Khollajan Pantheon
Since ancient times, the Khollajan people have paid worship to a diverse pantheon of gods responsible for seeing over many aspects of their daily lives. From medicine to literature, war to craft, trade to good weather, the gods who are believed to watch over these things enjoy ritual prayer, holidays, and ephitets from common folk across the wide reaches of Southern and Central Des Forabis.
Divine Origins
When the earliest nations were settled on Des Forabis, before the continent earned its name, the settlers brought their gods with them. Those gods who continued to watch over these people, and who produced legends for them to tell, remained in popular use through the ages.
Worship
Those who live around the central regions of Des Forabis worship as a matter of course day to day. Each member of the pantheon - even the evildoers, who skulk in legends as villains - grants favors and blessings to those who call upon them. A doctor may ask Kessus to guide their hand while performing an operation, while the patient's spouse whispers to the same goddess to stave off death. A weaponsmith might attempt to win Saara's notice by carving her sigils or burning her favorite incense in their workshop; if she notices them, she might be willing to grant them a boon. Helios stands watch over libraries, the architects supposing the reliefs above doorways and arches might help the god of the sun look more closely at those who are studying.
Shrines for individual gods appear on street corners here and there - the Golden Mother Haenhelia, the worker Anados, the lucky cat Ione; those common, everyday gods who receive a coin or a flower by passersby in the hopes of a blessing. Larger temples are built in central locations, often including many members of the full pantheon, where anyone can visit to make offerings to one from whom they are seeking help. Priests who attend to temples can provide the needy with more immediate, tangible aid. Or, the desperate might seek the aid of a true cleric; some towns and cities are home to those rare devout who are apparently gifted true divine power by the god they serve.
Granted Divine Powers
Though they exist in a pantheon whose legends, exploits, and relationships regularly interweave, each god blesses individual clerics. A true cleric gains power from a particular god who they have chosen to worship above all others. A cleric of Haenhelia might say prayers to Kessus or Azher, or spit a curse at Shothos; but their daily worship, rituals, iconography, and life's purpose is dedicated to Haenhelia's tenets first, and anything else second.