deities
Mithaniel Marr, the Truthbringer
The god of valor and truth, brother-twin to Erollisi Marr, patron of paladins and honorable warriors.
Mithaniel Marr is the god of valor, truth, and the disciplined courage that holds a line. He is the brother-twin of Erollisi Marr — where she is love, he is the willingness to defend it at any cost — and together the Marr siblings form the moral spine of the good pantheon. His followers carry an idealism that is not naive: Mithaniel teaches that the world contains real evil, that the evil must be opposed, and that the opposing must be done without cruelty.
His realm is the Plane of Valor, opened in the Planes of Power expansion as the staging ground of the good pantheon's military orders. He is the most direct patron of the Paladin class in canonical EQ, and his clergy is the most visible in the human and halfling cities of the eastern continent. He stands in eternal opposition to Innoruuk — the patron of the hatred that justifies cruelty — and to Cazic-Thule's predatory fear.
Lore
The Marr siblings were elevated to godhood from a pair of mortal champions in an age the records do not name. Mithaniel's portion was the disciplines that hold a defending army together — the watch on the wall, the willingness to die in the gap, the refusal to break ranks even in despair. The Truthbringer's title comes from the doctrinal teaching that valor without honesty becomes propaganda; his clergy will not lie even tactically, and the Paladin orders sworn to him hold to that rule above the convenient one.
His worship is concentrated in the human cities — Freeport's Knights of Truth, Qeynos's Steel Warriors, the Halfling militias of Rivervale, and the Paladin orders of the High Elves and Dwarves. His shrines often sit beside his sister's, and the rare Marr cathedral that holds both is treated as an especially sacred site by the good pantheon. The Plane of Valor reflects this discipline architecturally — a planar fortress whose every barracks, training-yard, and arsenal is built on the assumption that the war is real, the line will be tested, and the watch will not break.
Class and race access
Canonical EQ deity restrictions on Mithaniel Marr cover Paladin, Warrior, Cleric, Bard, Rogue, Magician, Enchanter, and Wizard. He is the most direct Paladin patron in the canon; a Paladin can also claim Erollisi Marr, Tunare, Quellious, or Rodcet Nife (the latter being a sub-deity not in the playable list), but Mithaniel is the default. He does not accept Druids, Rangers, Shamans, Monks, Necromancers, Shadow Knights, or Beastlords.
On The Last Camp the any-race-class doctrine unlocks racial combinations — Dark Elf Paladins, Iksar Paladins, Ogre Paladins — but the canonical deity-on-class restrictions remain in force. An Iksar Paladin must still pick a Paladin-permitted deity, and Mithaniel Marr is the most common canonical choice. The race is unlocked; the deity table is not.
Realm and epic ties
The Plane of Valor is Mithaniel's seat in PoP, and the Paladin epic 1.0 — Fiery Defender — is the most directly Marr-aligned class quest in the canon. Cleric, Warrior, and Bard quests at the era cap routinely involve his orders, and the Knights of Truth in Freeport serve as a recurring questgiver faction across the human and half-elf progressions. The Warrior epic (Monsoon, Sword of the Swiftwind) touches his orders at multiple checkpoints, and the Bard epic (Singing Short Sword) draws on the Marr siblings' joint patronage.
Notable followers and quests
The Knights of Truth in Freeport, the Steel Warriors of Qeynos, and the Paladin temples of Felwithe and Kaladim are the canonical pillars of his worship. The Paladin epic chain, the Cleric epic precursor lines, and most of the lawful-good faction quests in the era cap reference his clergy or his orders directly. The Plane of Valor raid encounters at the era cap surface his lieutenants as questgivers and gatekeepers for several class follow-ons.
The Last Camp-specific notes
The any-race-class doctrine creates the most player-resonant Mithaniel characters — the Iksar Paladin, the Ogre Paladin, the Dark Elf Paladin — and these are exactly the redemption arcs that the Truthbringer's canon is built to receive. Faction starts in evil cities will read the deity choice immediately and respond as expected; the racial faction will be the secondary read, and the Truthbringer's clergy in the human and halfling cities will accept the player based on the deity check.
Worship and observance
Mithaniel's clergy maintains a calendar of military observances tied to the founding-dates of the major Paladin orders sworn to him. The Knights of Truth in Freeport, the Steel Warriors in Qeynos, and the Felwithe and Kaladim Paladin temples each hold an annual oath-renewal ceremony that the broader clergy treats as canonical. Initiation into a Mithanielian Paladin order requires the candidate to vow the Truthbringer's discipline of honesty above tactical convenience, and the vow is treated by the order as binding for life.