Domains: Glorious combat, sacrificial fury, the spiked rite-armor.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion. Cohort: current. Trømgodd rose during the endless Nashua war, when the Strømgodden battle-rite hardened into a religion that did not require victory and rejected the possibility of survival as a goal.
Worshipped by: The Strømgodden, and no other clan. The cult is hermetic. A Strømgodden does not invite outsiders to the rite, and an outsider who put on the rite-armor uninvited would be killed before they reached the field, by Strømgodden hands, for the offense of asking the patron to witness a charge that was not his to bless. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
The rite-armor is spiked inward as well as outward. This is famously understood, not misunderstood. The wounds the armor inflicts on its wearer in the act of the charge, driven by the wearer's own running motion into their own ribs and thighs, are the worship-currency. Trømgodd is the witness who counts those wounds. An enemy killed by the spike's outward face is incidental. The armor that comes back stained on the outside only has done a half-rite. A Strømgodden who finishes the charge upright and unimpaled has either been lifted by the patron, which is the rare blessing, or refused the rite, which is the common failure.
He is not Qoponatai. Qoponatai is the medic-warrior strength-investment, broadly cross-cultural, the patron who keeps a soldier alive long enough to do another job. Trømgodd does not invest. He extracts. A Strømgodden goes into the charge expecting not to come out, and the patron's job is to remember the wounds in the order they were taken, not to spare them. He is not Drømgar either. Drømgar witnesses the door that does not open; Trømgodd witnesses the body that does not stop. The two patrons would never share a worshipper. The Dern think the Strømgodden have gone mad in a specifically religious way. The Strømgodden think the Dern have settled, in the worst sense of the word.
The endless Nashua war is a sacred offering kept open on purpose. A peace would be a renunciation. The patron requires the war, and the Strømgodden provide it, and the priesthood inspects the returning armor for the count.