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Three domains and two or three subdomains sounds like demigods, demon lords, empyreal lords and those of similar power. Some ideas below.
Protection/Solitude, Madness, Evil/Daemon
Alignment: NE
Areas of Concern: Imprisonment, changing oneself, separation
Favored Weapon: Spiked heavy shield
Symbol: A red-hot portcullis
Sacred Animal(s): Silkworm
Destruction/Rage, Law/Inevitable, Repose/Ancestors
Alignment: LN
Areas of Concern: Respect for your ancestors, tradition, destroying undead
Favored Weapon: Heavy mace
Symbol: The letters of the alphabet (or other runes or symbols, depending on the local language) written in a circle
Sacred Animal(s): Badger
Healing/Medicine, Strength/Competition, Air/Storms
Alignment: N
Areas of Concern: Endurance, independence, self-reliance
Favored Weapon: Long bow
Symbol: A lighthouse amidst lightning
Sacred Animal(s): Seagull
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"Medicine, Competition, Storms"
Rovingarr was the son of the god Bargatus, and the younger brother of Jorg. Both Rovingarr and Jorg were skilled healers, and spent their lives trying to outdo each other with new medical miracles. Most of the curative spells which are now taken for granted, such as cure light wounds, restoration, and regenerate were invented by one brother or the other as an attempt to top the achievements of the other.
As time went on, Jorg begin experimenting with energies on the fringe between life and death. He drew an audience (such that none could doubt the provenance) for his magnum opus, the first attempt ever to bring the living back from the dead. Rovingarr looked on as Jorg drew power from his own life essence in order to revive the life of a fallen monk. Yet Jorg drew too deeply, and as the monk spluttered back to life as the first beneficiary of raise dead, Jorg fell down, his own life extinguished.
Rovingarr rushed to Jorg's side and tried to revive him. But his powers, as great as they were, were not great enough to match Jorg's feat of raising a human, much less a demigod. Rovingarr tried for an entire week, not sleeping or eating, to raise his brother, but to no avail.
Finally, after that week of tribulation, Rovingarr broke down in a rage. The fury of his mourning was so great that the entire world shook, and storms began to wrack every corner of the globe.
For three years, massive storms reigned over all of the land. This period of history came to be known as the Raging Tumult. Yet after it ended, Rovingarr got back to work, continuing to perfect the work his brother left off. In short years he not only discovered the flaw in his brother's implementation of raise dead, but went on to devise resurrection and even true resurrection. His works were great enough to raise him to true divinity... but still never enough to raise Jorg.
Now many worship Rovingarr, not only as a god of healing and competition, but also as a god of passionate activity of any kind. Thus, artists and craftsmen are often counted among his followers as well. And when a great storm rages, it is often thought that Rovingarr is mourning another great soul - either one who is just fallen, or one who is long dead but has just gone beyond the threshold from which they can ever return to the corporeal world.
