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| - Gond is a fictional deity in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. Ed Greenwood created Gond for his home Dungeons & Dragons game, very loosely inspired by the Greek deity Hephaestus. Gond is the deity of invention: he transforms ideas into form and inspires mortals to create new things. He cares only for the act of creation and pays no heed to the consequences of his inventions. Gond is worshipped by gnomes, who know him as Nebelun, and humans. Worshippers of Gond are known as Gondar. Gond is an enigmatic deity who serves under Oghma and alongside Deneir and Milil as a Deity of Knowledge and Invention. His independence leads many to forget his relationship with his superior. Gond is friendly with Lathander, Waukeen and Tempus, for his inventions benefit their portfolios. His only enemy is Talos, whose indiscriminate destructiveness threatens Gond's dominion over creation and devices of destruction. Gond sometimes appears as a short, slight man with straw-blond hair, other times as a burly, red-faced smith, and other times as a gnome. In all his avatars he has sharp, dark eyes, a forge-scarred face, and alert, inquisitive features. He wears a scorched smith's smock over leather clothes. He wields a mighty hammer called Craftmaster, which he uses for smith work and as a weapon. Gond's avatars are rarely seen outside his temple; he prefers to manifest before mortals in a lesser manner.
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