The Pantheon

# Pantheon

The reason why there is not a lot of detail is because the staff have all decided that it would be best if you all had the ability to make your own stories about the realms and gods, and even add deities and realms. Now this wouldn’t be an out of character thing, this would be simply claiming things to be true about it in character. If there is one take away you can get from this, it would be have your characters make things up about the religion and tell people that it is true in character. This is so the religion will have regional variations and will fit anything you needed to do with it.

## **The Ænvir**

The Ænvir sit in their realm of gods, ruled by Oddvar

### Oddvar

The father of all things, he is the creator of realms and living things. A god of wisdom and war.

* Rune: ᛟ or ᚾ

* Symbol: The Raven

### Gara

Spouse to Oddvar and mother of many of the gods, Garda is the goddess of life. She was the one who created humans in the visage of her children, though she did not expect them to have such short lives. The first human deaths came unexpectedly, and thus were lost to the world without an afterlife created to house them. Though after that the gods learned their mistakes and created an eternal resting place where the newly dead spirits may lay.

* Rune: ᚴ
* Symbol: Dark Oak Tree

### Arne

The god of battle. Son of Oddvar, Arne is a warrior by heart. He is the bravest and the most courageous of them all with a heart of steel

* Rune: ᛅ or ¶
* Symbol: The Axe

### Siegfried

half brother to Arne and son of Oddvar, the god of honor and light.

* Rune: ᛋ
* Symbol: The Sun

### Heiro

Goddess of wealth and fear. Born of Oddvar and Garda, Heiro is an avaricious being of terror that was tasked with keeping mankind in line. She terrorizes the minds of men across Forsvar, set on comepleting her job to the fullest

* Rune: ᚼ
* Symbol: The Dragon

## The Svartir

The Svartir were rivals to the Ænvir and even fought them in the past although this war ended in unification between the two into one pantheon of peace. But this unification is only temporary

### Ulfr

The most ruthless of them all, the god of survival and leader of the Svartir clan. Ulfr blesses hunters in their journeys and adventurers in their travels.

* Rune: ᚢ
* Symbol: The Wolf

### Itemir

Spouse of Ulfr and goddess of agriculture, Itemir ran off with him to found the Svartir clan.

* Rune: ᛁ
* Symbol: Grain

### Brilmr

The goddess of magic and curses. Born from Ulfr and Itemir, Brilmr is very young and naive. She gave humanity her gift of magic, only to be shocked and taken aback at their uses for it. Despite her original surprise, she has grown to love curses

* Rune: ᛒ
* Symbol: The Stave

### Paskeld

The god of darkness and tricks. Born from Oddvar, he joined his brother in creating the Svartir clan against the Ænvir. Though he left the goings on of it to Ulfr since he would much rather mess with mortals than with deities

* Rune: ᛒ but usually backwards and upside-down
* Symbol: The Spider

### Neth and Lok

The twin goddesses of death born of Paskeld. Judging the dead they rule of Flarheim and Kegonheim. Neth born of fire and Lok born of ice. The are in constant battle for the souls of the dead and those they claim to be theirs.

* Neth Rune: ᚾ
* Neth Symbol: A Black Skull
* Lok Rune: ᛚ
* Lok Symbol: A white Skull

### Catold

The god of purity. Catold promotes chastity, temperance, and condemnation of temptation. The other deities mock and mostly ignore him, same with most of humanity.

* Rune: ᚴ
* Symbol: The Dove