Help me fill out my pantheon!

[jerichothebard]

So, currently, I have four gods defined in-game, that the players know about. Three of them are 'dead', and one is ascendant. His church rules all the lands.

I have recently let them know that there were, at one point, a total of seven gods. The other three are also 'dead', and the next storyline will involve resurrecting the dead gods.

What I need, right now, is to fill out the other three spots.


Here's what I've got so far:

ORB (formerly Orb) - god of the sun and moon, assumed the portfolio of war after the jihad that left the other gods dead. NG. Symbol is a crescent moon with a sun burst inside it. Only remaining god.
Crustan - god of nature, birth, growth. Symbol is an uprooted oak tree. CN
Phelas - god of death, law, and judgement. LN. Symbol is a scale. Will be the last to come back, as his return will herald the end of the undead, which is one of the campaign's major villians.
Mehana - goddess of time, arcane magic, and luck. CN. Symbol is an hourglass. She will likely be the first to come back, as she didn't actually die, just removed herself from the timestream for a while, along with most of her followers. Lucky them.


Suggestions? I would like a nicely balanced pantheon, and would be open to the idea that one or more of the seven were evil/destructive. No gods of undeath, please.

Name, portfolio, alignment, symbol would all be nice.

Thanks!

 

[Voadam]

Earth and Creation Portfolio a dead creator, father of the universe type overthrown a la the titans.

Have a former sky god who was associated with the moon but overthrown by ORB

And to cap it off a water god of the oceans etc.

Crustan seems a god of living nature as opposed to elemental nature and a sun god is easily tied to fire leaving the other three elements open.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Some ideas:


How about a god of war and healing? "U'elys the Unrelenting" She commands her followers into endless battle. When they fall, she sends them right back out.

Most pantheons had a trickster. "Telemore, father of Uncertainty". His clerics can choose either the chaos or trickery domains. The other one is determined at random every day.

And for your destroyer god, "Batha-Thut the Demonlord". Batha-Thut's clerics believe that when the world was created, mistakes were made. They are attempting to destroy the world so that it may be remade into paradise. Batha-Thut's followers will transmigrate to the next world, everyone else stays behind. They believe in pain and destruction because they feel that is the legacy of the current world.

Incidentally, Highmoon Media Products has a nice trioka of gods. They use the anicient greek ones as a template, but if you just change the names you have a great trio: http://www.dmperez.com/highmoon/products-libersodalitas.html

 

[Arkhandus]

ORB (formerly Orb) - god of the sun and moon, assumed the portfolio of war after the jihad that left the other gods dead. NG. Symbol is a crescent moon with a sun burst inside it. Only remaining god.
Crustan - god of nature, birth, growth. Symbol is an uprooted oak tree. CN
Phelas - god of death, law, and judgement. LN. Symbol is a scale. Will be the last to come back, as his return will herald the end of the undead, which is one of the campaign's major villians.
Mehana - goddess of time, arcane magic, and luck. CN. Symbol is an hourglass. She will likely be the first to come back, as she didn't actually die, just removed herself from the timestream for a while, along with most of her followers. Lucky them.

Suggestions? I would like a nicely balanced pantheon, and would be open to the idea that one or more of the seven were evil/destructive. No gods of undeath, please.

Name, portfolio, alignment, symbol would all be nice.

Looks like you could use another good deity (likely LG) and two evil deities (CE and LE) to round out the pantheon. Probably the LG and one evil deity being feminine. Maybe the LE or CE deity being a genderless, faceless force, or something.
LG Deity - god(dess) of paladins, honor, crusades/jihads, righteous battle, castles, honest work, and lordship; alignment Lawful Good; symbol is a sword with a crown around the middle; previously the equal or superior to Orb, perished battling the evil and neutral gods, gifted Orb with his battle prowess before dying.
CE Deity - faceless, unknowable force of void, entropy, madness, trickery, murder, storms, and wind; alignment Chaotic Evil; symbol is a black triangle with jagged, bent lightning bolts bursting from the center; dealt the last blow to the lawful good deity before Orb overcame this one.
LE Deity - god(dess) of tyranny, slavery, working to death, oppression, torture, construction, toil, assassins, extermination, forges, smithing, mining, and greed; alignment Lawful Evil; symbol is spiked manacles attached to a terribly heavy ball of gold; slayer of Crustan early in the jihad when attempting to steal the full power of nature, last evil deity to die due to his/her deific endurance.

 

[jerichothebard]

Most pantheons had a trickster. "Telemore, father of Uncertainty". His clerics can choose either the chaos or trickery domains. The other one is determined at random every day.

That's a really interesting idea - and mirrors the idea I have with clerics of ORB. They must choose the sun domain; they may take one other domain of their choosing with few restrictions. (No death, evil, destruction, etc.)

(They also have the option to take the Unearthed Arcana cloistered cleric as their class, which gives them the Knowledge domain, but that's not relevant.)


thanks - keep them coming!

jtb

 

[driver8]

How about as a subplot a wife of the god of death:

Vanthas,(CE?) former wife of Phelas, goddess of trickery, entropy, and herald of death.
She actually dwells in the Underworld, and governs access to the Afterlife, having stolen the keys from Phelas after being abandoned by her husband.

Vanthas comes to people on their deathbeds or in times or dire peril, yet she often alters or stops a mortals passage to death to interfere with her husbands domain.

The cults of Vanthas and Phelas are as can be expected in opposition.

Human female , with a black void instead of a face. Has great black wings covered with eyes that see all. Symbols are keys, snakes and a torch (which shows the way to the Underworld)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Your god changed his name to be all caps? That's ... odd.

I'd go with a non-adventurer god. Most people over the course of history didn't worship gods of butt-kicking, they worshipped those that could help with the harvest, childbirth, ward off disease and so on.

 

[Starglim]

Slikist, the End of Consolation, god of despair, unfairness and betrayal, the principle of Evil. His symbol and weapon is the knife. In short, a real nasty piece of work. It should be interesting how the players can rationalise or alleviate the effects of his return. NE

Nakar, of Close Darkness, god of secrets. Favours underground places and some of his worshippers may survive there. His symbol is the serpent. N

Nom, the Ancient One, the Unyielding, god of the stars, inevitable fate and eternal things, inventor of mathematics and writing. His symbols are a right-angled triangle or a cross of four stars. LN

 

[fusangite]

Machutus, the Sleeping God or God of the End
Machutus is the god of the next world; with each cataclysm, he stirs in his sleep, coming ever closer to wakefulness as the final conflagration approaches. Some say that he is a god of the paradisical world that will come into being after the last of the current gods dies and human beings are led out of the dark world they inhabit into one of infinite abundance. Others say that he is god of the hell into which the world will descend if the last of the great gods and nations is finally vanquished in the final conflagration. There are therefore two orders of priests of the god, one of which seeks to awaken the god and the other of which exists to maintain his perpetual sleep.

His symbol the sun halfway over the horizon; the Priesthood of Sleep maintains that this symbol is the setting sun while the Priesthood of Awakening maintains that this is the rising sun. Machutus is the god of light, darkness and music. Alignment: Chaotic Neutral.

 

[jerichothebard]

Your god changed his name to be all caps? That's ... odd.

nah, the clergy did that. And who's to stop them?