God/Patron of Monsters

[Adamaro]

Is there one and which one in d&d cosmology?

tnx

[hamishspence]

There are tons of gods of monsters- but no one "God of All Monsters"

[Adamaro]

I only know Tiamat as "patron of dragons".

[FelixG]

KURTULMAK is the god of Kobolds :P

[hamishspence]

Dig around for "monster deities" and you'll find deities for nearly every monster that has any kind of society.

Some are shared (Vaprak, for example, is a god of both trolls and ogres, Eadro is a god of both merfolk and locathahs.)

[Aroka]

Faiths and Pantheons has a full-page list toward the back, after all the in-depth descriptions, with deities of various giants, of ogres, etc. Several are technically demon princes and dukes of hell and such, but are treated as deities in FR.

Edit: Also, what D&D cosmology are you talking about? The default 3.5 (Gruumsh, Kurtulmak, Tiamat, Maglubiyet, etc. etc.)? 4E? Eberron? Forgotten Realms? Dragonlance? And what combination of setting and edition? The answers are different for each combination...

[Tiki Snakes]

Well, there is a King of All Monsters. I suppose if He ascended...

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/Bioness/godzilla.jpg

[Aroka]

There's an old Dragon mag with rules for creating kaiu.

[afroakuma]

For a general deity endorsing monsters and beasts, Erythnul's likely the best bet in the standard D&D cosmology. Otherwise, as noted, virtually every monster has representation.

[Saya]

Here are a few, not sure how accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_deities#Monster_deiti es

[rojomoke]

Pathfinder has Lamashtu (http://pathfinder.wikia.com/wiki/Lamashtu)

[Devils_Advocate]

"Monsters" in what sense? In 3.5 (dunno 'bout other editions), "monster" and "creature" are synonyms that simply refer to things with Wisdom and Charisma scores. All living things, and all undead things, and all constructs, for that matter, are "monsters".

In other contexts, the term might mean something more specific. I think that "monsters" may have all been the unique offspring/creations of the gods in Greek mythology, for example, although don't quote me on that. In the rules of D&D 3.5, though, the term is pretty generic.

In-character, "monster" probably means "dangerous creature" or "horrifying creature" or possibly "racial enemy of mine" (all of which are relative, of course). In any case, it seems questionable whether characters in D&D would have any reason to consider e.g. owlbears but not lions "monsters". We might distinguish owlbears as fictional, but obviously someone living in a world that has owlbears isn't going to do that.

On the other hand, many of the things in the Monster Manual are considerably more likely to attack humans than any of the animals imported from real life, and certainly might be distinguished as "monsters" on that basis.

In OotS, perhaps the Dark One seeks, in the long term, to guide and protect "disenfranchised humanoids" (and not just in the weird creature type sense of the term, apparently) in general, and not just goblinoids in particular? Seeing as Gobtopia is welcoming such individuals (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0702.html), it seems like he kind of is on their side in the general scheme of things. Maybe he'd like to help ascend some heroes of these other races to form a whole new pantheon with him? Just random speculation, there, but that seems like it would be neat.