Rivmic Pantheon

## Summary

The Rivmic Pantheon is a pluralistic belief system made of local deities. There is no formal leadership nor is it intended to have any formal leadership, however, local priests and saints act as moral guides to settlements, causing for the system to have dogmas based on region. One region may declare a god taboo, while other cities venerate them.

There is no official tenets to the Rivmic Pantheon, nor is there a holy text, rather a series of oral traditions and legends which humanize the spirits. Priests are usually entrusted with interpreting the myths, but it is left to every individual person to interpret.

## Names of Spirits

The pantheon is made of spirits, personifications of everyday life.

Alayn - Spirit of Homelyness and Love

Cactorio - Spirit of Cactus and the Mesa

Doodlebob - Spirit of Insanity

Jade Mrak - Leader spirit of Sky and Sun

Nyetver - Spirit of Monsters and the Moon

Oorlog - Spirit of War

Queen Bee - Spirit of hives, bees, honey and luxery

Remmie and Yogi - Spirits of Adventure, Trickery, Bandits and Spyglasses

Renlighet - Spirit of Deepslate Caves and Cleanliness

Ryba - Spirit of Fishing

Schloomn - Spirit of Beauty and the Swamp

Skulkic - Spirit of Skulk, Amethyst, Geodes

Mordennkainnen - Spirit of Death & Respawning

Talliegh - Spirit of Construction and Hearth

Tradala - Spirit of Roads, Boats and Trade

Viya - Spirit of Rain

Vix - Spirit of Harvest

Vizyx - Spirit of Doorhinges

Volfraam - Spirit of Mining

## Oral Traditions

Spirits have stories past down from the prophets and saints of centuries past, spirits play certain archetypes and each spirit has a unique character. Oral stories usually have a hero's arch, a problem, climax and falling action, and most spirits gain spirithood by accomplishing tasks.

Vizyx became a spirit by creating the door to prevent wolves from eating the spirit’s harvest

Remmie and Yogi tricked Ryba into giving them their best horses by cheating in a fishing contest.

Viya and Vix fight for who becomes the spirit of farming, Viya floods the earth with rain, creating the first oceans. Vix creates trees to pierce the sky creating the first trees. The fighting becomes so bad that Mrak traps them in clouds and forces them to reconcile, making their jobs separate.

Alayn is a royalty of great looks, but they is troubled by how shallow people are, Nyetver comes down from the moon and offers to grant them a wish, they wishes that they would know if a man really liked them, Nyetver makes them ugly, they commit suicide from dread and becomes a spirit.

Schloomn is a hideous peasant, Nyetver overhears their crying from the swamp, Nyetver offers them to make them pretty as the prettiest thing in the swamp, assuming there wasn't anything pretty in the swamp. They finds the most beautiful swamp flower they can find, stealing it from Mrak, and becomes so beautiful they is offered a job as a spirit by Ryba.

Oorlog wants to go on campaign across the ocean, Talliegh and Tradala create the boat to carry troops across the ocean. Like the dommy mommy she is, talliegh allow Tradala to be spirit of the boat.

Oorlog sent an army of spirits to attack Remmie and Yogi after they killed his prized mushroom cow, however, his spirits could not get past Remmie and Yogi's swamp, which they first created to stop him. All spirits which entered, got lost and eventually became the first willows, hence weeping willows. Tradala, horrified by Remmie and Yogi's treatment of souls, built the first roads for Oorlog, and thus why they became friends.

Skulkic was a miner rescued by Renlighet who reincarnated him as a spirit in return for Skulkic serving Renlighet to destroy the skulk, which is slowly killing Renlighet.

After a lady cut down a forest of cactus, the combined anger of the cactus spirits consolidated in Cactorio.

## Superstitions

The Rivmic people have miscellaneous superstitions about actions based on the relations of spirits to each other.

Since Oorlog and Tradala are friends, if you commit a war crime your roads will fade. “Unless you want your roads to fade.”

Water from the swamp make the best hot springs, as they are bless by the spirit of beauty.

## Cults

Sometimes small sects dedicate themselves to a singular spirit and focus most worship thus. Cults are not always a bad thing, and special rituals emerge from each differing cult.

* Cult of Cactorio
* Cult of Skulkic
* Cult of Tradala
* Cult of Calliegh
* Cult of Queen Bee
* Cult of Oorlog

## Priesthood

Rivmic peoples elect their priests in each community known as Jades. Societies can choose to be lead by them or to lead the priests. The community brings theological issues to the local Jades to interpret, or petition the priest to teach certain morals. While Jades are respected, it hasn't stopped them from being violently removed in the past. Elections traditions vary by state, however it is known that the faith belongs to the people.