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'''Lougrim''' was the [[Dragonwilds:Gods|goddess]] of the moon and primordial hunt to the [[Dragonwilds:Garou (race)|garou]]. | '''Lougrim''' was the [[Dragonwilds:Gods|goddess]] of the moon and primordial hunt to the [[Dragonwilds:Garou (race)|garou]].{{CiteText|text=Lacrussa's Notes|quote=One of them bleeds. Perhaps all of them, but this one for certain. She calls herself a goddess of the moon and the primordial hunt.}} She came from another world of silver and silence, and left it through a doorway that opened when a grieving god wandered into it.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=Lougrim was a moon deity, born to a cold world of soft silvers and silence. Her people lived lives of quiet contemplation, each moment spent wondering about the next. They were passive, soft spoken and sedentary, which drove Lougrim wild. When a doorway to another world appeared and a grieving god wandered through it, Lougrim took the opportunity to run. To flee to another place, and live a life that she could endure.}} Her transformation into the goddess of the hunt completely altered her original form.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=History skips the next bit. Her closest allies have never learned what elevated her from her previous form to that of the goddess of the hunt, but whatever it is was profound enough to change her completely. She no longer resembled her silent kindred. She was quiet, yes, but in the way a tiger is moments before the kill. She is contemplative, true, but it was the stillness of a spider waiting for its prey.}} She is said to also have a history with Bandos, where the god of war wanted revenge against her and the garou. | ||
==Deity Info== | =='''Deity Info'''== | ||
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|name = Lougrim | |||
|alignment = Moon and Primordial Hunt | |||
|symbol = N/A | |||
|ascension = Unknown | |||
|godhood = Goddess | |||
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|colours = Silver | |||
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==History== | =='''History'''== | ||
===Rise to power=== | ==='''Rise to power'''=== | ||
When she discovered the garou on their homeworld of [[Dragonwilds:Antumnos]], she was initially treated as prey. However, she demonstrated her divine nature by defeating her hunters | When she discovered the garou on their homeworld of [[Dragonwilds:Antumnos]], she was initially treated as prey. However, she demonstrated her divine nature by defeating her hunters.{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou King|quote=When Lougrim first visited the world of the garou, a place known as Antumnos, she was treated as prey. Her hunters were no match for a goddess, of course, and she assumed the forms of powerful predators, forcing them into submission.}} Following this, she challenged all the reigning kings of the garou clans in the capital city of [[Dragonwilds:Magrawn]] and defeated them in a single battle, ultimately claiming the title of High Queen.{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou King|quote=She fell upon the capital of the garou nation, the city of Magrawn, where she called out a challenge to all the reigning kings of the garou clans. They answered the summons and she defeated each of them together in a single, decisive, battle. From then on, she held the mantle of High Queen of the garou.}} No later challenger unseated her for centuries afterwards.{{CiteJournal|journal=Leathery Parchment|quote=The High Queen, lady Lougrim, earned her place by challenging the kings of old. Taking on all of them in one mythical battle and emerging the victor. In the centuries that have followed, she has held her position and bested all challengers that think themselves her rival.}} [[Dragonwilds:Moon Garou]] tradition names the defeated party as the elders of the tribes rather than the clan kings.{{CiteNPC|npc=Lehran - The Archaeologist|loc=Icthlarin's Little Helper|quote=Lougrim challenged all the elders, becoming the High Queen of the Garou.}} She later brought the garou from Antumnos to [[Dragonwilds:Gielinor]], settling somewhere in the mainland{{CiteDiscord|author=Mod Raven|url=https://discord.com/channels/303835144073248770/1531671945261875220/1542828291432382544|date=28 August 2026|quote=No, the garou arrived very early in the third age in Ashenfall. They were on Gielinor earlier, but Ashenfall came around the god wars era|ctxquote=What about the Garou? Same age? I assume so but assumption is a no for a lot lol}} before moving to [[Dragonwilds:Ashenfall]].{{CiteNPC|npc=Vannaka|loc=Dog Days|quote=I believe the garou lived there once, before their goddess took them here.}} | ||
===Reign and the | ==='''Reign and the Human-Garou War'''=== | ||
Under Lougrim's leadership, the garou were focused and refined into exceptional hunters.{{ | Under Lougrim's leadership, the garou were focused and refined into exceptional hunters.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=When she found the garou, she knew she had found her real kindred. They were violent and deadly, and they yearned for the hunt. When she took her place as their goddess, she focused and refined them, creating hunters that were capable of felling almost any prey.}} She retained the moon as her symbol, a reminder of her origins.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=Yet still she kept the moon as her symbol, a reminder of her home and how far she has come since leaving it.}} Her high priests crafted the king's tokens hundreds of years ago.{{CiteJournal|journal=Purified King's Token|quote=These tokens are a unique creation, crafted hundreds of years ago by high priests of Lougrim.}} She granted weapons to champions she favoured, among them [[Dragonwilds:King Raluh]], who received [[Dragonwilds:Skullsplitter]].{{CiteJournal|journal=Skullsplitter|quote=As the legends go, King Raluh had been granted a weapon by the moon goddess, Lougrim.}} Her followers knew her as the Huntress in moonlight.{{CiteText|text=Dog Days|quote=Offer a prayer in memory of her. Lougrim, the Huntress in moonlight, is gone but not forgotten.}} She granted the first garou blacksmiths the templates for their weapons, teaching them the shape of the blade and the balance of the hilt.{{CiteJournal|journal=Thane's Authority|quote=The design is passed down to the garou from templates granted to the first garou blacksmiths by divine revelation. Lougrim taught them about the curve of the blade, and the heft of the hilt.}} She rejected the use of poison by hunters on the grounds that it degraded the hunt, permitting it only to spellcasters.{{CiteJournal|journal=Poisoned Iron Arrow|quote=Lougrim abhorred the use of poison on arrows, she felt it cheapened the hunt.}} Garou druids of her era were restrained by ritual observance and directed towards approved quarry.{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou Druid|quote=In the age of Lougrim, the druids were tempered by tradition and ritual. They were encouraged to focus only on the right sort of prey.}} She also set tasks for individual followers, appearing to the druid [[Dragonwilds:Ashien]] in a vision and directing her into the swamps to fight a [[Dragonwilds:Abyssal Demon|demon]].{{CiteJournal|journal=Blightwood Battlestaff|quote=As the story goes, they were wandering the swamps when the goddess Lougrim came to her in a vision and gave her a quest.}} Moon Garou tradition holds instead that she taught the garou to hunt without blade or bow on Antumnos, and to take no more than they needed.{{CiteText|text=Sand-worn Leather Tome|quote=We had honour once, long, long ago. On a world of emerald leaves, we hunted our prey without blade nor bow, and took only what we needed. This Lougrim taught us, may her memory never fade.}} | ||
Before a peace was agreed between the garou and the human settlers, garou hunting parties treated travellers as legitimate quarry.{{CiteJournal|journal=Bronze Shield|quote=Before the peace treaty with their goddess, Lougrim, the garou would often get into conflict with travelling villagers.}} | |||
During the [[Dragonwilds:Human-Garou War]], she and the garou conflicted with the humans, and eventually the [[Dragonwilds:Goblin (race)|goblins]], the latter arriving with their god of war [[Dragonwilds:Bandos]]. Bandos entered the conflict to settle a grievance of his own, which the human clergy attributed to her.{{CiteJournal|journal=Priest's Journal|quote=Bandos wants revenge, for some slight or other the goddess created.}} By her own account the grievance was older and broader than that, a slight inflicted by the garou aeons earlier on a world other than Gielinor.{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou Writings|quote=She says it is because he is jealous of us. Enraged by some slight we inflicted, some aeons ago, on a world far from here.}} What the slight was goes unrecorded. The terms agreed between the Saradominist priests and the emissaries of Bandos traded the mines of [[Dragonwilds:Ghornfell]] to the humans in exchange for her head.{{CiteJournal|journal=Iron Platelegs|quote=The Saradominist priests met with emissaries of Bandos and came to an alliance. The humans would claim the mines of Ghornfell, as long as Bandos could claim the head of the Garou goddess, Lougrim.}} Bandos brought his followers with him for that campaign, and they broke through the garou lines with little resistance.{{CiteJournal|journal=Zogre|quote=It was Bandos who brought the ogres with him, in his crusade to destroy Lougrim and wipe out the garou.}} To the priests of [[Dragonwilds:Saradomin]] she was an impostor, and the extermination of her followers was framed as an act of purification.{{CiteJournal|journal=Bronze Fire Arrow|quote=Lougrim was a false goddess, in their eyes, and her followers had to be cleansed from existence.}} | |||
Despite her death, Lougrim's influence persists. Her priests continue to bear her moon symbol on their staves and altars, even while accepting Kuldra as their High Queen.{{ | As her followers were being pushed back and cornered, particularly after humans began using iron weapons against them, she mourned for her lost children.{{CiteJournal|journal=Iron Sword|quote=Lougrim wept for the loss of her children, and her cries changed the course of the war.}} She found the [[Dragonwilds:Dragonkin (race)|dragonkin]] and allied with them, binding herself to the service of the [[Dragonwilds:Cabal]].{{CiteJournal|journal=Iron Sword|quote=As Lougrim bound herself to the service of the Cabal, all that would be left of the villagers would be puddles of molten metal.}} This alliance allowed them to release [[Dragonwilds:dragon]]s onto the army, turning the tide of battle. She rode a dragon into the assault, flanked by two dragonkin.{{CiteJournal|journal=Bloodstained Journal|quote=But now, now their moon goddess rides atop a scaled nightmare.}} This reinforcement led to their victory when Bandos fought [[Dragonwilds:Velgar]] and was defeated due to his arrogance. After the war god's retreat, Lougrim would cease the attack on the humans, finding a sort of peace between them and the garou. She also assisted with the dragonkin experimentation, which resulted in the creation of [[Dragonwilds:Kuldra]], using her blood. Her blood was treated by the dragonkin as a material resource, valued for the vitality it carried, and quantities of it were sealed in [[Dragonwilds:Sanguine Urn|urns]] and hidden in separate locations across Ashenfall.{{CiteJournal|journal=Lifeward|quote=The dragonkin discovered a unique and powerful resource in their time on Ashenfall, the blood of a goddess}} [[Dragonwilds:Lacrussa]] intended to refine that power and merge it with a dragon in pursuit of a viable dragonkin host.{{CiteText|text=Lacrussa's Notes|quote=Still, if I can refine this power? If I can merge it with a dragon, perhaps… just perhaps… I can turn these worthless dragons into something we can use.}} | ||
==='''Defeat and legacy'''=== | |||
Sometime after the war against the humans and goblins, Lougrim was killed by Kuldra, who started a [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Rebellion|rebellion]] against the dragonkin, freeing the dragons from their chains. Her death divided the garou. The clans that accepted Kuldra's victory remained in Ghornfell, while those that refused abandoned their homes and travelled east, later becoming the Moon Garou of the [[Dragonwilds:Umbral Sands]].{{CiteNPC|npc=Lehran - The Archaeologist|loc=Icthlarin's Little Helper|quote=Kuldra declared herself queen and, out of fear, many garou followed her. But not us. Not those who would become Moon Garou.}} There are two documented stories on what happened. One from the garou of Ghornfell that states that Kuldra has challenged Lougrim, and won in fair combat.{{CiteJournal|journal=Leathery Parchment|quote=The battle was swift and bloody; their clashing energies created cracks in the very earth. The entire continent buckled beneath their fury, but only one of them could prevail. Her many heads tore the goddess limb from limb, swallowing down the pieces of her divine flesh until nothing of the old queen remained.}}{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou King|quote=A title she held until Kuldra devoured her, earning the dragon queen her moniker - God Eater.}} The other being considered the "truth" from the Moon Garou of the Umbral Sands, that had written no challenge was issued, Kuldra had ambushed and devoured Lougrim while she was drained from shielding villages against dragonfire.{{CiteNPC|npc=Lehran - The Archaeologist|loc=Icthlarin's Little Helper|quote=The challenge wasn't issued at all! Lougrim had spent almost of all of her power shielding villages from dragonfire. Wounded and weak, Kuldra descended on her without mercy and simply devoured her.}} From unknown reason, this was discarded as forbidden knowledge, with no knowledge to why.{{CiteNPC|npc=Lehran - The Archaeologist|loc=Icthlarin's Little Helper|quote=I wonder why the truth of that moment was considered forbidden?}} | |||
Despite her death, Lougrim's influence persists. Her priests continue to bear her moon symbol on their staves and altars, even while accepting Kuldra as their High Queen.{{CiteJournal|journal=Grieving Moon Staff|quote=Now her priests bear the symbol, atop their staves and as the focus on their altars. They accept and revere Kuldra as their High Queen, yet they grieve the moon goddess that made them who they are today.}} The rites of challenge and kingship she presided over are still observed by garou who no longer worship her.{{CiteJournal|journal=Garou Highborn's Cloak|quote=Even after turning from the moon-goddess Lougrim, becoming servants of the High Queen Kuldra, the garou continue their ancient rituals.}} Shrines dedicated to her remain in Ashenfall, where rituals of purification are still performed.{{CiteText|text=Dog Days|quote=This shrine is dedicated to Lougrim, and looks like the place referred to in the Ritual of Purification.}} There are also legends of a silver dire wolf among some of the garou, believing it to be the reincarnated goddess, slowly rebuilding her power before rechallenging Kuldra.{{CiteJournal|journal=Dire Wolf|quote=There are legends of a silver wolf among the garou. Some of them whisper that it is a goddess reincarnated. That she is rebuilding her power, to challenge their new High Queen again.}} | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:01, 29 August 2026
Template:Infobox NPC Lougrim was the goddess of the moon and primordial hunt to the garou.Template:CiteText She came from another world of silver and silence, and left it through a doorway that opened when a grieving god wandered into it.Template:CiteJournal Her transformation into the goddess of the hunt completely altered her original form.Template:CiteJournal She is said to also have a history with Bandos, where the god of war wanted revenge against her and the garou.
Deity Info
History
Rise to power
When she discovered the garou on their homeworld of Dragonwilds:Antumnos, she was initially treated as prey. However, she demonstrated her divine nature by defeating her hunters.Template:CiteJournal Following this, she challenged all the reigning kings of the garou clans in the capital city of Dragonwilds:Magrawn and defeated them in a single battle, ultimately claiming the title of High Queen.Template:CiteJournal No later challenger unseated her for centuries afterwards.Template:CiteJournal Dragonwilds:Moon Garou tradition names the defeated party as the elders of the tribes rather than the clan kings.Template:CiteNPC She later brought the garou from Antumnos to Dragonwilds:Gielinor, settling somewhere in the mainlandTemplate:CiteDiscord before moving to Dragonwilds:Ashenfall.Template:CiteNPC
Reign and the Human-Garou War
Under Lougrim's leadership, the garou were focused and refined into exceptional hunters.Template:CiteJournal She retained the moon as her symbol, a reminder of her origins.Template:CiteJournal Her high priests crafted the king's tokens hundreds of years ago.Template:CiteJournal She granted weapons to champions she favoured, among them Dragonwilds:King Raluh, who received Dragonwilds:Skullsplitter.Template:CiteJournal Her followers knew her as the Huntress in moonlight.Template:CiteText She granted the first garou blacksmiths the templates for their weapons, teaching them the shape of the blade and the balance of the hilt.Template:CiteJournal She rejected the use of poison by hunters on the grounds that it degraded the hunt, permitting it only to spellcasters.Template:CiteJournal Garou druids of her era were restrained by ritual observance and directed towards approved quarry.Template:CiteJournal She also set tasks for individual followers, appearing to the druid Dragonwilds:Ashien in a vision and directing her into the swamps to fight a demon.Template:CiteJournal Moon Garou tradition holds instead that she taught the garou to hunt without blade or bow on Antumnos, and to take no more than they needed.Template:CiteText
Before a peace was agreed between the garou and the human settlers, garou hunting parties treated travellers as legitimate quarry.Template:CiteJournal
During the Dragonwilds:Human-Garou War, she and the garou conflicted with the humans, and eventually the goblins, the latter arriving with their god of war Dragonwilds:Bandos. Bandos entered the conflict to settle a grievance of his own, which the human clergy attributed to her.Template:CiteJournal By her own account the grievance was older and broader than that, a slight inflicted by the garou aeons earlier on a world other than Gielinor.Template:CiteJournal What the slight was goes unrecorded. The terms agreed between the Saradominist priests and the emissaries of Bandos traded the mines of Dragonwilds:Ghornfell to the humans in exchange for her head.Template:CiteJournal Bandos brought his followers with him for that campaign, and they broke through the garou lines with little resistance.Template:CiteJournal To the priests of Dragonwilds:Saradomin she was an impostor, and the extermination of her followers was framed as an act of purification.Template:CiteJournal
As her followers were being pushed back and cornered, particularly after humans began using iron weapons against them, she mourned for her lost children.Template:CiteJournal She found the dragonkin and allied with them, binding herself to the service of the Dragonwilds:Cabal.Template:CiteJournal This alliance allowed them to release Dragonwilds:dragons onto the army, turning the tide of battle. She rode a dragon into the assault, flanked by two dragonkin.Template:CiteJournal This reinforcement led to their victory when Bandos fought Dragonwilds:Velgar and was defeated due to his arrogance. After the war god's retreat, Lougrim would cease the attack on the humans, finding a sort of peace between them and the garou. She also assisted with the dragonkin experimentation, which resulted in the creation of Dragonwilds:Kuldra, using her blood. Her blood was treated by the dragonkin as a material resource, valued for the vitality it carried, and quantities of it were sealed in urns and hidden in separate locations across Ashenfall.Template:CiteJournal Dragonwilds:Lacrussa intended to refine that power and merge it with a dragon in pursuit of a viable dragonkin host.Template:CiteText
Defeat and legacy
Sometime after the war against the humans and goblins, Lougrim was killed by Kuldra, who started a rebellion against the dragonkin, freeing the dragons from their chains. Her death divided the garou. The clans that accepted Kuldra's victory remained in Ghornfell, while those that refused abandoned their homes and travelled east, later becoming the Moon Garou of the Dragonwilds:Umbral Sands.Template:CiteNPC There are two documented stories on what happened. One from the garou of Ghornfell that states that Kuldra has challenged Lougrim, and won in fair combat.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal The other being considered the "truth" from the Moon Garou of the Umbral Sands, that had written no challenge was issued, Kuldra had ambushed and devoured Lougrim while she was drained from shielding villages against dragonfire.Template:CiteNPC From unknown reason, this was discarded as forbidden knowledge, with no knowledge to why.Template:CiteNPC
Despite her death, Lougrim's influence persists. Her priests continue to bear her moon symbol on their staves and altars, even while accepting Kuldra as their High Queen.Template:CiteJournal The rites of challenge and kingship she presided over are still observed by garou who no longer worship her.Template:CiteJournal Shrines dedicated to her remain in Ashenfall, where rituals of purification are still performed.Template:CiteText There are also legends of a silver dire wolf among some of the garou, believing it to be the reincarnated goddess, slowly rebuilding her power before rechallenging Kuldra.Template:CiteJournal