Introduction to Amerielle's Gods

Creation Mythos

Saagael and R'yleh, the Eternals of Death and Chaos established the material plane as a way to expand their realms and to create ways to sow more death and chaos. This newfounded plane empowered them in their eternal struggle with other gods. During this brief alliance, they created creatures of innocence and of evil using the evil creatures to inflict atrocities and savagery on the weak innocent. They drew power from the prayers of the wicked and the pain of the innocent.
Their rule of this new hell began to fade when a Life god, Novos, saw the evil and death and intervened. While Saagael and R'yleh were occupied gorging themselves on the death and chaos, Novos slipped into the material plane and called three races to himself, the humans, elves, and dwarves. He used them to establish good and righteousness on the material plane.
At first, the two wicked creator gods were excited to corrupt and destroy these good creatures, but Novos had played them. He began to create a pantheon of new gods to rule over the material plane. He used the prayers of the creatures to build this new retinue of gods. These new gods began to rule with goodness and justice. Saagael and R'yleh reacted by creating their own opposing gods, gods of evil and ancient ones of chaos. A war began between the new gods as Saagael pitted Tiamat, his chromatic dragon goddess, against Bahamut the good metallic dragon. The war raged for centuries and many gods rose and fell during that time.
Novos realized that his war would ultimately lead to the death and destruction of the entire material plane. He brokered a truce with Saagaela nd R'yleh and the three of them relinquished control of the material realm to their children gods.

The Pantheon

There are many other gods other than the ones listed here, but what follows accounts for the major gods that are present in Amerielle and those that have the largest number of followers.

	Lawful	Neutral	Chaotic
Good	Bahamut Ixion	Rho Alaoabec	Ate Orla
Neutral	Uluru	Mystra	Orton Garnuk Whala ne Agooun
Evil	Tiamat Bodom	Vogon Theglas	Mordiggian (Old One)

Children of Novos, Life

Ixion, the Sun Judge

To many Ixion is the pinnacle of order. He is the son of Novos and expects a strict adherence to the tenants of the law. He eschews any kind of duplicity or untrustworthiness and instead is seen a strict and fair judge. He is however patient and understanding of the plight of all creatures. It was Ixion who lifted up Granuk to godhood.

Depiction

A centaur with a massive bow and arrows. He is seen as the embodiment of Justice. While he is seen as stodgy and unbending, his followers are generally compassionate and quite generous. That is until one shows that they are dishonest. Ixion is the god of many lawful good creatures and because he views sickness and injury as injustice he demands service by healing the injured.

Symbol

A white sun with an arrow crossing from top-right to bottom left often displayed on a field of orange.

Enemies

Demons, devils, and any shape-changers.

Praecepta

• The sun provides warmth to all, but scorches the wicked
• The weak and the poor are an opportunity to show true character.
• Justice is delivered without hesitation.

Bahamut, The Platinum Dragon

Bahamut is the warrior god of Good. The metallic dragon is seen as a great general and good judge over the land. No other god takes a more active involvement in life of mortals more than Bahamut. He is the god of soldiers and of those who defend the weak. Bahamut is the closest the Children of Novos come to having a god of war.

Depiction

Bahamut is an ancient metallic dragon with four large wings, his cat-like eyes are crystalline blue and his scales are silver with a blue hue. In human form, he's often a soldier in gold armour wielding a large sword and shield. He stands to protect the wea.

Symbol

The head of a metallic dragon on a field of blue trimmed in silver.

Enemies

Chromatic dragons of all types.

Praecepta

• Peace is won by holding to Truth, staying vigilant against Evil, and guarding the poor.
• Evil cannot be tolerated, not in the world or in your life. Only your action will root it out.
• Shields do more to ward off blows than words and weapons

Legianos, The God of Warfare

Depiction

A multi-faced diety with a spear in one hand and a sling in the other. On his back is a shief of wheat.

Symbol

A simple white spear head on a field of orange.

Enemies

Chaos.

Praecepta

• Fight with honor. Die with purpose.
• Train in times of peace to be prepared for times of war.
• Those at your side depend on you above all.

Rho, The Builder

Depiction

Rho is a purple-haired dwarf with a long beard of white. He's often depicted wielding his massive maul, Kasar, a sentient weapon. He is the god of dwarves and of those who build. He believes that the earth is a thing to be battled against and won. Making him a natural enemy to Bodom. Many see him as being a god of Chaos desiring to put energy into objects to create new.

Enemies

Every underdark creature, orcs, drow, and ilithids

Praecepta

• Energy is not wasted if something changes.
• The earth and nature are wasted if not tamed.
• Hone your chisel before you use it, not after.

Alaoabec, The Earth Mother

Depiction

A unicorn riding Alaoabec is variously depicted as an elven or human woman, and often associates with unicorns and other sylvan creatures. When in human form, Ehlonna appears as a dark-haired human woman, but as Ehlenestra, she appears as a golden-haired elven maiden. Her eyes are deep blue or startling violet. Her garments may be the practical garb of a ranger or the rich gown of an elven princess. She carries a longbow that always hits its target. Her human aspect has special powers over horses, while as Ehlenestra she has similar command over unicorns.
Her symbol is a willow tree with purple leaves and white bark overlooking a brook.
Enemies:

Praecepta

• Civilization must respect nature, it will exist long after civilization is gone and was here first
• Corruption of nature is a vile thing
• Short-term decisions have long-term implications.

Ate

For Ate and her followers, the reality is that life is hard but that does not mean that it cannot be fun or enjoyable. The story is that Ate started out as a bard once, but tricked, cajoled and connived her way to godhood through enticing songs where the gods gifted her with their own godliness. As a former human Ate is at the centre of pushing progress, technologists, bards, and explorers find solice in prayers to Ate. For many the most important thing is that she is the Goddess of Wine.
THere are those who say that it was her that it was her who travelled the planes to convince Novos to come and save the humanoid races. He sainted her and from there she rose to godhood.

Depiction

Often seen as a tiefling with extravagant colours and bring pink hair. Most often she has a lyre which she plucks at and sings haunting and beautiful songs of loss and of travelers who nevered returned.

Holy Day

Ate's Day. A day celebrated with dressing up as monsters and fey creatures traving from house to house and business to business as children asking for trinkets, baked goods, or candy.

Praecepta

• Goodness cannot be captured by any law.
• A silver tongue is a gift from Ate.
• Conceal your intents, lest others control you. To deceive is to wield power.
• Press on and create new marvels and songs, do not let today limit tomorrow

Orla, The Moon Queen

Orla is often thought of as the Elf Goddess, but she is more than that. She is responsible for the creation of high elves, but also is a godess to those who sojurn and sail the seas. The wife of Ixion. Chaotic good., Her belt leads sailors. Her symbol is a white stag with six horns on her antlers.

Depiction

She is seen as a beautiful elf or often a white stag with diamond antlers. Generally the elvish goddess. She is also occasionally seen as a mermaid surrounded by orca whales. In human form, she's surrounded by goddogs, giant winged dogs with rows of razer sharp teeth.

Praecepta

• Change is inevitable. Do not try to capture chaos, instead ride the wave.
• Seasons of trial come, but those who rise above find kindness in the goddess's sight.
• An individual can save a life, a community can safeguard all lives.

Uluru, The Sojourner

The goddess of shepherds, and those who know life is hard. Truth matters and family matter. She has a holy site in the middle of the Kallowa desert. She is seen as a giant elf with black swan wings and often is seen as a whirlwind. She is a goddess of restoration and healing. She is the one who travels and guards the roads.

Depiction

A massive elf with black swan wings or a whirlwind.

Symbol

The silhouette of her mountain, a round mound, circled by. It's plain by most accounts.

Enemies

Shapeshifters, evils, in the real world hated evil dingos, so dogs

Praecepta

• Stand firm.
• Protect kin.
• Unearth secrets.

Mystra, The Giftgiver

The peasant girl who rose to Godhood. Little is known about her other than that she is the one who understands all magic and is the guardian of magic. The only magic she won't touch is Necromancy, which she sees as a curruption of her magic. She is the godess of magic and knoweldge. Her symbol is a rose with two leaves and two thorns.

Depiction

A beautiful woman with tentacles for legs and stars for eyes.

Praecepta

• Learn the secrets of the universe
• Trust nothing that has not been proven by experiement
• The past opens the door to the future.

Granuk, The Mother of Kin

Let those who think we are wild know that we are crazy, not evil. Just because we are different does not mean we are vile. She is trying to evangelize for her children an looking for non-kin.

Depiction

A goblin hag witch with long bony fingers and large naked breasts.

Praecepta

• Wildness cannot be captured.
• Savagery is not the opposite of civility.
• Alliances are not the death of independence.

Death : Children of Saagael

Trickery, war death tempest grave arcana nature

Tiamat, The Dragon Queen

Evil and intelligence Tiamat wants to destroy all living things. She craves power and does the will of her father, Saagael.

Depiction

Five headed dragon monstrosity who prowels the earth looking for towns and the weak to devour

* Enemies

Praecepta

• Devour the gentle and weakness. We are dragons not lambs.
• Dragonkin is the only kin.
• A firm grip is the only way to show power.

Whala ne Agooung

Whala ne Agooun is the master of the oceans. He is the calm and the crashing. He is the darkness and the light.
Praecepta

• Loving Whala means loving the calm and the crash
• Every continent is a ship ready to sink
• Life on land pollutes you with its peace and lack of balance
• The tide comes in and goes out on both the skilled and the unskilled, one prevails

Note: The Goon in Agooun is a reference the Chinese God Gonggong

Bodom, Vile Earth Father

Bodom is the evil God of Earth. He demands sacrifice. He is the blight that settles upon the world. He's the one who bleaches the coral the one who creates creatures to infest forests. And is the bane of all druids and tree-loving folk. He is the sinkhole of the gods sucking up life and replacing it with a crater. Lawful evil. He is the god of the Deurgar.

Depiction

Depicted as a volcanic dwarf with lava hair and beard, but most often just a volcano

Praecepta

• The abomination of life is to be brought to end
• Take from others are return to the earth
• Hasten the day where the earth becomes unruley

Orton

A impulsive and yet powerful, loved by the underworld and anarchists. His wife, Lolth. Selfish and self centered. The god of devils, a scale covered bear with two heads, on a bears and one a hawks * Depiction : a bear with six legs and two heads. * Enemies

Praecepta

• Master your past, present, and future, Time is the tyrant all but we will bow to
• Let others be held by law, you are the true free
• Fires burn to check all things, plant, civilization

Vogon, The Warbringer

The sacrafice of Vogon is the blood of your eneies. To die on the alter of war is to live a life filled. The jackle king rides. He is the prince of demons after banishing Asmodeous has taken his place.
* Depiction : Brother of Bodom the earth father, he is pictured as a man's body with a jackles head. He has two staffs one of disease and the other war. * He's often seen on his steed a hellhorse of one of the angels of his own father's creation that killed and embedded in the horse in a labrodite stone carved to look like a woman's face * Domains: Sun, deserts, war, * Money, wealth

Praecepta

• The best grass grows in blood.
• Let the fool speak, you will teach him in due time.
• It is not enough to cut a man or bleed him, you must also break his bones.

Vecna, The Gravedigger

A powerful litch king one who has transverse the lands and the wilds. He has been around for ages and is looking to learn more. He cares little for the material world as long as it does not interfere and as long as he can find what eh's learning. Vecna is one of the few who has risen high

Domains : Death, Magic (Necromanacy), Knowledge

Praecepta

• All pursuits that do not unearth arcana are squandered.
• Let no man or god lay claim to you.
• Death is only the end for the weak.

Eygineldfchll, The Blind Stone

(Eye-gen-eld-fyc-ull) The primary deity of the duergar. A dark voice at the bottom of a dark pit. The sound a stone makes when removed from a wall. The moisture and cold in a cave when it breathes.
Duergar sew sigils bearing Eygineldfchll's sign a single line in a stone hemmed with a

Domains : Craftsmanship, Stone, Darkness

Praecepta

• I see not failures or success only resultss
• Rash behavior leads to bloodshed - patients leads to annihilation.
• Death is only the end for the weak.

Theglas, The Desiccated One

Gross and vile decaying man of death. He wants to hollow out all life and bring undeath uppon the world. King of fungus, slimes, and all things nasty. * Orders : Death and decay * Depiction : A fungus riddled old man with a long beard of rot. His face is sloughing off and his eyes are hollow. He desires to end all life and rise and the lord of undeath. Symbol

Praecepta

• Life ceases if nothing dies.
• Embrace death and help others embrace the same.
• Death is a beginning and death is the end, it is more beautiful and amazing than life.

Children of R'ylea (Chaos)

Mordiggan, Our Mother of Horrors

The evil chaotic god is often seen as a single eating maw with tentacles that flail around drawing things inside to devour them. Best anyone can understand Mordiggan wants to bring on the end of the world, by unleashing her children driving everyone insane letting them live forever in their insanity and then slowly pull them apart ending reality as she does.

Praecepta

• Mordiggian's will is all

Other Deities

Ararush-Kamuy, The Bear Goddess

The evil chaotic goddess of the forest.
Praecepta

• Her hand is on the hunter not the hunted.
• Fangs are for tearing