Pantheon: Elven Deities

Pantheon: Elven Deities

Here we have elven deities that are relevant for my setting. I don't provide deity-specific spells this time.

  

Alobal Lorfiril

Demigod
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: a partially drunken wineglass with colorful orbs floating out of it

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: hedonism, mirth, magic, revelry

Domain (-20%): food spells, illusion spells, transmutation and shaping spells

Worshipers: elves, hedonists

Alobal Lorfiril is a minor elven god of hedonism and revelry, as well as being associated with the entertainment value and potential of artistic improvement of the art.

Alobal manifests himself as a comely male elf with sparkling golden eyes.

Dogma: Alobal urges his followers to wrest the maximum possible pleasure from each moment. Responsibility is for tomorrow. However, he does not cajole his followers to become intoxicated to the point of causing harm to themselves or others, nor does he condone seeking personal pleasure at the expense of others. He teaches that there is as much potential in tomorrow as there is in today, and that elves need never hurry. Wasting today in drudgery is fruitless and possibly sinful.

Corellon Larethian

Greater deity
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: silver crescent

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: elves, magic, music, arts, warfare

Domain (-20%): meta spells, sound spells, making and breaking spells, spells that improve senses

Worshipers: elves, half-elves, bards

He is known as the Creator of the Elves, the Protector, Protector and Preserver of Life, and Ruler of All Elves. Corellon Larethian is the creator and protector of the elf race. He governs those things held in highest esteem among elves, such as magic, music, arts, crafts, poetry, and warfare. Gruumsh is his nemesis, and it is because of Corellon’s battle prowess that Gruumsh was called “One-Eye” before Corellon finished what he began and killed him. Corellon usually appears as an androgynous elf clad in a sky-blue cloak and armed with a longbow and longsword

            Dogma: Corellon concerns himself with all aspects of elven welfare. He also remains alert to any taint of evil among the elves, and he seeks to stamp out any evil influence the moment it appears. Corellon played a leading role in the schism that ultimately resulted in the banishment of the drow underground.

Corellon spurs his people toward self-reliance, vigilance against danger, and appreciation of the world’s beauty. It is Corellon’s influence that leads elves to study magic and swordplay for the duration of their long lives, to serve as guardians and caretakers of the forests, and to appreciate aesthetic pleasures in spite of their warrior heritage.

Deep Sashelas

Intermediate deity
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: dolphin

Home plane: Elemental Plane of Water

Portfolio: oceans, aquatic elves, creation, knowledge

Domain (-20%): knowledge spells, water spells, making and breaking spells

Worshipers: druids, elves, fisher folk, rangers, sages, sailors

The Lord of the Undersea is the patron of aquatic elves. With his consort Trishinia, Queen of the Dolphins, he rules the world beneath the waves and creates ever-changing vistas of undersea beauty.

            Deep Sashelas appears as a handsome aquatic elf with sea-green skin and flowing blue-green hair. He is usually clad in leather armor made of sharkskin and decorated with fins and frills. Deep Sashelas is a charismatic leader and an inspired creator, but he is also fickle and flighty, as evidenced by the many tales of his amorous adventures with mermaids, mortal aquatic elves, and other lovely beings of the deep.

            Dogma: Swim the great currents and the shallow seas. Exult in the dynamic beauty and life of the bounteous Undersea. Revel in the joy of creation and increase its myriad aspects. Seek not to hold that which is everchanging, but instead love the change itself. Seek out fellow swimmers who honor the ways of the Lord of the Undersea, and ally with them against those who see only the darkness of the deeps. Follow the way of the dolphin. Promote knowledge and use of the sea by reasonable folk, and fight those that would stain or deplete its beauty and bounty.

  

Elebrin Liothiel

Intermediate deity
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: acorn

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: nature, gardens, harvest

Domain (-40%): plant spells

Worshipers: druids, farmers, gardeners

Known as the Celestial Gardener, Elebrin Liothiel is the elven god of orchards, gardens, and the harvest. This pastoral deity represents the abundance of nature and its ability to provide for those who live in harmony with it.

            Elebrin appears as a young male elf dressed in tunic and breeches in muted golden shades. His cloak is the color of green spring leaves embroidered with trailing vines, and he carries a sturdy staff made of rowan wood. A circlet of leafy vines adorns his brow.

            Dogma: Restore areas blighted by evil. Acquire seeds or cuttings of new plant life, try to preserve and spread it. Keep elven communities fed. Do not harm plant life.

  

Hanali Celanil

Intermediate deity
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: golden heart

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: love, romance, beauty, enchantments, magic item artistry, fine art, artists

Domain (-20%): enchantment spells, beneficial or love-related mind control spells, appearance-related body control spells, making and breaking spells

Worshipers: aesthetes, artists, enchanters, lovers, sorcerers

Hanali Celanil is a being of timeless beauty and benign nature, who always forgives minor transgressions and delights in rewarding her followers with the bliss of unexpected love and affection. She embodies romance, beauty, love, and joy in elven spirits, her only flaws being her own mild vanity and flighty nature. Although she rarely appears to her faithful, Hanali delights in seeing the growth of love among elves, and she often acts in secret to protect young lovers

            Dogma: Life is worth living because of the beauty found in the world and the love that draws twin hearts together. Nurture what is beautiful in life, and let beauty’s rapturous glow enliven and brighten the lives of those around you. The greatest joy is the rapture of newfound love and the tide of romance that sweeps over those wrapped in its embrace. Find love wherever it takes root, and bring it to its fullest bloom so that all may share in the joy and beauty it creates. Always give shelter and succor to young lovers, for their hearts are the truest guides to life’s proper course.

Lolth

Intermediate deity
Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: black spider with a female drow’s head

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: drow, spiders, darkness, assassins

Domain (-30%): darkness spells, poison spells, spider spells

Worshipers: drow

Lolth, the Queen of the Demonweb Pits, was Corellon’s original consort, but he cast her out of the Seldarine when she turned to evil. It was Lolth who first spread evil among the elves and led the drow away from the rest of the elves thousands of years ago. Now she focuses on using the drow to conquer the vast cavern-realms beneath the surface of the earth. Lolth relishes the chance to test her followers by pitting them against each other so that the strong may cull out the weak.

            Lolth appears either as a tall, beautiful female drow or a massive black spider with a female drow’s head.

            Dogma: Fear is as strong as steel, while love and respect are soft and useless. Convert or destroy nonbeliever drow. Weed out the weak and the rebellious. Destroy impugners of the faith. Sacrifice males, slaves, and those of other races who ignore the commands of Lolth or her clerics. Raise children to praise and fear Lolth, each family should produce at least one cleric to serve her. Questioning Lolth’s motives or wisdom is a sin, as is aiding nondrow against the drow, or ignoring Lolth’s commands for the sake of a lover. Revere arachnids of all kinds; those who kill or mistreat a spider must die.

Sehanine Moonbow

Intermediate deity
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: crescent above a full moon

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: mysticism, dreams, death, journeys, transcendence, the moon, the stars, the heavens

Domain (-20%): dream spells, star spells, moon spells, movement spells, knowledge spells

Worshipers: diviners, elves, half-elves, illusionists, opponents of the undead

The Daughter of the Night Skies holds sway over death, dreams, and the beauty of the night. Now the consort of Corellon Larethian, Sehanine Moonbow provided strength to him from her tears during his battles with Gruumsh. It is she who eases the passage of dying elves and their spirits to their final reward. When an elf nears death from old age, disease, or some other nonviolent means, a milky-white, opaque crescent often appears in the lenses of his eyes – Sehanine’s characteristic “moonbow.” At such times, the goddess often sends the dying elf a vision of the next world to give him hope and strength during his passage.

            The Lady of Dreams also governs sleep, dreams, and mystic revelations. She rarely speaks to her followers directly, preferring to impart her will through dreams, mystic visions, and journeys of the spirit.

            Sehanine appears as an ethereally beautiful female elf with white hair and blue eyes. She is usually clad in a silvery gown and wearing a piece of silver jewelry shaped like a full moon.

            Dogma: Life is series of mysteries whose secrets are veiled by the Luminous Cloud. As the spirit transcends its mortal bounds and new mysteries are uncovered, a higher form is achieved and the cycle of life continues. Through contemplation and meditation, communion with the Lady of Dreams is achieved. Through dreams, visions, and omens revealed in sleep or the reverie, the Daughter of the Night Sky unveils the next step along the path and the next destination on the endless journey of mystic wonder that is life and death and life.

Vandria Gilmadrith

Intermediate deity

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Symbol: weeping eye on a red shield-shaped pendant

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: war, guardianship, justice, grief, vigilance, decision

Domain (-40%): protection and warning spells

Worshipers: paladins, warriors

Vandria Gilmadrith is a minor elven goddess of vigilance, grief, and war. Due to the lighthearted nature of elves, her worship fluctuates greatly. Vandria manifests as a middle-aged female elf with a pair of feathered, steel-gray wings sprouting from her back. Her hair is always bound in a single severe braid, and it is colored white. 

Aerdrie Faenya

Intermediate deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: a bird silhouetted in a cloud

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: air, avariels, avians, fertiliry, rain, weather

Domain (-30%): air spells, weather spells

Worshipers: avariels, bards, elven druids, winged beings

Aerdrie Faenya is the elven goddess of air and weather. As a rain-bringer, she is revered as a source of fertility.

Erevan Ilesere

Intermediate deity

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Symbol: starburst with asymmetrical rays

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: mischief, change, rogues

Domain (-30%): body control spells, movement spells

Worshipers: elven rogues, bards, revelers, tricksters

Erevan is a fickle, unpredictable deity who specializes in shapechanging. He is a woodland lover and always wearing green somewhere about his person, but he is a god of thieves and rogues too, and has a definite weakness for fine wines.

Fenmarel Mestarine

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Symbol: a pair of elven eyes in the darkness

Home plane: Limbo

Portfolio: nature, outcasts, scapegoats, isolation

Domain (-20%): animal spells, plant spells, movement spells

Worshipers: druids, outcasts, rangers, wild elves

Fenmarel Mestarine is the elven god of outcasts and isolationists. He is the teacher and protector of isolated elves and elf communities, and is known to use his avatar to patrol their borders.

Labelas Enoreth

Intermediate deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: a setting sun

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: time, longevity, history, the moment of choice

Domain (-30%): time spells, knowledge spells

Worshipers: scholars, teachers, bards

Labelas Enoreth is the elven deity who governed the orderly passage of time and guarded against those who would alter the path of history. Together with Sehanine Moonbow, he oversees the long life span of the elves and their lives after they have left the mortal realms.

Solonor Thelandira

Intermediate deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: silver arrow with green fletching

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: archery, hunting, wilderness survival

Domain (-30%): plant spells, protection and warning spells

Worshipers: arcane archers, archers, druids, woodsmen, rangers, hunters

Solonor Thelandira is the elven god of hunting, archery, and survival in wild and harsh places. He teaches his followers the arts of hunting; including archery, moving unseen, and hiding in the wild places. He watches over the borders of wilderness and farmed land and seeks to maintain the balance between them.

Alathrien Druanna

Demigod

Alignment: Neutral

Symbol: a silver quill tracing elven runes upon paper

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: conjurations, rune magic, geometric magic

Domain (-30%): conjuration 

Worshipers: conjurers, geometers, rune mages

Alathrien Druanna is a minor elven goddess of rune and conjuration magic. She is a nearly forgotten member of the Seldarine.

Angharradh

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: three interlocking circles

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: growth, protection, wisdom

Domain (-20%): healing spells, protection and warning spells, knowledge spells 

Worshipers: fighters, farmers, midwives, elves

Angharradh used to be a fusion of the three elven goddesses – Aerdrie Faernya, Hanali Celanil, and Sehanine Moonbow. However, those three aspects had broken away and became independent, leaving Angharradh weakened.

Araleth Letheranil

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: a white shift of light, small at the top and largest at the bottom

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: light, starlight, twilight

Domain (-30%): light and darkness spells, knowledge spells 

Worshipers: scholars, stargazers

Araleth Letheranil is a minor elven god of starlight. Araleth opposes evil, and encourages elves to combat any evil, darkness-loving creatures. He is especially aggressive and relentless when regarding the drow.

Darahl Firecloak

Demigod

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Symbol: flame between hands

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: fire, earth, metalwork

Domain (-20%): fire spells, earth spells, metal spells 

Worshipers: scholars, stargazers

Darahl Firecloak is a minor elven god of earth and fire magic. Darahl spends a good deal of time attempting to regain his lost power and gain more followers. Since he is not very picky about converts, he tries to sway more neutrally aligned members of the Underdark races to him.

Khalreshaar

Demigod

Alignment: Neutral Good

Symbol: tiny brilliant white star balanced on an open lush green oak or ash leaf

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: half-elves

Domain (-40%): communication and empathy spells

Worshipers: half-elves

Khalreshaar is an interloper demigoddess in the elven pantheon. She was originally a human druid before being magically transferred to Arvandor by the Seldarine. She was friend with the elves and even helped them to fight against a local human warlord. Now she is the patron of half-elves.

Kirith Sotheril

Lesser deity

Alignment: Neutral Good

Symbol: rainbow sphere

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: divination, illusion

Domain (-30%): illusion spells, knowledge spells 

Worshipers: elven diviners and illusionists

Kirith Sotheril is a minor elven goddess of divination and illusion magic.

Melira Taralen

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: lute

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: poetry, songs

Domain (-40%): sound spells 

Worshipers: bards, minstrels

Melira Taralen is a minor elven goddess of bards and minstrels.

Mythrien Sarath

Demigod

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: row of three intertwined rings

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: abjuration, ritual magic

Domain (-30%): meta-spells, protection and warning spells 

Worshipers: abjurers, ritual mages

Mythrien Sarath is one of several elven gods of magic in danger of losing their deific status because of lack of worshipers.

Naralis Analor

Lesser deity

Alignment: Neutral Good

Symbol: white dove

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: healing, suffering, death

Domain (-30%): healing spells, necromantic spells

Worshipers: elven healers, caregivers

Naralis Analor is a lesser member of the Seldarine and took the role of the elvish god of suffering, healing, and death.

Rellavar Danuvien

Lesser deity

Alignment: Neutral Good

Symbol: spear between two circles

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: winter, harsh weather

Domain (-30%): cold spells, weather spells

Worshipers: snow elves

Rellavar Danuvien is a minor elven god of cold and protection from the elements. He is primarily a god worshiped by the snow elves.

Rillifane Rallathil

Intermediate deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: oak

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: woodlands, nature, wild elves

Domain (-30%): plant spells, protection and warning spells

Worshipers: elven druids and rangers, wild elves

Rillifane Rallathil is a deity of the Seldarine who oversees woodlands, wild elves, druids, and nature.

Sarula Iliene

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: three blue lines with three crested points to each

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: lakes, streams, water magic, nixies

Domain (-40%): water spells

Worshipers: water mages, nixies, aquatic elves

Sarula Iliene was a fey deity, but it detached itself from the fey pantheon and joined the Seldarine. Despite that, she is still worshiped by some nixies.

Shevarash

Demigod

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Symbol: broken arrow above a tear drop

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: hatred of the drow, vengeance, military crusade, loss, revenge

Domain (-30%): communication and empathy spells, protection and warning spells

Worshipers: arcane archers, archers, elves, fighters

Shevarash is the elven deity of revenge, loss and hatred of the drow. He never displays any emotion aside from anger and the occasional exultation after the death of an enemy.

Tarsellis Meunniduin

Intermediate deity

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Symbol: snowcapped mountain

Home plane: Ysgard

Portfolio: mountains, rivers, wilderness

Domain (-30%): earth spells, cold spells

Worshipers: snow elves, mountain elves

Tarsellis Meunniduin is a minor elven god of mountains, rivers, and wilderness.

Tethrin Veraldé

Demigod

Alignment: Neutral Good

Symbol: crossed swords beneath a quarter moon and above a full moon

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: swordsmanship, bladesingers

Domain (-30%): meta-spells, sound spells

Worshipers: elven bladesingers, swordsmen

Tethrin Veraldé is a minor elven god of swordsmanship and bladesingers.

Eilistraee

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: unclad female drow with long hair dancing before a full moon with a silver bastard sword

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: beauty, dance, hunting, moonlight, song, swordwork

Domain (-20%): light and darkness spells, movement spells, protection and warning spells

Worshipers: good drow, surface-dwelling elves, hunters

Eilistraee is the drow goddess of beauty, song, dance, freedom, moonlight, swordwork, and hunting, within the drow pantheon known as the Dark Seldarine. She is the patroness and protector of the few dark elves who long to return to the surface and live there, at peace with other races, and to abandon the endless conflicts and intrigues that dominate the lives of most drow.

Ghaunadaur

Greater deity

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: purplish eye on purple, violet, and black circles

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: oozes, slimes, outcasts

Domain (-30%): acid spells, poison spells

Worshipers: aboleths, drow, fighters, oozes, outcasts, ropers

Ghaunadaur is a greater deity and the god of abominations. The church of Ghaunadaur consists of cults scattered throughout the Underdark, each dominated by a single individual. There are only a few drow and aboleth cities that serve as exceptions, with a more organized clergy.

Keptolo

Demigod

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: mushroom

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: beauty, hedonism, fertility

Domain (-20%): body control spells, food spells, fungus spells

Worshipers: drow males

Keptolo is the demigod of many drow males, representing dignity, intelligence and attentiveness, as well as catering to the vanity of the females of drow society.

Kiaransalee

Demigod

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: female drow hand wearing silver rings

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: undead, vengeance

Domain (-40%): necromantic spells

Worshipers: necromancers

Kiaransalee is the drow demigoddess of revenge and undeath, a former necromancer queen consumed by thoughts of retribution. The Lady of the Dead was driven insane ages ago, yet retained her twisted cunning, recalling clearly every slight towards her whether real or imagined.

Malyk

Demigod

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: a flame in a tear or a multihued vortex

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: chaos, rebellion, wild magic

Domain (-40%): meta-spells

Worshipers: drow mages

Malyk is a minor drow god of wild magic and rebellion.

Selvetarm

Demigod

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: a pair of black glass lenses that form a mask

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: drow males, surface raids, thievery

Domain (-30%): light and darkness spells, movement spells

Worshipers: drow males

Selvetarm, the son of Vhaeraun, is the drow demigod of warriors and battle prowess.

Vhaeraun

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: crossed sword and mace overlaid with spider image

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: drow warriors

Domain (-40%): spells that increase combat prowess, spells that improve physical characteristics and toughness, spells that cause rage

Worshipers: drow warriors

Vhaeraun is the drow god of drow males, thievery, territory, shadow magic, spellfilchers, and evil activities on the surface, aimed to further drow goals, interests, and power there.

Zinzerena

Demigod

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Symbol: shortsword draped with cloth

Home plane: Abyss

Portfolio: lies, assassination, illusion

Domain (-30%): illusion and creation spells, light and darkness spells

Worshipers: assassins

Zinzerena is the drow goddess of chaos, assassins, and illusion.