Gods

Quick, Veeky Forums, tell me about a god from your setting. I don't care which one. I just need some good ideas to steal.

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>Ictinike the Star-Devourer

Ictinike is one of Lolth's coven (the scribe) and a member of one of the four ruling palaces of the drow gods.

She's a big oathkeeper in drow society: you can swear an oath in a temple of Ictinike supervised by one of her priestesses and then if you break the oath later shadow spiders will crawl out of the shadows around you and devour you. It's used pretty often to create reliable contracts for the drow, although some people have gotten around breaking it by living the rest of their lives in places without shadows. In general she's associated with law, writing, temporary light, commerce, insular madness and ghosts.

Sacrifices to Ictinike have this sadistic element of time where the sacrifice will be forced to make an oath and then manipulated over say, a year or decade into particularly ironic circumstances of breaking it. She prefers unwilling sacrifices for this in common with the other less militant goddesses of the coven.

Ictinike is an inherited elf god (which is why she retains some reference to astral phenomena) but seems to prefer the drow. When she's sculpted or manifests she's portrayed as a freakishly tall, elongated drow woman with spiderlike eyes and no mouth, hands or feet: her limbs all terminate in sharp points. Sometimes she's depicted as being hunchbacked or having a spiderlike abdomen.

When she needs to be manually dextrous she puppets a servant or corpse with spiderweb strings. These puppets can only communicate by gesture though, so if Ictinike or her avatar want to communicate verbally they'll impale a priestess with one spiky limb and assume direct control of her body. This is seen as a pretty great honour in her church and by no means the end of a priestess' career - a lot of the senior ranks of Ictinike's clergy are ghosts or undead who've previously been used for this ritual.

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Sol is the old God of the now destroyed Solland. Once a fertility God who's main domain was the sun, after his patron province got wiped off the map by Orc Warlord Gorbad Ironclaw he lost the vast majority of his province. Still partially worshipped in certain Wissenland villages, overall it seems that the sun has set, no more to rise.

Um... alright...

>The Great Eye

Our sun is actually the eye of a great being that watches over us all and created the world by perceiving it.

it used to be infinite and covered the entire sky, but over time shrunk until it was no more than a speck due to shamans and wizardly types trying to steal its [s]lucky charms[/s] power for themselves. As a security measure, it curses anyone who dares to gaze upon it to be blinded.

Another impact of it being shrunk down is that it can no longer perceive all at once, and needs to travel around the earth (creating the day and the night)
Whenever the Eye looks away from us, we cease to exist (as we only exist in the first place because it observes us to) until it recreates us again in the morning, just slightly differently. Therefore, according to its worshipers, time is not a straight line, rather a single day endlessly repeating itself in different ways each time.

...no I haven't worked out all the details (like what the hell the moon is supposed to be and why nobody notices the change)

>Ath'Dara
Mistress of Malformation
Queen of Corruption
Fouler of Flesh

A twisted goddess of disease and mutation, Ath'Dara is worshipped by mad alchemists, desperate victims of disease willing to trade their forms for survival, and those vengeful who would inflict curses to warp the bodies of their victims into unspeakable forms.

Her symbol is a mangy dog with boils and one leg reduced to bone, her weapon a syringe.

Pyriphlogos

An intelligent star sealed completely inside a suit of brass armour of his own making. An embodiment of greed, vengeance, power, and spiteful destruction. Ascended to the Throne of Fire by slaying the previous occupant, and thus became High House Flame's King and God.

He was tricked by Centuriel, God of High House Earth, into sitting upon a throne forged from perfected gold that he had been gifted. Overwhelmed by greed, he firmly placed himself onto the ostentatious seat and, to his fury, found it melting around him, trapping him within itself. The angrier he became, the more heat he gave off, and the harder it became to escape the prison his throne had become. In the centre of High House Flame, at the very peak of the Brass City, he still rages upon his throne to this day, never realising that if he were to just calm down, he would be able to escape with minimal effort.

My current game is set in an Alt timeline of DanMachi, so.... literally throw a dart at a board and pick one of hundreds of real-world gods.

Hestod is the name of the fourth planet in the luminous zone just before an asteroid belt known as the Broken Gate hence Hestods title as guardian of the Broken Gate. He's the patron of warriors and has a paladin order who live on the planet. He's also known as the Wounded because of a fight between him and his siblings who want to leave and explore beyond their mothers light. The ensuing battle left Hestod with s great wound and though he would be healed if he moved closer to his mothers light he refuses to abandon his post and swore never to forgive his brothers and sisters who left.

The story is part of a way for astronomers and sailors to explain celestial events they saw one being a meteor that destroyed one of its moons and impacted the planet

The Two-Faced God

He cares for thieves, backstabbers, drama fiends, pickpockets, con artists, oathbreakers, charlatans, pimps, priestly impersonators, people who make bad puns, and etc. He likes to see the lives and expectations of mortals disrupted. Mostly for his own benefit. If things are going well for you, then you want to hope that the other gods are distracting the Two-Faced God. Because if his eyes are on you, things won't keep going in the same way. Something will happen. A distant relative will die and leave you a position of power. Your larder will suddenly be infested with maggots. A random stranger will stab your favorite child in the street. All of these things and more are things that the Two-Faced God and his priesthood do to create chaos.

All of the His Deceitfulness's priesthood are required to front as any other god's clerics. The various gods turn their wrath away from these impersonators, possibly due to interference on the part of the Two-Faced God. All tribute stolen from these other gods through the impersonators' efforts is distributed among the priests of the Two-Faced God who participated in the impersonation. His Deceitfulness takes no cut, thinking that the chaos caused is sufficient tribute.

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Is she the ascended form of Yotsuba?

Cheibriados is a god of deliberation.
Those following Cheibriados travel more slowly the further they progress in their faith, and are forbidden from using any means to hasten themselves.
In the process of so imitating their god, they attain perfection of mind and body, and the mysteries of time unfold before them.
Especially devout followers may even momentarily abandon the flow of time and its needless disturbances.
Followers of Cheibriados move more slowly as they gain favour, and are rewarded for killing creatures who are faster than they are.
Moving too quickly or using magically hastened weapons is frowned upon.
Cheibriados rewards the faithful with a slowed metabolism, the power to slow other creatures, the power to distort the flow of time, the power to harm those who move more quickly than they do, and, finally, the ability to step out of the flow of time entirely.
Cheibriados likes it when you kill fast things, relative to your speed.
Cheibriados strongly dislikes it when you hasten yourself or others or use unnaturally quick items.


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The God of Shoelaces

In this new kind of world, more gods are needed but they rarely have the power they need. Even worse, mortals aren't as keen on believing anymore (and believing in generic stuff like fate doesn't count).
The god of shoelaces tries to remind the feeble humans that it exists, by untying your shoelaces. Tying it back gives it some power back, but only a minuscule amount more higher than it took to untie the shoelace in the first place. One day however, it will gain enough power to initiate the next stage of godhood. When that happens, humanity will tremble in fear when they see the power their footwear will hold. Praise Lace!

The thousand in one is the angels solution to finding the perfect definition of justice

One thousand angels gave their lives to live as a gestalt god of Justice and Balance

>Krulmad
>Known also as The Gatekeeper, The Judge, and the Eater of the Dead

Some big fuckoff dragon who killed the grim reaper and set himself up as the god of the dead.
He sorts and judges the souls of the dead, and decides where to send them if another god doesn't claim them. he judges most unworthy of any afterlife and adds them to his hoard and/or eats them

He also has a secondary domain of knowledge, and is attempting to get a monopoly on necromancy, so that even more souls can be his.

He promises to show his most devout followers how the world truly is. Most of his high priesthood is blind now.

>Hiyouk, the Tunneler
>Goddess of earth and stone, the underworld, life, and death

Hiyouk is an incredibly shy and timid goddess with a habit of delving into the earth for privacy. She loves tunneling and exploring the depths of the earth, and eventually in her digging she stumbled across the underworld, which had been forgotten after the demise of the old gods but still exerted a draw on the souls of the departed. With the old gods gone, the underworld had begun to deteriorate, much to the detriment of the souls dwelling there. In compassion, Hiyouk took on the maintenance of the underworld herself, and therefore also enforcing the laws of life and death.

Opposed by Sinac, god of impatience.
You go faster the more devout you become.
Especially devout followers can go so fast that they get to their destination before they left.
You go faster as you gain favor, and are rewarded for killing turtles and shit.

Ralos and Ranul are the trickster twins who form the sun and the moon, spending all day and night chasing each other. They're assholes who really love a good prank.

The other gods basically created life to distract them, so that mortals would be the new victims of their tricks.

They're loosely based on the Maya Hero Twins
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Hero_Twins

Blomtomo
Halfling god of High Explosives

Civil rituals involve fireworks, holidays are typically desctruction dates for major structures. Miracles include: Making it rain grenades, nitro glycerin, tiny flashbangs, and snap dragons.

Did you really make a Sanic meme a part of your pantheon

Amaros and Asdiel are the same god, but they're two different personas, and only one will appear at any given time, which seems to be determined at random. Amaros, the male persona, is the God of Ruin, while Asdiel, the female persona, is the Goddess of Undoing. They're/it's pretty much a social outcast in terms of the pantheon, but they're absolutely vital to the world. The God of Knowledge is extremely interested in them, as they hold the secrets to how the world will end. They have an affinity for characters that are CN, and they tamper with mortal affairs quite a bit, but don't actually reveal themselves all too often.

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Here is the last good pantheon Veeky Forums made.

No no, you spelled it wrong, it's Sinac.
Also, did I mention that gold is holy to him? His most devout followers often carry thick bands of gold.
Oh, and he created seven sacred gems that store great quantities of divine speed energy.

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I'm not the only one that remembers that thread? Cool.

I am sorry
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The goddess of lovers scorned is the child of the goddess of fertility and the deity of love(technically neither male nor female the deity is formed from the concept of love such as it exists within the people of the world). She really doesn't like being the goddess of lovers scorned though, it's a really narrow domain, and isn't a great position particularly when if she actually helps someone properly they end up outside her domain. Though she has created an order of paladins to go around smacking peoples' shit in when they fuck with things in her domain, as well as providing basically an inappropriate amount of weaponry and training to scorned lovers. Though she's making an attempt at taking the place of the god of war, unfortunately for her she doesn't fancy him.

We had Wuzznith, god of accidental death and dismemberment, worshipped by insurance agents. His cousin/grandfather was Wozzonth, goddess of taking shit that doesn't really belong to anyone (anymore), worshipped by rogues and technically minded thieves. His/her spouse was Tum'thurax, nongendered god of getting pissed off at stupid gender politic SJW bullshit, worshipped by SJW barbarians and fascists.

We also had the Earthbound god Dave, cursed god of war and death and carrion, unable to shed his mortal form due to his unkillable and undying nature, worshipped by all who fight and kill and die (and those that feed or profit from the abovementioned). His wife was Eranora, goddess of being a really good person and seeing past the physical appearance and loving people for who they are on the inside, worshipped (as a general love goddess, which she doesn't like but is too nice to bring it up) by Elves and (unintentionally worshipped by) girls that date guys that aren't as attractive as themselves but have really great personalities. Their semidemigoddess daughter is Sarah of the 9 Virtues, a part-time goddess of low strategy and violence and solving problems by choosing not to give in to your baser nature, worshipped by a bard named John that used to follow her around and now sings songs of their adventures in a 3 star tavern in Far Haven (and tangentially by the patrons that find themselves whistling the tune later).

She's the god of Authoritative Rule and Revolutions.

Basically, if you survive the revolution, you have the divine right to rule your kingdom. At least until the next revolution. If you don't, clearly you weren't favored by the Gods and it's a good thing you were replaced.

>Offenders against Cheibriados are given one last chance to take it easy. They may find themselves slowed and exhausted, or stepping from time at unexpected moments. In dangerous moments, Chei provides them with refreshing naps. And in very dangerous situations... in the full depth of time, almost anything can happen. (But for those who offend Cheibriados, probably not anything good!)

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Why my text didn't appear ?
Anyway, my question was why was DCSS pantheon is so good ?

Chei is my favorite Kiku in Crawl!

>Anyway, my question was why was DCSS pantheon is so good ?
Because it is more concerned with unique and interesting gameplay rather than lore.
Chei, Ashenzari, Xom, Nemelex etc. - they are interesting and they are fun to play. They aren't there simply "for the lore".

>Josh
>Godname: xXx_Beastly_xXx

In this setting, champions are picked out willingly or unwillingly by gods to carry out tasks to win favor in a mmorpg created by a pantheon of divine entities.

As favor is won, a champion is blessed with more divine energy to perform even more fantastic deeds. And the goal of the god game is to have the strongest, most fantastic champion of all the universes.

However, Josh isn't a high ranking god. He's actually hit what could be considered rock bottom of the rankings. So the only gift he can bestow initially to his champion is something relatively useless. Clairfragrance, the ability to smell events in the future.

It is up to the champion then, willingly or unwillingly, to participate in a game of gods where they have the utmost worst starting position to rise the ranks of champions and compete on a celestial level with heroes and demons hosted by entities of omnipotent power.

That's really fucking stupid.

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>Jure of Healing

The Goddess of Healing and Sanity, Jure's exact origins are unknown, but rumor has it she was once from the Juere region of Tyris and ascended into the position as the right hand servant of the previous God of Healing. A fierce war between the gods happened thousands of years ago, when a rift from another dimension opened up in their holy realm and started sending beings of pure chaos through, whom appeared to exist only to undo the order they had meticulously set down and consume the world into entropy. Their leader, the UlTiMaTe cHaOs LoRd Tezcatlipoca, was a being like no other. He slew the gods by the thousands, leaving their aspects vacant and forcing their servants to either fill their positions, or having surviving gods take over their aspects as well as what fragments remained of their personalities. Jure was one of the former, taking up the mantle as a mortal ascended to goddesshood. As the "youngest" of the eight major gods of the Irva, she often doubts her abilities and is noted by her followers to have a distinct "sugar and ice" tsundere) personality, yet it is perhaps because of her still human nature that she attracts a large following, with certain cities holding a yearly winter festival in her name in which they convert heathens to their cause. The other gods question the exact conduct of these festivals in regards to how forceful these conversion may be, causing the goddess to indirectly instruct her followers to try and act more passively and compassionately in their endeavors.

Her head servant is a young man known as the "Defender", who has stylized himself in manner after Rovid, the God of Protection. He is one of many promising individuals who hope to one day become powerful enough to challenge Tezcatlipoca and vanquish chaos from the realm. All of Jure's faithful are able to directly tap into her healing abilities, allowing them to heal their own wounds.

>"N-No! Cut it! I-I don't love you. Stupid!"
-Jure

>Gee, Bill, how come your mom lets you have two crickets?

A bard that ascended and became the god of fertility and entertainment

Qonvoqar, the Blood on Snow, God of Death, Winter, and Darkness

Qonvoqar is the gnoll god of death and winter, and the only male who outranks many female gods. His most common appearance is as a tall skinny gnoll with pale white fur with blood like markings across his face and lower arms, with great raven's wings made from pure shadow. He sometimes comes as a terrifying giant gnoll skeleton wrapped in darkness for flesh and robes, with a chilling aura that flows around him.

He was the first of gnollkind to die, saving First Tribe (gnoll pantheon) from a night ambush by an elemental titan of darkness and frost during a terrible blizzard. After succumbing to his wounds, he found himself upon the plane of spirits and forced to survive there. The tales of his survival and trip are many and strange, but eventually he came upon the Bonelands, the great graveyard for strange behemoths that wander the spirit planes.

Soon after strange gods were encountered: a female human, a male dragon, a giant horse man, and others. Qonvoqar was the first god upon this dead place, but he was wiser than many thought him and proposed a solution for their problem of who owned the place. A council of death, all the gods of death would share the place, a neutral sacred ground from which to gather and judge the souls of each people.

He eventually traced his steps back to the lands of of his people, forging the Path of Souls. Upon his arrival he found his body still preserved all these years later, but for all his power he could not join his soul to his body. He found that O'Istidir (She is Fiercer) was near birth, and watched as her consort attempted to force his dominance upon her during her attempts to give birth. She fought and won, stealing some of the power of all living males from what was He Is, but the child was dead. Qonvoqar took the small lump of life that was to be the first gnoll child that was now decaying and used it to restart his body, bringing himself back to life.

>The Bandbreaker
The Bandbreaker is chief of the gods, a great and terrible warrior deity, lord of flame and harsh light. Named for the golden rings he wears around his biceps, he breaks them and gives them as rewards to those loyal to him.
In the first ages, he was firstborn to the king of the gods. His younger brother, lusting after power, attempted to kill his father and take his throne while the Bandbreaker was away. Attempting to get all those who didn't conspire with him drunk and then slay them, the Bandbreaker's younger brother nearly succeeded after killing his father. However, the Bandbreaker returned, and thrashed his traitorous younger brother within an inch of his life with a bundle of birch branches. The younger brother fled, and the Bandbreaker and his army gave chase, driving the traitor far to the west. In this exile, the younger brother became the source of darkness in the world. But the traitor still remembered the birch branches, and even today all of his creatures fear the wood of that tree.

The Bandbreaker took the throne, changed from his centuries of war. An incredibly stubborn king, his wife rules with a far more subtle and effective hand than he could ever hope to have. In his mind, he would die before he would stop fighting. There can be no peace until his younger brother and all of his followers are eradicated. Too much has been taken from him. His parents, too many of his friends, and countless followers who had given their lives. With each person that his younger brother takes from him, the Bandbreaker feels like another piece of him is lost.

St. Cuthbert

>Kadas
Kadas is the god of invention, art, creativity, luck, children, and fools. He represents the ever-changing face of civilization, the chaos and change inherent within civilization’s orderly facade, the inevitability of progress, and the sweeping away of the old to make way for the new. Kadas despises stagnation and encourages advancement and progress.

He is prayed to by artists and writers and any who undertake creative endeavors, and is a favourite of revolutionaries, innovators, and any who seek to challenge the status quo. He is unpopular with certain entrenched segments of society such as gerontocracies or wealthy ruling classes, and people who openly venerate him are looked upon with suspicion by these groups.

Columbia - The 19th century predecessor to Uncle Sam. She's the personification of America and represents its boundless ambition and expansion.

She's not a giant like in the pic, but she's a traveling singer, and is incredibly charismatic. She has her own agenda.

The Triumvirate of Pietism
The Papacy of the Triumvirate considers the godhead to be three entities, which are paradoxically separate yet unified. They are the Prodigal One, The Winnower, and the Lord on High.
Human souls (and only humans in the setting, all other races are not considered to have souls by the Papcy) are deemed to be worthy by engaging in specific ritualistic acts of goodness and devotion throughout their lives. At the time of their death, a human stands before the Triumvirate for Judgement. It is thought that the Prodigal One, who embodies a life lived in earnest effort toward good despite constant failure, will always cast a vote in favor of the lowliest of sinners. The Winnower, who revels in despair and misfortune, always casts a vote against salvation, as he deems all humans to be pathetic and undeserving of a reward. It falls on the Lord on High to then cast the deciding vote. As such, most of the religious instruction and scriptural lessons of the Pious faith focus on pleasing the Lord on High and demonstrating worthiness in His eyes.

Shadowed Tree, God of Drowning in the not-Amazon, Patron God of the City of not-Venice. Fairly old and cautious by the standards of small animist gods.

Waldyr the Trickster.

A patron god of thieves, jesters, jokers (and for reasons unknown, chicken farmers). He is incredibly real and almost always present whenever mischief is happening, either physically or as that little voice in your head that goes: "C'mon, what's the harm? Just do it, it'll be fun!". He's a god who likes to get hands-on with his followers and those who displease him will generally experience really bad luck in almost any circumstance until they atone for whatever they did.

People in the world are aware that he exists, that he can be anywhere, be anyone and that in being a god he's generally impossible to stop and unlikely to care what mortals think about any of that. The good thing, however, is that he's neither evil or malicious. But if a thief is ever caught, the plead; "God made me do it!" might actually hold up in court.

this is pretty good. I could definely be refined a little but it's promising

Do the faithful learn the secret art of traveling very quickly by moving very slowly?

The god of destiny.

She constantly gets tangled in the "destiny yarn" stuff from Greek myths, and often fucks up paperwork regarding people's destinies.

She shows up and apologizes profusely when a player wants to change class but likes their character too much.

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>Goddess of War and Mourning
Instead of waging war, this holy goddess is meant to show the terrors of war, the death of family, the hunger and starvation and the terrible destruction. It is the main goddess of one of the largest pantheons in the world.

You'd think her followers were total pacifists, but hell no they aint because human nature is too corruptible. They've declared war on other nations to prevent them from waging wars. They've started bloody revolts because the leaders weren't pacifist enough. And they don't shy away from regular wars too, because who cares about religion when you don't need it.

I love Bionicles I yet I feel I'm missing something.
Is it related to the movies ?

>meant to show the terrors of war, the death of family, the hunger and starvation and the terrible destruction. It is the main goddess of one of the largest pantheons in the world.
So R63 Ares, but without the narrative element?

Hermaphroditic god(dess?) of fertility/virility. Also rules over bountiful crops.

>loves bionicle
>never played MNOLG
Your love is a hollow lie

No idea who or what the R63 Ares is

Martin, God of Civilisation. He desires that all living things become more civilized. His priests create altars and monuments to him in wild places or farmland. This causes all humans to feel strongly inclined to move to large cities and develop. It also uplifts any local animals, causing them to try to act more human and civilized. They generally try to build houses and take up farming, eventually building shitty animal towns.

Cory.

Cory was 15-year old blacksmiths apprentice from a little dungheap village in the middle of absolutely nowhere who suddenly, without warning and much against his own wishes ascended to godhood rather suddenly -and- violently.

This momentous event had, of course, been prophesied thousands of years before, as such things tend to be.
Chalk it up to bad timing if you want, but the hermit meant to have the prophecy revealed to him had stepped out to take a life-affirming shit and thus did not hear the glorious news.
The sole receiver of the epiphany was instead a lone gopher, and it did not pass on the message.

Therefore it came to everyone as quite a surprise when the pimple-faced teen suddenly commanded the power to change reality and bend time and space to his will, perhaps most of all to the kid himself who up until that point had barely been in control of his own body.
After a long talk with his dad, as well as the city guard, the local magistrates, the mayor, the liege lords, the barons, every single priest and finally the king of the realm, it was unanimously decided that it would be best if Cory went elsewhere, as the clergy already had several gods to attend to and weren't currently looking for more. They'd absolutely send word if something became available though.

So off he went, the newest and utterly unsung god of the pantheon. With only the clothes on his back, a backpack of preservatives and sandwiches (thanks mom) and awesome cosmic otherworldly powers with which he could shape the universe with the flick of a finger, if only he wasn't about as imaginative as a cobblestone.

There's The Progenitor, who allegedly created the world and other gods, but he (or she, or whatever) might not exist.

Lesser gods are patrons of nations and locations, they are real but they are dumb and lack initiative and people kill them once in a while and eat their corpses to steal their powers.

Or sometimes they become corrupted and anyone who worshipped them turn into rampaging monsters. So now religion that worship The Progenitor is on the rise despite not offering tangible benefits.

god that sounds fast

>Clairfragrance, the ability to smell events in the future.
kek

Long ago, a man found himself trapped in the prison plane, Carceri. He was a con man and a thief by trade, and it seemed as fitting a place as any to be sent to by an enemy.

The thief moved from sphere to sphere, growing more and more desperate to find a way out, so he could plunge a dagger into the back of the man that sent him here. He came upon the final sphere: the place where the black fortress of Nerull, god of death stood.

The god of death was not one for deals, but he found the little thief interesting enough that he decided to negotiate. The thief could leave to go get his revenge, and take care of any other mortal business he had, but after one year was up, Nerull would take his soul, and add it to his collection. The thief begrudgingly agreed, and found himself back on the material plane.

After finding and killing the man that sent him there, he began plotting and scheming. He was going to pull a fast one on the god of death.

So the year ended, and the thief found himself standing, once again, before Nerull. With a single blow of his scythe, the thief's body was destroyed... but something was wrong. No soul came forth. Nerull was furious, and after a few moments of rage he realized what had happened. The thief was no longer mortal: he was a lich. What better way to keep one's soul then pull it out of the body and hide it elsewhere?

And hide it he did, in the blackest corners of the Great Wheel, as far from the influence of the gods as possible. It is there he made his fortress, and it's said he hides there to this day, away from the prying eyes of the ever vengeful god of death.

To this day, thieves, assassins and con men say a prayer to the lich-thief before a job. Jacos, they call him; the god of shadows and trickery. It's said he protects them in their criminal enterprise by blanketing them with shadow.

It was good thread.

Do you follow the Spider

Snail bro is best bro.

No where else can my Stone Gargoyle destroy literal rooms of demons with the power of the Snail God because none of those jittery fuckers are slower than me.

If you want to be truly slow, you should pick naga. This is some insanely slow shit.

Dha-Cho aka "The realest nigga ever"
I was one of the players, we joined the cult because of 1 history roll and a player saying something along the lines of him being the realest nigga ever, he rewards his followers with and I quote "pimp shit".

If you set up a code of various smells beforehand, you might be able to send messages back in time. So it isn't an entirely useless power.

Ares is a Greek god of war, numbnuts, and R63 means genderbend.

He's a being of paranoia and fear who can control snowstorms and summon small swarms/packs of spiders, rats, wolves, and deer. His working name is The Red Stag.

He is reborn once a year around mid-winter and goes through a sort of 3-4 stage metamorphosis as he devours the fear of those around him: he starts as a fuzzy bug thing about the size of a large housecat with one huge-ass eye; stage two is a hairless, wirey creature about the size of a large dog covered in boney protrusions that bleed constantly, has six legs, and no facial features barring a mouth; stage three is about two people tall and musclebound with powerful cervine legs and a crown of antlers on his head, the skin of his second stage draped loosely around his shoulders like a cape and the skin of his third form is strecthed taut by the muscle beneath; In his True form he can directly incite fear in people through spells in order to feed, and becomes nigh unstoppable.

He's allergic to fire, chestnuts, pine trees, holly, misletoe, and Christmas Spirit.

The Boatman & The Star [NG]

The Boatman is told to resemble a bearded skeleton with white sand pouring from his eye sockets. According to legend, the Boatman was once a man looking for his long lost lover. To find her, he ripped out his own heart and threw it into the sky to follow it. For an eternity, The Boatman has been rowing across the oceans of time. During his travels, he helps mortals pass into the afterlife and comforts the mourning. The Boatman represents reposing death, entropy, time, and mercy. Despite his ghastly appearance, he is quite kind and listens to his prayers carefully. His followers respect life and are charitable in their actions.

Fa' [CN]

Fa' is not so much a God, but the collective life force of nature itself. Fa' is the God of Fey, Druids, and other nature aligned beings. Fa' appears as a different animal or plant in each manifestation, but always completely white with blue eyes. To be part of Fa' is to understand that your soul belongs to nature and is in fact bound to it intrinsically.

Pluth [N]

Pluth is a corpulent God buried within his own vast treasure. Pluth is said to have 99 eyes and 99 fingers for which to count his wealth. Followers of Pluth tend to be merchants or traders.

The Thinking Gear [LN]

The Thinking Gear isn't so much as a God, but merely a vast clockwork creation of unfathomable complication. And although The Thinking Gear does not think itself a God, it does not dismiss its own divinity either. Over the centuries this has evolved into an organized religion in itself, but lacking any form of clerical body since The Thinking Gear is not intrinsically magical.

Ve'Baal [LE]

Ve'Baal is an ancient, cruel, but giving Lord. The horned King, sits upon a throne of obsidian with a torch in one hand and an open book in the other. Inside of his Black Library are the sins of every being ever committed. Ve'Baal enacts punishment but also reward. Followers mainly keep to themselves and seldom start fights unless provoked.

Emperor Nerrus, Lawful Neutal god of battle and warfare and patron deity of Humans.

Once the ruler of an immense human kingdom, he absolutely dominated battlefields both with clever tactics and being a one-man juggernaut of up-fuckery, eventually reaching a point where his mastery of warfare began to manifest into a spark of divinity. The spark allowed him to go beyond what is humanly possible in strength and skill, but at the same time made him single-mindedly focused on warfare and conquering above all else.

Eventually some other human nations and Elven clans began to realise that his list of things to conquer was gradually including any and every nation nearby, and put a truce on their bickering to put down Nerrus and his ferociously loyal followers (who would later become his prophets and priests). Nerrus and his empire put up a fight worthy of a demigod and his followers, but were overwhelmed by the sheer size and numbers of his enemies from all sides, and Nerrus himself was finally brought down in the ruins of his own capitol, his death amidst the countless corpses of his enemies being the final rite of his rise to full divinity.

Those few statues that weren't destroyed by his enemies became hidden shrines, where humans and warriors of other races pray to him for good fortune in battle. Rumors have it that a smokey avatar of his armored likeness can occasionally be spotted amidst places where great battles were recently waged, wandering aimlessly and choosing the greatest from among those dead to join him in his holy realm.

The Pale Dragon. They are, in essence, the dragon of the dead. Depending on the culture depends on whether the Pale Dragon is viewed upon favorably.

In regards to the underworld that they rule, belief varies.

Generally, however, the Pale Dragon is associated with the moon.

Some believe that the moon is the dragon, some believe the moon is the dragon's eye, others believe it is a portal to the other world, and finally, some believe that it is another world.

Great ones!
I love The Thinking Gear.

The Sky Father

He's portrayed either as a humanoid falcon or a giant falcon. His followers are mostly nomad horse tribes but there's some city folk who also follow him (these are the predecessors of the nomads who settled long time ago). The followers consider falcons and falconers as holy, it's mainly shamanistic. The shamans usually have headpieces that resemble a falcon and their clothes have wings and feathers. They believe the sky father created everything and resides above the skies. They believe that the shamans can communicate with the sky father with their rituals. The nomad tribes are mostly known for their horse archery (ala mongols and turks) and have these special blessed arrows fletched with falcon feathers I usually give these arrow +5 to hit. They have special rituals to ward of bad luck like pouring hot lead in to a pot of cold water over someones head.

Pinball, the sloth god. As in he is a sloth. Pinball is the oversoul to which all pantheons belong. Due to his nature, he rarely intervenes divinely and has no mortal followers, practically unknown on all mortal planes.

That's an interesting concept. Is Pinball the source of religion, or did Pinball arise as a result of religion? How do the gods of your setting treat Pinball: with reverence, disdain, indifference?

Is your setting in the Old American West?

Consider Earth, as it is now, except the Christian god is definitively real. Capital G God:Real humans :: Pinball:gods

Not specifically a god, but multiple aspects of one live and die like normal people, but born naturally with special traits of the god they're an aspect of, with all of them having sharing those traits.

The god of chaos's aspects are basically the Joker. Each one taking on a different variation, but always sharing the same traits of chaotic behavior, pale white face+glaring red smile (make up or natural), always trying to make the orderly disorderly, and never aware of their traits' origin. Only one may be alive at a time, and when one dies a new one is "chosen".

Could be some random bandit in the woods suddenly starts smearing white paint on himself and slowing destroying social order in a nearby city, or a wealthy trader across the wold uses an elixir to bleach himself white and working behind the scenes committing himself to the same goal.

Toltiir - god of mischief, chaos, pratfalls, humor, and screwups. Frequently takes the form of a mockingbird, a black cat, or a plaid panther. Power level varies as it's a being from outside space/time and has to "pinch" off part of itself in order to insert into lower-dimension universes without tearing them.
Usually will create items like a singing sword (that plays background music appropriate to the circumstance) or otherwise mucking about with situations in order to amuse himself.
Doesn't really intend harm, but has never quite grasped human-style reality or morals or a lot of other details.

The Great Divines
Jarra, the Breath of Life (LN)
Jarra is one of the two Great Divines, the true ruling deities of Alvaeon. Jarra is praised by many, particularly those who have sick or wounded to tend to (or who have overcome such hardships). Despite this, Jarra is not a good deity by definition - she simply governs the laws and energies of law and healing. Jarra does not try to sway followers away from any misgivings; that being a job of the Seven or the Nine. She simply nurtures the life of all things, no matter how mighty or miniscule. Jarra's domains are Healing, Life, Law, and Creation.

Null, the Call of Eternity (LN)
Null is Jarra's counterpart among the Great Divines. In much the way Jarra is praised by many, Null is often only called upon by the darker denizens of the living, or by those wishing freedom from their mortal bonds. Null, too, is neither good nor evil, but governs the laws of the eventual death and demise of all things. Nothing, mortal or otherwise, is truly beyond the grasp of death. Life, similarly, cannot continue without death, as life, by its nature, feeds on the products of death. Much like Jarra, Null views the swaying of followers as the job of the other deities (though he does have a certain distaste for Moroxx, as Moroxx does pervert the cycle through necromantic means). Jarra's domains are Death, Destruction, Law, and Creation.

Terry Pratchett! You're alive

All right, fa/tg/uys, that's pretty good.

Out of the deities posted, what would your pantheon be?

Moon goddess in my pirate world is the white whale shamelessly ripped from Moby Dick.

>ralos and ranul
I hate when people think theyre creative because they spelled something backwards

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

Ath'Dara, Hestod, Cheiribriados, Sinac, Lace, Jure, The Boatman & The Star, Josh, Waldyr, Cory, and Pinball

Ibaweg- The Avenger
Sealed away for eons, Ibaweg awakens because of the actions of some guys who are total douches. Not intentional, but causes a massive volcanic eruption or equally bad event.

As all the current deities are mortals who grew in power and usurped the portfolios of the gods, Ibaweg was the backup plan left behind by the old gods. No mortal worshippers at first, as he begins to wreak more havoc on the pantheon, his following grows. This also reveals to all that the gods they worshipped were just pretenders... but if they die, what do?

Honestly, all of these are good enough for a place, and we don't have nearly too many, yet, so I'd say all.
Ask again at 300 posts.

If you're bringing Chei, why not bring along the whole DCSS pantheon?

Fair enough.

>UlTiMaTe cHaOs LoRd

Wait a second...

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ancardia.wikia.com/wiki/Ultra_ending

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Just straight up Discworld Death

The god of chaos really enjoys crashing weddings because of the amount of preparation and planning and....ORDER that goes into them....so sickening...someone should teach those stuffy mortals how to have a bit of fun!

An ancient benevolent being of light.

My setting doesn't feature Gods really, the Celestial Bureaucracy runs everything and is pretty democratic. Your dead Grandfather is part of the tax paying voting block of the afterlife.

However, the leaders of different departments could often be thought of as Gods. And as weird afterlife spirit things, they can be very strange.

>Chairmen of Believed History
This Godling sits in the heavenly library. He looks like a gaunt, pale man in robes but his head is an endlessly tall sheaf of papers; raining pages down below onto the eternal library. His role, naturally, is to determine what is the commonly held 'history' that everyone 'remembers'. Actual historical events are often forgotten, and bogus or highly inaccurate ones are remembers and spread around as fact and truth instead.

Why was he elected to the position? Simple; he promised to increase the number of souls checking books out of the heavenly library by making history inaccurate, poorly transcribed, and incomplete. His campaign was successful and now the librarian spirits have all received a wonderful pay raise as a result of the increased traffic.

Thank you Chairmen!

"Tolishk, Father Forge, the God of craftsmanship and creation.
The task was his to teach the denizens of the mortal pastures the designs to thrive. From his influence they learned to build to last, to shape beauty in wood and stone, to forge great weapons with which to defend themselves from the wild world around them.

And those who adhered most closely to his teachings, who saw with an eager eye and shaped with calloused hands, upon their forms expiring joined him in his grand workshop, a place of towering spires and great bastions, there to hone and seek perfection, not for practicality as they one had, but for perfection and elegance."

The leader of my pantheon is a dude called Alas, who initially shaped all the worlds in the setting in pursuit of perfection, to the extent that he neglected his wife, who reflected his radiance.
Eventually she grew petty and stabbed him, but then took pity on him as she realised he was a slave to his purpose, an architect always seeking perfection.
She healed him as best she could, but he was already crippled, and from his spilled blood she created what all his creations had lacked: sentience.
She then set him to orbit his most prized creation, Eardt, and his radiance warmed the previously cold world.

I really really like this idea