| Other Names | Lord of Thieves |
| Status | Lesser God |
| Area Of Control | Thieves, burglary, crime |
| Ethos | Wealth belongs to those who can hold it. |
| Pantheon | Human |
| Worshipers | Thieves, bandits, assassins |
| Appearance | Often depicted as a young male dressed in black leather with a ponytail and patch over left eye. |
| Symbol | A black dagger on a white field. |
Hurellin is the god of thieves and other cutthroat activities that go on in the night. While simple thieves are the most common followers, pickpockets, cat burglars, assassins and bandits all offer up prayers to this deity. Many different races are included in the ranks of those who follow this god: humans, orcs, ogres, grum, dwarves and elves all share this deity openly.
The religion of this god is far from organized. There are no temples or churches to Hurellin. No mass, no rituals or organized prayers. No great books of wisdom, shining altars of gold or such things.
Instead, followers worship on a personal and individual basis. The closest thing this religion has to mass is when a half dozen thieves will hit the taverns after a successful job and drink the night away singing the praises of Hurellin.
Worshipers of Hurellin believe that you should take what you can from life and enjoy life to the fullest. If that means stealing from another then that’s all right. Hurellin’s followers are usually poor even if they are good thieves because they spend their ill-gotten wealth so freely. And this is the typical lifestyle of such a worshiper – steal what you can, fence it, spend the loot and enjoy it while you’ve got it, then when the money runs out, go do it again. For true followers of Hurellin, life is an endless game of adventure and luxury. Such followers are usually only one step ahead of the law and love the thrill of it. It’s not just enough to get rich, most followers of Hurellin are in it for the thrill of the hunt. They want to find traps and locks so that they can overcome them. They want to encounter guards so that they can elude them. What good is the perfect heist if you can’t brag about it the next day to your friends. What good is it to make the perfect escape undetected when you could wave to the guards from the top of a wall as you leave carrying the masters jewels with you?
Even those thieves who steal only to survive and aren’t in it for the thrill of the score still offer up a prayer to Hurellin in hopes that he will hear them and grant them another good haul and one more day free from the city stockade.
Priests of Hurellin are all thieves themselves. They do have some limited spell ability which is granted to them by Hurellin himself. Such spells are always useful for thieves – spells of silence and invisibility, spells to detect traps and mechanism, spells to undo locks, spells to detect defensive spells which might protect the loot, spells of healing to help a fellow thief. Hurellin priests often cast these spells before and after a job both for themselves and any thieves who are with them. The priests advocate the life of thieving and spending and will do what they can to encourage other thieves. Always, in the end, it is for the glory of Hurellin and they spread his name and their message as they move from city to city, teaching thieving skills and blessing thieves with their magic.
Priests of Hurellin are usually found by other thieves through word of mouth. Since Hurellin priests are usually wanted by the local authorities, they spend their lives on the run, moving from tavern to burglary job to city sewer. They may preach the blessings of Hurellin while standing knee deep in filth of the city sewer to a ragtag group of cutpurses or cast spells of stealth upon himself and others before committing the perfect burglary.
It is important to note that the priests, followers and religion of Hurellin are almost entirely confined to larger cities. They can be found in almost all cities across Ithria. In general, they will not be encountered in villages or the wilderness unless travelling between cities. Small time crooks in tiny hamlets might swear by Hurellin or utter a curse in his name, but they generally don’t live the adventurous steal-it-and-spend-it lifestyle of a true follower.
Although Hurellin has no official laws or commandments, there exists an unwritten code of behavior for those who follow him. It is summed up as follows:
This page last updated Wednesday, December 24, 2008. Copyright 1990-2009 David M. Roomes.