Alignment: Lawful Good Category: None Domains: Order, War Home Plane: Mount Celestia (Lunia) Pantheon: Faerûnian Symbol: Balanced scales resting on a warhammer Typical Worshipers: Judges, law enforcers, lawyers, paladins
God of Justice. Tyr appears as a noble warrior missing his right hand — lost to Kezef the Chaos Hound in an act of bravery and sacrifice — and with his eyes wrapped in cloth, his blindness signifying that justice applies evenly to all. Weary of mortal foolishness, Tyr seldom appears directly, instead sending an awakened mastiff as an emissary or making himself known through the sound of a war gong or a choir.
Tyr’s followers devote themselves to achieving justice, righting wrongs, and delivering vengeance. This devotion is not concerned with equality or fairness as such, but with discovering truth and punishing the guilty. Those who favor Tyr tend to be stiff-necked about theology and laws, seeing things in terms of black and white. His credo is demanding, and his priests remind the faithful not to judge too harshly those who fail to live up to it — if the calling were easy, it wouldn’t be worth following.
Many orders of knighthood devote their lives to Tyr, including the Knights of Holy Judgment and the Knights of the Merciful Sword. Judges, priests, and paladins of Tyr sometimes wear thin strips of diaphanous cloth over their eyes as a symbol of the blindness of justice.
In the Campaign
High Supervisor Aelfred, leader of the Order of the Golden Lion, is one of the most powerful living followers of Tyr. He invoked Tyr’s protection over Morrigan Volderak during her years in Waterdeep.