Pantheon: Raptoran Deities

Pantheon: Raptoran Deities

This post describes raptoran deities from Races of the Wild.

Tuilviel Glithien

Greater deity
Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: a flying owl

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: raptorans, night birds, stars, moon

Domain (-20%): air spells, protection spells, weather spells

Worshipers: raptorans

Tuilviel Glithien is also called the Queen of Air and Night and the Lady of the Silent Wings. She cherishes and protects all nocturnal birds. As patron of the hunt and the family, she has jurisdiction over a significant portion of the raptorans’ daily life. The legendary creator of the raptorans, she serves as both their guardian and their guide.

            The Lady of the Silent Wings appears as a beautiful female raptoran of indeterminate age, with snowy-white feathers crowning her head. Her skin is white and glows like moonlight, and she wears a black gown sprinkled with diamonds like a sky full of tiny stars. Her enormous white wings are banded with every shade of the setting sun – in fact, the raptorans often refer to dusk as “the Lady spreading her wings.”

            Dogma: Never harm feathered beings (self-defense is allowed). Act for the good of the community in all things.

Duthila

Lesser deity
Alignment: Neutral

Symbol: ripe apples

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: autumn, hunting, abundance

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

Worshipers: raptorans

The Lady of Abundance appears as a brown-skinned raptoran with flame-red feathers. Dressed in long-sleeved tunic and trousers of a golden hue, she holds sway over the autumn harvest season, during which food is abundant but the trees lose their leaves.

            Maturity and travel are within her purview, because raptorans hatched the previous spring often take their first steps in autumn. Duthila also concerns herself with the preservation and storage of excess food for the next season.

Dogma: Make sure that the community has enough food. Do not own more than you can carry.

Kithin

Lesser deity
Alignment: Neutral

Symbol: a snowflake

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: winter, the dead and dying, barrenness, paucity

Domain (-20%): necromantic spells, fire spells, cold spells

Worshipers: raptorans

The Father of Snows is the raptoran god of winter, sleep, and death. He blankets the world with snow under which young trees and plants slumber peacefully until the next spring. He also holds sway over those about to die, including the aged and infirm. Kithin flies down to pick up the souls of particularly wise raptorans and take them to their just rewards.

            Kithin appears as an elderly male raptoran with white skin and gray feathers. His wings are banded with frosty white, and his body is wrapped in furs.

            Dogma: Conduct funerals, bless winter supplies, and keep the fires burning constantly at the winter camps. Stay silent during as much as possible.

Lliendil

Intermediate deity
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Symbol: a silhouette of a raptoran flying in front of a black cloud

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: weather, rain, storms, sun, wind, change, trickery

Domain (-40%): weather spells

Worshipers: raptorans

Known as the Lord of the Clouds or the Stormfather, Lliendil holds sway over weather of all kinds, from fair skies to violent storms. A capricious god, he can be gentle and kind or angry and destructive, depending on his mood. He is a somewhat cruel prankster who enjoys altering the weather suddenly to cause discomfort, destroy new structures, and ruin plans. Whether or not his capriciousness extends to malice, the Lord of the Clouds is as unpredictable as the weather itself.

            Lliendil appears as an adult male raptoran with blue-black skin, eyes crackling with electricity, and electric-blue feathers. His wings are banded with white, and he usually wears black breeches and a leather jerkin without a shirt. Some raptorans claim to have seen him joyously riding gale-force winds during the worst storms.

            Dogma: Be confident and impulsive, there is no time to waste. Enjoy tricking your opponents, ruining their plans in the most crucial moment. Assist rebuilding raptoran dwellings after weather damage.

Nilthina

Lesser deity
Alignment: Neutral

Symbol: a handful of berries

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: summer, abundance, warmth, growth, lore

Domain (-10%): air spells, animal spells, plant spells, spells of warmth and light

Worshipers: raptorans

The Lord of Warm Winds watches over plants and animals as they mature. During summer, the night skies are warm and balmy, the young are maturing, and food plants begin to produce their bounty. Hunting is plentiful, and Nilthina presides over the meat harvest. Summer is also the time when raptorans relate stories of their race to the young and write songs.

            Nilthina appears as a handsome, barechested male raptoran dressed in breeches. His skin is bronzed and his feathers the purest gold. Occasionally Nilthina is said to appear in the night sky, tossing stars back and forth while his song floats on the breeze.

            Dogma: Rid nearby lands of any local monsters, end famines and plagues, seek alliances with friendly creatures. Act for the good of the community in all things.

Ventila

Lesser deity
Alignment: Neutral

Symbol: an egg

Home plane: Arborea

Portfolio: spring, fertility, growth, love

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

Worshipers: raptorans

The Lady of Spring represents new beginnings of all kinds. She embodies new ventures and rebirth, and she is also the raptoran fertility goddess. New mothers and midwives venerate Ventila, and all raptorans ask her blessing on the lands surrounding their cliff dwellings.

            Ventila appears as a raptoran maiden with golden skin and green feathers. She wears a tunic and trousers of green leather trimmed with shades of the dawn and embroidered with spring flowers.

            Dogma: Tend to the wounded and the sick. Never harm plant life. Restore lands devastated by natural disasters.