In reply to Game Dude (msg # 5):
Thought I'd lend a hand here.
Deity | Alignment | Domain | Notes |
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The One God 1 |
Ator, The Warrior | LN | War | Gold armor on a black background |
Aldis, The Father | LG | Light | Black house on a silver background |
Mirran, The Mother | NG | Life | Blue and gold flour-de-lee on a gray background |
Heldigar, The King | LG | Light, Tempest | Gold crown on a silver and black checkerboard background |
Hazelfred, The Crone | N | Tempest | Red, Blue, White flowers on a black background |
Esmyr, The Lover | CG | Trickery | Red heart on a white background |
Gottrem, The Spirit | N | Life, Nature | Green trees on a white background |
Jorga, The Storm | CN | Tempest | Gray clouds with golden lightening on a black background |
Bessenfry, The Healer | NG | Life | Red cross on a gold background |
Ikkona, The Killer | CE | Tempest, War | Red dagger on a black background |
Mansfredda, The Savior | LG | Light | White dove on a green background |
Horstofritz, The Death | LE | Death | White skeleton with black scythe on a red background |
Siris, The Summoner | NE | Knowledge, Trickery | Black open book with red flames at center on a gold background |
Refrum, The Builder | LG | Knowledge, Light | Silver hammer and golden carpenter’s square on a blue background |
Zekathis, The Knowing | NG | Knowledge | Unrolled white scroll with red lettering on a black background |
Nurg, The Bitter | CE | Death, Trickery | Red skull and crossed bones on a black background |
The New Gods 2 |
Unyssus | LG | Light, Tempest | Golden crown on a red sphere. King of the New Gods, ruler of the Brightlands, the Celestial Plane |
Lilzara | LG | Light, War | Silver scales on a blue diamond. Unyssus’ Queen, Queen of the New Gods and the Brightlands |
Padron | NG | Knowledge, Light | Black book on a red square. Son of Unyssus and Lilzara, Prince of the New Gods and the Brightlands |
Ladrii | CE | Death, Trickery | White skull on black diamond. Daughter of Unyssus and Lilzara, denounced princess of the New Gods |
Hylladria | NG | Life, Nature | Green tree on a silver sphere |
Elynor | CG | Light, Nature | Orange sun on a yellow sphere |
Gahdfrey | LN | Knowledge, Light | Blue lightning bolt on black sphere |
Vitan | N | Life, Light | Red heart on a silver diamond |
Fzun | CN | Knowledge, Trickery | Golden mask on a blue square |
Hextor | NE | Trickery, War | Red crossed swords on a yellow sphere. Brother of Vanor, known as the Master of War |
Vanor | LE | Death, War | Black chain on a green diamond. Brother of Hextor, known as the Master of Death |
The Sleeping God 3 |
1 The One God is an entity of many aspects represented various parts of its complex and divine nature. These aspects are often worshiped individually. Though the common clergy of the One God’s temples promote a more unified approach to worship. Many people invoke a particular aspect based their needs and the times they a living through.
2 The New Gods appeared in Vaiden during the Dark Ages of the world and have since become part of the pantheon of commonly worshipped gods. Many people on Vaiden find it easier to relate to the New Gods because their religious observance is far simpler than the complexity of the multi-faceted One God.
The New Gods have established the Brightlands, the Celestial Plane of Existence, as their home and domain. Due to the family structure of Unyssus’ court and the trouble the godly King has suffered due to his daughter, Ladrii, many people feel a greater connection to the pantheon than to the alien, all-encompassing nature of the One God.
3 The Sleeping God
The entity known as the Sleeping God is a true enigma among the religions, cults, and academics of modern Vaiden. Its background is unknowable. Its influence is real but too obfuscated to be made evident in nearly every incidence. Its rumored connection to the Balyll cannot be ignored. Nor can it be proven.
The Sleeping God is believed to be trapped, slumbering for the ages, in the Fortress Mountains of Northern Viakandia. There are a great many rumors about the Sleeping God. And as many cults. Both of which are mostly baseless.
What is known is that the Sleeping God is real. It is said that those who come to the Sleeping God seeking council, knowledge, power, or assistance are often contacted in their dreams. Such dreams lead to madness.
Those touched by the Sleeping God are thought to have glimpsed the abyssal darkness of space. That they are somehow dredged from the material plane into the astral space where they come face to face with the Sleeping God. Such encounters are said to be when the dire bargains are made between mortal and god. From such encounters few returned with their sanity intact.
It is believed that the Sleeping God must consume the souls, and some claim the bodies too, of mortals daily to feed itself. While many people claim this number ranges from a single person or soul to as many as a thousand per day, no one really knows how many people die to the Sleeping God every day.
It is known that the Sleeping God has Illithid, Gith, and Drow followers across Vaiden. Many people believe these to be the remnants of the fallen armies that the outer god, Balyll brought from the outer planes it had conquered.
This has, of course, fueled more rumors about the origins of the Sleeping God. Chief among these rumors is the Seeping God was summoned by Balyll and led a vast army from the outer planes on Vaiden. Another rumor claims the reason it is called the Sleeping God is that it was defeated and imprisoned by the One God during the Great War. This has led to wild speculation and the belief by some that the Sleeping God of the Fortress Mountain is in fact Balyll, the outer god that invaded Vaiden causing the Great War.