Pantheon

The Prime Material plane in which Avendar resides was created by the Overgods Iandir, Jolinn, and Ashur. They in turn created many deities of Their own to help steward Their new creation; over time, yet more deities came from elsewhere or ascended to godhood from ordinary mortality to preside over various aspects of the Prime. All deities ultimately bow to the will and might of the Overgods, though some more resentfully than others.

The gods of Avendar are immortal beings of miraculous and immense power. Each god pursues their own interests, purposes, and plans, and the various lineages each have their own presiding trinity of deities that lay claim to that lineage's destiny and which have heavily shaped their chosen peoples' culture and history. Despite this focused stewardship, deities freely welcome worshippers from any lineage or culture provided they act in accordance with that deity's values. Through their following, religious artifice, and individually chosen immortal divines, deities may enact their designs and spread their influence upon the world in accordance with the ancient Compact laid down by the Overgods.

Deities rarely manifest in the world, but when they do it is in the form most familiar to their chosen lineage, even to those not of it. The exception is the Overgods themselves, who appear in a form appropriate to the lineage they are manifesting for. Each lineage or culture thus has wildly different ways of perceiving each of the Overgods, down to species and gender.

Impartial Gods

Iandir - Earth, order, law, leadership, honesty, creation

Aelin Gods

Aeoleri - Purity, romance, gallantry, refuge, guilt, charm
Alil - Empathy, liberation, responsibility, spectacle, transformation, reaction
Serachel - Corruption, provocation, secrecy, grief, obsession, preservation

Alatharya Gods

The Alatharya pantheon is currently under reconstruction.

Arikanja - ???
Enirra - Balance, equality, rebellion, obsession, monotheism, lost causes
Khanval - Militant anti-imperialism

Caladaran Gods

Alajial - Peace, healing, diplomacy, mercy, compassion, charity
Chadraln - Knowledge, precognition, revelation, history, diligence, continuity
Jalassa - Transcendence, reason, patience, meditation, restraint, penance

Chaja Gods

The Chaja pantheon is under construction.

Elanthe - Stories, narratives, inspiration, heritage, drama, the bardic arts
Kurion - Depression, apathy, anxiety, pessimism, dread, inevitability
Kyana - Perseverance, prophecy, defiance, sympathy, suffering, comfort

Ch'taren Gods

Calaera - Truth, judgement, devotion, command, righteousness, valor
Rystaia - The Weave, freedom, passion, joy, zeal, revelation
Vaialos - Hope, sacrifice, martyrdom, poignancy, memory, insight

Ethron Gods

Elar - Nature, symbiosis, renewal, family, druidic magic, growth
Nariel - Hunting, anarchism, heroism, mischief, vivacity, disobedience
Lielqan - Mortality, surrender, fate, rebirth, hard truths, boundaries

Human Gods

Dolgrael - War, honor, pride, metalsmithing, victory, defeat
Jolinn - Water, life, protection, unity, purification, healing
Lilune - The moons, blood, wonder, intensity, illusion, enervation

Nefortu Gods

Ayaunj - Trade, contracts, wealth, community, strategy, discretion
Bayyal - Fire, wrath, ruin, violence, consumption, malice
Tzajai - Chaos, air, gambling, trickery, luck, change

Shuddeni Gods

Arkhural - Ambition, fear, pain, greed, bloodlust, havoc
Ashur - The Void, demons, death, apocalypse, silence, finality
Rveyelhi - Tyranny, subjugation, dread, cruelty, bureaucracy, attrition

Srryn Gods

Fenthira - Swamps, evolution, fertility, shelter, supremacy, gratification
Sitheus - Undeath, punishment, jealousy, obedience, decay, exile
Sythrak - Srryn, reptiles, swamps, mires, decay