Luthic

Title: The Cave Mother, The Dark Mother, the Healing Mother

Symbol: A cave entrance

Portfolio: Fertility, servitude, healing, the earth, caverns, dark places, vengeance

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Worshipers alignment: Lawful Evil, Lawful Neutral, Neutral

Domains: Healing, Earth, Protection, Evil

Favoured Weapons: Fighting Claw

Luthic (loo-thick) is the wife of Gruumsh and the paragon of female orc virtues. She obeys her husband without question, tends his wounds, and bears his children. She is fiercely jealous of any that seek to take her power away from her. Orcs who follow Luthic have a greater instinct for self-preservation than many other orcs but they are vicious to those in whom they sense some weakness. Clerics of Luthic hang back in battle to heal the wounded and return them to the front. Luthic appears as a huge female orc with unbreakable black claws four feet long. Her hair and eyes are dull black and her skin is dark brown, lighter around her nose and ears. Her omens to her priests take the form of claw marks in rock, a magical darkening of some area, or a rumbling in a cave mouth.

Within the Ice Orcs of North West Kylma she has a special place where her Priestesses carry out ritual torture on captives for the entertainment of