Question for DM's, Pt. Deux: Favorite Homebrewed Deity/Pantheon?

[Undead Pete]

Ok....

Looks like my last thread was pretty popular.

Let's turn now to the gods (or GAWDS, if you prefer) of your setting(s).

What is your your favorite homebrewed god/goddess? What are his/her domains? I want to hear some interesting mixtures.

My current favorite is one that I've barely used in my campaign ....but have many future plans for.

His name is Hhussk: Lawful Evil God of Insects, Industry and Slavery. IMHO, insects are a topic that has been ignored in gaming (spiders don't count).

My second favorite is Nagash (pronounced neh-GAHSH), goddess of sharks, slaughter and aquatic undead.

For some reason, the evil ones always appeal to me

 

[Nightfall]

Scarred Lands Panethon! I mean did you expect some less from the Divine Emissary of the Scarred Lands?

I could post more...but I think it's only fair, especially since they aren't homebrewed.

 

[333 Dave]

My favorite homebrewed deity would have to be Soless, the Sun god and only deity of the Oasitic religion.

Soless is worshipped mainly by the ssiska of the Pharagon desert, though he does have worshippers elsewhere. Soless grants spells to his preists in the form of holy fire. Any spell cast by a preist of soless will have some element of fire in it, for example, cure light wounds the wounds will spring into flame which will then die leaving no wounds, or create water will make a ball of flame which turns into the liquid of life (extinguishing itself in the process).
Anyhow, Soless is pretty much the only deity in the setting who's power can be directly seen as divine (he's the only god that can grant followers commune or the like). Everything else can be construed as sorcery.

 

[Agback]

G'day

The religious work of which I am most proud is what I did for a setting that must remain nameless until I hear that it has definitely not won the WotC setting search.

If you are interested, and if you are not on the selection panel, you can read about it on my web site.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Undead Pete]

The religious work of which I am most proud is what I did for a setting that must remain nameless until I hear that it has definitely not won the WotC setting search.

The gods I mentioned in my posting above are actually in the setting which I submitted to WoC, but since they aren't mentioned in my 1 page, and since the uniqueness of my setting has nothing to do with them, I posted it....

 

[Angelsboi]

Heh, a god modled sort of after me, Morpheus.

Morpheus is the God of Sleep and Dreams. He is the lone survivor after a Gods War in which his family and friends were slaughtered. He's very dark and broody and has helped each of the other Gods at least once. Oh, hes made some enemies but hes a real nice guy. He likes to appear on the prime material plane to just watch a performance or listen to the dreams of mortals.

 

[333 Dave]

Angelsboi, PLEASE cut down the sig. Two pics and a block of text is way too much, its thrice the size of the rest of your post!

 

[Angelsboi]

Better

 

[Mallus]

A few oldies...

I really wish I could include gods from my contest submission, but that would be bad form.

From a 10 year old {and still going once in a blue moon} 2nd ed. campaign.

Katlinel, also called Kat the Capricious, or {duh} Lady Luck, Goddess of Luck, Fortune, and Self-Involvement.

In a nutshell, all 17 of the this worlds living gods were mortals from an ancient race that may or may not have been humanity who at some point bound. Evertything in their world existed in both the physical World and spiritual Overworld. It was the World of Plato adventure setting.... Anyway, the gods were beings who welded themselves to the massive idea-structures of this Overworld. A case of reverse-anthromorphization...

This worked out great for the people who became Justice, The Need to Explore {he re-invented high technology and bulit a starship}, Mercy and Regeneration. But it went very poorly for those who became less personal incarnations, such as of Earth and Fire, since all these gods and goddesses found that over the millenia, their 'selves' began to get subsumed by the Ideas they became.

Except Kat. Katlinel was a spoiled selfish self-inlvolved girl who went down the road to dietyhood out of jealously {her peers were doing it}. So she bound herself to voyuerism, gossip,
the eternal sentient desire to fight boredom by watching and meddling in the affairs of others.... Over the countless millenia she became the goddess of fortune, with a huge priesthood dedicated to entertaining their bored, imortal, ever-watchful deity. Who would intervene in their lives with petty miracles if suffiently amused.

She's a hugely popular goddess. Whose temples resemble casinos and temple hierarchies resemble soap operas. A fickle meddler who, by the virtue of her domain, is alone in her pantheon still possesed of their full self and will. Thus it is her task to guide her World's eternal battle against the demon-king who would destroy all sentient life...

 

[Henry]

It would have to be Throm, God of Thunder, and his wife, Luxor, Lady of Lightning.

Throm is a serious, no-nonsense god who demands that worshippers warn of the fury of storms and those who do not respect them can expect no mercy. His followers are usually True or Lawful Neutral, with a sect of Chaotic Good and Chaotic Neitral followers who use the powers of storms for their own ends. His followers have the granted power of the thunderclap, a cacaphonous blast that stuns and disorients all those in its range - except for those who are allies.

Luxor is a capricious god of lightning and the air, and her followers are excitable, if not downright predominantly happy. They tease the Thunderer's followers (as Luxor does Throm) about being too dour, and try to shed brilliance and excitement into all they can.

Her followers are granted the power of flying, as well as (at higher levels) the ability to use lightning bolts to fry evildoers.

My second favorite would be Jinchin, the Crafter, who can inspire as well as destroy. One of his granted powers is actually a sort of a blasphemy, only to be used in extremis - it is called the Shout of Waste, and is capable of destroying all crafted items in range. I've never had a player take me up on using that one.