Gods

Complete list of Omnarith Deities: here

## Creation

In the early days of Omnarith, the land was home to many gods. These gods lived on the ground and in the sky, in the water and under the earth. Omnarith was their garden and they created as was their want. Mortal life was created by one of the gods and other gods saw their creations and made their own. Some of these gods decided to imbue some of their creations with intelligence to better serve them. These new peoples were made in the image of their creators and thus were the variety of ancestries made.

The gods saw these various peoples as their servants to tend to Omnarith. The peoples chaffed at this. The people's became too numerous and too arrogant. A cataclysm was called for by some of the gods. One god sought to protect the creations and so argued on their behalf and prevented their destruction. Instead, disease and death were created and brought into the world. With this, the peoples were scattered. Upon their death, the spirits of these peoples would then be allotted to each of the gods for their use. Some gods continued to use these spirits as slaves with some turning them out as sport in divine hunts.

## War

The Divinity Skirmish brought holy war into the garden of Omnarith. Battling alongside their creations, the gods carved the landscape leaving scars still seen today. The might of the gods was enough to turn the tides of war and even to wound and kill opposing gods. Many gods fell during this skirmish and some mortals rose to godhood and take their place.

One of these mortals, sometimes called Pharasma, sometimes called The Raven Queen ascended and began to judge the spirits of the dead allocating them to the resting place best fitting their deeds and disposition in life. The gods finding their new arrivals much more to their liking, with many of them willingly worshiping them, allowed the spirits more respect and easier afterlives.

The gods, seeing the damage The Divinity Skirmish was causing to their number, agreed to the Pact of Reflection. With this pact, the gods would no longer go to Omnarith and would instead watch as their creations managed the land. Gods are still allowed interaction, chiefly through clerics and prophecy.

## Age of Clerics

In the time of the Piccaran Empire, few gods maintained connections with the people in Omnarith. These gods were subtle and inconsistent and their followers in Omnarith believed there to be few gods with broad portfolios. These gods are referred to as Traditional gods or as members of The Divine Court Later, during the Reformation, the gods became closer to their worshipers, providing miracles far greater than before. Today, these gods are referred to as the Known Gods and are the ones acknowledged everywhere in Omnarith. The scholars of the traditional religion still argue whether the Traditional Gods had shifted and split into the Known gods or if earlier scholars had made a mistake in grouping these gods together. Few secretly think the Traditional Gods were killed and replaced by the Known Gods.

## Pilgrimage Sites

The organized religions (of those that follow the major gods) require their clerics to undergo pilgrimage before becoming full ordained leaders in the church. Some require travel to a single location in Omnarith, others have tasks that must be completed in according with the teachings, but the physical location is less important.