I'm looking at developing a new pantheon using some existing ideas.
Just wanted your viewpoint on the below as a starting point.
Sun God, Al: LN, Domains: Light, War
Moon Goddess, Al: NG, Domains: Knowledge, Death
Reptile God, Al: CN, Domains: Knowledge, Trickery
Oblivion, Al: NE, Domains: Death, Trickery
The Conclave, Al: LN, Domains: Life, War
Redeemer, Al: N, Domains: Knowledge
Maiden of Spiders, Al: CN, Domain: Trickery
Maiden of Scorpions, Al: N, Domains: Nature
Dwarven God, Al: N, Domains: Knowledge, War
The All Storm, Al: CN, Domain: Tempest
This is just the basics I'm still working out the kinks and the story behind the pantheon so would like your input.
Brief Background: Was originally a regular world until the creation of a set of artefacts called the Regalia of Chaos that created the divine gates trapping most of the gods and their immortal followers within the god's plane of existance.
This was except for a single celestial archon that was trapped within one of the artefacts stuck between life and death eventually becoming the Moon Goddess after the creator of those artefacts was killed by his henchmen after losing one of the artefacts leaving him vulnerable to attack.
The other gods used that deity to regain access to the mortal plane but turned their backs rather than help free the deity they used to restore themselves this event caused a shift in the cosmic balance leaving evrything in a precarious positions as only the Moon Goddess was actually good and entities previously thought evil have ventured away from that position yet still not good.
The main faith is that of the Sun God that is also known as the God of Strife maintaining their position by driving out any opposition from the larger settlements with many of the others staying out in the wilds if not hiding within those settlements to avoid being targetted.
Recent events caused the destruction of the capital city of Rothenel by the appearance of an elder black dragon that seemingly freed itself from the mountain range Gilieam was partially built atop of.
With the throne in disarray and the land now being shrouded in mists courtesy of the same event that destroyed the capital things are dark and bleak heralding a new era of heroes and adventure.
I recommend not stopping there. Think of all trash that the gossip magazines fabricate about the entertainment stars, but it's true for deities instead. Start with some nasty rumors about the gods' interactions with each other as a foundation and build from there into long histories of mindboggling internal dramas that would put novellas to shame.
I have yet to see any historic pantheon that wasn't churned into a glorious dramatic mess by unreliable methods of proliferation of the lore among the people. It makes for a lot of good starting points for stories about heroes.
Dead deities. Exiled deities. Unfaithful, lecherous deities. Tragically heroic deities. Star-crossed deities. Blissful, wholly-faithful marriages between deities of opposing, incompatible domains. Alliances. Betrayal. Successful, unsuccessful, or even accidental murder. Children deities. Children monsters of deities. Curses. Blessings. Magical or rather mundane adaptation of bodies into hybrids or unrecognizable shapes. Accidental incest. Madness. Secrets. Terrible truths.
The gods must be crazy. For everything that happens under their domains, they just gotta be.
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.
I wanted to limit the number of gods and make elves rare.
Been thinking about the Maiden of Scorpions as the Hunter God, but as stated I'm still working out the details.
The eventual reveal that the Moon Goddess noted is actually a servant of Sehanine Moonbow with Corellon missing and evidence pointing towards the Reptile God being behind that.
Well the Sun God is a ****** bag, the Maiden of Spiders is a CN Lolth freed from millennia long domination from Oblivion.
The dwarf god is very mercantile orientated and greedy which effects his followers quite badly.
The Reptile God claimed the Changelings whose very nature marks them as Corellon's original elves. Whatever happened to Corellon the elves current form prevented the Reptile God claiming them.
Elves are rare in this setting, the missing majority are quite hostile to the current residents viewing them as vermin that need to be cleansed the only reason they haven't done so is the very few elves still there mostly dark elves or renegades and of course The Exile.
The Conclave is the Dragon deities whose cult are responsible for "Tiamat" a ritual requiring Wyrmspeaker masks allowing the wearer to become a dragon or a group to turn into the insane uncontrollable Kaiju every d&D fan would recognise!
Sorry couldn't help myself!
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I'm looking at developing a new pantheon using some existing ideas.
Just wanted your viewpoint on the below as a starting point.
Sun God, Al: LN, Domains: Light, War
Moon Goddess, Al: NG, Domains: Knowledge, Death
Reptile God, Al: CN, Domains: Knowledge, Trickery
Oblivion, Al: NE, Domains: Death, Trickery
The Conclave, Al: LN, Domains: Life, War
Redeemer, Al: N, Domains: Knowledge
Maiden of Spiders, Al: CN, Domain: Trickery
Maiden of Scorpions, Al: N, Domains: Nature
Dwarven God, Al: N, Domains: Knowledge, War
The All Storm, Al: CN, Domain: Tempest
This is just the basics I'm still working out the kinks and the story behind the pantheon so would like your input.
Brief Background: Was originally a regular world until the creation of a set of artefacts called the Regalia of Chaos that created the divine gates trapping most of the gods and their immortal followers within the god's plane of existance.
This was except for a single celestial archon that was trapped within one of the artefacts stuck between life and death eventually becoming the Moon Goddess after the creator of those artefacts was killed by his henchmen after losing one of the artefacts leaving him vulnerable to attack.
The other gods used that deity to regain access to the mortal plane but turned their backs rather than help free the deity they used to restore themselves this event caused a shift in the cosmic balance leaving evrything in a precarious positions as only the Moon Goddess was actually good and entities previously thought evil have ventured away from that position yet still not good.
The main faith is that of the Sun God that is also known as the God of Strife maintaining their position by driving out any opposition from the larger settlements with many of the others staying out in the wilds if not hiding within those settlements to avoid being targetted.
Recent events caused the destruction of the capital city of Rothenel by the appearance of an elder black dragon that seemingly freed itself from the mountain range Gilieam was partially built atop of.
With the throne in disarray and the land now being shrouded in mists courtesy of the same event that destroyed the capital things are dark and bleak heralding a new era of heroes and adventure.
Much obliged.
Ok, what you have looks ok but …
where is the elven god to go along with the Dwarven and reptilian? Probable domains: life, nature, twilight
where is the hunter deity? Probable domains: life, nature, grave/death
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I recommend not stopping there. Think of all trash that the gossip magazines fabricate about the entertainment stars, but it's true for deities instead. Start with some nasty rumors about the gods' interactions with each other as a foundation and build from there into long histories of mindboggling internal dramas that would put novellas to shame.
I have yet to see any historic pantheon that wasn't churned into a glorious dramatic mess by unreliable methods of proliferation of the lore among the people. It makes for a lot of good starting points for stories about heroes.
Dead deities. Exiled deities. Unfaithful, lecherous deities. Tragically heroic deities. Star-crossed deities. Blissful, wholly-faithful marriages between deities of opposing, incompatible domains. Alliances. Betrayal. Successful, unsuccessful, or even accidental murder. Children deities. Children monsters of deities. Curses. Blessings. Magical or rather mundane adaptation of bodies into hybrids or unrecognizable shapes. Accidental incest. Madness. Secrets. Terrible truths.
The gods must be crazy. For everything that happens under their domains, they just gotta be.
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.
I wanted to limit the number of gods and make elves rare.
Been thinking about the Maiden of Scorpions as the Hunter God, but as stated I'm still working out the details.
The eventual reveal that the Moon Goddess noted is actually a servant of Sehanine Moonbow with Corellon missing and evidence pointing towards the Reptile God being behind that.
Well the Sun God is a ****** bag, the Maiden of Spiders is a CN Lolth freed from millennia long domination from Oblivion.
The dwarf god is very mercantile orientated and greedy which effects his followers quite badly.
The Reptile God claimed the Changelings whose very nature marks them as Corellon's original elves. Whatever happened to Corellon the elves current form prevented the Reptile God claiming them.
Elves are rare in this setting, the missing majority are quite hostile to the current residents viewing them as vermin that need to be cleansed the only reason they haven't done so is the very few elves still there mostly dark elves or renegades and of course The Exile.
The Conclave is the Dragon deities whose cult are responsible for "Tiamat" a ritual requiring Wyrmspeaker masks allowing the wearer to become a dragon or a group to turn into the insane uncontrollable Kaiju every d&D fan would recognise!
Sorry couldn't help myself!