Overview of the Gods

The Role of Gods

On Xo, Ox, and in many other places in the Prime Material Plane, the gods are real and demonstrable, and they influence, and are influenced by, events in this plane. This means that the power of a god is measured by the extent of their influence, and number and devotion of worshippers. While a god influences events on Xo, they rarely physically manifest. Rather they make revelations in the dreams of people, signs in the weather, or are the hand in the actions of a powerful person.
There are roughly three categories of gods, measured by their power and influence. Lesser gods tend to have a jurisdiction such as luck, trickery, winter, or the sun, which they have in common with quasi gods (often called saints, angels, devils or demons). The difference between a lesser god and the quasi god is very much the extent of their influence, in particular, their ability of lesser gods to influence many planes of existence at the same time. Greater gods, on the other hand, are generally without a jurisdiction, and usually have a range of lesser gods and quasi gods in league with them, as such, they are generally the leaders of a pantheon.
The gods worshipped on Xo are called by other names on other worlds, as their name is generally a feature of the cults and cultures that worship them. This means also that different groups of worhippers on Xo may refer to the same god by different names. Gods do not derive power by their names, rather by the intent of their worhippers.
The gods grant eternal life and power through divine magic. Whether the eternal life is spiritual and on an outer plane, or through reincarnation, or in some sort of servitude, is dependent of the god. The number of domains a god can grant, depends somwhat on the extent of their jurisdiction. A saint, usually grants one or two domains, a lesser god three to five domains, while a greater god can grant all domains, apart form a very few (mostly not granting those that are oppositional to them).

Deity	Alignment	Suggested Domains	Symbol
Asmodeus, prince of demons	LE	Trickery	Five-pointed star
Adad, god of storms and rain	CN	Tempest, War	The bull and the lion
Anu, father of gods	LN	Light	A great eye
Bael, father of assassins	NE	Trickery	A man, a toad, and a cat
Baphomet, the god of opposites	NE	Life, Death	Head of a malevolent goat
Beelzebub, lord of the flies, mistrust and destruction	CE	Death, Tempest, Trickery	Bat wings
Belet-ili, goddess of fertility	NG	Nature	The letter omega
Ea, god of wisdom, science, arts, and crafts	NG	Knowledge	a draughtsman's compass
Enlil, god of the elementals	CG	Light	Four spheres in a vertical line
Ereshkigal, goddess of the underworld	LE	Death	A human skull
Gula, goddess of healing and medicine	NG	Life, Light	The Rod of Asclepius
Ishtar, goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war	CN	Life, Nature, War	An eight-pointed star
Lahmu, the protector, the warder of plagues and pestilence	CN	Life	A bearded man
Lamashtu, the eater	CE	Death	A carnivores head with the ears of a donkey
Lilith, the mother of spiders, the killer of hope	CE	Death	Spider
Marduk, god of magic	LG	Knowledge	The snake-dragon
Martu, destroyer of cities, god of the barbarians	CE	War	Sand pouring from a clenched fist
Nergal, god of the underworld	CE	Death	Mace with two opposing lion heads
Nabu, god of scribes and writing	LN	Knowledge	A single wedge, representing a writing stylus
Nanshe, protector of the poor and hungry	LG	Knowledge, Life	The pelican
Ningikuga, goddess of reeds and marshes	LN	Nature	A gazing, awestruck person
Ninurta, the champion of the gods	NG	Light	Perched bird
Ormoth, the holy father	NG	all	five-fingered hand
Pazuzu, the redeemer	LG	Death, Life, Light	Dogs head with wide, wary eyes
Shara, goddess of warriors	NG	War
Shamash, god of the Sun, truth, justice, and morality	LG	Life, Light
Sin, god of transformation and the Fey Moon	N	Death, Life, Nature
St. Acclostus, patron saint of invention	LN	Death, Knowledge, Life, Nature, Tempest	Six-pointed star
St. Chima, patron saint of agriculture and markets	N	Knowledge, Nature	Rising Sun
St. Iska, patron saint of cold and perserverence	CG	Knowledge, Nature, Tempest	Snowflake
St. Regulus, patron saint of common sense	LN	Knowledge, Light	A mace
St. Sina, patron saint of trials	LG	Life	Crooked stick
St. Thuma, patron saint of the sea and trade	NG	Knowledge, Nature, Tempest	Pearl trident
St. Vitus, patron saint of conquest and fortune	N	Life, War	Sword with a long crossbar
Tiamat, mother of gods and dragons	CN	Nature, War	Dragon head
Uttu, goddess of weaving	N	Trickery	stylised spiders web
Zababa, god of war	CN	War	staff with the head of an eagle