Baradi Paganism

Baradi Paganism is the largely extinct traditional religion (or rather, religions) of the people of Baradur and Tol Barad. Drawing from a number of pre-Imperial and pre-Deistic tribal cults, the Baradi pantheon was complicated and often conflicting. Elements of Titanism, Elf-derived Ancient Worship, and even Trollish Loa were incorporated into the mixture over the centuries, along with the manifestations of demonic activity and particularly powerful or able ancestors. Largely destroyed by the Church of the Holy Light following the conquest of the Isles by the Kingdom of Stromgarde, small pockets of Baradi paganism still exist among long seperated expatriate communities and among certain neo-pagan reconstructivists.
==History==
==Common Deities==
A number of deities - particularly those derived from Titanism and the Elven myths of the Ancients - were common to multiple sects of the Baradi pagans.
===Mesulfrinn===
The god of wolves; derived from Goldrinn. Also the god of the hunter and, by extension, the Baradi raider.
===Jotun===
God of explorers; inspired by ancient myths from the same scrolls that spoke of Tyr.
===Tyr===
A god of forlorn hopes and desperate measures, appealed to when all seems lost for miraculous intervention.
===Aquila===
The eagle god, though a common motif among the Human kingdoms, is here derived from Trollish loa - specifically, Akil'zon. It is the god of rulers and warriors.
===Feronaria===
Goddess of the many creatures of the wilds, locked in eternal combat and co-dependence with Mesulfrinn. Traditionally depicted as a dryad. Feronaria's roots are obscure, but are believed to have derived from the confusion of three distinct deities and figures: Eonar, Freya, and Cenarius. With these ancient myths passing through a lengthy oral tradition with ambiguous translations further occluding the matter, the stories told by Elven druids of the stag-man, Cenarius, became confused with the already hybridized Eonar-Freya conjunction inherited from the ancient scrolls.
===Pushtet-zot-Betul===
The disreputable deity of magic, perceived of as a constantly shape-shifting beetle-creature. Associated with cold places, spiders, and deceit, Pushtet-zot-Betul was nonetheless propitiated for the relief of magical ailments, curses, and for blessings. Believed to originate from third-hand myths of Malygos's period of insanity and to incorporate elements of Trollish used to refer to the Aqir.
==Unique or Minor Deities==
==Distinguishing Practices==
Category:Human Paganism
Category:Tol Barad