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Deities & Demigods for the Light of Xaryxis Campaign

The known wildspace systems that have any contact with the Rock of Bral are all aligned with the divine and infernal powers of Greek mythology.

Humans

Humans in the known systems are all ultimately descended from the inhabitants of the ancient world of Kobol. From there, Humans learned about spelljamming, and spread to twelve colonies, each of which has its own culture. The twelve colonies are currently engaged in a war against a neighboring system ruled by a mysterious empire of Warforged warriors.

Human WorldPatron Deity
AerilonDemeter
AquariaHermes
CanceronHades
CapricaApollo
GemenonHera
LeonisArtemis
LibranAthena
PiconPoseidon
SagittaronZeus
ScorpiaDionysus
TauronArea
VirgonHestia

Humans are found in many other systems, and are usually refugees, exiles, or emigrants from the twelve colonies.

Non-Humans

The non-Human species of the known systems in general have longer histories and older civilizations than Humans, and their religions mostly reflect the older generation of Titans.

SpeciesPatron Deities
DragonsTethys (Tiamat) and Oceanus (Bahamut)
DwarvesHephaestus, Prometheus, other Titans associated with craft
ElvesOuranos (Auberon) and Gaia (Titania)
FiendsWorship their own leaders
GiantsTitans in general
GiffGiff usually adopt the religious practices of wherever they find themselves
GnomesMnemosyne (Mother Memory)
GoblinoidsRhea (Great Mother)
HadoozeeNature-spirits
HalflingsThe Olympians, the same as Humans
OrcsCyclopes
PlasmoidsOceanus, Proteus, and other spirits associated with shapeshifting
SahuaginSea-giant Titans (Telkhines)
Thri-KreenCoeus the Questioner
WarforgedUnknown

Greek Myth Archetypes

These are characteristics, domains, tropes, and aspects corresponding to the various Olympians. Use these for determining which you may be dealing with (or wanting to supplicate) in any given situation.

OlympianArchetypes
AphroditeAppearance, Desire, Diplomacy, Influence, Love, Objectification, Outward beauty, Perfection, Possession, Reputation, Sociability, Vanity
ApolloAbstraction, Art, Divine wrath, Don't-take-any-guff, Justice, Knowledge, Learning, Logic, Medicine, Music, Order, Reason, Science, Sun, Technique, Thought over emotion
AresAggression, Ambition, Argument, Blood-lust, Competitiveness, Debate, Hostility, Male-bonding, Murder, Violence, Will-to-power
ArtemisBond-with-nature, Divine wrath, Enchanter, Hunter, Moon, Mysterious knowledge, Mystery, Occult, Other, Sorceress, Vengeance, Wild nature
AthenaAuthority-by-virtue, Can-do spirit, Courage, Craft, Creative invention, Duty, Heroism, Honor, Individualism, Martial virtue, Respect, Soldier, Strategy
DemeterAgriculture, Earth-mother, Fertility, Growth, Mother, Nurturing, Source, Weather
DionysusDance, Drunkenness, Ecstasy, Emotion-over-reason, Inspiration, Intuition, Lust, Madness, Music (improvised), Passion
HadesBrooding, Caste, Construction, Death, Irrevocable fate, Remembrance, Wealth
HephaeustusCraft, Technology, Tinkerer
HeraEducation, Family, Genealogy, Home-maker, Manners, Mores, Motherhood, Propriety, Social Hierarchy, Taskmaster, Tradition
HermesCoyote, Dangerous helper, Fertility (male), Fire, Illusion, Life-finds-a-way, Pride, Rhetoric-as-power, Stealth, Swiftness, Tabu-breaker, Thief, Trickster
HestiaAncestry, Belonging, Comfort, Family, Hearth and home
PersephoneDeath-impulse, Enclosure, Gehenna, “Gothic,” Graveyard, Nostalgia, Sorrow
PoseidonDanger, Fate, Horses, Ocean, Storms, Travel
ZeusBard, Boon-giver, Builder, Heavens, Hospitality, Jovial, Law-giver, Masterful, Merciful, Order arises from fertile chaos, Patriarch, Rune-master, Storyteller, Teacher, Thunderbolts, Winds

Non-Olympian Powers

WhoWhatNotes
CoeusTitanThe Questioner; domain of inquisitive minds and the intellect
CriusTitanGod of the constellations; mapper of the universe
CronusTitanOverthrew his father Ouranos to become ruler of the cosmos; in turn overthrown by Zeus and imprisoned in the underworld
CyclopesNot Primordial nor Titan, but with aspects of bothThree gigantic beings of immense physical power; one is often said to be the fore-runner or identical with Gruumsh, the Orc deity
EpimetheusTitan“Afterthought”
FatesSpiritsThree goddesses of the inescapable fates of mortals
FuriesSpiritsThree spirits of revenge and blood-debt
GaiaA primordial spirit, mother of the TitansThe original earth-spirit and mother-goddess of all life
HecatoncheiresPrimordial KaijuAmorphous, unbelievably powerful ancient entities that figured in the earliest wars
HeliosTitanOriginal sun-god
HoursSpiritsGoddesses of order and the progress of time
HyperionTitanGod of light; father of the sun and the moon
IapetusTitanAssociated with mortality and the inevitability of death
MnemosyneTitanGoddess of memory; mother of the nine Muses
MusesSpiritsNine spirits of the mind; goddess of the arts and sciences
OceanusTitanOriginal god of the oceans, and by extension the “oceans” of wildspace and the Astral plane
OuranosA primordial spiritThe original god of the heavens and ruler of the cosmos, overthrown by Cronus
PanA roving nature spirit, not a TitanSimilar in archetypes to Dionysus, and often his companion
PhoebeTitanGoddess of cleverness
PrometheusTitan“Forethought” – benefactor of early Humans
RheaTitanCronus’s queen and mother of the Olympians
TartarusPrimordialEmbodiment of the underworld of death
TethysTitanMother of a multitude of water and nature spirits
TheiaTitanGoddess of sight and vision
ThemisTitanGoddess of order