Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="ghrezdd" data-source="post: 5306739" data-attributes="member: 4616">In my current campaign world (which has been running for 9 years now) I came up with a weird sort of cosmology/mythology inspired by many sources.  In the beginning there was Nothinginess.  Then the Elven Gods came to this plane (along with their children) and created the world.  During the process the Nothingness (which had gained awareness during the acts of creation) was unknowingly imprisoned.  During the eons that passed, the Nothingness seethed with hatred for all of Creation and became the Great Evil - a Chaotic Evil God of Primal Destruction, a sentient and malevolent super massive singularity.  But it was young and unfocused.  Then during the golden age, the Elves (in pursuit of more knowledge and power) discovered this primordial Evil Being and tapped into it for more power.  By interacting with that power, the elves gave the Nothingness a sense of identity and they matured it and of course when the Nothingness revealed itself, the Elves named it Lolth.  The Elven gods then re-imprisoned the Nothingness and bound it in a fitfull sleep.All of the other gods are the dreams (other evil gods) and nightmares (other good gods) of Lolth. The Elven pantheon I left intentionally vague, basically described them as a host of primal spirits – the god of rivers, the goddess of a particular lake, etc.  That way the players could name a god themselves  to worship if they were an elf.  As a side effect, I was able to say that Druids were those that worshipped a debased form of the elven pantheon – a sort of Elven Gods for Dummies.  For the Humans, I used the Seven Who Are One (and the One who is Seven) from GRRM A Song of Ice and Fire for the Humans.  The Gods (or facets) are: The Father, The Mother, The Smith, The Warrior, The Maid, The Crone and the Stranger.   They are young gods and from the nightmares of the Nothingness.    The Humans also have an evil god known as Lucifer or Shaitan and it is a dream of the Nothingness.For the Dwarves, I had them worship the seven founding clan fathers and they had one true goddess, the Earth Mother (who had created the 7 clan fathers as she was lonely).  There is even an official evil goddess that they all bribe to avoid her wrath.  The Dwarves know the Nothingness as 4 separate gods – Nurgle, Khorne, Slaanesh and Tzeentch of Warhammer fame.  The Earth Goddess was a lost elven god.For the Halflings, they worshipped a guardian/trixter goddess who’s orgins are obscure.I added more pantheons or expanded the existing ones as needed.Hope this helps <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification