Gods of Earth

### Unusual Features

Some of the Gods of Earth (notably the Daevas) have uniquely colored skin and multiple arms while others (notably the Ennead) have a mix of human and animal characteristics.

## Origin & Living Status

### Origin

Gods of Earth spawned from Gaea or Demiurge after the culling of the Elder Gods of Earth by the Demogorge

## Personal Information

### Base of Operations

Earth

A **Deity** or **God** (collectively known as the **Gods of Earth**) are a race of divine immortal beings who control the forces of nature and rule large potions of the Earth with significant power that's held in high esteem and respected by his/her followers and supporters. Most gods are described as being part of a family or Pantheon, and they rely on their mortal devotees for worship. As the gods are entities necessary for the Multiverses' continued existence, each Pantheon represents and exhumes control over an aspect of Creation within the metaphysical Sphere of the Gods.

## History

### Origins

The *Gods of Earth* are a divine race of beings who exist within the Sphere of the Gods directly linked with Earth and were once worshipped by the different cultures on Earth. It is known that in some instances, they are descended from the primeval Earth-Goddess Gaea before separating into tribes or pantheons, with each pantheon connected to worshipers separated on Earth by either geological, cultural or environmental boundaries.

The exact origins of the Gods of Earth are lost in antiquity, but it is known that every culture has its own, often contradictory, myths on the creation of the universe. It's been stated that each creation story belongs to the "same truth" which causes the expansion of Creation and formation of different dimensions and planets. What is known is that soon after the creation of the Earth, the Demiurge, the embodiment of the planet's potential biosphere, seeded it with its own life essence, producing the Elder Gods known as Seth, Chthon, and Oshtur among others. Most of these deities degenerated into demons, forcing Gaea to have to sire a son, Atum, to destroy most of them, while the few that survived were driven away to nether realms.

Demiurge and Gaea would go on to sire the later pantheons of gods under different aliases. Ouranos, Gaea's consort was also stated to have fathered many pantheons aside form his eldest children, the Titans.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

The Gods of Earth are stated to be one of the most powerful races in Creation, rivaling several Angels and even cosmic entities, to the point where their entire reason for existing fuels the life essence of powers such as Eternity and Infinity. Because of this, deities are forces necessary for the ultimate survival of the Multiverse and should they stop with their duties, could bring down the entirety of reality itself.

While it may appear that each god possesses the same authority and similar powers, their individual power and combat ability vary depending on how old the deity is, their divine lineage, or if they serve under another god. Moreover, many deities are descended from the Demiurge, however their physiologies are vastly different from one another which attributes greatly to their strengths and weaknesses; They do however have common abilities amongst one another, with some having greater power than others.

#### Common Powers

* **Cosmo**: Due to the gods possessing complete control over the universe, deities have mastered the all of its occult paths, to the point where the energy itself serves as the receptacle of all memory, knowledge and aspect that gods have of themselves. Whenever they manifest their Cosmo, deities generate an aura whose color varies. Their Cosmo grants them immense cosmic powers known as the "*Big Will*", a source of power and existence without boundaries.
	+ **Creation & Destruction Mastery**: Many gods have incredible control over creation and materialization of its forms, thus being able to generate physical matter and create any type of objects, including weapons, the from nothing. Generally tied to their psychic and magical powers, deities will also have equal mastery over the energy of destruction ranging from at least disintegrating something or someone on a subatomic level, and remove all of existence from the environment in which it finds itself.
	+ **Divine Magic**: All gods wield incredibly potent magical abilities capable of influencing large aspects of reality and cast powerful spells beyond mortals. Due to the various Pantheons that exist, their magic tends to revolve around the "*religious beliefs*" associated with their mortal worshippers; An example would be the Norse Gods being the most adept at Rune Magic while the Egyptian Gods are very skilled with hieroglyphics.
* **Mastery of the Ninth Sense:** The gods are the supreme beings of the universe because they control the Supreme Virtue, which has allowed them to ascend to the higher state they are in and awaken a wide range of abilities as well as attributes close to omnipotence
* **Psionics**: As divine beings, gods have natural access to an immense amount of psychic powers beyond any capabilities of mortals including using levitation, teleportation, telepathy, psychokinesis, and in some rarer instances, precognition.
* **Ichor**: Gods are eternal beings whose blood is known as Ichor, a golden fluid present in many immortals that makes them impossible to truly kill. Ichor is extremely toxic to mortals, killing them instantly upon contact. At the same time, their divine blood can be used to induce extreme regenerative abilities and produce magical properties that could be imbued within objects using Blood Magic.
* **Immortality**: Many deities have shown to be incapable of dying, unaffected to the passage of time, survive damage that would easily kill mortals, and immune all known diseases. While it has been stated that certain Pantheons of immortals have enchanted lifespans and others an extended longevity without truly being immortal, they are still considered gods. It is with this kind of immortality that some gods have shown to be susceptible to death, but over a certain progression of time, they reform within the Void of Chaos before emerging into the physical world once again.

### Abilities

* **Allspeak**: The Gods of Earth have Allspeak, enabling them to communicate in all of the languages of the Nine Realms, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages.
* **Battle Prowess**: Each deity has its own combat method depending on its role and specific divine power, some of which don't fight at all. However, deities often share the same forms of attack involving cosmic blasts or blasts, energy-shaped shock waves capable of knocking down even other deities with the force of impact, usually accompanied by a scream or hand movement.
* **Physical Aptitude:** The gods have physical abilities, such as strength, speed, endurance, and stamina, vastly superior to that of mortals, even going beyond those who are also seen as superhuman. They have an inhuman durability, being able to quickly generate and manipulate immense amounts of cosmo energy without inconvenience, besides possessing incredible regenerative abilities.

### Hybrid Deity

Ichor is the golden fluid present in immortals, being toxic to all mortals and killing them instantly should they come into contact with it. Stated repeatedly, the divine blood possessed by gods does not carry DNA, which is why the gods could marry relatives and not have to worry about inbreeding. Athena would later refute this statement to a certain degree, explaining that gods do carry DNA, however unlike the blood and genetic coding within mortals which is malleable, godly DNA is flawless and the epitome of perfection which is why incest and inbreeding is of no concern.

However, deities could also be a composite of other races with the most notable being demigods, who are half-human and half-god thanks to the magical properties and divine ichor flowing through their mortal blood. Another instance of a deity being a hybrid is through an offspring that's a mix with another pantheon's genetics. In a technical sense, all of the Old Gods are related to one another as offspring/descendants of Gaea - but due to being a primordial force, Gaea held complete authority over her own physiology allowing her to alter her own molecular attributes whenever she adopted a new guise. This would grant gods similar superhuman abilities and traits, but the levels in which they stand on is different, thus making the pantheon of gods itself different from one another.

Should two gods from separate pantheons meet and have a child, that being would have attributes related to both gods, but the dominant genetic would make them be more associated to a specific pantheon; Thor is the son of Odin, an Asgardian, but his mother is Gaea's aspect of Jörð in the form of an Elder Goddess, making him a hybrid of two divine races.

## Miscellaneous

### Cultural Traits

The Gods of Earth usually take on the cultural traits of the culture of their worshipers.

### Known Pantheons

* Aboriginal Gods
* Atlantean Gods
* Avalonian Gods
* Aztec Gods
* Egyptian Gods
* Gods of Brazil
* Gods of Olympus
	+ Titans of Myth
* Hindu Gods
* Incan Gods
* Mayan Gods
* Mesopotamian Gods
* Native American Gods
* Norse Gods
* Northern Gods
* Oceanic Gods
* Philippine Gods
* Shinto Gods

#### Others

* Protogenos
* Elder Gods of Earth

## Trivia

* It was stated that true deities are all worshipped on Earth and that divine beings such as Kryptonian Gods are godly creations of the Primordials who were given godhood, but are part of a faction of immortals known as the False Gods