Talos (Forgotten Realms)
| Game background | |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | The Destroyer, the Storm Lord |
| Home plane | 2E: Towers of Ruin (Pandemonium) 3E: Fury's Heart |
| Power level | Greater |
| Alignment | Chaotic Evil |
| Portfolio | Storms, destruction, rebellion, conflagrations, earthquakes, vortices |
| Domains | Chaos, Destruction, Evil, Fire and Storm |
| Superior | None |
| Design details | |
Talos (/ˈtɑːloʊs/ TAH-lohs) is the Faerûnian deity of storms and destruction in Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Talos' dogma is self-serving, demanding utter obedience from his priests and instructing them to spread destruction where they may. He is known as Bhaelros to the Calishites and Kozah to the Bedine. Followers of Talos are known as Talassans.
Talos appears as a broad shouldered, bearded man with one good eye. He wears half plate armor over black leather armor, and black leather gloves. His empty eye socket is filled with whirling stars and covered with a dark eye patch. When he appears as Bhaelros in Calimshan, he often takes the form of a dusky skinned, turbaned genie rising out of a sandstorm.
Ed Greenwood created Talos for his home Dungeons & Dragons game, set in Greenwood's Forgotten Realms world. Greenwood states that all of the weather gods from the original Deities & Demigods book seemed too powerful, so he combined from them the features he desired, into Talos.
Talos first appeared within Dungeons & Dragons as one of the deities featured in Ed Greenwood's article "Down-to-earth Divinity" in Dragon #54 (October 1981). Talos is introduced as The Destroyer, the Raging One, god of storms and destruction, a chaotic evil greater god from the plane of Pandemonium. The article described Talos as "A storm god commanding powers of rain, gale, lightning, and earthquake." Talos is described as one of “The Gods of Fury,” which is what these four gods are known as collectively: "Talos is served by Auril, Umberlee, and Malar." Talos is commonly worshipped by chaotic evil fighters, magic-users, assassins, thieves, and clerics, and is placated by farmers and sailors.
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