Ageosi Pantheon

# The Ageosi Pantheon & Mythology

Ruler over the gods, and lord over the waters below and above. A fickle lord, he blesses those who are diligent and courageous and punishes the torpid and cowardly. All Ageosi seafarers, whether they be adventurers, merchants, or soldiers must not forget to sacrifice well to Myrodan, lest their ship be sunk in a harsh storm, or be swallowed by a savage beast of the sea.

### **Netheres**

God of the dead, the king of the Nether and brother to Myrodan and Panoseus. Netheres rules the realm of the Nether. He was given the responsibility to watch over the dead and to maintain a relative balance of life and death, and he is not driven by much emotion such as the likes of his brother. Netheres calculates his every move and is considered cold-hearted by most.

### **Panoseous**

God of the sky, brother to Myrodan Altais and Netheres. Panoseous was given control of the skies, and is an ambitious god who rewards those who seek greatness. He challenged Myrodan’s rule many times. In his realm are the sun and the moon - some say he controls too much, but for him there is never too much power.

### **Navira**

Goddess of war Navira inspires intelligence, tactics, and discipline - unlike her son Stratiótis, who is the patron of great heroes and sportsmen. Navira blesses wisdom upon those in her favor, and sows chaos amongst the enemy armies of her favoured ones. Born when the blood of the old gods fell upon the primordial waters of Lake Osiaron, Navira has existed with men for as long as they have existed. She has guided them through treachery and war, and has paved for them a path to glory. Without her, no battle can be won.

### **Khoradia**

Goddess of beauty, art, and music. She is also the wife of Myrodan Altais. Through her music, mankind can see deeper into the mystery of the divine nature that gods possess. She blesses those who worship her with melodies that can please the gods, and artwork that can melt a heart of stone. For those who despise her, all that will be heard is the shrieking cries of the underworld and see the beauty in the world as a hideous canvas of contrasting colors.

### **Stratiótis**

God of heroism and sports, son of Navira and Panoseous, Stratiotis is courageous like his parents, and he blesses the ones that put their lives in danger for others - the ones that put their limits to the test.

### **Sofiáne**

The goddess of wisdom. When Myrodan Altais, in his powerful mind, desired the creation of the world, Sophiane was born of his wisdom. Within the act of speaking to create, the two bore two twins, the gods of speech. Sofiáphile desires, most of all, wisdom directed towards the Good, true happiness. To those who honor her, she shows favor as her divine light shines in the darkness of human judgment. To those who defame her, in her wisdom, she allows falsities to build upon that person and what they stand for.

### **Daiki**

Daiki is one of the twins born from the speech and wisdom of Myrodan Altais and Sofiáphile. He was the words of order and justice that brought righteousness and rationality. He is shown honor through the works of poetry, philosophy, music, and kindness that bears fruit to generosity. Those who use Daiki wrongly become impious and wrongfully righteous, which can make the largest of kingdoms fall to the smallest ant.

### **Exapá**

Exapá is the twin brother of Daiki and the son of Myrodan Altais and Sofiáphile. He was born from the words of creation that allowed life to be confused, deceived, loved, and dark. His bow and arrow know no distance in which it can strike deception but also pierce deception to reveal truth. To those who honor him, he clears all deception before him and gives wisdom of just deception. To those who speak ill of him, he creates deception like hallucinations in order to terrorize his enemy.

### **Skafos**

God of smiths and craftsmen, Skafos is the son of Khoradia and Myrodan, Skafos is a humble god but a diligent one as well - he always improve his work. He is a close friend of his cousin Stratiotis, whose armor and sword he personally crafted. Skafos is commonly worshiped by craftsmen and blacksmiths, and he is the perfect example of perfectionism and humility in his work.

### **Krasias**

Goddess of wine harvest and fertility, and daughter of Khoradia and Myrodan. She blesses the vegetation of the world with abundant fertility and blesses women with the fertility to bear offsprings.

## **The Mythology of the Old Gods**

### **Book One: The First Gods**

In the beginning there was nothing. Soon a bright light shined through the darkness and permeated through the empty space. As the light expanded, it grew stronger and brighter. Soon, it split; revealing two entities amongst the light. One called Quiros and the other called Qrona. Quiros bore the light into being as a mere seed that sprouted across the dark space. He is the Father for it was the seed of existence in which he controlled. Qrona shined forth from the existence of Quiros and guided his path in a journey to dispel darkness. She is Mother because of the warmth of her gift of light. While Father was existence, she was the essence. She is what made that existence a this: the what it is (the lightness of light).

As the light of Quiros and Qrona moved, twin gods were created through their action: Thesi, the god of space, and Stigmi, the goddess of time. As a single moment passed when the light of Quiros and Qrona reached to one location from another, the twin gods were conceived and set to rule all space and time.

Jealous of bringing beauty to his existence, Quiros consumed the goddess Qrona and became the two faced, ruling god, Ola. Ola wore the face of Quiros on side of its head and Qrona on the other. Having kept his will, Ola’s torso consists of two sets of arms with each exercising the powers of either Quiros or Qrona. He maintained only one pair of legs to show that it was Qurios’ will that persisted and now moved Ola towards further glory.

### **Book Two: The Birth of the Universe**

Ola decided that his space of light should have more. To start, he wanted the possibility that his light did not reach every space for all eternity, so he decided that there should be parts of space where light was absent. In deciding that the absence of light would cover parts of space, he created the god, Apon, to be the ruler of things that are absent: darkness became the absence of light. However, he did not want the gods to become lost in the infinite space, so he took his light and fashioned orbs that radiated in the darkness. Thus, the god of the stars and navigation was born, Tropos.

Yet, he desired more. Ola was not fully pleased with what had been created and saw his creation to lack beauty. Consulting the will of Qrona, Ola created planets of many colors, nebulas that were made of chemical elements, and black holes. In this act of creation many gods were born: Somanas (the goddes of the celestial bodies), Aeria (the goddess of the elements), Kato (the god of gravity), Zoiras (the goddess of color), and Theama (the goddess of sight).

Ola looked at the beauty of his creation and desired more, for he was the god of all desired praise and glory from others. To often had Apon persuaded the many gods in telling them that they were the greatest of all gods which would lead to countless iterations of him reminding the gods of his own power by radiating such divine light that not even Apon could dispel. Ola rested on one of the many created planets, and at the idea of creating beings to praise him, he gave birth to another god, Xero (the god of knowledge).

### **Book Three: The Duel of Gods**

Ola consulted the other gods and told them of his idea of creating a race of beings in which all the gods would be worshiped. Every god took delight in the idea of being worshipped by a vast multitude of beings, so they agreed using a planet for this race of beings.

Ola arrived at the planet, which he named Earth, and began to create by waving his arms across the barren rock so that water crashed and waved over the entire surface. Pushing his arms upward, he created land that sprouted from the depths of the sea. Then with a single breath, he blew air onto the world so that there would be a separation between the world and space. Weary for his work, Ola laid with Aeria for three nights. On the fourth day, she gave birth to three gods, Myrodan Altais (god of the ocean), Panoseous (god the sky), and Netherus (god of corruption (i.e. death and ‘deterioration’).

Jealous of the creating power of Ola, Apon sought out Xero in search of how to kill Ola and replace him. Xero told him that if he wanted to take Ola’s throne, he must strike when the god is most tired; after the birth of his three sons. He waited for the right moment and lashed out against the all-powerful managing to cut of a finger and draw out some of his power to create existence; however, while drawing out the power of existence through his own ability to create absence, Ola blinded him with radiant light leaving a portion of the power of existence suspended between the two. At that moment, the infant, Myrodan Altais reached up in awe and grabbed hold of the power. Ola noticed his son radiating with the same divine light, and in love for his sons and his creation, he dispelled all his light onto Apon, blinding him forever. Apon, truly the god of absence, now embodied absence through the absence of his sight as well.

Before falling into a long sleep due to his exhaustion, Ola bestowed the will of creation and a race of being upon Myrodan Altais. Understanding his father’s will, he looked upon Stigmi, and she immediately knew the young god’s desire. With a simple blink and nod of the head, the three brother gods grew out of infancy and became men with strong statures fitting of their ruling.

Meanwhile, the blood that trickled from Ola’s finger fell upon the earth in a small body of water, Lake Osiaron. The blood spread across the water, painting a beautiful image. Thus, the goddess of the art of war, Navira, was born.

### **Book Four: The Pantheon is Born**

As a mockery to Apon’s blindness, Myrodan Altais decided to lay with Theama, the goddess of sight. In doing so, he declared that sight was a chief property of life. Sight to perceive all that’s around you, sight to know beauty, and sight in which one can look deeper into the divine. In doing so, Theama gave birth to Khoradia, the goddess of art and music. In this act, Myrodan Altais made it that art and music were modes in which the divine could be contemplated.

Entranced with Khoradia’s beauty, Myrodan Altais wedded Khoradia on the waters of earth. Together they bore two sons: Skafos, the god of smiths and craftsmen, and Krasias, the goddess of wine and fertility. Meanwhile, Panoseous became ambitious, wanting to father and create life, so after an evening of watching the colors take to the sky as the sun set on a horizon, he laid with Navira on top of a cloud. She gave birth to Stratiotis, the god of heroism and games.

### **Book Five: Beings Created to Worship**

Xero approached Myrodan Altais telling him that the gods were growing impatient of not being revered by a race of beings and that the time to create these said beings had come. So, Myrodan Altais went to his son, Skafos, and told him of the race of beings that he should forge. Upon speaking to his son, Myrodan Atlais gave birth to Sofiane from his creating intellect, and on the breath of his words, Myrodan Atlais and Sofiane created the two twin gods, Daiki, the god of ordered speech, and Exapa, the god of deceitful speech.

Then as commanded by his father, Skafos began to forge the first two human beings. One being male (Steve) and the other being female (Alex). While Skafos was at work, Myrodan created the animals that lived in the sea and sky and those that roamed the land. He created the plants foliage while Krasias blessed them with fertility. He asked Aeria to provide elements to the world so that the humans could progress and become strong. He filled the land with resources so that mankind could use the beauty of the resources for worship.

Upon Skafos’ completion, Myrodan Altais placed them on the land of earth and told them to go forth, worship the gods above, and to multiply so that their offspring can praise the gods as well. For if they praised the gods, the gods would favor them and shower them with blessings.