The Solitary, Gaerflan

Gaerflan, The Solitary, god of svirfneblin. Gaerflan led a group of gnomes into the deep places of the earth in order to avoid the First Wars. In the Undersea, he and his fellow gnomes found horrors and more difficulty than they thought possible, but they perservered and survived. Many years later, when the dark elves fled the surface for the Undersea after they had lost their war with the elves, the dark elves tried to enslave the gnome population they found there, and it was only through the clever thinking of Gaerflan that the gnomes were able to escape and find a new secret home. Some generations after Gaerflan died, the gnomes living in the Undersea started to change and take on more protective and magical abilities in order to better survive the harsh environment that they found themselves in, eventually becoming an entirely new subrace of gnomes, the svirfneblin. The Prankster raised Gaerflan (whose spirit was with The Prankster in the Burrowed Hills) to watch over this new race of gnomes.

Alignment and Status: CN intermediate god

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Portfolio: protection, secrecy, earth

Home Plane: Burrowed Hills

Favored Weapon: heavy pick

Favored Spell Focus: Abjuration, Enchantment, Geomancy, Illusion, Transmutation

Worshipers: svirfneblin

Deification: raised by The Prankster, Ghemalin

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