Ghalor is patron of those cast out from home, heaven or memory, gathering mortal exiles and gods whose last worshipper has forgotten their name.
An exile is not a person without a place. It is a person whose place has not yet learned their name.
The god outside the gate
Ghalor is depicted with one vast wing broken near the shoulder and the other cut away entirely. No myth agrees whether he was expelled from the heavens, refused to enter them or gave his second wing to carry another exile to safety.
He walks the border between pantheons, collecting sacred names after their temples fall.
Keeper of lost gods
When a divinity loses its last worshipper, Ghalor is said to remember it once. That single act prevents complete erasure and allows the forgotten power to sleep rather than dissolve.
His retinue includes tiny household spirits, defeated national gods and divine fragments too weak to speak. Some are grateful; others dream of returning through the Broken Wing's followers.
Open-gate sanctuaries
Ghaloran temples have no rear wall. The altar faces an opening through which anyone may leave without crossing the congregation or requesting permission.
Priests help displaced people preserve names, recipes, rites and stories without requiring them to romanticise the homes that rejected them. Belonging may be recovered, changed or built elsewhere.
The second welcome
The faith's principal rite is performed after ordinary hospitality. A stranger is welcomed once as a guest and later, if they choose, welcomed again by the name and terms they give themselves.
This second welcome distinguishes refuge from assimilation. Ghalor's blessing is not return to the old gate, but the discovery that a broken wing can still shelter others.
Notes and record
This article combines campaign record, spoken lore and the mythic account preserved in the Earin archive.