Bottom-Up Pantheon & Setting Game

[Jendekit]

Page 3, YAY! Also, potential prestige class introduced in this post...MORE YAY!

Marzarok, the Black Fire

Appearance: The youngest godly son of Galnarian, Marzarok, according to Vakparellna, resembles his father. Everyone else believes that the ogre blood in his veins ended up affecting his appearance most strongly; but like Galnarian, Marzarok possesses seven eyes (Marzarok's are an onyx black whereas his father's are a poison green). Marzarok's body is constantly wreathed in black flames that will melt all but the most powerfully enchanted items, hence his title.

Domain: Rage

Parents: Galnarian and an ogress...Galnarian claims to have been blacked out drunk at the time.

Personality: Marzarok is an even simpler individual than his father. He is always angry. He is more a rabid animal than a thinking entity.

Relations: The only god that ever spends any amount of time with Marzarok is his father, Galnarian, due to the fact that at least some part of whatever Marzarok has that passes as a mind recognizes him as kin. Even then, Galnarian treats him more as a war beast to be sent after enemies than a son.

Mortals by and large don't worship Marzarok. The Black Fire Beserkers are the only organization that pays regular tribute, and the higher ranking members are able to call upon a tiny fraction of the flame that shrouds the God of Rage.

Sanctum: Marzarok lives and fights alongside his father and as such when not off in battle resides, ironically, within the eternal winter portion of the Wybirne.

[Mx.Silver]

Page 3, YAY! Also, potential prestige class introduced in this post...MORE YAY!

I was not under the impression that was a concern for this thread. In fact I wasn't under the impression this was meant to be for a particular set of game rules at all.

[Jendekit]

Neither was I, I was just in a silly mood when I typed that.

[mystic1110]

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A List of Common Domains/Concepts (a lot of which have not been used), Just to get the juices going http://home.comcast.net/~ftm3/ASMoNM/domains.html

[Jendekit]

Yemeth, the Worms that Walk

Appearance: Yemeth is just as disgusting as his title suggests, a writhing mass of worms, maggots, leaches, and other such things in a rough humanoid shape. Most frequently he dons a nondescript cloak and a snow white, porcelain mask lacking in any features.

Domains: Worm-forms and Loneliness

Personality: Yemeth is often remembered as a trickster beyond compare. His ability to be smashed apart and still survive no matter how brutal the beating meant that most gods were more willing to put up with his antics than they would have otherwise. That changed with the death of Orlus. Now, Yemeth is simply tired. He has been fleeing for his life for almost as long as he can remember, he can scarcely remember the last time he played a prank, and his form makes it impossible for him to hide amongst mortals. More than once he has considered seeking out the demon gods to see if there would be a place for him there, but for reasons unknown even to himself, he hasn't.

Parents: It is said that the first worms in the seas eventually merged into Yemeth, but either way Yemeth has neither confirmed nor denied the story.

Relationships: Yemeth is deeply hated and despised by all of Doskrates's brood. Seeing as how they are among the most powerful of the gods, this poses a bit of a problem as far as Yemeth is concerned. They have tried on multiple occasions to kill him in the past, going as far back as Orlius in his prime. Each and every time, Yemeth has burst apart into the individual worm-forms that make up his body, and as long as a single one lives he can reconstitute himself from mundane worm-forms. Though he vehemently denies it, a large amount of the blame for the death of Orlius has been placed on Yemeth. Despite his claims to the contrary, the current theory is that the last time that Orlius smashed Yemeth to pieces, a portion of Yemeth found its way into Orlius where it gained independence from Yemeth as the parasitical tapeworm Thuxdatog.

Yemeth is not actively worshiped among mortals. When a mortal is buried after death, an offering is typically made to Yemeth by the deceased's loved ones to swiftly render the deceased's remain unusable by necromancers but otherwise he is ignored.

Sanctum: Yemeth is a god on the run. With so many gods seeking his permanent death, he cannot afford to stay in one place, and as such he has no sanctum after his home in the eternal summer portion of Wybirne was destroyed shortly after the death of Orlus.

[mystic1110]

I'll be gone till March 10th. Please don't think this game is dead - I'll be back

[FallenGeek]

Jendekit: It looks like Yemeth is Thuxdatog's parent (indirectly at least), so he should have a second domain as well.

After Vronto begetted Gavrem with the newly divorced Malladar, Skorghus made sure to get his revenge. He seduced Vronto's mom.

Name: Luchanoori

Appearance: Luchanoori is a beautiful winged, centaur stallion. His horse half is roan, his four wings are the copper shades of a red-tailed hawk (a pair from his humanoid back and the other from his horseback), his human torso is pale alabaster. He has blonde hair, violet eyes, and elfin ears. He carries a longbow at all times.

Domains: Archery

Personality: Luchanoori is very calm and focused, always concentrating on his target.

Relationship with mortals: Luchanoori is primarily worshiped by elves and centaurs, but archers of all races pay him at least lip service. His most fervent worshipers are the Order of the Bow, an elite group of archers across all race lines devoted to the mastery of the craft.

Parents: Vakparellna and Skorghus

Sanctum: Luchanoori lives in the eternal spring of Wybirne with his mother.

[Mx.Silver]

Really liking Yemeth, I must say.



Name: Ix'Killas, Prince of Alumaria

Appearance: Like the rest of the divine royalty Ix'Killas has four faces and six arms. Also like the rest of the divine royalty Ix'Killas only wears purple robes and amethyst jewelry.

Domains: Engineering, Masonry, Construction

Personality: Ix'Killas is a stoic, laconic deity, more so than he was in the past since Eridel's conception. He cares for little save his work, and is by far the most reclusive of the Divine Royalty, although his sense of duty to the family's policies remains unwavering.

Relationships: Although he receives no individual credit, Ix'Killas' exploits have done a great deal to endear the Divine Royalty to the more civilised inhabitants of Alumaria. He was, after all, the god who created the first causways - the gigantic network of bridges linking the upper slopes of Alumaria's myriad mountains, thereby enabling travel between the peaks without setting foot into the gloom-laden valleys that lie shrouded below the night-mists. Not that the lack of acknowledgement for this bothers him much.

He sees little of the other gods outside of the family, although there is some mutual respect between him and Jagyn, as one craftsman to another. He does hold a special loathing for the Demon Gods, having never forgiven the clan for the actions of Kiarare, and is not particularly well-liked by the clan in return.

Parents: His parents are Ix'Naranth and Ix'Teshal who are again brother and sister

Sanctum: Like the rest of the Divine Royalty his residence and Sanctum is in the vast halls of the First Citadel located on the top of the tallest mountain on the plane of Alumaria.

[Adam1949]

I like the idea of both Thuxdatog and Yemeth, but by the looks of it their isn't a feminine part of their legend. I want to fix that with a goddess that might fit!

Okarus, the Accursed Maiden

Appearance: When encountered in the mortal realm, people are often surprised to see that Okarus looks practically mundane; a blonde girl of pre-teen appearance, with a wide-brimmed hat and a purple dress. Her eyes, however, are grey and always filled with a sort of twinkling, hinting at her agelessness. She has shapeshifting abilities, and may take the form of a mature woman, a white snake, or a green frog (the latter two any size from normal to house-dwarfing).

Domains: Curses, Snakes, and Frogs.

Personality: Okarus is a whimsical and capricious goddess, who does things as they amuse her. It is not uncommon for her to twist requests in ways that their makers did not intend, for good and for ill; a man who wishes to end the plague on his crops may find them all burned down (no more plague), or might find that the 'plague' is actually a highly-potent medicine which can be harvested at a faster and more lucrative rate than his original crops.

Relationship with Mortals: Mortals who worship Okarus traditionally do so out of fear or tradition, not love. She is well-known to be a wild goddess who hands out blessings and curses at her leisure whether or not she has been prayed to. She asks for no sacrifices, although she does request that both snakes and frogs are left alone when encountered; the latter she may choose to elevate into her divine agents, while the latter is traditionally believed to be her favorite snack.

Relationships with the Other Gods: One popular myth states that a snake-servant who angered Okarus was cursed to lose his eyes and his teeth, before having his skull caved in by her mighty staff. The fallen serpent lived on, and became the first portion of the god now called Yemeth. Whether this is true of not is unknown.
The Accursed Maiden has a certain measure of respect for Thuxdatog, seeing it as the natural end to all cursing, and finding its similarity in appearance to her own minions as hilarious. She is one of the few gods who refuses to harm or even use The Beast, instead claiming that she has allowed it to escape from Galnarian. As such, she is not regarded kindly by that god. She holds special contempt for one of Galnarian's children, Winter, by virtue of him freezing and eating her frogs and snakes (both of which she eats herself; it's the semantics of the act, not the actual act itself, that angers her).

Parents: The deities Maglor and Vianileth (thus making her half-sister to Vestryxis).

Sanctum: Okarus lives in the mortal realm, in a lake known as the Darklife Pit. The lake's bottom is so deep that the whole thing appears black as night. It is said that she resides there, although she travels the world often for her own amusement.

[Mx.Silver]

Parents: The deities Maglor and Vianileth (thus making her half-sister to Vestryxis)

And not demonic. Which would mean that Maglor probably isn't either. Which means that Vestryxis' demonic parent would have to be...


Name: Gure, the Whispering One

Appearance: The most striking about Gure's appearance, beyond the usual elongated multi-jointed limbs typical of Azmoros' descendants, is how emaciated she seems. Even the three horns sprouting from her face are thin and spindly, while her serpent-like tail seldom moves, seeming to be as lifeless as her dull, tangled hair. The only part of her which does not seem frail and lifeless are her eye, which save for her pupils are solid blue, which are constantly active, staring at sights few can see.
Her robes are dull grey and rather tattered, especially around the sleeves.

Domains: Visions, Prophecy, Madness

Personality: What an insane demon would actually look like is difficult for mortals to answer, since to mortals most normal demons appear fairly mad to begin with. This is not too surprising, demons are, after all, born from the emotions of mortal dreamers and as such tend not to be particularly stable or rational - even those who stem from the less destructive side of the emotional spectrum. While the Demon gods tend to be rather more rational, most of the time, the fact that they live surrounded by demons - creatures that will reincarnate if killed in Mezzethera and to whom death is usually a temporary inconvenience - on a plane where there is very little in the way of lasting consequence does create something of a gulf between their standards of behaviour and what the residents of the other five planes would consider normal.

Most would therefore assume that Gure would be uncontrollably wild and chaotic, an unstable danger to everything around her. The reality however is rather different.
Gure rarely even moves, and seldom seems to react to external stimuli. Most of the time the only sign she is even alive are her constantly roving eyes and the never-ending whispered monologue she constantly chants; a maddeningly incomprehensible mixture of descriptions and predictions mixed with thousands of conversations, all spoken in a myriad different languages.
The root of the problem is not that she isn't aware of her surroundings, but rather the reverse for Gure sees and hears almost everything. Before her eyes stretch possible futures and impossible futures; things that might, will, won't, did and did not happen flowing around her eyes and ears. Her constant stream of whispers are her attempt to make sense of this, to sort and filter the relevant visions from the unimportant ones, from which she can then try to steer events in a better direction.
Her biggest difficulty is in being able to keep a fixed picture of what is going in the present immediately around her. Physical contact can help, but her physical weakness and frailty makes initiating this difficult.

On the rare occasions she is able to focus herself on the present, she displays a very sharp mind indeed, although her inability to communicate verbally can make this difficult to tell. She also seems particularly fond of games of chance, although given the ridiculous advantage her abilities grant her few entities indeed would want to play against her long. She does also seem to have some ability to push visions towards mortal minds, and her influence manifests itself, although what end her seemingly arbitrary grants of visions and madness are meant to bring about (if indeed they are meant to) seems a mystery.

Relationships: Although not much worshiped in the conventional sense, given her lack of direct interaction with most mortal entities, Gure does possess a fair mortal following of a kind. While most mortal auguries keep to Skorghus and the other relevant descendants of Doskrates (such as Malladar), for those who truly desire oracular predictions, or the knowledge to alter or bring about the future, Gure is the deity who can best answer them. Of course, this is by no means the safe option; many who stumble into Gure's visions are driven mad - and even those who are trained for it can still lose the minds to the stream of possibles, and as a consequence prayers to her tend to be strongly discouraged. Nonetheless, there are still those willing to take the risk.
Most demons regard her with a small degree of fear, uncertain of how to deal with her seemingly inert behaviour. Nonetheless, a fair number - mostly demons of anticipation and surprise - do attend to her needs, such as they are. Or at least try to keep an eye on her.

Gure's relationships with the other gods are not particularly numerous. Outside of the other Demon Gods she is mostly known of by reputation, rather than any direct acquaintance. One of the few exceptions to this is Maglor, who, not realising quite who she was, once made the mistake of agreeing to a game of senate - with his fathering of Vestryxis being the price for his loss - although he has had little to do with her since. There is persistent speculation within the halls of the Divine Council that Gure is constantly engaged in some sort of long term contest or other battle of wills with Malladar, although neither goddess has ever confirmed this.

The other demon gods usually try to keep an eye on her from time-to-time, the role frequently falling to her 'sister' Liluar or one of the latter's children. Usually this doesn't involve much, but on the rare occasions the Gure is both lucid enough and able to communicate information the other demon god's will listen and listen very closely.

If any deity can be said to fallen on her enemy it is Eridel. For Gure knows that if the demon gods ever wish to ascend to an equal standing with the other deities, particularly the Divine Royalty, Kiarare's essense must be reincarnated and that this cannot happen while the Outcast Lord is at large and alive.

Parents: Gure was created by Azmoros, somewhat unintentionally as was the case for all her generation of the clan. She was drawn from the Azmoros' anxieties and uncertainty at her predicament, and given form by her breath as it crystalised on the surface of the Wandering White, the traveling sea of doubts and predictions.

Sanctum: The Tomorrow Shore, a largely featureless floating sandbar slowly orbiting within sight of the Great Maelstrom on the plane of Mezzethera. The shore is largely featureless save for a small single-roomed hut made of the same silver sand, in which Gure spends most of her time sitting.

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The idea I'm sort of going for here, if it wasn't clear, is that demons aren't necessarily 'evil' (as I'm not really sure some cosmic good-evil divide really works for this setting), so much as they are just different and potentially dangerous. Not to say that there aren't really nasty demons out there mind you, just that they aren't the usual army of darkness.

[Storm_Of_Snow]

Mind if I join in?

Name: Merila
Title: Goddess of rain
Appearance: Young human girl, with raven black hair and bright blue eyes. Usually depicted wearing a long grey dress, which is sometimes depicted as tattered on the edges.
Domain: Rain
Personality: Flighty, can be provoked into huge rages, but can also be tender and caring. Has many siblings (both full and half, with the goddesses of the land and the air), each responsible for a different aspect of weather. All are constantly vying with each other for dominance.
Worshippers: No regular worshippers, although farmers make devotion to her for their crops, whilst sailors do so in parallel with her mother for safe voyages.
Parents: Father is Halithan, god of nature, and her mother is Solma, goddess of the sea.
Domicile: The Tempest Palace located on the Elemental plane of Water.

[Mx.Silver]

Mind if I join in?

Not at all, although you may want to check some of the thread first (stuff marked as setting discussion is helpful - I may try to get a rough setting guide up and running shortly, unless someone else wants to take a stab at it), as the setting has a developed a few features that may need to be kept in mind. For instance: there is no 'elemental plane of water', in fact 'elements' don't really play a function here, things divide along seasonal lines instead.

Also, it's not considered great form to declare what sort of domains your deity's parents have in the post - helps to leave it open in case someone else has an idea.

[Adam1949]

In addition to what Mr. Sliver stated, another tip: try connecting your deity to a pre-existing one, if at all possible. Perhaps Merila is the daughter of a different deity who already has 2 portfolios? Maybe she's got a rivalry with Winter for being a jerk?

[Balyano]

In the vein of what Adam1949 said:

Idourn is the sky god, has the rain domain, and is described as having fathered several other deities with the rain domain. Thasara is the goddess of the ocean. It might make sense to have them as her parents.

Since we don't have a plane of water perhaps she lives in the spring region of Wybirne, after all there is a lot of rain in the spring time. Or perhaps a summer realm? If her primary worship is for farming she might be the goddess of summer rains. Or maybe spring rains after all depending on the area being farmed. After all spring rains bring floods and in some parts of the world that means farmable silt deposits, but in others that means flash floods and danger. Could have a villa in each both realms.

[Storm_Of_Snow]

Fair enough, I just had the idea that all weather would be a subset of the domains of a nature deity rather than the combination of two "elemental" ones, and other natural phenomena, such as sand/dust storms and maybe even earthquakes could be included in that "weather" domain as other minor deities (for instance, whilst Merila's a rain goddess, there could also be a storm god, even though they'd theoretically overlap). And whilst a deity might be a lower tier simply through their single domain being quite narrow or inconsequential to mortals, their parents could well be much higher tiers (for example, a nature god might be tier 3, possibly even tier 4).

Also, her parents could have those titles, rather than them being specifically their domains. But, to be honest, the longer the thread goes, the more difficult it's going to be to keep things like that in line with each other (I had a look at the list in the first post, and there's already three gods who have aspects of money in their domains - King Ausreks III - money, Thasara - wealth and Celeberse - inheritance).

Maybe just suggesting the relevant domains of their parents would be a better way to go (which could say allow for, say, the child of a god of wealth to rebel from them and champion the dispossessed, rather than having the dispossessed as their domain and being the child of a godess of charity), and the names could be filled in later.

Anyway, version 2:
Name: Merila
Title: Goddess of rain
Appearance: Young human girl, with raven black hair and bright blue eyes. Usually depicted wearing a long grey dress, which is sometimes depicted as tattered on the edges.
Domain: Rain
Personality: Flighty, can be provoked into huge rages, but can also be tender and caring. Has many siblings (both full and half, with the goddesses of the land and the air), each responsible for a different aspect of weather. All are constantly vying with each other for dominance, other deities tend to leave them to it.
Worshippers: No regular worshippers, although farmers make devotion to her for their crops, whilst sailors do so in parallel with her mother for safe voyages.
Parents: Idourn and Thasara.
Domicile: The Tempest Palace, a palace with walls made of constantly flowing water that restructures itself according to Merila's moods, and a small plane in it's own right.

BTW, there's no truth in the rumour that her holy days are British bank holidays, or the third day of any Cricket test match.

[FallenGeek]

Name: Ix’Tirenuia, Champion of the Chaste

Appearance: Like the rest of the divine royalty Ix'Tirenuia has four faces and six arms. Also like the rest of the divine royalty Ix'Tirenuia only wears purple robes and amethyst jewelry; of particular, note is her silver and amethyst tiara.

Domains: Courtly Love

Personality: Ix'Tirenuia has a sugar-and-ice personality; she is all icy regarding her husband and her family, but has a sweet personality to the other gods.

Relationship with mortals: Ix'Tirenuia is a stern goddess with many rules for her followers, and since her doctrines hold sway among all worshipers of the Divine Royalty, she has many. She demands her adherents to forswear all erotic love and to punish and discriminate against fornicators, especially prostitutes. Her more zealous clergy attacks brothels and have recently begun a holy war against Lithus's followers.

Relationships with other Gods: She and Ix'Maerth are married, but it is certainly a cold, mechanical marriage with them living in separate wings of the First Citadel. Her family has angered her by forcing her to marry her twin brother, even if it is the family tradition. She has fended off the advances of numerous gods, but has been having an affair of the heart, if not the body, with Byrahn ever since Lithus gave birth to Ix'Maerth's child. Ix'Tirenuia has sworn vengeance upon Lithus for the affair and has taken the first action in what will certainly be an eternal conflict(see above).

Parents: Ix'Tirenuia's parents are Ix'Obynxis and Ix'Jilan

Sanctum: Like the rest of the Divine Royalty, her residence and Sanctum is in the vast halls of the First Citadel located on the top of the tallest mountain on the plane of Alumaria.

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I felt that the world needed some more structured religion, especially with a grouping such as the Divine Royalty. I would presume that there are other gods that are worshiped as a grouping (Rilari and her sisters?)as well.

[mystic1110]

Back!!! Updated the first chart

Can anyone provide a setting summary since I left.

And I will begin posting new gods myself later today

[FallenGeek]

Name: Ix’Jilan, Princess of Alumaria

Appearance: Like the rest of the divine royalty Ix'Jilan has four faces and six arms. Also like the rest of the divine royalty Ix’Jilan only wears purple robes and amethyst jewelry.

Domains: Justice and Tradition

Personality: Ix’Jilan does not like change. Things were done a certain way because they worked and must continue because that is how it is done. Any gods or mortals that wish to break from any tradition must be punished, a desire that is causing conflict in her loving marriage to her brother-husband, Ix’Obynxis.

Relationship with mortals: The second youngest princess of Alumaria has several temples in large cities across Teraste, with her primary worshippers being the city guard. Those found guilty of capital crimes are her preferred sacrifice – the guilty, after being killed with a silver knife, are burned upon a pyre of jacaranda, but those guilty of gross breaks of tradition are burnt alive. It is her influence upon the empire of Ixth that has kept the tradition of expansion from fading – any leader that does not maintain the tradition is burned alive by her priests.

Relationships with other Gods: While Ix’Obynixis is the judge and executioner of the gods, Ix’Jilan is the prosecutor; for that, Ix’Jilan is feared and respected by the other deities. She spends much of her time hunting Gavrem and Eridel.

Parents: Ix’Jilan's parents are Ix'Killas and Ix'Belfia

Sanctum: Like the rest of the Divine Royalty, her residence and Sanctum is in the vast halls of the First Citadel located on the top of the tallest mountain on the plane of Alumaria.

[mystic1110]

Name: Federatisto, The King of Many Islands
Domains: Volcanoes, Sacrifice, Shores
Appearance: Federatisto appears as a dark humanoid - large and muscular, he is one of the most mortal looking gods - that is viewed from afar. Up close he has red eyes composed of live embers and he gives off immense heat - if he steps into the ocean his heat is so intense that not one drop of water will touch it - the ocean will evaporate and sheild him thanks to the Leidenfrost effect.
Personality : Federatisto is an angry god. He is misogynistic and abusive. He is lustful and easily prone to wrath. He is not the most admirable of the divine. He is also an isolationist God, never appearing at the Divine Council, content to stay on the mortal realm with his Harem. However he has some power within divine society due to his domain of sacrifice, through which much of mortal worship is conducted by, and his service towards Ix'Killas. The two gods don't really talk to each other and no one knows why Federatisto has been so loyal to the royal or why the royal trusts the other god as much as he does.
Relationship with Mortals: Most other gods don't really have an interaction with Federatisto - Thasara doesn't talk to her father, and not only does he not care about his daughter, the sea itself rejects him. Mortals that live near shores and beaches pay him homage and of course sacrifice virgins to him every year, same with mortals that live near volcanoes. Mortals that pray to other gods invoke Federatisto's name when making a sacrifice, but they do so only as a formality.
Parents: Papilsi and Fisylaka
Sanctum:Federatisto lives inside a palace of brass located within Mount Gorlati, the largest volcano in the mortal realm. The island on which the volcano is located on, is the center of the largest archipelago on the mortal realm, composed of a myriad of thousands of Islands. The people on each island are extremely varied, and culturally distinct. However they share two things in common - they are all isolationist, doing very little trade with even the other islands, and they sacrifice one preteen daughter to Federatisto each year. The festival is a time honored one - young girls even compete to be chosen to be the Fire Lord's Bride. They are boated to Mount Gorlati and throne into the volcano - once they are burned alive, they are reborn as one of Federatisto's immense harem (and growing) in his brass palace.

[Balyano]

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Originally posted this one incomplete, finally got time to finish it.

Summer

Appearance: Summer is an enormous eagle with iridescent feathers of every color that can be imagined by mortal mind, and a few that can't.

Personality: Summer is stern and protective. He doesn't enjoy change and thinks the world would be better if just kept in (to his mind) it's perfect state. Of course things are not in their perfect state yet, no Winter keeps ruining things, Spring keeps changing the playing field, and Autumn keeps stealing everything. There was a time when he tried to set things right and bring the eternal summer, but now he has found himself in a rut of sorts. For his resistance to change things has him just repeat the same cycle of destruction, growth, preservation, and harvest with the other three seasons, year in and year out.

Domain: Summer

Relationships: Summer shares correspondence with Ix'Jilan and Ix'Obynxis, fellow preservers of society, Naru, his fellow protector, and with Latha and Luthu whos philosophy of cooperation helps fight entropy. During his reign he works with Vakparellna, Isoldril, Merila, Idourn, and his other children to ensure the mortal realm is well fed and prepared for the hardship to come.

Mortals pray to Summer for a longer growing season, to preserve all that is right in the world, and to reveal deception. A great many knights bear his mark and take him as a symbol of the battle against chaos and dishonor.

Parents: Skorghus and Yuyevris

Sanctum: The Eagle's Nest rests atop the highest branches of the tallest tree in the summer region. The nest is a fortress in its own right, woven from entangled vines covered in razor sharp thorns, with large sharpened stakes thrust out in every direction, and filled with biting and stinging insect soldiers, access to the nest is all but impossible. From beneath only those small as an ant can squeeze through the maze of tangled razors, but any climbers must contend with the guardian ants. From above towers of locust thorns are connected by near invisible webs of sticky silk and garrisoned by nests of hornets of every size. The only sure way to enter the nest is in the talons of the eagle himself.


Spring

Appearance: Spring is a sentient swarm of honey bees miles across. On the few occasions that she has taken to the air in the mortal realm her living cloud has brought the darkness of night to the day. Luckily she is content to spend her time in the springtime realm.

Personality: Spring loves to bring out the potential in any and every thing. Everything has something it was, something it is, and something it could be, and spring sees it as her job, and passion, to help them along to becoming what the should be next. Sometimes she can see the underlying destiny of the person, creature, or object in question, but usually she just pushes things along and observes what grows from it.

Domain: Spring

Relationships: Though the rough time of their reigns are set, Spring must battle Winter back each year to ensure that Isoldril can help the mortals with their sowing of seeds. When Winter is beaten back she spends her days dancing in Merila and Idourns rains, listening to the songs Seredan put in birds Skorghus sent her and watching in wonder as Rilari paints Vakparellnas flowers. When her time to rule the year is over Spring enjoys the company of Ix'Killas, Karvak, Jagyn, Papyra, Seredan, and Rilari as she never grows tired of their creations.

Mortals worship Spring as an inspirer, ender of hardship, and blesser of new ventures. Prayers to her often ask for aid in reaching ones potential or for an ending of hardship.

Parents: Spring was spawned by drops of Cassabiels blood that struck the earth during the Battle of Fallen Stars.

Sanctum: Springs sanctum in Wybirne could at first be mistaken as a mountain, indeed trees have long taken root on its slopes, but in reality the vegetations hides a bee hive miles across and nearly a mile tall.


Autumn

Appearance: Autumn takes the form of a humble pack rat with red, orange, brown, and yellow splotched fur that resembles fallen leaves. Though her exact size changeable at a whim, she rarely takes a form larger than is necessary for her to collect her treasures.

Personality: Autumn is a hoarder by nature, always collecting things. She possesses at least twelve of everything, just in case she should ever find need of them. She believes in always being prepared for any situation and in the hard work that is often required to obtain the resources necessary to do so. Her habit of ''harvesting'' things that others see as their own has sometime brought her into conflict with the other gods, some see her as a kleptomaniac, others as an eccentric survivalist, and a few have found out the hard way that the last thing one should try to do is take from her what she has collected.

Domain: Autumn

Relationships: Most of the gods don't hate Autumn, but they are weary when she is about as she tends to collect anything that isn't nailed down. Ausreks and Thasara refuse her entry to their homes at all times. Isodril and Caseus are on better terms with her since she shares interest in the harvest and preservation of food stores. For her part she doesn't actually hate any of the other gods...except Winter....and Galnarian, but those two deserve it, they ruin crops with their frosts.

Mortals gives prayers to Autumn in the fall, asking her to fight harder against Winter, the longer she holds him off the better off they are. Early frosts that ruin harvests are seen as a sign that not enough encouragement and sacrifice was sent to her.

Parents: Isoldril and Vakparellna

Sanctum: The Grand Midden is massive collection of sticks, straw, logs, and scavenged lumber built into a massive rock cavern in a canyon in the land of harvest. Inside the twisting passages and tunnels, half stone, half plant material, countless collections of all sorts can be found, some neatly arrayed, but most a chaotic mess, though Autumn knows the location of every object in her collection, as well as when something has been taken.

[Mx.Silver]

@Balyano: Summer's parentage doesn't quite work, since both the gods you've listed have 3 domains but he only has 1, and neither of them have ever 'moved-up' from having 2 domains. One or both the parents should probably be swapped (note that if you're worried about crowding, I would note that we don't actually have that many 2-domainers, so throwing in a new probably won't hurt).



I'll have another god to add shortly, after that I'll try and get some sort of guide to the planes up and running.

[Balyano]

@Balyano: Summer's parentage doesn't quite work, since both the gods you've listed have 3 domains but he only has 1, and neither of them have ever 'moved-up' from having 2 domains. One or both the parents should probably be swapped (note that if you're worried about crowding, I would note that we don't actually have that many 2-domainers, so throwing in a new probably won't hurt).

As I said in the post I got called away while typing it so it's not in the finished stage. Haven't had time to finish them yet.

[Jendekit]

First new god after the website update! By the way Mystic, the list of gods on the first page is missing.

Velnias, the Prince of Pain

Appearance: Velnias most frequently appears as a human male, black of hair with sapphire blue eyes, with a dignified, noble air about him. An even six foot, he typically dresses in sombre clothes not out of place in a noble's court.

Domains: Torture

Personality: Velnias, despite his domain and title, is not a sadistic individual. He treats torture as his job, and he is a consummate professional. For him, it is never personal and he refuses to let his emotions affect his work. His brother Esu found that out the hard way when, to test each of their resolves, Ordog told Esu a secret to be taken to his grave and then ordered Velnias to torture the secret out of Esu. To this day, Esu has kept silent of the secret and Velnias continues to try to get the secret out of his brother.

Relationships: Velnias is not worshiped by mortals, so much as is is respected or feared. He does not care for prayers, and instead acts as an instructor. He sees his role as to teach his craft to any that wish to learn. Among the gods, his role is slightly different. With Ordog the information broker amongst the gods, Velnias and his siblings are seen as little more than Ordog's henchmen (not an incorrect assessment) and are only sought out if Ordog is needed.

Parents: The circumstances of the birth of Velnias and his siblings Esu the Lord of Secrets, Djavulen Maiden of the Dark, and Ibliisku Lord of Lies are unknown, but what is known is that all four are the children of a mortal mother and Ordog the Keeper of Knowledge

Sanctum: Velnias and his siblings live with their father in his fortress in Subere.

[mystic1110]

I have to make a whole new list . . . my. . . gods. . .

[Jendekit]

I have to make a whole new list . . . my. . . gods. . .

...pun intended?

[mystic1110]

glad someone noticed .

I'll try to get a new table up on Friday, and hopefulyl have a new god up by then.

[Mx.Silver]

A new god, you say?


Name: Ankorial, Archangel of Death; The White Reaper; The Messenger of Souls; The Beating Wings that Herald the Last Light and the Final Breath

Appearance: Aside from her apparent possession of a physical sex, Ankorial mostly resembles her charges, the angels. A tall humanoid in form, with sallow leathery skin and two pairs of silvery-grey wings, each with an eye located at the carpal joint. As with the angels, she has no real face, the front of her head merely being an ivory contoured suggestion of where a face should be. Few see this however, as it is usually hidden behind a white veil, the same colour as the robes she wears.

Domains: Psychopomps

Personality: Stoic and laconic, Ankorial displays little strong emotion, save for a sense of pride and importance of the work and duties of her and her angels: escorting the souls of deceased mortals to The Dragon's Keep for judgement. She devotes a great deal of her time to this, with little concern for other trivialities.
That at least is how she would like to be viewed.

More astute observers however would soon pick-up on her subtle, but nonetheless severe, arrogance and her unspoken but strong desire to be treated with as much importance as she feels she deserves. Judging by the way she presents herself and the mortal depictions of her she favours, this seems to be a great deal of importance indeed.
Her work ethic seems also to be influenced by a desire to set herself apart from the other gods, most of whom she quietly regards as being lazy, self-serving hedonists who don't deserve the amount of worship and status they get. Her supposed 'refusal to compromise her duties' is also at times indistinguishable from being a passive-aggressive jobsworth.

Relationships: Given her general perception of the other gods, Ankorial has few divine friends, outside of her immediate family - although she does hold Zokaheesi in some respect. Most she simply regards with detached disdain, but not outright enmity - although her refusal to provide angelic support in the case of necromancy, under the reasoning that an angel's role is to deal with the dead living, not the living dead, has caused some annoyance in the past.
As Cassabiel's daughter, she actively hates Yuyevris and Etrioc over the former's death at the Battle of Fallen Stars. She also resents Spring since she blames the latter's 'birth' from Cassabiel's blood as the reason she did not inherit an additional domain and move up a tier.

Amongst the mortal races however Ankorial is widely worshipped, given her role in ensuring that the angels transport souls safely. She has been known to oversee the guiding of some souls personally, and as such has a fair degree of interaction with mortals - although given that any mortal seeing an angel is either dead or about to be so, these interactions aren't always positive. Generally she delegates this multi-planar task to the angels, over whom (with the exception of the Ash-Wings, who serve Malladar in maintaining The Keystone) she holds authority.

Parents: Cassabiel and Sarasa

Sanctum: The Gatehouse of The Dragon's Keep, from which she oversees the flow of arriving souls. The gate itself is comprised of four great stone arches through which the angels ferry the souls of the dead from the other planes (the Teraste arch, the largest by far, seeing the heaviest traffic, the Astral arch very little). There is no arch assigned to Mezzethera; any mortal unfortunate enough to die while physically in the plane of dreams is no longer Ankorial's concern, while demons themselves are outside the standard realm of souls to begin with. Indeed, angels seldom visit Mezzethera at all.

[moossabi]

I have a god!

Name: Irilvis
Title: Keeper, All-knower, Most omnipresent Knowledge Lord.
Appearance: Not many have gazed directly on him, but when he requires to get a point across or manipulate mortals for own purposes, he appears as a purple and black wormhole in reality.
Domains: Knowledge, Books, Magic, Gardening
Personality: Irilvis has an eternal thirst for knowledge. And not just what Joe did on the night of the 24th, but arcane secrets that can bend reality itself. However, these secrets are highly elusive, and he constantly uses mortals to achieve his own goals. During projects, he ignores others' requests for attention. But while he has free time, he is fairly sociable. Just don't start any music. He detests music. He also has a completely random talent for gardening, and anyone who tampers with his topiaries risk death.
Relationship with Mortals: Worshippers are few, but they are some of the mortal plane's top mages. They regularly run errands for him, and in return they are granted great knowledge or high-level spells to study and use as they please. If they outlive their usefulness (die), their souls are brought to Irilvis' pocket of reality within the Astral Plane to serve as record keepers or organizers of his endless library. There is no organized religion, he merely interferes with select mortals that draw his interest.
Parents: Dokrastes, Orilus, Malladar*
Sanctum: A massive Library/Palace in a far corner of the Astral Plane that can only be reached by crossing a river of oil.

*An indirect byproduct of the creation.

[mystic1110]

So . . . I sort of gave up trying to recreate the table. it was manageable when I could update it over time, but trying to do it all at once is crazy . If anyone wants to help me, I would be very grateful.

That said moossabi, great to have you on board! We need more new blood !!! I'm really happy this project is continuing as the world is still being shaped. I am thinking of trying to introduce another god faction. To summarize so far we have the divine royalty (who seem to be sort of law/civilization bases) and the demon gods (who seem to be chaos and emotion based), and a whole bunch of concentrated families (sort of revolving around nature). We have the divine council and some exiled gods or gods who are mindless monsters. maybe we need to establish a "good" and "evil" faction? Also since we have 2 gods that represent the mortal races we should probably expand into gods of elves, or gods of humans, etc.

[Jendekit]

So . . . I sort of gave up trying to recreate the table. it was manageable when I could update it over time, but trying to do it all at once is crazy . If anyone wants to help me, I would be very grateful.

Well, I've just finished typing up all of the gods on the first two pages into Excell with their domains and parents. In the first two pages we have a total of 44 gods. Now to get started on page 3.