Pantheon: Extra Minor Deities

Pantheon: Extra Minor Deities

This post makes a small addition to my setting's pantheon. Kyuss is a well-known being in the D&D universe, but the other three deities are only mentioned once, barely have any description, and one of them doesn't even have his domains listed.

Vesperian

Lesser deity

Alignment: Neutral Good

Symbol: two spiraling stalactites

Home plane: Elemental Plane of Earth

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

Portfolio: desmodus, protection, darkness

Worshipers: desmodus

Vesperian is the creator and protector of the desmodus. Typically, there is a shrine dedicated to him in every desmodu enclave, and many dwellings also boast private altars to Vesperian.

Dogma: Vesperian encourages his followers to value family bonds, venerate the elders, and keep the enclave safe.

Diophia

Lesser deity

Alignment: Neutral

Symbol: a stylized image of four diopsid arms

Home plane: Elemental Plane of Earth

Domain (-20%): earth spells, protection spells, movement spells

Portfolio: diopsids, earth, protection

Worshipers: diopsids

Diophia is a patron goddess of the diopsids. The diopsids see the surface world as a terrible place of constant ordeals. A diopsid who ventures to the surface is seen as a mighty hero, one worthy of the highest praise. The surface dwellers usually are pitied, as they have to endure such hard life.

Dogma: Diophia’s dogma is simple – protect your home and do everything to make it prosper.

Thelmeth

Lesser deity

Alignment: Neutral

Symbol: a sphere divided in two halves – one black, one white

Home plane: Outlands

Domain (-20%): knowledge spells, meta spells, protection spells

Portfolio: dvati, knowledge, magic, protection

Worshipers: dvati

Thelmeth the Unifier is typically depicted as a pair of male dvati twins clad in golden robes and wearing laurel wreaths, with each twin carrying a pair of large books.

Dogma: Thelmeth encourages his followers to help the community, help the lost find their home or their partner.

Kyuss

Demigod

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Symbol: a skull erupting with writhing green worms

Home plane: Prime Material Plane

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

Portfolio: worms, creation and mastery over the undead

Worshipers: necromancers, undead, avolakias

Kyuss is a demigod concerned with the creation and mastery of the undead, also known as the Bonemaster, the Wormgod, and the Herald of the Age of Worms. Clerics of Kyuss raid graveyards to create undead, selling their creations or letting them run wild. The more powerful ones seek to create new kinds of undead, and seek lichdom or some other form of undeath for themselves.

Dogma: Kyuss's faithful believe that life is obscene, death offers only nothingness, and that undeath is the only worthwhile goal. Followers of Kyuss are committed to creating undead wherever they can; whilst they are permitted to control them if necessary, they are encouraged to set their creations free when they have no further use for them. Undead are sacred to Kyuss, and his followers are forbidden from destroying them except in self-defense.

Hypnatia

Greater deity

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Symbol: a golden ring

Home plane: Region of Dreams

Portfolio: dreams, sleep

Domain (-30%): dream spells, sleep spells, fate spells, knowledge spells

Worshipers: oracles, artists

The Mistress of Dreams appears to mortals as a woman with long, flowing hair that streams into the darkness behind her. Some claim that she personifies the Region of Dreams itself, while others put forward the idea that all reality is but her dream.

Hypnatia is said to have thousands of children who work dreams small and large, who tame nightmares and hunt night hags, and who keep the universe working on her behalf.

Clerics of Hypnatia believe in the power of dreams and visions, and they often seek out signs and oracles to reveal the best course of action.

Phobetor

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Symbol: a crimson skull, laughing on a black field

Home plane: Demiplane of Nightmares

Portfolio: nightmares, insomnia, guilt

Domain (-40%): dream spells, sleep spells, illusion spells.

The Bringer of Nightmares looks like a hulking figure in demonic armor with glowing red eyes, armed with a hooked sword with which he pulls out the dreams of sleeping individuals and tortures them.

Phobetor is the youngest of Hypnatia’s children. He is the master of night terrors and fear-sweat dreams. He enters individual dreams in the same manner as a night hag, tormenting the poor dreamer until dawn. His minions are the darkest of dream creatures, and he delights in persecuting those who have restful sleep, much to his mother’s dismay.

Priests of Phobetor believe in the virtue of terror, that only by showing others the deadly power of dreams can they retain their power. Out of fear comes strength, and out of strength comes the power of fear.

Phantasia

Lesser deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: a white mask with a manic grin on a field of blue

Home plane: Region of Dreams

Portfolio: ideas, invention, imaginations

Domain (-30%): dream spells, sleep spells, knowledge spells

Worshipers: inventors, artists

The Lady of Inspiration is depicted as a slender, short-haired woman, clothed in a simple shift. Her image usually appears with half-elven characteristics and spiked, blond hair. She often wears a manic, feral grin.

Phantasia is the eldest of Hypnatia’s children, and the first of her lieutenants in the waking world. It is she who visits the dreams of philosophers and poets, engineers and inventors, bringing with her the bright light of revelation and the fire of inspiration. Unfortunately, these truths can be too much for the dreamer.

Priests of Phantasia believe in innovation and novelty. They recognize that the old must be swept away to create anew. Though she battles her youngest brother Phobetor on a regular basis, she is no more welcome than her sibling among the waking people, and her mother has had to rein her in on several occasions.