Insignificant Gods

[roguerouge]

I need gods. Gods with too narrow domains. Gods with silly domains all to themselves. Gods that most PCs wouldn't worship and that most villains would be ashamed to.

 

[rkwoodard]

The God of Tuesday (insert your fantasy day of the week instead). Cause everybody knows that nothing ever happens on a tuesday. Domain: Bordom.

 

[The Little Raven]

Like Simon, the god of hair-dos and Jeff, the god of biscuits?

 

[Nifft]

Arcana Evolved forums should have a thread or two on Faen gods, which you can probably mine to find tons of what you want.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Mallus]

Here's a few from our new homebrew. Pardon all the text, I'm cutting-and-pasting...

• The Eroded God is an enormous figure of carven stone, its features worn away long before it came staggering up out of the surf. It can't actually speak in anything other than a unintelligible mumble, but the priesthood will happily translate for a modest fee. It's worked a number of minor miracles over the years (curing the sick, calling down bolts from the blue, and such-like), but it has a difficult time staying focused on such tasks. By and large it is content to set in its temple, listening to music and watching scantily-clad women dance, making the occasional prophecy or pronouncement. Or what is assumed to be such.

• The God-That-Is-Not is worshiped by the Cult of That-Which-Is-Not. It's a Sphere of Annihilation, which is either a path to paradise or a one-way ticket off the wheel of existence entirely.

• An abandoned temple houses an entity known only as The Dog. An enormous hound, the size of a war-horse, it's apparently immortal (some 200 years old now) and virtually unkillable (as testified by the number of now dead folk who have tried). It wanders throughout the building, never showing any particular signs of more-than-canine intelligence, and will occasionally accept gifts of food from petitioners. Those whose offering are accepted find themselves receiving a small blessing of some sort -- luck in love, recovery from illness, a sudden windfall.

• The Dog is served by a small and fanatical priesthood, who follow it about and clean up after it. They make a small living for themselves selling its droppings in the Five Fathoms Market, where buyers assume that the crap of a Dog that might be a God *has* to be worth something. If nothing else, it makes excellent fertilizer.

 

[Stoat]

Mighty Slak-Ur, God of Procrastination?

 

[roguerouge]

Okay. That's an idea! How many times have you thought to yourself, "God, I wish this day would end." or "Please, just let me get to Friday."

Gods of days is a good idea.

The reason I need them is that my campaign's going through a winnowing process as the world simplifies its cosmology. Minor gods either have to get more believers or fade away. So, they've each got an avatar wandering around, trying to recruit believers. So, if you have ideas for what the chief earthly representative of this god would be like, I'd love that too!

 

[Fifth Element]

Hong, God of Non-Sequiturs?

 

[roguerouge]

• The God-That-Is-Not is worshiped by the Cult of That-Which-Is-Not. It's a Sphere of Annihilation, which is either a path to paradise or a one-way ticket off the wheel of existence entirely.

I like this one, lots. It's a god of emptiness, absence, lack and Not, the embodiment of the end of things, the lack of desire, etc. I can see people getting into it and I can see why it would have trouble attracting followers.

• An abandoned temple houses an entity known only as The Dog. An enormous hound, the size of a war-horse, it's apparently immortal (some 200 years old now) and virtually unkillable (as testified by the number of now dead folk who have tried). It wanders throughout the building, never showing any particular signs of more-than-canine intelligence, and will occasionally accept gifts of food from petitioners. Those whose offering are accepted find themselves receiving a small blessing of some sort -- luck in love, recovery from illness, a sudden windfall.

I like the idea of animal avatars or gods of uncertain provence. Good one!

 

[roguerouge]

Mighty Slak-Ur, God of Procrastination?

A minor deity of sloth and rationalization? That's very possible.