The Blessed Nine

The Blessed Nine are the only approved gods on the continent. In any urban centre and most rural communities, it is expected that anyone openly practicing religion will be worshipping the Nine, and it's understood that openly worshipping other deities can have dire consequences. In many smaller communities, one can get away with altars to other gods, provided they're kept within the privacy of one's own home, but in cities, being caught worshipping the wrong god can mean execution or worse. There is, notably, no real taboo against a lack of faith in general — just against worshipping outside the approved pantheon.

## General Information

Worship of the Blessed Nine is widely encouraged. In any major settlement, you will likely find a temple dedicated to the Blessed Nine as a whole, if not your god in particular. In smaller, more rural communities, there may or may not be an actual temple, but worship of the Blessed Nine is still widespread.

While any given member of the Blessed Nine may be depicted as more masculine or feminine, it is generally agreed that the gods transcend gender — all gods are referred to as gods, and they are generally given the pronoun “they,” though some more isolated cults may refer to their preferred god as a he or she. Some of the gods’ origin stories have strong ties to the gender they held as mortals — Feofila as a human woman, Abram as a male vampire, &c. — and referring to them by those pronouns when discussing their mortal (or undead) lives is common.

The Blessed Nine are said to have been mortal once, and they ascended to divinity around the time that the gates between Ki and the other planes were reopened, when magic flooded back into Ki.

Worship of the Blessed Nine is considerably less common outside of vampires, werewolves, and humans, but prayers addressed to the Blessed Nine tend to get answered. Worshippers from An and other realms may not believe the lore of the Blessed Nine as thoroughly as those from Ki, but they still find that sending a prayer their way can be eminently helpful.

## Deities

### Feofila

The *de facto* leader of the Nine. Deity of knowledge and power, represented by a spider and the colour blue.

### Domagoj

Feofila's right-hand deity. Deity of the afterlife and beauty, represented by a white rose and the colour black.

### Barica

Deity of war and courage, represented by a warhammer and the colour dark grey.

### Abram

Deity of the sun and agriculture, represented by the sun and the colour yellow.

### Celestyn

Deity of moon and mystery, represented by the moon and the colour lavender.

### Halyna

Deity of sea and storms, represented by a cresting wave and the colour blue-green.

### Ivaylo

Deity of night and lycanthropes, represented by a wolf's head and the colour gold.

### Eustachy

Deity of revenge and sacrifice, represented by a dagger and the colour red.

### Grga

Deity of death and fate, represented by a skull and the colour black, but like the *ugly* version of Domagoj's black, okay???

## Known Temples

### Temple of Honour

A temple dedicated to Barica in Red Deer.

## Known Worshippers

### Aleida de Gris

Aleida is a high priestess of Feofila based in Mohkinstsis.

### Edmund Serpentwind

Edmund is a high priest of Eustachy based in Mohkinstsis.