Gods and Deities

## The gods and deities of Navaria

### Millodan - "The Forge of Life"

The deity of life itself and everything that is created by living creatures. It is also the patron of hard work and labor. In tales and books he often takes on the form of a giant boar to protect all life with its huge tusks, in different scenarios he appears in the form of a wise old man with a wooden staff and a bird's nest at its top.

### Niv-Bharat - "The Flame of Knowledge"

The deity of knowledge and creativity, but also of arrogance and pride. He is also known as the "Dragon Emperor", because he is the official ruler of the continent of Siv-Tokkat and thus the only deity to actually play a regular active role in the lives of people. Most of the official government duties he doesn't seem to care about though and so Kinmeg Emberbender, the king of the dwarves, attends to those.

### Marlah - "The Jester of Schemes"

The deity of schemes and betrayal, but also of entertainment and passion. She is known to put her own amusement over the well-being of others and thus has a bad reputation, but the travelling folk and many actors, musicians and other artists worship her as their muse. She represents their freedom to do whatever they want with their art.

### The Sisters - "The Weavers of Fate"

The deities of fate, destiny and fortune. Together they weave a thread for every mortal being in existence. Some of them are short and full of knots, a symbol for many strokes of fate and an early end, while others are long and smooth, promising a good and long life.

### Orvanius - "The Sower of Absolution"

The deity of death and atonement, but also of prosperity and abundance. He is also known as "The Grim Reaper" and is said to be the last thing you see before you die. His worshippers tend to amass wealth to pay and atone for their sins when their end is near.

### Lukina - "The Bearer of Afflictions

The deity of sickness and affliction, but also of healing, recovery and hope. It is said Lukina has been a human once and also the best healer there ever was. She took away every ailment she found in the world and put it onto herself instead, until she bore all the exisiting diseases and turned into an ugly human shaped pile of rotting flesh. Still she never gave up investigating her conditions and is still searching for cures nowadays. At least that's what people believe.

### Gordana - "The Epicure of Lust"

The deity of lust, desire and greed, but also of love, fertility and good food. Whenever she appears in the stories of the common folk she turns whole city populations into ecstatic orgies and makes the next harvest the best one for many years to come. If a married couple wishes for a child they pray to Gordana and offer her a feast in return. That's why in many bedrooms of Navaria one might find plates of excellent food untouched.

### "The Lady of the Deep"

The deity of solitude and floods, but also the patron of sailors and fishermen. A mysterious entity that only very few have ever claimed to have seen and they could only describe her as a beautiful lady with an unnaturally cold stare. Her hair consists of algae and her skin is supposed to be of a glossy blueish tint. Gaining her favour might rescue you from drowning, but in return stirring her wrath is said to cause floods that drown your whole family and all the nearby cities with them.

Her most loyal subjects are known as the Drowned Paladins.

### Kravlax - "The Avian Thunder"

The deity of storms and impatience, but also of honesty and straightforwardness. Kravlax is described as a huge crow-like bird the size of a dragon and the force of a thunder storm. His wings are strong enough to cause tornadoes and calming him down is nigh impossible due to his short temper.

### Radimander - "The Shield of Time"

The deity of sloth and boredom, but also of patience and the flow of time. In tales this being appears as a humongous turtle and barely moves at all. Sometimes it stays still for hundreds of years, until the surface above the water looks like an uninhabited island and people start to found towns and cities there. Whole civilizations are said to have vanished during its few active periods.

His followers often preserve history for the following generations, for example by writing down stories and current events in books, keeping them safe in libraries dedicated to Radimander. They also tend to historical sites by keeping them from falling apart. They'll tell everyone who wants to listen about the role of those places within the flow of time.

His alignment is probably true neutral with a light tendency to lawful neutral. His goal is mostly to keep the flow of time as undisturbed as possible with as little effort as necessary. He usually doesn't reply often to the prayers of his followers and even if he does, it might be weeks or even months until his answer finally reaches them.

## The descendants of the Light

### The Seraphs of Light

Brought into the world during the Great War by the Light itself the seraphs were supposed to help the creatures of Navaria in their struggle against the servants of the Darkness. Originally there were five of them: Luniel, Sekandriel, Raviel, Nodokiel and Zaphkiel. Together their power was comparable to the level of one of the gods and with it they have saved countless of lives ever since their birth. Even in the centuries after the war they were a pillar of protection during the rebuilding phase.

It was then that Nodokiel started to slowly drift away from the other seraphs. He was brooding a lot and asked troubling questions at times. "Are these creatures really worth being saved?" he once asked his sister Zaphkiel, as they slaughtered a group of soldiers who were about to rape a young priestess of the Light. The day before they had saved those soldiers from being killed by a pack of werewolves. Her reply is one the most famous quotes in the Book of Light. "I truly think so. As long as they are pure and their actions righteous we have no reason to deny them our help. Only when Light becomes Darkness we shall judge them."

But Nodokiel still lost his trust in the creatures of Light. Before the Darkness could fully engulf him, his brothers and sisters made a difficult decision: They stripped him off his powers and his name, then they cut off his wings and forced him to become one of the creatures he so despised. A mortal, A mere shell of his former self. "Malfegor, the Fallen One" was born.

### Malfegor, the Fallen One

The fallen seraph Nodokiel is the material for a great number of myths and legends. Many describe Malfegor to be some kind of demon, who tries to guide people away from the path of the Light as a servant of the Darkness. Others say he died the ordinary death of a mortal long ago and never learned his lesson. Another version of the story claims he is still travelling through Navaria to this day. Aimless. Endless. Hopeless. The Book of Light never really reveals his fate, but it warns all believers to follow his example.