mythology

===== Pelosian Re­li­gion ===== Al­though called Pelosian this is the most com­mon re­li­gion in Old King­dom, Dar­sis, and The Wild­land­s.

In Pe­los most peo­ple are #Pan­the­ists. Many holy per­sons fol­low this path as well, serv­ing the pan­theon as a whole. Oth­ers ded­i­cate them­selves to #The Three or #The Nine wor­ship­ing them to­geth­er as a group. #1|(1) Out­side of Pe­los ded­i­cat­ing to one god is more com­mon.

Many fol­low­ers are non­cha­lant about their faith. They fol­low the rites and tra­di­tions but don’t ex­pect the gods to be pay­ing any at­ten­tion or to do any­thing. True athe­ists are al­so not un­com­mon. #2|(2)

==== Pan­the­ists ==== Wor­ship all the gods of this pan­theon. Pray­ing/sac­ri­fic­ing to which ev­er one is ap­pro­pri­ate for the giv­en sit­u­a­tion.

Pan­the­ists un­der­stand that there is too much in the world to be con­trolled and tend­ed for one en­ti­ty, no mat­ter how pow­er­ful. To them it is im­por­tant that there is a bal­ance be­tween and amongst the god­s. Fol­low­ers of this pan­theon feel they are re­spon­si­ble for main­tain­ing this bal­ance through wor­ship and ded­i­ca­tion to all the var­i­ous god­s.

===== Ori­gins ===== The land, beast­s, plants, heav­en­s, none of it was cre­at­ed by our god­s. Ev­ery­thing all the ob­jects in the sky, sea, and on the land, the sky and sea it­self, and even in­sub­stan­tial things such as “love” and mag­ic were made by ‘cre­ator’.

‘Cre­ator’ is not un­der­stood to be a be­ing in any sense we would un­der­stand it. ‘Cre­ator’ lacks trin­i­ty, he/it/she is al­l. One mo­ment there was noth­ing, the next there was ev­ery­thing. That is ‘cre­ator’.

Even­tu­al­ly in some far off time ‘cre­ator’ will gath­er up all that was/is/will be, smash it up un­til there is noth­ing again.

Mys­tics of #Air­lan Synar­i­on have di­vined this will oc­cur 3 to the 27th pow­er years from when ‘cre­ator’ made ev­ery­thing, when­ev­er that was. Most Pelosian­s, if they think about it at al­l, can’t be both­ered with such an unimag­in­ably far

off even­t.

The gods were the first born. Dirt was cre­at­ed by these gods (old god­s, long gone, gods of the rpg:­cam­paign­s:dirt:­glos­sary#elders?). Then came an­i­mals and plants. Much lat­er sen­tient races were born. Al­though not cre­at­ed by the gods they took pity on the first races’ ig­no­rance and suf­fer­ing. Gave them civ­i­liza­tion. But rpg:­cam­paign­s:dirt:­glos­sary#The Cat­a­clysm took that all away. Af­ter that, with Pelosian­s, the gods were not so free with the se­crets of civ­i­liza­tion. They did leave us clues but we had to work hard to puz­zle out the an­swers and we are stronger for it. This is the 2nd gift the gods have giv­en us.

===== Na­ture of the gods ===== The are not all pow­er­ful. They ex­ist as part of the cos­mos and are bound by its na­ture and its lim­i­ta­tion­s. Many be­lieve the gods are “our” god­s. That is they are tied and ded­i­cat­ed to Dirt. Their in­flu­ence does not ex­tend to oth­er places in the glos­sary#Sky Sea. Those oth­er places have their own god­s. Al­though it is pret­ty cer­tain that the gods do not live on Dirt. Some think that “Wa­ter­drop” or “Flame” is their home now.

Long, long ago, be­fore ‘glos­sary#The Cat­a­clysm`, gods took a di­rect in­ter­est in the ac­tiv­i­ties of the races. They brought civ­i­liza­tion to the glos­sary#Elders. And if the few frag­men­tary records are to be be­lieved their avatars walked freely and of­ten with the glos­sary#Elders. But no longer, not since glos­sary#The Cat­a­clysm

Many claim to con­verse with the gods and the faith­ful be­lieve the gods speak through their priest­s. Athe­ists and es­pe­cial­ly Peo­ples of the Fist say our gods are dead or gone nev­er to re­turn.

===== The Pan­theon ===== This is a large, con­fus­ing pan­theon with many chang­ing, and over­lap­ping deities. Sev­er­al hun­dred gods have been wor­shiped at one time or an­oth­er. Not all of them de­tailed here.

On­ly #The Three com­mon­ly have ded­i­cat­ed tem­ples and priest­s. Even in Pe­los Mi­nor where each city has a pa­tron god #Pan­the­ists are com­mon. But shrines an al­tars to in­di­vid­u­al gods are all over. For in­stance ev­ery mil­i­tary bar­racks will have an al­tar to Cree­gus god of Bat­tle.

Out­side of Pelos, in Dar­sis and the Wild­land­s, it is much more com­mon to find priests of in­di­vid­u­al gods and peo­ple most­ly wor­ship­ing just one of them as op­posed to be­ing #Pan­the­ists.

In Pe­los Mi­nor each city has a pa­tron god, usu­al­ly one of #The Nine. This stems from an event dur­ing the war of se­ces­sion. Mi­nor’s cap­i­tal called apon ‘Zo­ry­d’ to stop the in­va­sion fleet. Zo­ryd caused a great storm that drove the fleet back to the Pe­los Greater’s shore with few ca­sul­ties. Stunned by such di­rect in­flu­ence they ac­cept­ed the Pe­los Mi­nor’s in­de­pen­dence and am­i­ca­ble re­la­tions be­tween the two were soon reached.

==== The Three ==== The ruler god­s, #Gelix, #Myri, and #Lir­lenion Sin­ry­nal. They each have male, fe­male and neuter as­pect­s. Al­though Gelix is viewed a pri­mar­i­ly male, Myri as fe­male and Lir­lenion as neuter.

They are the most im­por­tant and pow­er­ful god­s. They are meta­phys­i­cal­ly speak­ing “above” the oth­er god­s. But with­out the oth­er gods the world would fail to work. In fact all the gods are need­ed, this is the one foun­da­tions of Pan­the­ist be­lief.

The Three rarely seem to act or com­mu­ni­cate. Some be­lieve their ac­tions are be­yond our abil­i­ty to com­pre­hend, oth­ers see them as act­ing all the time ev­ery­where around us. They tran­scend our un­der­stand­ing of sen­tience.

An or­tho­dox view not held by all is that most of their “be­ings” are “used up” sus­tain­ing the world. i.e. The moun­tain­s, rock­s, wa­ter is Gelix, well, part of him any­ways. Sim­i­lar­ly with Myri and Lir­lenion for their spheres of in­flu­ence.

==== The Nine ==== Con­fus­ing­ly there are more than nine in The Nine. Dif­fer­ent ar­eas of the Known world el­e­vate dif­fer­ent gods in­to this group.

The Nine are the “movers and shak­er­s” of the pan­theon. Pow­er­ful and hav­ing large spheres of in­flu­ence.

Gods part of The Nine in­clude:

#Air­lan Synar­i­on, #Bea­ho, #Brogine, #Cree­gus, #Eal­nor, #Elon­dar, #Mylien, #Ryl­lan Synar­i­on, #Sineiri Syl, #Zo­ryd

==== The Many Oth­ers ==== Not a dis­tinct group just all the gods that aren’t part of #The Three or #The Nine.

There are lit­er­ate­ly hun­dreds of god­s, here are some ex­am­ples

The Arts - sev­er­al sis­ter­s. song dance draw­ing pot­ter(twin)

The Crafts - sev­er­al broth­er­s. wood stone met­al pot­ter(twin)

The Knowl­edges - sev­er­al neuter­s. sci­ences

The Woods­man

==== The Gods ==== === Gelix === //”ghee-lick­s”// - Greator De­ity (Law­ful Neu­tral)

Gelix is one of #The Three, the ma­jor ruler god­s. He has male, fe­male and neuter as­pect­s.

Gelix is the moutain­s, the rock­s, the wa­ter in the river­s. He pro­vides the ma­te­ri­als to build civ­i­liza­tion. He is sta­ble and un­yeild­ing. Un­like the tran­sient cre­ations of Myri when Gelix bless­es your house of stone it will be their for your chil­dren and their chil­dren.

“Firm like the rock, flex­i­ble like the riv­er. This is the best way to live.”

Gelix’s sym­bol is an ob­sid­i­an tri­an­gle point up­ward­s. His fa­vored weapon are pick­s(lit­er­al tool).

Port­fo­lio Inan­i­mate na­ture, min­er­al­s, moun­tain­s, rivers

Do­mains Earth, Wa­ter, Strength, Weath­er, Law

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Three, #Pan­the­ists, and fol­low­ers of Gelix are com­mon enough. Their train­ing is done to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. For Gelix it in­volves long pe­ri­ods of si­lence and oth­er forms of sen­so­ry de­pre­va­tion. Such as fast­ing for sev­er­al days and med­i­tat­ing in a dark win­dow­less sound­proof box. The goal is to con­nect with Gelix, with his na­ture that sur­rounds and per­me­ates ev­ery­thing.

Quests Trav­el­ling to re­mote des­o­late lo­cales such as moun­tain top­s, or deep in fea­ture­less sun­backed bad­land­s. In or­der to con­tim­plate and ob­serve what Gelix has wrought.

Prayers Prayers to Gelix are done in mass with dozens or hun­dreds of the gath­ered. No words are spo­ken. In­stead there is much stamp­ing of feet and smack­ing of arms on chests of­ten ac­com­pa­n­i­naed by drumm­s. It all starts slow but in­creas­es to a fevered rate un­til ev­ery­one col­laspes of ex­haus­tion.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­ers Shrines and tem­ples ded­i­cat­ed specif­i­cal­ly to Gelix will be in dra­mat­ic nat­u­ral set­tings. e.g. cliff­s, amidst rag­ing riv­er. They are al­ways hand made(no mag­ic) from nat­u­ral rock and dirt.

They are of­ten not very hab­it­able or build­ing like.

Rites Priests of Gelix are called up­on to bless any con­struc­tion or de­mo­li­tion of stonework and the like. They are charged with keep­ing Gelix “hap­py” and in bal­ance with Myri and Lir­lenion. So that none sur­pass the oth­ers Which would up­set the prop­er or­der of things.

Her­ald and Al­lies Na­ture it­self is Gelix’s Her­ald

=== Myri === //”mir-ee”// - Greator De­ity (Chaot­ic Neu­tral)

Myri is one of #The Three, the ma­jor ruler god­s. She has male, fe­male and neuter as­pect­s.

Myri is life. She caus­es flow­ers to bloom and ba­bies to cry thi­er first breath. Myri is death. She is in the li­on when it kills a dear and de­cays the dead. She drives the cy­cle of re­new­al. With­out which the world would be ster­ile, un­chang­ing, lump of rock and we’d all be stuck silent­ly con­tem­plat­ing Gelix’s Great­ness. So thank Myri when she next comes to sprout your crops or still your breath.

“Round and round the wheel of life we go.”

Sym­bol is a mo­bios strip on a green tri­an­gle point­ing down. Myri’s fa­vored weapon is the sick­le(the farm im­pliemen­t).

Port­fo­lio Liv­ing na­ture, plants, an­i­mals

Do­mains An­i­mal, Plan­t, Death, Heal­ing, Chaos

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Three, Myri, and #Pan­the­ists com­mon enough. Their train­ing is done to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. For Myri this means learn­ing about plants and an­i­mal­s, about birth and death. But not from books in stuffy tem­ples, rather out there in na­ture sur­round­ed by the liv­ing and dieing. Plant­ing things and killing things.

Quests Myri is not fond of quest­s. She ex­pects her priests to al­ways be an ac­tive part of life.

Prayers Con­sist of shout­s, songs, mu­sic, danc­ing. An­i­mal sac­ri­fice and burn­ing of plants of­ten fra­grant are com­mon so is an­i­mal breed­ing. Less com­mon than the songs of bards would have you be­lieve are or­gies or in­ter­course of a sin­gle mar­ried cou­ple.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­ers Shrines and tem­ples ded­i­cat­ed specif­i­cal­ly to Myri are cov­ered in plants and filled with an­i­mal­s. They are of­ten hos­pi­tals and/or cre­ma­to­ri­um­s.

Rites Birth­s, death­s, plant­ings, har­vests are all events Myri priests com­mon­ly pre­cide over. They are charged with keep­ing Myri “hap­py” and in bal­ance with Gelix and Lir­lenion. So that none sur­pass the oth­ers

Which would up­set the prop­er or­der of things.

When Flame leaves the night sky to join Wa­ter­drop in the eigth month there is a great cel­e­bra­tion. There are im­por­tant re­li­gious rea­sons but most Pelosians look for­ward to it as one honk­ing big par­ty. Many chil­dren are born nine months lat­er.

At the end of the year the “Death of the past” and “Birth of the fu­ture” rites are per­formed. This is a solemn even­t. And pop­u­lar time for div­ina­tion­s.

Her­ald and Al­lies Ev­ery an­i­mal and plant you see is a her­ald of Myri.

=== Lir­lenion Sin­ry­nal === //”leer-lay-nee-on see-n­rile-­nal”// - Greater De­ity (Neu­tral)

Lir­lenion is one of #The Three, the ma­jor ruler god­s. It has male, fe­male and neuter as­pect­s.

Lir­lenion Sin­ry­nal pro­vides the force thet burns wood and freezes wa­ter. With­out Lir­lenion there would be no mag­ic for Lir­lenion is mag­ic and mag­ic is Lir­lenion. When you con­sid­er wan­ton Myri or sto­ic Gelix it is Lir­lenion that gives you the abil­i­ty to think. With­out it we would be as mind­less as the riv­er rock watch­ing wa­ter flow by or the goat chew­ing on grass.

“Think, the an­swer will come to you.”

Lir­lenion’s holy sym­bol is a bluish-white sphere cracked near­ly in two and its fa­vored weapon is the Pelosian broadsword(treat as longsword).

Port­fo­lio Mag­ic, el­e­men­tal forces, en­er­gy, sen­tience

Do­mains Fire, Cold, Force, Mag­ic, Mind

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Three, #Pan­the­ists, and Lir­lenion Sin­ry­nal are com­mon. Their train­ing is done to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. For Lir­lenion it starts with study­ing the great philoso­phers and mys­tic­s, along with fun­de­men­tals of el­e­men­tal mag­ic. Then it con­tin­ues with many de­bates, test­s, puz­zles, and con­test­s. Af­ter that more study­ing, Myri does­n’t have a mo­nop­oly on cy­cles.

Quests Priests of Lir­lenion fre­quen­ty spend months re­search­ing some ar­cane ob­scure sub­jec­t. They are al­so fond of de­vis­ing and solv­ing in­tri­cate men­tal puz­zles.

Prayers Tend to be long and in­tri­cate with many lev­els of mean­ing. Some­times re­cit­ed in ob­scure lan­guages or in code.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Great schools and li­braries will have tem­ples to Lir­lenion. Some great li­braries start­ed out as tem­ples to Lir­lenion.

Rites Priests of Lir­lenion over­see the ref­fer­en­dums in Pe­los. They al­so bless new sen­a­tors and rep­re­sen­ta­tives ac­cept­ing their oath­s.

In Pe­los Mi­nor the day of sec­ces­sion is cel­e­brat­ed Lir­lenion priests pro­vide py­rotech­nic­s, light shows, and oth­er mag­i­cal cel­e­bra­tions.

In Dar­sis crimes dic­tate a form of ex­e­cu­tion where two Priests al­ter­na­tiv­ly freeze and burn the cri­m­inial un­til they are dead.

They are al­so charged with keep­ing Lir­lenion “hap­py” and in bal­ance with Myri and Gelix. So that none sur­pass the oth­er­s. Which would up­set the prop­er or­der of things.

Her­ald and Al­lies Cast a spel­l, Lir­lenion has just spo­ken through you. You are its Her­ald.

=== Air­lan Synar­i­on === //”a-ear­l-an se-­na-ree-on”// - In­ter­me­di­ate De­ity (Chaot­ic Good)

The Watch­er is one of #The Nine. She sees and knows all but these heavy bur­dens have driv­en her in­sane. She warns the oth­er gods of their doom but her cryp­tic mut­ter­ings and crazed rants they can­not com­pre­hend.

She is a come­ly Pelosian with un­kept “crazy wom­an” hair. Her arms are twist­ed at odd an­gles and claw­ing at un­known wor­ries. She of­ten con­torts her body in an ef­fort to see or hear bet­ter. Air­lan’s nor­mal at­tire is a over­sized dingy white smock, but, she some­times for­gets to dress.

“They come!”

Air­lan Synar­i­on’s holy sym­bol is a crys­tal bal­l. Her fa­vored weapon is the whip.

Port­fo­lio Div­ina­tion, knowl­edge, pro­tec­tion, mad­ness

Do­mains Pro­tec­tion, Com­mu­ni­ty, Knowl­edge, Or­a­cle, Mad­ness

Cler­ic Train­ing On­ly fe­males be­come priests of Air­lan, they are not trained as much as “cho­sen”. Once touched by her mad­ness a priest­ess has lit­tle choice but to fol­low Air­lan’s twist­ed path.

Quests Study­ing, record­ing and ex­pand­ing knowl­edge, seek­ing out musty tomes in long for­got­ten ru­in­s.

Prayers Are giv­en a in mut­ter­ing, halt­ing chan­t, punc­tu­at­ed by in­ex­pli­ca­ble bouts of scream­ing and vi­o­lent thrash­ing.

Tem­ples No one builds tem­ples to Air­lan. But she has her place amongst #The Nine and supris­ing num­ber of shrines are ded­i­cat­ed to her.

Rites None

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Bea­ho === //”bay-ho”// - Greater De­ity (Law­ful Neu­tral)

Bea­ho is one of #The Nine. It lurks in the heart, ready to strike at any­time but pre­fer­ring to fes­ter and grow. It chas­es the wicked and de­stroys those in the wrong.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tions of Bea­ho are ei­ther a form­less pool of black­ness or a war­rior clad in El­der style black ar­mor.

“Bea­ho sends his re­gard­s, pre­pare to die.”

A black iron bar held hor­i­zon­tal­ly is Bea­ho’s holy sym­bol. Bea­ho’s priests wield it’s fa­vored weapon, the dire flail.

Port­fo­lio Vengeance, pun­ish­men­t, de­struc­tion

Do­mains De­struc­tion, In­qui­si­tion, Celer­i­ty, Trav­el, Law

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine, #Pan­the­ists, and Bea­ho are com­mon. They start train­ing to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. Cler­ics of Bea­ho are des­tined to be in­quisi­tors, pros­e­cu­tors, and of­ten judge and ju­ry. They study the laws of Pe­los.

Quests Fol­low­ers of are of­ten giv­en or­ders to track down and bring to jus­tice var­i­ous crim­i­nals or dan­ger­ous be­ings.

Prayers are ac­com­pa­nied with sac­ri­fices / de­struc­tion.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Shrines and tem­ples ded­i­cat­ed specif­i­cal­ly to Bea­ho are rare. In­stead pris­on­s, in­qui­si­tion(­tor­ture) cham­bers and ex­e­cu­tion sites are ded­i­cat­ed to it

Rites Priests of Bea­ho are com­mon in court­room­s, as pros­e­cu­tors or judges. Cer­tain pun­ish­ments are car­ried out by them.

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Brogine === //”bro-gine”// - In­ter­me­di­ate De­ity (Chaot­ic Good)

Lord of the Forests he is one of #The Nine ex­cept in Dar­sis and parts of the Wild­lands where #Elon­dar takes his place.

Brogine is a wood­land di­ety that usu­al­ly takes the form of a large tre­an­t, though on oc­ca­sion he has tak­en the form of Satyrs and Cen­taurs. He nev­er takes hu­manoid for­m.

He will aid any creature that respects the woodlands and forests that he

pro­tect­s. But Brogine has a great fear of fire and will do any­thing to pre­vent the spread of fire in his forest­s. For this rea­son cler­ics of Brogine may not use any spell that in­volves the use of fire, ei­ther cast, from scrol­l, or from mag­ic item.

“Treat the woods well or abuse them, ei­ther way Brogine will re­spond thrice­fold.”

Brogine’s holy sym­bol is a Tre­an­t. His fa­vored weapon is the club.

Port­fo­lio Wood­land­s, For­est Gnomes, Druids

Do­mains Plan­t, Pro­tec­tion, An­i­mal

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine and #Pan­the­ists train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. Priests of Brogine con­tin­ue their train­ing in the forests where they learn about the plants and an­i­mals that dwell there.

Quests

Prayers Most prayers to Brogine are in the form of haunt­ing melo­di­ous songs sung ac­ca­pala or ac­comp­inaied by the flute.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­ers Shrines and tem­ples ded­i­cat­ed specif­i­cal­ly to Brogine are com­mon amongst the for­est gnomes. They are al­ways in wood­ed ar­eas and are of­ten made from liv­ing trees and plants that have been mold­ed in­to the prop­er shapes.

Rites Brogine is cen­tral to many ce­r­a­monies and tra­di­tions of the for­est gnomes.

Her­ald and Al­lies Tre­ant

=== Cree­gus === //”kree-­gus”// - Greater De­ity (Law­ful Neu­tral)

Called the hound of Bat­tle he is one of #The Nine.

Cree­gus ap­pears as a large pow­er­ful hu­man clad in pure sil­ver full plate with a full faced helm in the form of a hounds head. If he push­es the vi­sor back (no oth­er may, if they ev­er get the chance to try) his face is re­vealed as that typ­i­cal of any vet­er­an mer­ce­nary war­rior, scarred and worn look­ing, and in Cree­gus’ case sport­ing a droop­ing gray mus­tache rem­i­nis­cent of a hounds whisker­s.

“When words fail, arms suc­ceed.”

Sym­bol hounds head. Cross­bows are his fa­vored weapon.

Port­fo­lio Bat­tle, war­riors

Do­mains War, Force, Strength, An­i­mal

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine, #Pan­the­ists, and Cree­gus are com­mon. They train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. Cler­ics of Cree­gus of­ten start in or join the mil­i­tary. Train­ing to be one of Cree­gus’ war­rior priests re­sem­bles mod­ern boot­cam­p.

Quests Typ­i­cal­ly in­volve best­ing some mon­ster in di­rect bat­tle.

Prayers Cree­gus cares not for words oth­er than those de­liv­ered on the bat­tle field to in­spire troops to vic­to­ry.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­ers Shrines and tem­ples ded­i­cat­ed specif­i­cal­ly to Cree­gus are com­mon and ev­ery fort, mil­i­tary com­pound, etc has at least one.

Rites When sol­diers are re­galed with hon­ors cler­ics of Cree­gus be­stow them. They bless and in­spire troops pri­or to bat­tle. And per­form var­i­ous mil­i­tary cer­e­monies, ad­vanc­ing in rank, re­tire­men­t, com­ple­tion of train­ing.

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Eal­nor === //”e­h-owl-nor”// - Greater De­ity (Chaot­ic Good)

Eal­nor is one of #The Nine. Eal­nor rep­re­sents pas­sion, the fire that drives peo­ple to great ac­com­plish­ment and oth­ers to great ru­in. She is will­full and wants noth­ing more than that which she can­not have.

Eal­nor the em­bod­i­ment of sex ap­peal. She is an ir­re­sistable High Pelosian fe­male. Draped in re­veal­ing silk­s. Her grace and charm are un­sur­passed.

“O­h, I must have one of those!”

Eal­nor’s fol­low­ers adorn them­selves in her holy sym­bol, gold. The Javelin is her fa­vored weapon.

Port­fo­lio Se­duc­tion, pas­sion, greed, lust, de­sire, en­vy, jeal­ous­ly

Do­mains Dom­i­na­tion, Trick­ery, Char­m, Sun, Glo­ry

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine or #Pan­the­ists train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s.

Quests

Prayers Dances, orgies, sac­ri­fices

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Tem­ples of Eal­nor are of­ten where sex and sim­i­lar ser­vices may be had. Her shrines turn up in pec­u­lar places.

Rites

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Elon­dar === //”e­h-lon-­dar”// - In­ter­me­di­ate De­ity (Neu­tral Good)

In Dar­sis and most of the Wild­lands she is one of #The Nine in place of #Brogine

Elon­dar, the Sky Mis­tress, rules the area above the land­s.

Though god­dess of weath­er she has no pow­er over its de­struc­tive el­e­ments e.g. storms and hur­ri­canes; these are un­der the in­flu­ence of stronger god­s. How­ev­er, it is Elon­dar who brings the good weath­er that usu­al­ly fol­lows such de­struc­tive forces.

She is pale High Pelosian with long flow­ing white hair and beau­ti­full white wings. She wears noth­ing. but her feath­er­s, mist­s, or cloud­s, seem to al­ways hide her naked­ness.

“High above Elon­dar soars.”

Sym­bol Dove, fa­vored weapon sling.

Port­fo­lio Sky, Air, Bird­s, Weath­er

Do­mains Air, Weath­er, An­i­mal­s, Good, Sun

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine or #Pan­the­ists train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s.

Quests

Prayers Harp­s, lots of harp­s.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Shrines and tem­ples to Elon­dar are open to the sky and of­ten con­tain avaries.

Rites Ev­ery morn­ing her priests great the sun and thank it for com­ming back.

Her­ald and Al­lies White dove, or pale High Pelosian dressed in purist white with white hair and large white wings.

=== Mylien === //”mile-ee-in”// - Greater De­ity (Law­ful Good)

Moth­er Mylien is one of #The Nine.

She ap­pears as a at­trac­tive Com­mon Pelosian with short brown hair and warm brown eye­s. Some­times old, some­times young. Al­ways with a cheer­full de­meanor. She dress­es in clean white com­mon robes.

“Mylien loves you.”

Mylien’s sym­bol is the gar­lic plan­t. Fa­vored weapon quar­ter­staff.

Port­fo­lio Heal­ing, health, pro­tec­tion, com­pas­sion

Do­mains Cre­ation, Heal­ing, Pro­tec­tion, Good

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine or #Pan­the­ists train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. Mylien’s priests con­tin­ue learn­ing the arts at hos­pi­tal­s, clin­ic­s, and refugee camp­s.

Quests Cler­ics are reg­u­lar­ly sent out on mis­sion­s, to the coun­try, poor ar­eas, refugee camps to heal the sick, feed the hun­gry, and re­store the spir­it.

Prayers Qui­et and sooth­ing. It is said just hear­ing a Mylien Priest pray is enough to heal.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Un­like most oth­er gods Mylien tem­ples(hos­pi­tals and clin­ic­s) are com­mon. They are clean, airy, bright places of health and heal­ing.

Rites Ba­bies are of­ten de­liv­ered by Mylien cler­ics and al­most all are turned over to them for a few days of bless­ings, pro­tec­tion­s, and ward­ings. The same at ages 3 and 9.

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Ryl­lan Synar­i­on === //”rile-lan se-­na-ree-on”// - In­ter­me­di­ate De­ity (Neu­tral Evil)

The god of strife Ryl­lan Synar­i­on is one of #The Nine. He is the cause of war, con­flic­t, ar­gu­ment and the strug­gle to sur­vive.

A tall gaunt High Pelosian of stout build. Ryl­lan al­ways wears his ar­mor and wields two glim­mer­ing short­sword­s. One side of his face is con­tort­ed in an­guish the oth­er is dom­i­nat­ed by the toothy grin of man­a­cle laugh­ter.

“I know! Lets you and him fight­.”

Two tri­an­gles one blue, one gray ar­ranged in per­pen­dic­u­lar con­flict­ing ways. The Pelosian short­sword is his fa­vored weapon.

Port­fo­lio Strife, con­flic­t, ar­gu­men­t, war

Do­mains War, Mys­ti­cis­m, Pesti­lence, Sum­mon­er

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine or #Pan­the­ists train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s.

Quests

Prayers Drum­s, gongs, bell­s, trum­pets out of tune and play­ing not to­geth­er.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Tem­ples to Ryl­lan, if they ex­ist, are not pub­licly known. Shrines to him are found at war memo­ri­als and oc­ca­sion­l­ly where sol­diers con­gre­gate.

Rites None pub­licly known.

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Sineiri Syl === //”see-­nay-ee-ree sil”// - In­ter­me­di­ate De­ity (Neu­tral Good)

Sineiri Syl is one of #The Nine. She/he is a hermaphodite and changes from male, fe­male, or some mix­ture of the two at will. (S)he en­joys all that life has to of­fer. She is eas­i­est to de­scribe as a par­ty god.

Sineiri ap­pears to be an at­trac­tive High Pelosian. Of­ten half dressed but al­ways with a gob­let in hand.

“Less talk, more wine.”

A gob­let tipped so its spilling deep red wine is the sign that a shrine or tem­ple to Sineiri is near. (S)he has no fa­vored weapon. (in­stead cler­ics get +2 com­pen­ten­cy bonus to one of gam­bling, brew­ing, per­for­m)

Port­fo­lio Games, rev­el­ry, glut­tony, par­ties, fun

Do­mains Com­pe­ti­tion, Luck, Cre­ation

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine or #Pan­the­ists train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s.

Quests Priests of­ten com­pete against one an­oth­er in con­tests of skil­l, luck, or who can drink the most, the fastest.

Prayers Quit talk­ing and drink up, life is short.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Ma­jor cities have sprawl­ing palace like tem­ples to Sineiri Syl. They are quite pop­u­lar.

Rites Com­ming of age of­ten in­volves and all night or week­end binge with your lo­cal Sineiri Priest.

When Flame leaves the night sky to join Wa­ter­drop dur­ing the eigth month there is a great cel­e­bra­tion. There are im­por­tant #Myri rites to per­form but Sineiri Syl knows its just an ex­cuse for one honk­ing big par­ty. Many chil­dren are born nine months lat­er.

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Zo­ryd === //”­zoard­”// - Greater De­ity (Chaot­ic Neu­tral)

The Mas­ter of the Deep is one of #The Nine. In the depths sleeps Zo­ry­d, brood­ing and an­gry in his dreams over his iso­la­tion from the oth­er god­s. He wakes on­ly rarely. Thank­ful­ly for when he does the wa­ters rise up and try to swal­low the land.

Zo­ryd is­n’t “wor­shiped” as such. It is more of an ap­peas­men­t.

The most com­mon de­pic­tion of Zo­ryd is that of a re­clin­ing sleep­ing hu­man. Stat­ues of him are of­ten lit­ter­ly placed un­der sea­wa­ter. He is bare chest­ed with on­ly a loin cloth to cov­er the rest of him. Some­times with a a net oth­er times with a great tri­den­t.

“At sea the on­ly thing be­tween you and death is Zo­ry­d. It’s best not to do any­thing that would cause him to con­sid­er this fac­t.”

Deep blue usu­al­ly shaped in­to a tri­an­gle is Zo­ry­d’s sym­bol. The net is his fa­vored weapon.

Port­fo­lio Seas and ocean­s, weath­er at sea, sea crea­tures, trav­el by wa­ter, fish­ing

Do­mains Weath­er, Wa­ter, An­i­mal­s, Trav­el

Cler­ic Train­ing Priests of #The Nine or #Pan­the­ists train to­geth­er at var­i­ous tem­ples, monas­ter­ies, and re­li­gious school­s. Priests of Zo­ryd of­ten come from fish­ing or trad­ing fam­i­lies.

Quests

Prayers Sac­ri­fices, crushed and scat­tered in the sea. Prayers are best done at sea. The tru­ly se­ri­ous ones done in the sea.

Tem­ples The typ­i­cal Pelosian tem­ple will have stat­ues or al­tars to #The Three in the mid­dle sur­round­ed by al­tars to #The Nine. Which in turn are sur­round­ed by nooks and cran­nies for al­ters to the many oth­er­s. Shrines and tem­ples built to pla­cate Zo­ryd are al­ways near the sea. Sev­er­al large ones are ac­tu­al­ly un­der the sea. Zo­ry­d’s wa­ters mag­i­cal­ly kept at bay.

Rites When a new boat first touch­es the wa­ter it had bet­ter be blessed by one of Zo­ry­d’s priests or it shall sure­ly sink.

Her­ald and Al­lies Zo­ryd oc­ca­sion­al man­i­fests as a ter­ri­ble hur­ri­cane. Levi­a­tons and ti­tans of the sea are ei­ther oth­er man­i­fes­ta­tions or his al­lies, priests aren’t sure.

=== Fhar­langhn === Mi­nor Good (Neu­tral)

From PHB

Port­fo­lio road­s, trav­el, dis­tance

Do­mains Celer­i­ty, Luck, Pro­tec­tion, Trav­el, Weath­er

Cler­ic Train­ing Gnomes are at­tract­ed to fol­low Fhar­langh­n.

Quests

Prayers

Tem­ples

Rites

Her­ald and Al­lies

=== Myl­len­ri­nor === Mi­nor De­ity //”mile-li-n­ree-nor”// (Chaot­ic Neu­tral)

Myl­len­ri­nor, the Night Stalk­er. Like his fol­low­ers he is vir­tu­al­ly nev­er seen, ei­ther in avatar or god for­m, prefer­ing to blend in­to shad­ows or crowd­s.

His sym­bol is a black tri­an­gle. Fa­vored weapon is the dag­ger.

Port­fo­lio Thieves, night, shad­ows, se­crets

Do­mains Trick­ery, Dream, Trav­el, Chaos

Cler­ic Train­ing

Quests

Prayers

Tem­ples

Rites

Her­ald and Al­lies On the rare oc­ca­sions that an avatar of is seen it ap­pears as an av­er­age hu­man male, slight­ly stooped and thin, with brown hair and mis­matched eye­s; the left green and the right brown. He usu­al­ly wears leather ar­mour and wields two dag­gers

{D­M} ====== Three spheres of the god­s, In triplet­s====== Arts Sci­ences Knowl­edges

(ac­tors)life

Mu­sic Sound An­i­mals Bi­ol­o­gy(an­i­mal­s) Dance Move­ment Plants Bi­ol­o­gy(­plants) Prose Thought Mys­ti­cal His­to­ry

(stage)i­nan­i­mate

Draw Form Solids Ge­og­ra­phy Sculpt Shape Liq­uids Ideas Paint Col­or Gas­es Un­known Knowl­edge

(cause)­forces

Archtech De­sign Nat­u­ral Math­s/­Physics Act­ing Com­po­si­tion Ar­cane Lan­guage

??? Di­vine Philo/Re­li­go

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1 song 2 dance 3 for­m/s­culpt 4 word 5 com­po­si­tion/ar­rang­ment or the­atre 6 draw­ing(­line/shape) or po­et­ry 7 paint­ing(­col­or) or shape draw 8 de­sign(­clogh/en­grav­ing or paint 9

sci­ences 1 an­i­mals 2 rocks 3 forces 4 maths 5 met­als 6 plants 7 spir­its 8 ar­cane 9

knowl­edge 1 his­to­ry 2 ob­jects 3 ideas 4 ge­og­ra­phy 5 math or zo­ol­o­gy 6 lan­guage or plan­tol­o­gy 7 8 re­li­gion 9 un­known knowl­edge

{DM END}

===== Foot­notes =====

== 1 == Game Me­chan­ic: Cler­ics which are Pan­the­ist­s, fol­low #The Three or #The Nine may choose from any of the do­mains their “set of god­s” have. These cler­ics are most of­ten Neu­tral(N, NG, NE, LN, CN) but oth­er align­ments are pos­si­ble.

== 2 == Pelosians be­lieve “Di­vine Mag­ic” is just chan­nel­ing the one true mag­ic force and does­n’t nec­es­sar­ly re­quire any god to ex­ist.