellon's supermodel wife and held her hostage in his castle.
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, given enough time, 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 even shades of shit out of him, and Corellon only wins due to a lucky strike that puts out the eye 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.
Or Sehanine interrupts 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 and would give rise to the race of elves, presumably the old fashioned way.
Or Corellon manages to shoot out Gruumsh's eye while he was firing arrows over and over, never getting wounded in the first place and the Elves are brought into existence some other way. 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)