The Pantheon
The Gods no longer reveal themselves in all their splendor in the mortal realms yet their power is still felt from the influence and actions of their clerics and priests.
While the deities may seem far removed and peacful for mortals, the cosmic struggle between the light and the dark still goes on throughout the planes.
The Creation
The CreationThe Vereld - The fountain of the world
During the spring of the world when the light was still young only a few gods walked the land. Legends say that the dragon gods of Bahamut and Tiamat were the first to rise and that they spent eons in struggling over the new lands, bahamut wanting to populate it and make it grow and Tiamat raged against Bahamuts creations and wanted the land to remain barren as i was to her liking. Both deities raised armies of other dragons, each with a spark of the being of Io - The Allfather in them. But while the blood of io only created Bahamut and Tiamat his spirit still dwelled in the land that he had made. It rebelled against the destruction that the dragon war wrought upon it and took shape as a wellspring flowing out of the mountain giving life to the land as it flowed. When the spring welled across the stone of the Mountain, Moradin arose from the rock itself, and the dwarves rose with him and their love for the mountains was great. As the waters reached the plains and touched the earth plant sprung forth and with them rose Cerieth and the elves and their hearts turned towards the forests. As Cerieth led the elves into the wood a thorn pricked him and a drop of his blood fell into the Vereld. The blood mingled with the water and took shape as Gerianath, later known as Grumsch One Eye, and the orcs - siblings of the elves and ever the rivals in their love for the woods. Lastly the Vereld pooled in the great cracks of in the earth left by the dragons in their wrath created the sea. As the first waves crashed on the shore was cast into the sky formed into the lords of the heavens, Modis the Strong - bringer of tides and from the rainbow sheen off the droplets came Pelor - lord of the Sun. As the heavenly lords looked on, humans rose from the foam that landed on the shore and while they roamed far across the land all humans hold in their heart a longing foe the oceans waves.The Numenaest - The summer of the gods
In the era following the coming of the Vereld and the birth of mortals and their deities the dragon war abated as both Tiamat looked upon the new gods and was dismayed. Though here power was great she knew that she could not stand against the might of all the free people. Instead she withdrew into the shadows and began to work in secret to increase her might and defeat her brother once and for all. With the ending of the dragon war the world knew peace for the first time and the new gods strode across the land and wrought it according to their will and the will of their chosen peoples.
Type
Religious, Pantheon
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