Pantheon

The generic pantheon is included, but the following new Gods have recently become popular.

Lev the Cyromancer: An ancient wizard who sought to cover the planet with ice.

Nestor- Domain: knowledge. LN. He gained a perfect score on the AFT, a near impossible exam that wizards need to take to gain  the final ranking or archmage. Nobody, ever, has achieved that score, and ever since then he bragged about it so much that the gods gave him godhood to shut him up, although that just made him worse.

Temples: His 'temples' often appear as Universities and brutally difficult magic academies. Clerics are often professors, teachers, test proctors, and will volunteer as traveling lecturers to spread academic knowledge to the masses, before initiating testing inquisitions. After the Dr. Nebulex incident, his temples have been largely shunned, save for the small testing hall in the guild district.

Followers: Followers of Nestor express their devotion by taking yearly exams in specific fields, gaining a pin for every perfect score they gain. High ranking members wear their pins all across their robes, where initiates often only have a few pins. Depending on the sect, rivalry is encouraged, or tutoring groups are intentionally established with the goals of communal knowledge and success being paramount.

Rituals: The N.E.R.D. Every year in July, Nestorian followers take the Nestorian Exam [Redacted] Diadect, which is their chief exam, which takes a total of 7 days to complete. Individuals that succeed in passing become Nestorian high clerics, where those who make it at least one day with a 95% passing rate are allowed to continue in the Nestorian order.

Fuller (energy drinks)- Domain: Healing. CG. A traveling charlatan stumbled across a perfect mix of high proof coffee, a drop of skumble, and a random mix of other chemicals to create an energy tonic that invigorates even the most lethargic person. After selling a bottle to the god of exhaustion, the god, awake for the first time, opened a divine gate and Fuller wandered through, somehow completing all the challenges to become a god, or at least that’s how he tells it. In reality, the divine pantheon was so obsessed with his energy tonics that they granted him godhood so he could keep giving them the tonics.

Temples: Often they appear as party centers, where youth will imbibe in Fullers tonics and do intense physical tricks- backflips, wall climbs, and jumps, all after imbibing a Fullers Tonic. The clerics that run these temples often spend much of their time screaming, slapping people on the back enthusiastically, and saying 'Bro.' They also are in charge of brewing the tonic, and sell it on carts in front of their temples.

Followers: Many fighters follow Fuller and drink his tonic before a fight, hoping for increased prowess. In the event of two followers of Fuller's tonic, Fuller's favor tends to lean towards the one who has purchased more Fullers Tonics in the past. That being said, often times when realizing their opponent is a fellow Fullers adherent, fighters will often cast off their swords and armor and go into a boxing match to show Fuller who has the better endurance without permanently harming one of their own.

Rituals: The all nighter, a hard night of partying, sports, and boxing, all enhanced by a special blend of Fullers that is fermented for a year.

Pugslo (fertilizer)- Domain: earth. N. This god’s origins are a closely guarded secret of the druids of him. It’s not a pleasant story at all.

Temples: They are found near the edges of cattle farms, near large warehouses.

Followers: The followers of Pugslo are people who are shunned, hated, or wanted by the law. Once they adorn the gray robes and breathing mask of Pugslo, they are considered untouchable by the law, and will work in the brotherhood and sisterhood of the eternal cycle, and are protected, working endlessly to process manure into incredibly efficient fertilizer. Ironically, many scholars, botanists, and druids join this order, and its numbers include some significant scientific and arcane names. Still, once they don the robes, they cast off their identity, and acknowledge that they will one day become one with the earth, and do what they can to nurture it in all ways.

Rituals: There are no public rituals for Pugslo.

Eratta- ? (Domain: Trickery.) N.

Temples: I think I saw one once, but...

Followers: Well, there was that... I think he was a guy... Was he a guy?

Rituals: Umm... I think there's one in... Umm... Dammitall.

Plumbo (pollywog) Domain: water. N. A field biologist who studied pollywogs obsessively, he accidentally stumbled into the fey realm and used his knowledge of natural phenomena and taxonomy to utterly crush a fey lord in a game of riddles. Not understanding the gravity of what he had done, he continued to impose order upon the fey realm until they begged him to leave, offering him dietyhood of he abandoned the realm. He did, and became a small god.

Temples: Small shrines near preserved natural spaces. They are often full of expensive scientific equipment, but guarded with incredibly lethal traps, and it is fairly common to find a fresh kill outside of a shrine to Pugslo.

Followers: Biologists, Botanists, Doctors, and similar researchers worship Plumbo, and consider the study of the natural world to be closest one can come to godliness. The followers of Plumbo will travel from shrine to shrine, copy and update research notes, add new research, and lock it up, until it is time for all the research to be recalled. Often times, youth with an affinity for nature will be recruited, oft to the joy of their parents as the life of a searcher of Plumbo is one of adventure and fame, as there are such examples as Fizzlefort, the tiny gnome that rode a rust monster, or Basilisk Ben, who had a Phase Spider as his pet and would let children pet it. In reality, their lives are mundane, taking extensive notes for their masters, slowly learning about the natural world and how to protect it. Often times, they finish their training in their mid 20s, and take on a new apprentice after showing their master they can publish many types of scientific articles. After the Skumble pollution disaster, they have had no shortage of recruits.

Rituals: No set rituals, save for the yearly Research Recall, where special scouts access all the shrines and take all the research there to be copied into the library, which is in an unknown location, although shortly after, academic journals find their way into Nestorian archives, much to the chagrin of the clerics there who wonder how they can sneak books into their libraries, and also the fact that they'll need to update the tests again.

Newtonia (ficuses)- domain: plants. LG. A pleasant woman that made fig and ficus cookies that entered a cooking contest that eventually, due to some sloppy paperwork, ended her in a cooking competition with the Gods. She won and now caters the gods parties.

Temples: These are usually small temples or shrines near agricultural centers, with no permanent staff, as most of the clerics follow the harvest. Still, most serve as soup kitchens and food banks in time of need, as farmers always leave a portion of their harvest as an offering.

Followers: Many who are born into the farming life feel the calling to Newtonia, and while they often work as field hands, they are capable of an array of spells that help ensure a boutiful harvest.

Rituals: There are very few rituals to Newtonia, save for prayers for various agricultural cycles. However, in the late fall, around harvest time, they do put on a popular feast in the form of a produce contest and cook off, where local chefs and farmers compete to create the most delicious food from the fresh harvest. The only ones who are turned away are those who were asked to help in the fields but refused for no good reason.

Valentino (punching) domain: war. CN. This is the god of drunkenly punching things. He once drunkenly punched out Pelor. In life, he was an infamous barroom brawler whose prowress with punching things was only matched by his ability to drink others under the table. Once, while Pelor was visiting the material plane to delivery prophecy, he entered a tavern where Valentino was drinking, and tried to convert him. Valentino knocked him out, and upon impact, ascended to a position of godhood.

Temples: Most rough bars have a shrine to Valentino, but that is it. Recently, as wrestling has made a comeback, Valentino has resurfaced as many wrestlers keep a shrine to Valentino, and will offer wins to him in hopes for further success and strength.

Followers: Most adventurers who enjoy tavern brawls say a prayer to Valentino before entering a fray, and most professional wrestlers follow him, especially those who are prone to having a few drinks before a match.

Rituals: There are no official rituals to Valentino, but his name can be heard commonly, shouted drunkenly during barroom brawls or wrestling matches.

Bismus (indigestion) domain: disease. CE. Due to a particularly unfortunate gut microbiome, this wretched, cruel man had the worst flatulence in the land, landing him in exile from all realms, eventually into the Abyss, where his foul stench gained him an audience with the dark powers that be.

Temples: There are no public temples to Bismus, but occasionally diseased clerics will set up shrines in septic pits to concoct filthy plagues to unleash upon the water supply.

Followers: Bismus will occasionally infect wretched, sullen individuals with a hate for all things clean and pleasant with his ailment, which has slowly evolved from a digestive disorder to a full blown plague. Covered in sores and boils, these individuals are shunned from society, and do their best to spread their diseases to new followers- those that survive become carriers, and eventually cultists of Bismus.

Rituals: There are no official rituals to Bismus.

Doritos (corn chips and fighting) domain: chaos. CG. A very random individual picked up the divine implements of drunkenly punching things, and used them to defeat a high ranking priest of Vecna. He then became king, then after adventuring, found his way into the court of the gods, who so impressed with his feats, granted him divinity on the spot.

Temples: There is a popular chain of taverns devoted to Doritos, and a popular snack, although there is nothing that fully resembles a temple.

Followers: Hardy, happy go lucky do-gooder adventurers often follow Doritos.

Rituals: There are no formal rituals to Doritos.

Lucille- Fried food domain: protection. LE. Lucille was a halfling whose family ran the halfling mafia in the Shadowbrook hills. She provided all manner of unhealthy, but damn delicious fried food to anyone in the family, and eating her food and sharing a meal with Lucille and her delicious food became a rite of acceptance and mob protection. After she passed, the halfling gods, missing her delicious meals, took her on as a cook, but she gradually used her political abilities to start doing mob deals in the divine realm.

Temples: Shrines to Lucille exist in mob run restaurant basements, and often double as kitchens.

Followers: Halflings who work for the halfling and dwarf mob tend to pray to Lucille for delicious food and even better profits.

Rituals: The bake off. Lucille followers host a yearly bake off, where halflings throughout the realm come to test their baking ability. Those that win are accepted into the halfling mob, those who are mediocre generally don't survive.

Collin- (death) domain: death. CN. This man was reverse accident prone- People around him were often fatally injured, for no apparent reason at all, save that an aura of death and disaster followed this man around. After being conscripted by the military to just immigrate into hostile countries and hang out in their capital cities, desperate priests banished him to another realm where, through a process of killing everyone in his way accidentally, he obtained enough holy artifacts to find divinity.

Temples: There are occasionally shrines to Collin found in graveyards, but they are shunned, as it is said that looking at his shrines for too long may cause premature death.

Followers: Ironically, those who follow Collin usually die, but only after all around them die. Thus, followers are very rare.

Rituals: None known.

Chazd- (frat bro) domain: strength. Chazd loved to party, lift, and party some more. After Kord took human form and went partying with Chazd for several weeks, where they would work out all day and party all night, Kord couldn’t bear to leave his human bro down on earth, so he helped him ascend as a minor sub deity of Kord.

Fhalghn- Drill sgt god domain: war. This military officer was so feared and revered by his command that they would always win, out of sheer dread of this man. When he died, he demanded the gods give him a place amongst them, and due to him passing some very high intimidation checks, he made it.

Gregoia- Tapdancing domain: luck. A lucky string of events led this tapdancing champion into a tap dancing contest with the godess of luck, which she won, granting her an eternal friendship with the god, who in then invited her into her domain as a deity.

Lorbert- The stuntman god, or god of ‘hold my drink and watch this’ (air), he was able to get more air on his carriage jumps than anyone else, and once got so much air he reached the stratosphere somehow, and vaulted over the gods meeting table, and jumped off there, where he’s stayed ever since.

Morris the Cat: Domain: animal. This cat was used for advertisements for years, and when it died, it became a god of it’s own based on the amount of followers it had. It now hangs out on the laps of the small gods, and occasionally wanders into other pantheons because it knows they tend to leave cat food out.

Franco- Domain: destruction. A body builder who, due to excessive use of magical strength tonics and artifacts, gained permanent giant’s strength, although no real control over it, meaning he would break practically everything he touched. Unable to do any real work, he joined a traveling circus, and over a series of incidents involving visiting the carnival wizards tent and breaking several of his artifacts accidentally, he accidentally opened a divine tear, which he proceeded to break. Such a thing can’t actually be done, but somehow it granted him godhood.

Stani- Domain: Evil. Just a complete d-bag.

Fancine- Domain: Fire.  A flame that achieved sentience and caused a massive fire that ingulfed a huge forest as a tempter tantrum.

Good guy Grot: Domain: Good. a half orc that was renowned for just being a good dude ended up paying an avatar of a god’s tab after it got drunk and passed out, and in exchange for getting him home safely in the afterlife, he granted him godhood.

Percy: Domain: Law. A talented but rather bland defense lawyer was abducted by the gods when they needed to deal with a legal dispute. This became a regular occurrence, when the lawyer finally argued that given the nature of the constant abductions, he had enough case for godhood. They granted it to him. Now he works as the gods on call legal council, and is friends with Nestor.

Chancelforghn- Domain: magic. A spell that obtained sentience after a magic college grad student made a series of alterations in a mage hand spell, giving it the ability to absorb other aspects of spells. Leaving it’s master, it gained a number of abilities until it appeared to be a floating maelstrom of arcane effects, eventually obtaining a large number of wizard followers as it was able to provide them with insights into spell behavior that were previously unknown. This gradually turned into a cult, and it obtained godhood.

Brolothar- Domain: sun.  A race of aliens landed on the planet for a short while, bringing a shrine to their sun god. A number of conspiracy theorists found it and started worshipping it, even though the star it references is millions of light years away.

Threrose- Domain: Travel. The god of tourism, this god was created from a tourism board character that coincidentally corresponded with a real tourist, Threrose, who was a bit of an eternal backpacker and travel writer. After finding out a small number of tourism employees had started worshipping the character Threrose, he found he had divine powers, and used them to his advantage to gain access to the divine domains, where he continues to occasionally put out brochures about the planes.