Gruumsh

Gruumsh is the cheif god of orcs in the Dungeons and Dragons game in most campaign settings. Gruumsh created the orcs in his image to be his servants in the world but was cheated out land for his people by the other gods as gaming legend Gary Gygax told in Unearthed Arcana:

''In the beginning all the gods met and drew lots for the parts of the world in which their representative races would dwell. The human gods drew the lot that allowed humans to dwell where they pleased, in any environment. The elven gods drew the green forests, the dwarven deities drew the high mountains, the gnomish gods the rocky, sunlit hills, and the halfling gods picked the lot that gave them the fields and meadows. Then the assembled gods turned to the orcish gods and laughed loud and long. "All the lots are taken!" they said tauntingly. "Where will your people dwell, One-Eye? There is no place left!"

There was silence upon the world then, as Gruumsh One-Eye lifted his great iron spear and stretched it over the world. The shaft blotted the sun over a great part of the lands as he spoke: "No! You Lie! You have rigged the drawing of the lots, hoping to cheat me and my followers. But One-Eye never sleeps. One-Eye sees all. there is a place for orcs to dwell... here!", he bellowed, and his spear pierced the mountains, opening a mighty rift and chasms. "And here!", and the spearhead split the hills and made them shake and covered them in dust. "And here!", and the black spear gouged the meadows and made them bare.

"There!" roared He-Who-Watches triumphantly, and his voice carried to the ends of the world. "There is where the orcs shall dwell! There they will survive, and multiply, and grow stronger, and a day will come when they cover the world, and they will slay all of your collective peoples! Orcs shall inherit the world you sought to cheat me of!"''

As orcs that are not clerics or adepts are forbidden to speak his name he is also known as "One-Eye", "He-Who-Never-Sleeps", and "He-Who-Watches". Gruumsh's domains are Chaos, Strength, Evil, and War; his weapon of choice is the spear.

In the time before the world began in Dungeons and Dragons Gruumsh had two eyes but lost one in a fight with the elf god Corellon Larethian. Gruumsh meant to paralyze Corellon with his magical spear, this attack failed and initiated an epic battle. During the course of this battle Gruush injured Corellon and from the blood shed the elven people were created. Corellon ended the fight by putting out Gruumsh's left eye. This is how Gruumsh earned his moniker "One-Eye". Some Orcish clerics deny this tale, dismissing it as elven propaganda, and claim that Gruumsh always had one eye.