Goddess

The **Goddesses** are mysterious entities. They host legions of Angels, but their agents are often spread so thin around our world and others that they often make deals with mortals of other realms in order to establish their aims.

The most powerful goddesses are known as the **Eight**, and they represent the divine entities which were present when the multiverse was created.

### Descriptions

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Spoilers ahead! Most of this content isn't in Kinky Dungeon 3.32, but at some point it will be added to logbooks and boss conversations.

#### Leather

The Goddess of Leather created the Dragons long ago, who were instrumental in the creation of the world. At some point, the Dragons created the mortal races, and began to rule over them, keeping them as slaves and toying with them. They were worshipped by the mortal races and would often mistreat them and punish them severely for stepping out of line.

Seeing the injustice in this, the Goddess of Leather empowered some of the moral races to fight the dragons, and to absorb the dragon's immortal souls, becoming her paladins. This started a great war between the Dragonhearts and the Dragons. After the war was over, though, the mortal races dominated, and the Dragonhearts began to split apart and pursue other tasks. The Dragonhearts' descendants inherited less and less of the Dragon's power, but as Dragons still exist and roam between the realms, the Dragonhearts of today have made a sport out of pursuing them and capturing them.

#### Rope

The Goddess of Rope was charged with protecting the mortal races after they were freed from the rule of Dragons. Seeing as many of them lacked social organization and technology, the Goddess of Rope taught them basic crafts such as weaving, ropework, and the creation of fabrics and textiles. This in turn allowed humans to create carts, sails, and to protect themselves from the cold, allowing them to sail to the corners of every plane and every world, and conquer it using technology.

Seeing their success, the Goddess of Rope asked the mortal races to pay her tribute in the form of Gold. Some mortals, specifically the followers of Bast, a lesser Goddess, agreed to this, and she blessed them with a means of preserving their lifespans using magic. However the majority of mortals did not. So the Goddess of Rope animated their technology to work against them, and many mortals were captured by them. In order to appease her, the mortal humans erected Shrines throughout the land to the Goddess of Rope and the other Goddesses, in order to avoid incurring their wrath a second time.

#### Metal

All of this was still in the past. Over time, a civilization now simply known as the Old Civilization made a pact with the Goddess of Metal. In exchange for producing a class of willful and devoted servants in order to manage future Gold mining, the Goddess of Metal granted them the power to create automatons, powered by strong emotions. Many of these automatons contained a willing human entombed inside to control it, but even after the human's condition degraded and demanded they be transferred to a cryopreservation facility, the powerful emotions the human had inside the machine were eventually captured and forced a self-perpetuating lesser spirit, effectively an artificial Ghost. These machines, powered by miniscule amounts of gold, were able to bring the Old Civilization into a golden age where they lined entire halls with shining gold and built monuments to the Goddesses. However, certain Goddesses were favored among them, first and foremost the Goddess of Metal, and this harbored resentment from the other Goddesses.

Eventually, the Old Civilization became more Automaton than human. What once started as evangelism in the name of Metal became an obsession, and the Old Civilization began to spread beyond its human roots and start capturing members of the other mortal races, including Catgirls, Wolfgirls, Elves, and occasionally even Angels and Demons. This sparked a war between civilizations, in which the Goddess of Restoration sided with the Elves and, being the most powerful Goddess, altered the Sun with a powerful magic spell that harmed non-mortal races. This is the origin of the phenomenon that sunlight harms Undead and Ghosts. This obviously harmed the followers of Bast, who were mostly mummies at this point, but the Goddess of Restoration provides for them regardless and offers them a promise of a better future, although the Bast followers still strongly resent the Elves for being the Goddess' chosen people.

Since automatons are essentially artificial Ghosts and were thus affected, the Old Civilization collapsed, and in an effort to protect the humans in cryopreservation the survivors moved into deep underground tombs, forming the dungeon the Player currently assails.

#### Latex

The Goddess of Latex had an uneasy alliance with the Goddess of Metal during the war of the Old Civilization. When the Old Civilization was shunned and forced to retreat underground, a few mortals who once sided with the Old Civilization now lacked a home and an object of worship, and the Goddess of Latex took them in. These were a group of Wolfgirls who sought to bring back the old way of life in a way that was less reliant on Automaton technology. As an alternative, the Goddess created Slimes, a feral creature that digests algaes and small creatures in the caves beneath the world. When killed, the body of a Slime hardens into a perfect rubbery material that is thermally conductive, incredibly durable, easy to clean, and forms to a user's skin in an almost sensual way...

Eventually several factions sprung up utilizing the slime for various projects, such as Nevermere Trainers Co. and the Alchemist's Guild. The Alchemists eventually started organizing raids into the Old Civilization's tombs, while Nevermere attempts to repair and repurpose damaged technology without aggravating the local guardians.

#### Restoration

After the war with the Old Civilization, the Goddess of Restoration sought to rebuild the world in a way that was not dependent on technology. The Elves were a key part of this plan. A mortal race of old, they had the ability to commune with nature in a way no other mortal race could. So the Goddess taught them how to forge Mithril, a lightweight and durable metal used in both clothing and smithing, from the sap of the Ironwood tree. However, this attracted the ire of the other mortal races, who sought to use the powerful metal as a basis for technology. This led to tensions that pushed the Elves further to the fringe of civilized land, and now they primarily inhabit forlorn and sparsely populated regions.

#### Elements

During the creation of the world, there was only one plane upon which everything resided. However, the Goddess of Elements decided that it would be more interesting to have different types of matter with different powers. The other Goddesses agreed, but wondered how to prevent some types of matter from taking over the others.

The Goddess of Elements came up with a plan of creating demiplanes and worlds beyond the one they were creating. These lesser planes would house beings of a particular elemental bent. By forging a culture of strict hierarchy and obedience, these creatures would seek to preserve their realms from interplanar travelers. Thus the Elementals were born.

#### Conjuration

In the process to make the world less dependent on magic, some humans sought secrets from the Elves. There were two major groups which split apart from each other: The School of Magic, who sought to find a diplomatic solution, and the Witches' Coven, who captured Elves for use in study. Eventually these two groups reconciled with each other, but not until the Elves and the Witches began a rivalry that remains to this day. The Goddess of Conjuration grants them secrets in exchange for Gold, while the School of Magic follows along in the advancements of the Witches, treading cautiously among their network of tenuous allies and enemies.\

#### Illusion

The Goddess of Illusion has always disagreed with war and bloodshed. She believes that propriety and elegance are the key to maintaining peace in the world. The MaidForce are a strictly-disciplined force that seeks to do exactly that. Of course, a pragmatic Goddess wouldn't place all her eggs in one basket, so to speak, and so she contracts with the Bounty Hunters Guild to hunt down bad actors and political enemies, although they tend to deny any involvement.

The Goddess of Illusion also provides shelter for the spirits of the world who have been displaced by constant warfare, and often provides charity for Ghosts who were formed from strong emotions during the wars of the past.