Hantithenus
Hantithenus is the god of culture and social organization; of commerce, cities, construction, architecture; patron of merchants, bankers, and city planners; of engineers and also of sailors (who bring culture and commerce to the seas). Hantithenus loves winners and encourages competition of all sorts among his followers. He takes great joy in artifice and invention; in building bridges and straight wide roads, and in the humming orderly bustle of a well-run and prosperous community. Most marketplaces are presided and watched over by icons of Hantithenus, and his priests teach that the market is a sacred space, and commerce a form of worship.
Tya Nehru created humanity, and to guide and rule it then birthed her twin children Sennia and Hantithenus. These two married, sired numerous deities, and founded cults and churches among the humans.
During this time Sennia established the city of Gebesh and taught humans how to farm and the handicrafts of rural life, spreading farming communities across the world. Hantithenus founded the cities of Fulton (Fultar’s political capital) and Atlan (Fultar’s financial capital) and taught humankind writing, mathematics, and other lore.
The twins grew apart, and eventually became embroiled in a bitter struggle for supremacy on Earth. Only the in-tervention of Tya Nehra stopped the extinction of humanity and the death of some of the gods, bringing peace to Fultar.
Mages in Fultar don’t tend to be very religious, but most Fultonian mages worship Hantithenus if they have a patron god; among all the pantheon, he is most friendly to them, understanding their magic as a sort of engineering project.
Hantithenus is a sterner god than Sennia; he is a sort of perpetually difficult to please father figure, always urg-ing his followers on to build higher, straighter, and stronger. He and his followers often unfairly associate
Sennia with the chaos of wild nature and claim that she encouraged or aided Hecate in the past. Hantithenus believes in progress, and his sense of time is linear.
While Hantithenus is the patron of both Fultar and Atlan, Fultarians emphasize Hantithenus’s role as protector of merchant captains and commerce as daring action; whereas Atlanians emphasize his role as a conservator and protector of wealth; inventor of mathematics and of currency; and patron of commerce as social activity.
Most other Fultonian Gods are the children of Sennia and Hantithenus, but two important gods were born as mortals: Ram Kor and Ohgma.
