The Wedding of the Giantess Morwenna - More Gods

Dameron

 

Building on the success of the last Gods Post, here are some more deities who have accreted in the time since my run of the Mountain of the Mad Marquis.

 

Beer and Bread is the form of the Grain Goddess worshiped in the Baronies. He ensures that hard work and loyalty to one's lawful superiors are rewarded with a happy home and bountiful harvest. The larger Grain Goddess cult is banned in the Baronies because its centralized authority threatens the temporal authority of individual feudal lords, and for its tendency to inflict famines on farmers who disobey its orders.

 

Big Sky was the chief God of the Old King's tribe. The God's cult flourished in slavish imitation of the Monarch's smallest biographical details, despite his irritated attempt to suppress it. Present rites to the deity are misinterpretations of the long lost original, who the King deliberately effaced information about.

Bloodfeast is a straightforwardly evil God of sacrifice. Ritualistically kill intelligent beings and be rewarded. His cult is widely despised but egalitarian - anyone who knows the rites can beseech his service. The Cave Elves worship Bloodfeast as a fanged spider known as the Headsman (in his male aspect) or the Decapitator (in his female aspect).

Trampier

Great Moon is the Goddess of treachery, theft and victory at all costs. She is worshiped alongside O Sun by people who want to cover their bases, and as twin Gods of fate. One vessel for honor, another for dishonor. On moonless nights Great Moon is said to be "blushing", hiding her face to avoid anyone seeing her slavering delight at the schemes her beloved disciples enact in the dark.

Land of Dreams is the God of sleep and dreams. He delivers restful slumber to the faithful and protects the dreams of all living creatures who acknowledge his power. Worship of the Lord of Sleep, and the luxuriant pleasure of rest that he dispenses freely, is addictive and ultimately solipsistic.

Leper Heart is the protector of mutants. He stops them from dying and takes away their pain, but never reverses their disfigurements. Originally beloved of aberrations and "naturally occurring" mutants, his popularity grew during the Monarchy as the Cult of Enlightenment's experiments created a neverending horde of disfigured creatures.

Bukowski

Lord of Embers is an obscure Fire God, who appears in bursts of sudden inspiration to pyromancers and rebels and defenders of lost causes. He inspires courage and refuses compromise. He may be a form of O Sun, God of Bravery and Honorable Combat.

The Love Suicides are the three creators of the universe. Revered in the same way as a great ancestor who performed a heroic sacrifice, rarely worshiped since they're dead.

• Has No Thoughts was the first being to exist, a mindless thing whose self-destruction created energy and matter
• Horned Mother was alone in the universe created by Has No Thoughts. She took the energy and the matter into her body and died giving birth to the life force.
• Waxy Mask was alone among living things in his ability to think. He tired of endless self reflection and removed his mask, allowing his intellect to pour into the living things and create the soul.

Mothermonster is the Goddess of non-intelligent monsters. Slimes, hook horrors, owlbears... She is worshiped apotropaically, given offerings to keep dangerous creatures away from villages and dungeon explorers.

 

Brueghel

 

One More Day is a personification of the act of necromancy. The life force that refuses the cold and narrow bed, or the thing that claws itself out of the bed absent the life force. The fear and certainty that someday this fairy tale will end, and the postponement of that ending. The mix of cowardice and bravery that prompts magic users to probe the secrets of the universe.

 

Only Your Love is a sex cargo-cult from the Ancient Empire, possibly the same thing as the Knacker and Symphony of Flesh. Aspirants slavishly imitate the sexual exploits of the Despoina, a semidivine Saint/Culture Hero. The cult flourished under the sadistic aristocrats of the Monarchy but receded in popularity when the Commonwealth abolished slavery.

Shrine of Storms is the Divine King of the Djinn. In the East he brings rain and floods the rivers, allowing his people to live another year in the harsh desert. Or, he used to. The mastery of clerical water creation and druidic weather control by the followers of the God of Mercy led to an uprising against the Djinn Potentates.

The surviving Genies are besieged at the eponymous Shrine of Storms, a temple-city where the Storm King and his followers still resist the God of Mercy's hordes. The Pashas and Emirs of the liberated realms have destroyed entire generations by conscripting them into the fight against the Shrine, sending a flood of refugees into the Commonwealth who would rather not fight in a neverending war.