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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ry" data-source="post: 3563694" data-attributes="member: 8314">Other ReligionsLike Ptolus, Greyhawk, or the Forgotten Realms, there are many gods in the mashup setting.  These are roughly grouped in three:  The Angelic, the Demonic, and the Fey gods.The Angelic gods, or simply, the Angels, are a hierarchy of Good gods from a variety of settings.  Although their churches may clash, these gods themselves are rarely at cross purposes.  The Sun Angel Pelor rules this pantheon, with the Moon Angel Selune at his side.  The Death Angel Kelemvor is one of the other great powers of the Angelic pantheon.  Some Lothianites believe the Angelic gods are servants of Lothian, while Angelic churches typically depict Lothian as a lesser Angel of teaching and foresight.  The Angelic pantheon will also include the greater angels depicted in Anger of the Angels.The Demonic pantheon is made up of various demon lords and devil-gods who war incessantly among themselves and with the world.  The Demonic pantheon shares many links with the Angelic pantheon, for several of its members were once Angelic creatures who were expelled from the Angelic pantheon after a terrible transgression.  Major forces among their number include Baphomet, Demogorgon, Dagon, Orcus, Pazuzu, Malcanthet, Vecna, and Graz'zt.  Many of the Demonic pantheon trace their lineage to the Galchutt, or Elder Evils, who will be detailed later.The Fey pantheon is not a pantheon at all - no unifying principle connects these gods, who range from rogue gods like Olidammara or Kord to elemental lords like Yan-C-Bin.How this helps compatibility and comprehension:[sblock]The three pantheons allow me to use practically any mainstream d20 source for ideas, and allows those ideas to have a reasonable backdrop of interaction.  A new player in my campaign might not have been with the party through its battles against the minions of Graz'zt, or their encounter with the angelic Razael, but once the player hears the words "Demonic" or "Angelic" they know the most important thing about the situation.[/sblock]Esoterica:  The Cult of the Runegod[sblock]The cult of the Runegod is an obscure Angelic faith, which teaches that the Angels follow the plan of a benevolent divine force that cannot be expressed as a person, but only as a kind of transcendent being made of symbols (often translated as the Runegod).  The Runegod is the force of prophecy, and they believe it was the Runegod that somehow performed the first Planar Catalysis, trapping the Elder Evils and giving birth to the world.  Though the Angelic faiths dismiss the cult, and the Lothianites dismiss or persecute them, there have been a few occasions where individual Angels have made common purpose with the cult of the Runegod.[/sblock]Esoterica: Chaos Cults[sblock]Some mad fools, in their quest for power, truck with the lords of madness we call the Elder Evils.  These include creatures known as the Galchutt, the dark being Tharizdun, and the terrible creators of the aboleth.  The most alert of such beings have been imprisoned, and you can thank the gods for that, for if they were released the stitches which bind these worlds would come undone.  Various 'Chaos cults' such as the Tolling Bell are the vanguard of these seething, hateful god-monsters and they have sired many races of demons.  Those who study the Elder Evils claim they come from a writhing, unfathomable depth of the Dreaming, known as the Far Realm.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/lom_gallery/88090.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Exotica: The Temple of Taiia[sblock]The faith of Taiia dwells on another world, where the sun goddess is worshipped with almost desperate fervor.  Taiia's worship is near-universal in this world, Iatta, which is politically dominated by the mask-obsessed Antilan Empire.  Taiia embodies both the creative, life-giving elements of the sun, as well as the eventual destruction of the world that she will wreak.  The world of Ianta, over which Taiia soars, is another result of Planar Catalysis, although the circumstances under which the creature who became Taiia accomplished this feat are unknown.Taiia is taken from the back of Deities and Demigods.<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dd_gallery/dd5/Taiia_p204.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The traditional weapon of Taiia's holy warriors is called in other lands a "Gladiator's Friend".  Tetsubo graciously drew one up for me in his <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=190844&page=2&pp=20" target="_blank">new weapon sketches thread</a> :<img src="http://www.enworld.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28237" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The blade is the sun/creator aspect and the spike is the night / destroyer aspect. You can imagine a ceremonial guard holding it vertically, changing it up depending on whether it's day or night.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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