Eidoueni Pantheon

The **Eidoueni Pantheon** (Old Lencori: Our Gods) was the main religion of the Lencori tribes prior to the introduction of Adean and the gods of the Regent Court into the region by Crovan Spearsworn. It used to be the main religion west of the Deruwren Forest in ancient times, with the different Lencori tribes worshipping various combinations of different gods.

Centered around the worship of the original Lencori deities, the main gods shared their role with certain gods from the Dwarven Pantheon of Rubyhold and a local image of The Dame. Once the reatly diminished by the mass conversion of Lencenor to the Castanorian Pantheon and particularly the Cult of Adean, it survived undisturbed in the Sormanni Kingdom and the valleys close to the gates of Rubyhold and only fell in popularity when Sorncóst fell under vassalage of the Kingdom of Lorent. By the Tenth Pantheonic Council of 1445, the Eidoueni had become a minority religion with followers in rural areas of the Duchy of Sorncóst.

## Lencori Main Deities

### Artanos, Hero God of the Lencori, War and Horses

**Common depiction**: A Lencori rider on his horse, raising a sword over his head with his right hand and holding a shield with his left.

The unifying figure of the pantheon, Artanos (Old Lencori: The High One) is the hero god of the Lencori, He who fought against the enemies of mankind, stopped Turanos' hordes from invading the mainland and taught the Lencori how to domesticate horses and fight on top of them, the defining feature of most Lencori cultures. Multiple myths and stories talked about his encounters with gods, heroes and villains, though most of them are now lost to us.

### Merisse, Goddess of the Wind, Travel and Harvest

**Common depiction**: A swallow which transforms into a woman upon touching the ground.

Goddess of the wind, Merisse (Old Lencori: The "Windess") watched over the wind, the changing of the seasons and the weather conditions that allowed the Lencori to harvest their crops. As such, she saw many followers all across the settled Lencori but specially in regions close to the sea, with those in the Sormanni Kingdom worshipping her in order to keep the evil mists from Aelantir at bay. Beldanni myths had her as the wife of Artanos, while more recent Sormanni sources pictured her as his sister, and the Merissii near the coast of Royvibbob held her as their main deity, with Artanos being her right hand man instead.

### Trovecos, God of Stories, Music and the Afterlife

**Common depiction**: A somber man wielding a lute, wearing a ragged travel cloak.

He records the stories of those dead who deserve it and makes them part of his song, a song he will sing once it is complete to bring them back from death in an eternal celebration. Trovecos rarely saw rituals directed at his figure save for the funerals themselves, yet his belief permeated cultures all across the Lencenor. The Lencori predisposed acceptance of travelers and rich oral history are the best examples of this.

### Careslobos, God of Diplomacy, Trade and Friendship

**Common depiction**: A Dwarf with a bushy brown beard, holding a scroll in his left hand and offering his open right hand in a welcoming gesture.

The Lencori interpretation of the Dwarven god Karazlov, Careslobos is said to have emerged from the Redgate of Rubyhold together with his brother Asmirethin. The generous Careslobos travelled the land and teached the Lencori on how to build proper ties of friendship and prosperity, and is said to have been a close friend of Uinomesse, the goddess of the Bloodwine river, who helped him spread his message amongst the Rubenti. He, of all the dwarven Gods, struck a deal with Artanos, and so the tall men of the plains and the stout Ruby Dwarves became friends.

### Asmirethin, God of Metallurgy and Work

**Common depiction**: A red haired dwarf working red hot iron in his forge.

The Lencori interpretation of the Dwarven god Azmirethazin, Asmirethin left Rubyhold with his brother Careslobos, and while the other talked and talked he limited himself to works: he taught the Rubenti how to build their castles, and rose Castle Harascilde. He showed the Sormanni how to work iron properly and and the best ways to extract it from the mountains. He shoed the horses of the Beldanni, and taught them how to make weapons of war.

Here and there, in a rich keep or a poor village, smiths would worship Asmirethin and thank him for his blessings of knowledge and, most of all, silent, rewarding works.

### Damarta, Goddess of Magic and the Seasons

**Common depiction**: The Moon, coming down from the skies to the earth when the night ends.

The Lencori interpretation of The Dame, Damarta's worship was limited to tales about a foreign, eastern goddess prior to the expansion of the Damerian Republic into Lencenor. The fundamental changes of magic after the Day of Ashen Skies and the Damerian conquest of Lencenor 70 years prior saw her worship boom in the region, as the new more numerous mages and the Lenco-Damerians themselves took her worship to heart.

The goddess herself was quite similar to her Damerian counterpart, though she lost her harvest portfolio.

### Belouina, Twin Goddess of Wine, Wisdom, Justice and Sacred Rituals

**Common depiction**: A most serene, stoic woman with a cup of white wine.

The white lady of the Lencori, Belouina was the patron of all who seeked order: priests, judges, wise men and women and young ones learning from their elders would pray to her, wishing for a fraction of her wisdom to bless them. She showed the Lencori the proper worship of the gods and taught them how to make their beloved wine, with her being beloved all across the Upper Bloodwine.

### Dercanos, Twin God of Wine, Desire, Fertility and Festivities

**Common representation**: A bearded, barely covered red haired man drinking red wine.

The libertine twin brother of Belouina, Dercanos embodied chaos in many ways: the chaos of parties and celebrations, the chaos of passion, the chaos of love. He played counterpart of his sister, for chaos and order were always destined to be in equilibrium, and never one completely over the other. The naked, drunken god showed the Lencori the joys of life and taught them on the making of the more potent red wine.

## The River Maidens

Guardians of their respective rivers and bringers of prosperity, the three of them were patrons of their respective peoples. When the Adeanic syncretism spread across the region their cults were greatly diminished, with Sorbodua being the only one who retained her followers after the Landing.

### Sorbodua, Goddess of the Sornroy

The Lady of the Pools, her sanctuary in the sacred pools that share her name, was the patron goddess of the Sormanni,

## The Enemy of the Gods

### Turanos, the Sea Tempest

Originally a part of the Eidoueni and God of the Sea, it is believed that Turanos fell from the pantheon with the attacks of the Deep Devils and the appearance of haunted mists from Endralliande after the Day of Ashen Skies causing a great fear and distrust towards the ocean amongst the faithful. Modern Chroniclers suspect that this could be the origin of the proverbial Lencori fear of reptiles as well.