deities
Innoruuk, Prince of Hate
The Dark Elf creator-god who forged hatred into a race and rules the Plane of Hate.
Innoruuk is the god of hate, malice, and spite — the patron of pain inflicted for its own sake. Where other gods build, Innoruuk corrupts; where others heal, he wounds. He is most famous as the creator of the Teir'Dal, the Dark Elves, sculpted from the tortured forms of captured High Elves and twisted by ages of his own loathing into a race that worships the act of suffering itself.
His realm is the Plane of Hate, a black cathedral suspended in the void where his court of Maestro Rytan, Lord of Loathing, and a dozen lesser malefactors hold eternal ruinous court. He is bitterly opposed to the Marr siblings and to Tunare, whose creations — the children of light — were the original target of the wrath that shaped his own people.
Lore
Innoruuk's hatred is not a passion but a craft. The myths name him as one of the elder pantheon, present at the shaping of the world but turning away from creation in favor of subversion. When the gods of light populated Norrath with elves and men, Innoruuk seized a vessel of High Elves crossing the seas and dragged them into his plane, where he tortured them for four hundred years until what emerged was no longer of Tunare. The Teir'Dal returned to the world bearing his face in their souls.
His clergy in Neriak are the Indigo Brotherhood, and his shadow knights — the Dread Guard — are among the most feared inquisitors in the eastern continent. Where his cult takes root in other races, it does so through corruption and grievance: the spurned, the betrayed, and the cruel find a god who validates their reasons. He is engaged in eternal war with the Marr twins, whose virtues of valor and love he regards as the world's most contemptible lies.
The Plane of Hate is the doctrinal expression of his teaching: a black cathedral suspended in the void, where every architectural detail is built to remind the visitor that hatred is older than they are, more patient than they are, and will outlast them. Maestro Rytan, Lord of Loathing, holds court in his absence, and the lesser malefactors — Innoruuk's chosen torturers — operate the plane as both prison and seminary.
Class and race access
Canonical EQ deity restrictions apply: Innoruuk's faithful are drawn to classes that thrive on cruelty, control, or destruction — Shadow Knights and Necromancers above all, then Warriors, Rogues, Clerics of his dark church, and the arcane lines (Wizard, Magician, Enchanter). Paladins, Druids, Rangers, Monks, Bards, Shamans, and Beastlords cannot claim Innoruuk; their disciplines are doctrinally incompatible with him. The Cleric who serves Innoruuk is not a healer in the conventional sense — they are an inquisitor and a wound-magician, sustaining the faithful through the discipline of pain rather than the comfort of grace.
On The Last Camp the any-race-class doctrine removes racial gates on classes — a Halfling can be a Shadow Knight, a Wood Elf can roll Necromancer — but the canonical EQ deity restrictions on class are unchanged. A Halfling Shadow Knight may still pick Innoruuk; a Halfling Paladin cannot. The deity table is the boundary that survived the racial unlock, and the canonical doctrine on which classes Innoruuk accepts is the rule that holds.
Realm and epic ties
The Plane of Hate is Innoruuk's seat and the source of one of the era's signature class-defining quests. The Shadow Knight epic 1.0, Innoruuk's Curse, is forged through service to his church and culminates in a confrontation in his plane — a quest line that names him directly and binds the wielder to his patronage whether they revere him or merely use him. Necromancers of Innoruuk find their epic, Scythe of the Shadowed Soul, similarly resonant though not directly tied to his court. The Cleric epic chain (Water Sprinkler of Nem Ankh) brings even Marr-aligned Clerics into contact with his clergy as adversaries, and the Wizard and Magician epics route through his planar precincts at multiple points.
Notable followers and quests
The Indigo Brotherhood of Neriak Third Gate are his canonical clerics, and Maestro Rytan is the most named lieutenant in his planar court. Quest lines for the Dark Elf newbie experience are saturated with his iconography — recruitment, faction, and the early Shadow Knight progression all answer to his church before the player ever leaves Nektulos. At the era cap, the Plane of Hate raid encounters with Innoruuk himself and his court are some of the most prestigious end-game accomplishments, and the dropped lore-items from those encounters seed multiple class-specific quest follow-ons.
The Last Camp-specific notes
The any-race-class doctrine creates situations canonical EQ never produced: a Wood Elf Shadow Knight under Innoruuk, a High Elf Necromancer who has chosen the god that tortured her ancestors. The Last Camp permits these characters; the deity restriction holds, but the racial origin doesn't gate the deity. Expect faction starts to be hostile in most of Faydwer and Tunarian territory regardless of how the character was born — Innoruuk's mark on the soul is what NPCs read, and the racial faction is the secondary signal.