Help me fill this Pantheon

Stormborn

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The Nine:
LG The Father, giver of order, god of law and culture
NG The Mother, giver of life, god of growing things and healers
CG The Warrior, maker of war, god of right and just conflict
LN The Smith, maker of tools, god of crafts and applied learning
N The Mage, seeker of knowledge, god of magic and scholastics
CN The Wanderer, seeker of a way, god of travelers and merchants
LE The ?, freedom's thief, god of tyrants
NE The Deceiver, truth's thief, god of criminals and wicked deception
CE The Destroyer, life's thief, god of murders and the dead

Creating a pantheon for a homebrew and looking for some help with the names. We want each god to be fairly iconic. This is a human culture and so are looking for idealized, or demonized in the case of the evil classes, human archetypes.

Any one want to chime in with better names, descriptions, or domains? I invision that worshippers follow the whole pantheon, perhaps favoring one or two of them. The Evil gods are seen as needed for balance, are respected and feared by the average citizen, but not mentioned if they can help it.

Thoughts?
 

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Stormborn said:
The Nine:
LG The Father, giver of order, god of law and culture
NG The Mother, giver of life, god of growing things and healers
CG The Warrior, maker of war, god of right and just conflict
LN The Smith, maker of tools, god of crafts and applied learning
N The Mage, seeker of knowledge, god of magic and scholastics
CN The Wanderer, seeker of a way, god of travelers and merchants
LE The ?, freedom's thief, god of tyrants
NE The Deceiver, truth's thief, god of criminals and wicked deception
CE The Destroyer, life's thief, god of murders and the dead

Thoughts?

Thoughts? Yup.

LG The Father, giver of order, god of order and culture
NG The Mother, giver of life, god of growing things and healers
CG The Brother, maker of war, god of right and just conflict
LN The Sister, enforcer of laws, god of law and applied learning
N The Sage, seeker of knowledge, god of Fairness and balance
CN The Cousin, seeker of a way, god of travelers and merchants
LE The Lord, freedom's thief, god of tyrants and evil rulers
NE The Deceiver, truth's thief, god of criminals and wicked deception
CE The Destroyer, life's thief, god of murders and the dead
 


Ferret, like the change to Sage, but don't know about the others, want to expand it beyond the family.

Voadam, Slaver is a possibility. How about The Slaver, freedom's thief, god of tyranny and obsession.
 
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Stormborn said:
The Nine:
LG The Father, giver of order, god of law and culture
NG The Mother, giver of life, god of growing things and healers
CG The Warrior, maker of war, god of right and just conflict
LN The Smith, maker of tools, god of crafts and applied learning
N The Mage, seeker of knowledge, god of magic and scholastics
CN The Wanderer, seeker of a way, god of travelers and merchants
LE The ?, freedom's thief, god of tyrants
NE The Deceiver, truth's thief, god of criminals and wicked deception
CE The Destroyer, life's thief, god of murders and the dead


Thoughts?

Thats nearly exactly the pantheon Dragonstar has. (Father LG, Mother CG, Warrior LN, Smith N, Magus N, Merchant LN, Trickser CN, Judge LG, Lover NG, Reaper LE, Stormlord CN, Destroyer CE)

Okay, Dragonstar has some more deities, but that who you have, have a big similarity to dragonstar.
 
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LG The Father, giver of light, god of culture and
NG The Mother, giver of life, god of healers and hearth
CG The Warrior, seeker of competition, god of war and contest
LN The Judge, seeker of truth, god of law and fairness
N The Smith, maker of all, god of creation and labor
N The ???, preserver of nature, god of wilderness and growth
N The Sage, seeker of knowledge, god of balance and magic
CN The Wanderer, seeker of a way, god of travelers and merchants
LE The Tyrant, taker of freedom, god of opression and slavery
NE The Deceiver, taker of truth, god of criminals and wicked deception
CE The Destroyer, taker of life, god of murders and the dead
 



Sounds a tiny bit like my pantheon, except that I have no evil gods, and instead grant full divine status to arch-devils and demon-princes.

(Yes, this means that the gods of good are outnumbered and outgunned. Thus the need for heros.)

-- N
 

Ok, as it stands:

The Nine:
LG The Father, giver of order, god of law and culture
NG The Mother, giver of life, god of growing things and healers
CG The Warrior, maker of war, god of right and just conflict
LN The Smith, maker of tools, god of crafts and applied learning
N The Sage, seeker of knowledge, god of magic and scholastics
CN The Wanderer, seeker of a way, god of travelers and merchants
LE The Master, freedom's thief, god of opression and obsessions
NE The Deceiver, truth's thief, god of criminals and wicked deception
CE The Destroyer, life's thief, god of murders and the dead

I want there to be one and only one god of each of the nine alignments and to keep the names fairly generic. I think this is the way we will go with it, but would still love to hear sugestions on these deities, especially how they are worshiped/incorporated into everyday life.

For those who mentioned a nature god, the world is beign designed such that the Old Ways were nature worship, as typified by Druids and still held by Rangers and the like, the Nine are gods of civilization and humanity andhave incoporated the thoughts about nature into the Mother.
 

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