Erlyid God (Death, destruction, evil)
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Gonvan is not strictly speaking a god of the Erlyid pantheon, but a demon arrayed against it. In the mythology of the Erlyid, if a harvest fails, Gonvan has attacked Morganna; if a war is lost, he has tricked Diruc, and so on. Pelor is his sworn enemy. There are no public temples or followers of Gonvan, but a few desperate or corrupted individuals do worship and call on him. His domains are Chaos, Death, Evil and Destruction.
Since the coming of the Orcs, Gonvan blurred together in the popular mind with Gruumsh, chief god of the Orcs. The more conservative in the Empire - and especially the Churches of Pelor and Diruc - actively encouraged this, seeing it as a way of casting the orc people into disfavour and associating them with the mythological symbol of darkness, bad luck and evil.
With the repartiation of the majority of the orcs, this became complete and orcs were seen as followers of Gonvan, pure and simple. This made life for the orcs who stayed no easier, and within a hundred years they were all gone.