YURTRUS
Lesser god
ARMOR CLASS: 0
MOVE: 6"
HIT POINTS: 303
NO. OF ATTACKS: 2
DAMAGE/ATTACK: See below
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Disease
SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 75%
SIZE: L (12' tall)
ALIGNMENT: Neutral evil (lawful tendencies)
WORSHIPER'S ALIGNMENT: Assassins and those who worship or profit from
death (orcs and half-orcs)
SYMBOL: White hand on a dark background
PLANE: Hades
CLERIC/DRUID: 15th level cleric (destructive spells only)
FIGHTER: As 13 HD monster
MAGIC-USER/ILLUSIONIST: See below/Nil
THIEF/ASSASSIN: 15th level assassin
MONK/BARD: Nil
PSIONIC ABILITY: VI
| S: 18 (+1, +2) | I: 18 | W: 11 |
| D: 10 | C: 17 | CH: -4 |
| Com: -25 | - | - |
Yurtrus the White Handed is the terrifying orcish god of death and disease.
He appears as a huge, vaguely orcish giant covered with peeling,
rotting green flesh; his hands, however, appear completely
normal except for being chalk-white in color. Yurtrus has no mouth
and doesn’t communicate; the orcs have a way of saying “when
White-Hands speaks” when they mean “never.”
Yurtrus is surrounded by a huge envelope of stinking gases out to
120’; any mortal beings within this radius are affected as follows:
Those up to and including 4 HDIlevels as if struck by dust ofsneezing
and choking, those up to 8 HDIlevels as if struck by a symbol of pain,
and those of higher levels suffer a -2 “to hit” with no saving throw.
All
effects last while anyone stays within the cloud of gas.
Yurtrus, in addition to his clerical spells, uses all death-magic spells
of
18th level magic-users. He may try to touch his victims instead of
using
his spells; any being he strikes loses 3-12 hit points and will catch
1-4 random diseases as well (use the listings in the Dungeon Masters
Guide). The loss of hit points will be permanent unless recovered by
a
wish spell on a one-point-per-wish basis.
Clerics Raiment Sacrifice/Propitiation
| Sphere of Control | Animal | M | F | N-H | Head | Body | Color(s) | Holy Days | Frequency | Form | Place of Worship |
| death, plague | skeleton | - | - | X(m)<?> | bare | skins | white | full moon | monthly | sacrifices | underground crypt |
The clerics of Yurtrus wear pale white gloves made from the skins of
non-orcish humanoids, humans, or demi-humans, during their ceremonies.
They wear thin armor (equivalent to cloth) woven of the same
materials. In combat they use maces with the weapon’s head made in
the shape of a white fist. When plague or disease strikes a group of
orcs, the clerics of Yurtrus appeal to him for an end to the illness
with
great sacrifices of prisoners and slaves.
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by Roger E. Moore
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