Name: Ha
Nicknames/Titles: lord of the forge, master of arms, steel personified, chivalry's father. Mistakenly known as the god of honor.

Base Appearance:
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Ha, has the appearance of a massive knight clad in black steel armour, told to be taller than the tallest pine in the forest, he wields great strength in combat, but is also intelligent. Armed with a massive sword which never cooled after its forging, and never will. How Ha looks beneath his harness is unknown and non who have tried have ever succeeded to persuade him to show. Neither through words or martial prowess.

Other Appearances: Ha isn't known to take on any different appearances. But can change his size.

Gender: Ha sees himself and holds the form of a male.

Affiliation to the world: Ha usually ignores the events of the world, focused upon some divine wonder which takes all his concentration.
But there have been several times where the god of chivalry has taken to the world to some end and lead it the way he see fit. The most notable in the second era where thousands died because of his stubbornness.

Otherwise he seldom takes interest in mortal affairs.

Artifacts and creations: Ha wields the sword "Ember" when it strikes home the blade bursts into flame making it cut through armour like cloth and bathing the struck in flames. Normal mortals cannot hope to survive its strike, and gods either envy its power, fear it or both, although epic heroes or gods with powerful weapons might be able to parry Ember's might.
Ha also wields a runic hammer of the forge, the first hammer, and named after Ha himself ,Ha-mmer. With its might, less magical resources is needed when forging magical artifacts. And its strike can shake mountains, but is unwieldy in combat.

Ha also has a black steel armband, with it Ha can to a limited degree control weather.
Only small things though, like summoning clouds and making thunder strike and rain fall.

The fortress city of "Ha'zufel", it's massive bulwark of defenses has never been defeated by mortal hands. Time and time again it has stood against sieges.

The divine forge was constructed by Ha to be the ultimate workplace of a smith, armourer, even other professions. There are numerous albeit difficult or hidden ways to enter the divine forge and mortals have been known to enter and work the miracle tools.
However if they disrespect his home, Ha is known to have forged misbehavers into discs of tortured souls, which he hangs in the entrance to warn visitors.

Apart from those, Ha has created thousands of artifacts, many of which is held in the armoury of the divine forge, but hundreds upon hundreds exist in the mortal world.
While not mighty artifacts according to Ha, blades that strike like lightning or bows that need no arrows are mighty heirlooms of impressive families.
Long forgotten artifacts can still be found in hidden places, for Ha makes them all the time. He has forgotten most, too many to remember.
None can compare to what Ha calls a 'true artifact', but they can perform tasks no mortal blade can hope achieve, and many a smith could only dream to make.

Religion and culture:
Ha is usually worshipped by dwarves and humans. Primarily by smiths and other craftsmen, but also soldiers and kings. He is a common deity for worship but very few hold him as a primary deity.
But there is no serious smith or armourer who doesn't know the name Ha, their life dependent on how well they perform in his domain. And the stories go that if you strike an anvil five times with a hammer, Ha will appear and scold you for disrespecting the tools.
While this is more of a joke, Ha has stepped out of a furnace more than once.

Domain(s): Steel, forging and crafts, weapons, armour, chivalry, walls.

Personality: Ha is a stout individual, that values his solitude, he often resides within his forge and contemplate upon his next wonder he will construct.
When he leaves his forge, he commands without doubt and demands the very best of each of his subjects. Failure is frowned upon and to fail Ha himself is often punished, at times even with death.
He is contemplative and resourceful in nature, never rushing into a situation. Ha values honor and chivalry, and as such gives those who live by its codes the respect they deserve.
Ha often likes to make a show out of things, making unnecessary statements and pretentious acts.

Skills: Ha as the god of chivalry holds massive skill in swordplay and strategy. He seldom needs to fight all out. He also is the god of the forge, he has all but mastered the art of forging artifacts in all of their forms. None can make artifacts greater than Ha.
While Ha could create artifacts that are not necessarily forged, he finds them a bit more challenging. Making a silken weave isn't his forté but he could make it.

Powers: Ha has the ability to create simple objects of his dominions at will, weapons and armour can be created at a whim, with effort and magic he can make even larger weapons of war or fortifications of legend.
He also takes little damage from heat and has limited ability to conjure and control fire. Blunt weapons seems to do little harm upon him.
Ha can grasp and manipulate all sorts of magical materials, which means he can hold a portion of a years first summer wind and hammer it into a medallion and similar things.
He also has knowledge of basically all magical materials, many of which he himself has created, how to obtain them and how to utilize them.

Fighting Style: Ha is a master of the blade, fighting with skillful strikes and keeping on the offense, relying on his prominent armour for defense, he fights up close only if he has to though. He usually tries to let others fight for him as he sees himself as a general and commander.

Vulnerabilities: Ha will seldom fight all out, often underestimating his opposition. Ha also has little control over the world outside his domains.
He cannot shape mountains, nor conjure up tidal waves. He needs to work through artifacts to create things like this. Artifacts which need obscure materials to be really powerful.

Home: Ha lives in his divine forge, a massive foundry made of marble filled with all sorts of wondrous tools for crafting and smithing, Ha has gifted the understanding of many a tool to mortals. The foundry stands atop a fire spewing mountain within his small realm, which basically only contain the mountain with the forge and some burnt forest around the base of the mountain.
It is said that every furnace is a gate to the divine forge, while this is an exaggeration Ha does have a great affinity to the forges of the mortals and usually acts from or near them.

Biography: At the first stroke of a hammer against the first anvil, Ha was born. He himself being that hammer and the unknown being the anvil and the material. His form gradually became that of the towering blackened steel warrior as his crafts were used more and more for war. Ha is popular with armies and generals that uphold the laws of chivalry. Knights often have Ha's blessing, albeit seldom in more than a figurative sense.
More anarchistic forces tend to dislike Ha, mostly since he is always their opponent.
Ha is controlled in his actions and always try to justify his acts. Ha is not shy of helping those that uphold his values. Smiths, warriors of chivalry and those who command.

History: During the first era Ha arrives with the sound of a hammer slamming into steel which echoed over existence, immediately he began to work metals and heat to produce things of value.
He made the first forge and gave it to mortals.
He showed them how to protect themselves with the gift of walls.
He taught them to work metals and gave them the knowledge of weapons, to hunt beasts and to protect themselves.

But alas, the greed of mortals shone through and the weapons were in time used to take rather than protect.
This disgusted Ha as his gifts were used to destroy, something which he hadn't seen yet, but was to see many a times more.
During the god wars Ha abandoned the mortals, even as they cried for his help and wisdom Ha cared not.
He went inward and became angry and sad. Forging a harness befit his visage and to protect from the treason of others.

When Markon declared that gods and mortals would be separated, Ha instantly agreed and begun to craft the gate of heaven, an unique artifact of immense might, he had to take help from Markon to manage but the gates of heaven were built and with them the realm of the gods was defined.
The silver-like metal doors are surrounded by a bulwark of bronze, upon the doors are no decorations, just spiteful hammer-blows marks.
The lock massively complex, needing five keys to open, these keys were made to fit the gods who would safeguard them.
Thus the gates of heaven can only be opened with the combined effort of all the gods.

During the second era Ha made the divine forge. A haven where the creation of wonders was in focus.
Unbeknownst to him, there were somehow ways to enter the divine forge through places in the mortal world. And one day a mortal dwarf came through the door with wonder and confusion in his eyes.
With anger the forge god asked how the weakling mortal could have entered his home, Ghoras the dwarfs name was said he had found the door while mining and entered due to curiosity.

Ha looked upon the creature, whose type he'd never seen before and asked.
-"So when you see these tools, what do you feel?" As he gestured upon the marvel tools and workstations of the divine forge.
Ghoras answer was.
-"I see marvels of the crafts, i can just imagine the stoneworks and tools i could make with them."
The forge god was pleased with the answer, at last a mortal once again could see the beauty of the craft and not its use for greed.
-"Then you may use them, make a wonder and i will judge you."
Ghoras forged a hammer, to help him with future works. It was crude and ugly compared to Ha-mmer, but Ha saw they held the same purpose so he felt joy for the first time in ages.

With that Ha let mortals enter his forge, but only through the ways which occured naturally.
In time he spent more and more time in the mortal world, helping to create and later defend the wonders therein.
He built the fortress city of Ha'zufel and invited anyone who appreciated the craft would be allowed to live therein.
Without realizing, Ha became a wargod, with fury he attacked any whom dared oppose his creations, he clad his servants in armour of black steel and gave them weapons to smite the vile.
It took time, but eventually his view had changed.

He had tired of those who didn't follow his ways. He led his mortal host to destroy all who opposed his ways.
Millions died, thousands upon thousands were slain with his new-forged blade, Ember.
It took the effort of several gods to restrain Ha's wrath. Following this it was decided that gods would not interfere in person within the mortal coil.
Eventually the wrothful god of crafts abided, in time he even calmed down.
He trod the mortal realm many a times to gather materials in avatar form, or tasked a servant to do it.

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You may (and i guess should) read the secret stuff. Unless you think it fits not to. This section is for things that the other gods don't know exist, or don't know how to get to. So this information is sensitive to metagaming. But feel free to read as long as you keep the stuff hidden unless your character for some in game reason finds out about these things. Enjoy.