I am going to be playing a cleric in an upcoming game, and decided to focus on summon spells. As such I wanted the Summoning domain, which led me to the only deity with it, Trithereon. Thing is, I'm having difficulty finding any solid info on him. There is a tiny paragraph in Complete Divine and a google came up with similarly short results from places like Wikipedia. I have no experience in Greyhawk, and on none of the older edition sources. I really favor flavor over mechanics, so I want as information as I can get. I appreciate any help.
I can help you out with this, check back in the morning and I should have some things for you.
IMO, when lacking canon, make it up. Ask the DM if you and (s)he can come up with a god together or create additional material for Trithereon based on the paragraph you have.
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...Anyways, someone's eventually gonna tell you to check out CanonFire, which is the unofficial official fact site for Greyhawk....
You could also hunt down that LG Deities PDF that Mothman was asking about the other day. It has a paragraph about him and a bit more info than the wiki.
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...Anyways, someone's eventually gonna tell you to check out CanonFire, which is the unofficial official fact site for Greyhawk....You could also hunt down that LG Deities PDF that Mothman was asking about the other day. It has a paragraph about him and a bit more info than the wiki.
I have a copy of it. You should be able to find it on at least one of the LG sites (Verbobonc, for sure, though I think you need a login to get it), but if you can't, I can e-mail it.
This is what the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer has to say about Trithereon. The following is canon.
(The Summoner)CG intermediate god of Individuality, Liberty, Retribution,and Self-Defense
Trithereon (tri-THEH-ree-on) is shown as a tall well-built young man with red-gold hair, clad in a chainmail shirt and blue or violet clothes. His symbol is the rune of pursuit, representing his relentlessness in hunting down oppessors and tyrants. He is famous for his three great magic weapons (the shortspear Krelestro, the Harbringer of Doom; the sword Freedom's Tongue; and the scepter called the Baton of Retribution) and his three summoned animals (Nemoud the Hound, Harrus the Falcon, and Carolk the Sea Lizard). He fights evil and oppresses law, so he sometimes opposses other good-aligned deities such as Heironeous and Pholtus.
"All deserve life and the ability to choose their own place in the world, and those who would place others in shackles or control them with oppressive laws must be toppled. Train the common folk to defend themselves and their property should another wish to take their freedoms. If you are wronged, you are right to exact vengeance yourself, especially if none will help you."
Because the faith praises individuality over standardized doctrine, each church has a different focus but is allied with all others.
Trithereon's clerics are rugged individualits, never afraid to question authority. Those in cities instruct commoners in self-defense and recruit like-minded rogues and rangers for the cause of individual liberty. Those in rural areas act as scouts or spies against despotic lords or murderous nonhumans. Both sorts keep close watch on Lawful religions lest they become to powerful. The Summoner's clerics trael far and wide in search of those in need of their help.
Domains: Chaos, Good, Protection, Strength
Weapons: shortspear, longsword(m), greatclub(m)
(m) indicates a martial weapon the the cleric needs to use a feat to select it.
In regards to Canonfire, please check it out. On the opening page is a good non-canon article about Trithereon. I also got a prestige class from there as well called The Avengers of Trithereon. A search should allow you to find it on Canonfire as well as anything else Trithereon related.
Hope this helps. If your playing in Greyhawk and need to know where he is worshipped or have other related Greyhawk questions let me know.
See also Dragon Issue 297 for the Living Greyhawk Journal artical about the the Knights of the Chase, a Prestige Class for worshippers of Trithereon. It's meant more for non-clerics, but perhaps with some adapatation, you and your DM can agree to change the spell-list spellcasting progression to a +1 progression per level or something.
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One of the neat bits about Trithereon is that he's got three different animal companions that follow him around. A large hawk/eagle, 'Nemoud the Hound,' and 'Ca'rolk the Sea Lizard.' (spelling uncertain, it's been ages) Using Summoning spells to call up Celestial Eagles, Riding Dogs or saltwater Crocodiles could be a neat nod towards the dieties companion critters. Using Lesser Planar Ally, perhaps on the way to the Thaumaturgist PrC from the DMG, to call up a Celestial or even Half-Celestial version of one of these critters (or a Dire, Advanced, Giant or otherwise big version of them) could also go along neatly with the theme.
One of the Realms books has 'Initiate' feats for various gods, and one of them, Initiate of Nature, allows one to rebuke/command animals and plants. An Initiate of the Summoner feat that allows one to rebuke these particular animal types could allow one to have the temporary summoned critters and the more permanant commanded versions.
Alternately, just take Handle Animal, and have an actual Riding Dog and / or trained Hawk or Eagle. (Skip the Crocodile for now. They don't make the best pets...)
Thanks for the help, folks. The DM isn't using Greyhawk, just a homebrew world, but he's allowing any deities, and like I said, the domain I wanted led to Trithereon. That means I won't need any Greyhawk specific info, and you've supplied enough for me to flesh out my character's role. I might take a look at the prestige classes, but I'm intending to go Malconvoker out of Complete Scoundrel. It'll let me trick evil summoned monsters into doing good.
Thanks again.