I can't keep straight the hundreds of Forgotten Realms gods, and having my characters worship Greek or Norse gods doesn't feel right, so in my homebrew world I created the following pantheon. Super simple, easy to remember, and distinct enough for interesting interactions and mythology.
The Pentatheon
Skyfather
Domains: Light, Tempest, War Paladin Oaths: Heroism, Vengeance Alignment: Neutral Holy Symbol: Sunburst inside a cloud
Hearthmatron
Domains: Life, Nature, Unity Paladin Oath: Redemption Alignment: Good Holy Symbol: Hand cupping a flower
Lawbringer
Domains: Forge, Knowledge, Order Paladin Oaths: Devotion, Crown Alignment: Lawful Holy Symbol: Crossed pair of hammers
Domains: Nature, Trickery Paladin Oaths: The Ancients Alignment: Chaotic Holy Symbol: Crescent moon with antlers
There's also a god called Lorekeeper, but the Pentatheon just pretends he doesn't exist... he's a mortal wizard who unlocked the secret of godhood and is the god of the Arcana domain. Luckily for the other gods, he has no interest in usurping their positions or sharing forbidden knowledge, has few clerics, and instead just uses his god powers to create his own paradise for himself.
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Domains: Grave, Life, Death Paladin Oaths: Ancients, Devotion, Redemption Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Holy Symbol: A circle with an infinity sign in the middle.
Deirothe the Spirit Lord
Domains: Grave, Death Paladin Oaths: Devotion, Redemption Alignment: Neutral Holy Symbol: A white cloth
Sorgein the Boring
Domains: Forge, War Paladin Oaths: Vengeance, Conquest, Crown Alignment: Neutral Evil Holy Symbol: A Maul with the opposite end as a Pickaxe
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Do your deities have histories with each other, with other deities, with mortals, etc? (I might swear that some of the stories of official deities are as convoluted as those novellas my parents watched when I was a kid.) What are the deities' origins if known and the folk tales surrounding them if any? Do they manifest in a typical shape in their plane or when they visit the material plane as an avatar or some such?
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
My homebrew pantheon is heavily influenced by MTG and Pathfinder, but there is a hidden deity I've been saving for much later.
In my campaigns history (not it's lore the player would never find this out) the old world was cast into darkness by the dying of the sun and the gods of light and in that moment a powerful goddess who owed a favor to the creator of that plane consumed all the darkness could touch and transported them to a new plane by way of the shadows. The people of my campaign setting assumed the universe was ending and warped out using powerful magic, forever being separated from the rest of their kind. They live on on a world far from the established multiverse, but the goddess has now grown so powerful she rules a dimension accessible from all shadows and darkness. She is not malicious but her existence, a secret for the people of the world, has begun spawning maddening cults to an unknowable black void.
She is referred to as the "void" in these cults, though currently goes by the name of Demiroth. She was formerly a neutrally aligned goddess of torment, punishment, and darkness who int he old world pantheons was responsible for the imprisonment and punishment of the most heinous souls whereupon she would feed on their evil essence which kept her immortal.
Domains: War Paladin Oaths: Vengeance, Conquest, Crown Alignment: Lawful Neutral Holy Symbol: A black helmet with red flaring eyes and halo on top of the helmet
The Nameless Masque maker
Domains: Forge, Trickery, knowledge Paladin Oaths: Anything Alignment: Neutral Holy Symbol: 3 white masks mostly featureless with except to one thing each, one with stitched mouth, one with hollowed eyes but has a black tear dropping from the right eye and the last one is filled with cracks cracked
The Veiled maiden
Domains: Life Paladin Oaths: Redemption, Devotion, heroism Alignment: Neutral Good Holy Symbol: White veiled maiden with a golden crown
The Eater
Domains: Life, Death, Knowledge, Arcana Paladin Oaths: Takes no paladins Alignment: Unknown Holy Symbol: lower part of a humanoid head with open mouth with humanoid teeth dripping a liquid
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Born under the watch of something from the furthest corners of the far realms.... It knows all.... it sees all... and it asks: "What is it that you want to see?"... and my answer is... ALL"
My podcast started as a funny one shot, so my cleric player said she was a worshiper of "Queen Bae". When we started the normal campaign we molded that idea into an actual deity focusing on family, helping those in need, and bringing low those who need humility. Her symbol is a honeycomb or bee, and tea and lemons are important in rituals as well as in life. She's distant but loving, and only directly interacted when my player reached a high enough level to have Raise Dead as an option, as during that long rest told her in a dream about a mission she needed to go on for diamonds. It's been fun to work with a player to create their own deity.
That melded over into Beyond Heroes, where my cleric started worshiping Pelor but switched for story and world saving reasons to worshiping the Phoenix. While normally a primordial would make more sense as a Warlock patron, it's been fun to mold that relationship to work for a cleric. We're less concerned with fitting the Phoenix into an established pantheon and more working out their personality, goals, and edicts. I've pulled their holy symbol from the original sketch of the Phoenix artwork, and resurrection and destruction are the two main domains for obvious reasons.
Simple GOD character for a massive multiverse setting. An all-powerful, but not all-knowing dwarf. He is the servant to the actual rulers of the multiverse, and he is known as G.O.D, or the Generally Omnipresent Dwarf, since he is always around.
Fun side note, for some reason, he sounds like Gilbert Gottfried.
Simple GOD character for a massive multiverse setting. An all-powerful, but not all-knowing dwarf. He is the servant to the actual rulers of the multiverse, and he is known as G.O.D, or the Generally Omnipresent Dwarf, since he is always around.
Fun side note, for some reason, he sounds like Gilbert Gottfried.
So, like dwarven Ao?
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Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
I can't keep straight the hundreds of Forgotten Realms gods, and having my characters worship Greek or Norse gods doesn't feel right, so in my homebrew world I created the following pantheon. Super simple, easy to remember, and distinct enough for interesting interactions and mythology.
The Pentatheon
Skyfather
Domains: Light, Tempest, War
Paladin Oaths: Heroism, Vengeance
Alignment: Neutral
Holy Symbol: Sunburst inside a cloud
Hearthmatron
Domains: Life, Nature, Unity
Paladin Oath: Redemption
Alignment: Good
Holy Symbol: Hand cupping a flower
Lawbringer
Domains: Forge, Knowledge, Order
Paladin Oaths: Devotion, Crown
Alignment: Lawful
Holy Symbol: Crossed pair of hammers
Deepwarden
Domains: Death, Grave, War
Paladin Oaths: Conquest, Secrets (Oathbreaker)
Alignment: Evil
Holy Symbol: Cracked skull
Moondancer
Domains: Nature, Trickery
Paladin Oaths: The Ancients
Alignment: Chaotic
Holy Symbol: Crescent moon with antlers
There's also a god called Lorekeeper, but the Pentatheon just pretends he doesn't exist... he's a mortal wizard who unlocked the secret of godhood and is the god of the Arcana domain. Luckily for the other gods, he has no interest in usurping their positions or sharing forbidden knowledge, has few clerics, and instead just uses his god powers to create his own paradise for himself.
Share your own homebrew gods here, or ask questions about someone else's!
Check out my blog for homebrew D&D stuff and other projects!
A god for tieflings, as they aren't descended from the nine hells. He is called Gunmar. A huge kind of blend of tiefling horns and some orcish stuff.
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I call mine the lux pentathlon
Salvia goddess of the moon
Light - moon light
Night
Domains Nature,Knowledge
argentum God of the sun
Light - Sunshine
Day
Domains,Life, Light
Cuhullin god of war
Light - torch
Day
Also called the hound
Domains, War, Tempest
viatorem God of travel
Light - lantern
Night
Domains, Trickery, Knowledge
gloam God of lies and secrets
Light - star
Day/Night
Domains, Trickery, Grave
Aurora Goddess of Truth and Justice
Light - also sunshine
Night/Day
Domains, Order, forge
magus God of magic
Light - candle
Night
Domains, Arcana, Knowledge
Vulcan God of earth fire
Light- lava
Day
Domains, Tempest
Nix Goddess of night
Light - none
Night
Domains, Death,
Mostly nocturnal
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Torus God of Cycles
Domains: Grave, Life, Death
Paladin Oaths: Ancients, Devotion, Redemption
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Holy Symbol: A circle with an infinity sign in the middle.
Deirothe the Spirit Lord
Domains: Grave, Death
Paladin Oaths: Devotion, Redemption
Alignment: Neutral
Holy Symbol: A white cloth
Sorgein the Boring
Domains: Forge, War
Paladin Oaths: Vengeance, Conquest, Crown
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Holy Symbol: A Maul with the opposite end as a Pickaxe
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
Do your deities have histories with each other, with other deities, with mortals, etc? (I might swear that some of the stories of official deities are as convoluted as those novellas my parents watched when I was a kid.) What are the deities' origins if known and the folk tales surrounding them if any? Do they manifest in a typical shape in their plane or when they visit the material plane as an avatar or some such?
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
My homebrew pantheon is heavily influenced by MTG and Pathfinder, but there is a hidden deity I've been saving for much later.
In my campaigns history (not it's lore the player would never find this out) the old world was cast into darkness by the dying of the sun and the gods of light and in that moment a powerful goddess who owed a favor to the creator of that plane consumed all the darkness could touch and transported them to a new plane by way of the shadows. The people of my campaign setting assumed the universe was ending and warped out using powerful magic, forever being separated from the rest of their kind. They live on on a world far from the established multiverse, but the goddess has now grown so powerful she rules a dimension accessible from all shadows and darkness. She is not malicious but her existence, a secret for the people of the world, has begun spawning maddening cults to an unknowable black void.
She is referred to as the "void" in these cults, though currently goes by the name of Demiroth. She was formerly a neutrally aligned goddess of torment, punishment, and darkness who int he old world pantheons was responsible for the imprisonment and punishment of the most heinous souls whereupon she would feed on their evil essence which kept her immortal.
The Iron King
Domains: War
Paladin Oaths: Vengeance, Conquest, Crown
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Holy Symbol: A black helmet with red flaring eyes and halo on top of the helmet
The Nameless Masque maker
Domains: Forge, Trickery, knowledge
Paladin Oaths: Anything
Alignment: Neutral
Holy Symbol: 3 white masks mostly featureless with except to one thing each, one with stitched mouth, one with hollowed eyes but has a black tear dropping from the right eye and the last one is filled with cracks cracked
The Veiled maiden
Domains: Life
Paladin Oaths: Redemption, Devotion, heroism
Alignment: Neutral Good
Holy Symbol: White veiled maiden with a golden crown
The Eater
Domains: Life, Death, Knowledge, Arcana
Paladin Oaths: Takes no paladins
Alignment: Unknown
Holy Symbol: lower part of a humanoid head with open mouth with humanoid teeth dripping a liquid
Born under the watch of something from the furthest corners of the far realms.... It knows all.... it sees all... and it asks: "What is it that you want to see?"... and my answer is... ALL"
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InsiderMy podcast started as a funny one shot, so my cleric player said she was a worshiper of "Queen Bae". When we started the normal campaign we molded that idea into an actual deity focusing on family, helping those in need, and bringing low those who need humility. Her symbol is a honeycomb or bee, and tea and lemons are important in rituals as well as in life. She's distant but loving, and only directly interacted when my player reached a high enough level to have Raise Dead as an option, as during that long rest told her in a dream about a mission she needed to go on for diamonds. It's been fun to work with a player to create their own deity.
That melded over into Beyond Heroes, where my cleric started worshiping Pelor but switched for story and world saving reasons to worshiping the Phoenix. While normally a primordial would make more sense as a Warlock patron, it's been fun to mold that relationship to work for a cleric. We're less concerned with fitting the Phoenix into an established pantheon and more working out their personality, goals, and edicts. I've pulled their holy symbol from the original sketch of the Phoenix artwork, and resurrection and destruction are the two main domains for obvious reasons.
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I put Andraste and The Maker from the Dragon Age series into every D&D campaign I've ever run.
Keg
Dwarf God of Vintners, Brewers and Distillers.
Simple GOD character for a massive multiverse setting. An all-powerful, but not all-knowing dwarf. He is the servant to the actual rulers of the multiverse, and he is known as G.O.D, or the Generally Omnipresent Dwarf, since he is always around.
Fun side note, for some reason, he sounds like Gilbert Gottfried.
So, like dwarven Ao?
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
I've came up with a goddess for a homebrew race:
Kakanna
Domains: Arcana, Life
Oaths: Redemption, Ancients
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Holy Symbol: A Fireball