Cayden Cailean is the most obvious choice, what with him being all for freedom and such.
With your bonus Weapon Focus and bonus Human feat, you could even pick up Fencing Grace to go lightly-armored, Dex-based with his favored weapon, the rapier.
For Blessings, Strength for the Strength Surge, as your Strength will most likely be low. Note, it says "melee attack rolls", not "strength-based melee attack rolls", so it'll work on both Strength checks and your rapier attacks.
Travel is easily the other, with its ability to ignore difficult terrain and Dimensional Hop teleport power.
How do you generate ability scores?
Do you know what they'll be already?
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When you say war priest, do you mean the actual warpriest class, or a cleric built as a "battle cleric". I'm a little confused by the title.
If you mean the actual warpriest class, rapier is a fine choice, as you will gain a scaling damage bonus from your class with it, and it has an excellent crit rating. It is the favored weapon of Cayden and is entirely appropriate for the region.
Well, if you want to go the Dex-based, Cayden, "freedom fighter" from Andoran, then yeah.
But you realize the flavor is what you make it, right?
Yeah, you could have an Orc, full-plate wearing, greataxe-using Warpriest of Rovagug, but there's no reason the halfling Warpriest of Desna, wearing light armor and focused on throwing starknives is any less of a Warpriest than the Orc.
Vik (the alias I'm posting with now) is actually a pirate-Warpriest of Besmara, using the rapier and Fencing Grace, along with guns because, well, pirate. She's quite effective, and very fun to play!
Oh, then that's probably something you should have said in the opening post.
If you aren't settled on human, Dwarf Warpriest of Torag is an excellent choice.
In that case, Strength and Wisdom are your key ability scores, and followed by Con and then a bit of Dex.
For Blessings, Protection and Good or Law, depending on your roleplay focus would be good ones. Quicken Blessing at 11th would let you swift action summon the battle companion and have a cool bit of extra damage against either evil or chaotic opponents.
Toughness would certainly fit the character, and you don't qualify for Power Attack at first level.
Would you be starting at first level?
An Oracle with the Battle mystery can make an excellent battle cleric as well, should spontaneous casting interest you more than the prepared. Also it should be mentioned, Clerics do not have heavy armor proficiency, so if you want that, you'll have to burn a feat on it. The Battle Oracle does also net you martial weapon proficiency, and heavy armor with the Skill at Arms revelation.
For a deity, nothing quite hits home for imagery like a cleric of Gorum to me, taking advantage of that favored weapon greatsword and dishing out some considerable pain.
Ultimately just how "battle" do you want this battle cleric to be? The Crusader archetype may be up your alley if so, but the diminished spellcasting in exchange for extra feats can hurt a lot.