Deities

**Deities**, also known as **pagan gods**, or more accurately, The **Old Gods**, are a race of immortal supernatural entities, with each being a prime authority in the religion or pantheon that they established or belonged to.

## History

According to Lucifer, at some point after humanity were banished from the Garden of Eden, they began to worship aspects of nature like the sun, the female womb, the rain and the stars. This initially angered God as it prevented humans from seeing his supposed beneficence even though he was the one who exiled his children from paradise. However, God later created the pagan deities to take blame for misfortunes of humanity, and to create stories surrounding them. This included Anu, the Babylonian sky god, Hera, the Greek goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth, Ra, the egyptian god of the sun, and Mixcoatl, the Aztec God of stars and the hunt.

In another point of History, Prometheus brought fire down from Olympus and gave it to mankind, to improve their lives and provide them protection from monsters.

Eve is considered to be a biological hybrid of a deity and Leviathan being the prime ruler of Purgatory with god-like power over Monsters.

Over time, they formed their own collective pantheons and religions amongst the humans, which attracted many followers across the Earth. These deities were worshipped for centuries, and in some cases, millennia. Through the tributes they received, the deities became immensely powerful, as Sam once described them as being "just short of invincible" in their prime days.

Many are as old as the oldest civilizations of mankind, like Anansi, Osiris and Cacao, and there have been multiple generations of gods sired by other gods.

## Overview

### Powers

As deities, they are very powerful, and some of them are powerful enough to be classified as higher beings who formerly held invinicibility and a lower tier nigh-omnipotence in their glory days. Unlike demons, angels, and almost all other supernatural species, the abilities of the deities vary between each other. Normally, it depends on each type of deity and how old and powerful they are. They also gain power through sacrifices, particularly blood and human sacrifices.

While each deity has unique magical powers, they do share certain powers and attributes.

### Members

*TBA*

1. **Odin:**
2. **Loki:**
3. **Mercury:** He was the roman god of Messages, Commerce and Travelers.
4. **Bennu:** Bennu is an ancient Egyptian deity linked with the sun, creation, and rebirth. He is the origin for the Phoenix species as well as the source of their power.
5. **Zeus (deceased):** He was the king of the Olympian Old Gods, worshipped by the ancient Greeks and Roman civilizations as the God of the sky, lightning, thunder, storms, law, order, justice, destiny, fate and kingship.
6. **Ares (deceased):** Ares, also known as Mars is the Greek god of courage and war being one of the Twelve major Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. He embodies the physical valor necessary for success in war but can also personify sheer brutality and bloodlust, in contrast to his sister, the armored Athena, whose martial functions include military strategy and generalship.
7. **Hera:**
8. **The Moirai:** A trio of sisters, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, who are closely affiliated with God and often work with Heaven. They personified the inescapable destiny of man including; birth, life, and death.
9. **Artemis:**
10. **Apollo:**
11. **Hermes:**
12. **Athena:**
13. **Hecate:** Hecate or Hekate is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology commonly referred to as "mother", "Maiden", and "crone" as the triple goddess. She is variously associated with entrance-ways, night, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery.
14. **Aphrodite:**
15. **Dionysus:** Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, fertility, orchards and fruit, vegetation, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.
16. **Hades:**
17. **Poseidon:**
18. **Isis:** The daughter of the Egyptian god of deserts, storms and violent disorder known as Set. She is the goddess of magic.
19. **Set:** The Egyptian god of war, chaos and deserts/storms, brother of Osiris, father of Isis, and brother to Horus.
20. **Osiris:** He is the Egyptian god of the underworld, transition, death, life, the dead, resurrection, regeneration, fertility and ruler of the afterlife. He put people who feel guilty on trial; if found guilty, they were sentenced to death and Osiris commanded ghosts or specters to carry out the sentence.
21. **Anubis:** The Egyptian god of the dead and judgment.
22. **Baron Samedi:** He is the Haitian Voodoo god acting as the spirit guide to the dead.
23. **Chronos:** A first generation greek god with authority over the primordial aspect of time.
24. **Nimue:** A proto-goddess as the lady of the lake from arthurian legend.
25. **Vesta:**
26. **Kali:**

#### Demi-Gods/Hybrids/Creations

1. **Theseus:**
2. **Gorgons:** A race of pseudo-god monsters created by Athena who cursed the very first Gorgon AKA Medusa from which all modern day Gorgons are descended from.
3. **Children of Aphrodite:** Hyacinthus is the demi-God son of Aphrodite, godddess of beauty. Pothos is the Demi-God/Monster son of Aphrodite, godddess of beauty who has 5 brothers.
4. **Sebastian:** The son of Yokoth, mate of Glythur, two very powerful nephesh gods from another universe.
5. **Arthur Gilbert:** He is the son of proto-goddess Nimue.
6. **Perseus:**
7. **Hercules:**
8. **Connor Grace:** Son of Zeus.
9. **Amazons:** All female species of demi-god monsters born to Hera.
10. **Phoenixes:** A powerful and rare monster race descended from the Egyptian god Bennu and possesses the unique abilities of self-resurrection among others.
11. **James Kirby:**
12. **Natural Witches:** Humans imbued with vast magical talent and an innate mystical battery by the major Goddess of Magic, Hecate.

#### Beings considered Gods/Deities

The term God can be used to describe anyone with limited weaknesses in conjunction with extreme power. While "deity" can be used to classify anyone who is worshipped by a large group of lesser beings.

1. **Jack Kline:** Many Demons and Angels see Jack as a sort of divine god bearing immense cosmic power superior to that of the four Archangels. After he became the new God by absorbing the old God's power along with the Darkness, Jack became the ranking deity in all of creation.
2. **God/Yahweh:** Creator of the lesser deities, also known as Allah or Yahweh, he is worshiped by the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and other monotheistic faiths, but is not a deity in the sense used for the pagan gods
3. **Apocalypse World Michael:** The oldest of the archangels, it is stated by Kevin Tran that God in the Apocalypse World has left and he is the ranking deity. Michael would later call himself a god when taunting Jack.
4. **The Four Horseman:** Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence are a group of cosmic beings who are destined to ride with Lucifer during the Apocalypse after being summoned by the voice of the Anti-christ Jesse Turner. Currently, 3 of the 4 horseman are discorporated without their rings to provide them with a physical body but their essence and consciousness remain alive. Whereas Death, or at least the original, is dead but has been replaced by the Reaper succession line.
5. **Carter Vought:** Originally born a human but mutated himself through alchemcy becoming extremely strong, durable, and immortal. He later gained the magic from numerous pagan gods earning himself the title.
6. **Lucifer Morningstar:** Despite being an archangel, Lucifer is called and viewed as a god by some demons for being their creator.
7. **Jesse Turner:** As the Anti-christ, Jesse wielded colossal levels of cosmic power bordering on a level of omnipotence great enough to erase virtually all angelic opposition.