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Look of Orlanth

Posted on September 19, 2019

Recently I posted a picture of Orlanth Thunderous from the Cults book, that depicted him as having four arms (each carrying a tool or weapon). Some people were surprised, having imagined that Orlanth looked more “Celtic”. So I have a few Celtic gods for you all:

Let’s start with Lugus the Three-Headed God.

Three headed Trygav
Lugus the Three-Headed God
Lugus the Three-Headed God
Four-headed Svantovid (which interestingly is the basis of the ONLY cult depiction of Orlanth in the old RQ2/RQ3 days

Jeff Richard

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