Divinity of Khadin

The Gods of Khadin

• Tol, guardian & protector, patron of guards and one of the major patrons of the Olmon dwarves alongside his sister Karas.
• Karas, the smith, goddess of the forge & metal crafting, artifice, she is a patron goddess of the dwarves of Olmon beside her brother Tol.
• Rhys, the patron goddess of the elves, she is the queen of life, birth & the sun and all light that shines & first shown upon the world to rip it out of the grasp of the primordial, the Mother Night Eternal. Rhys is also the patron of midwives & many healers. Rhys & her brother Ilrin shed nine tears of sadness & joy together after the destruction of Heaven. These nine stars shine brighter than all of the stars in the sky and represent the principles of the Order of the Nine Stars.
• Ilrin, Rhys' twin brother, another important deity of the elves, the lord of death & the dead. Protector & guide to all who die mortal deaths, he then leads them to their final resting place or else back to his beloved sister so that she may return them to the world. He is lord of the city of the lost, where dwell those souls who are not claimed by other gods to live in their realms or returned to the world to live again.
• The Hagen Rul, Rul is recognized as a god, though he has no followers - and turns a deaf ear to any who would seek to worship him. His church in Kanith is tended by all other churches out of respect for his sacrifice. He is recognized as a god of honor, duty & sacrafice. He is the guardian of the Gate between Heaven & Creation. His heart is pierced by the tip of the Lance of Kanith from when he cast himself upon it to stop the surge of destruction from spreading to the planes where the other gods sought refuge from the razing of Heaven & Creation as a whole. He holds the tip of the Lance in place as he eternally stands guard at the Gate. It is known that if the Lance is ever pulled free from his heart or if he were to ever perish that the power of the Lance would then consume all of Creation.
• Sahara the Healer, the goddess of healing, both magical & non-magical. Sahara is Rul's lover. Every day she returns to where he bleeds upon the Lance to clean, heal & rebind his wounds. She is the patron of healers, doctors & surgeons. She is also a favorite goddess amongst widows who have lost their mates.
• ????, it's unclear whether or not this god is male, female, both or neither. Most often referred to as a she, this deity of rogues, thieves & cleverness is always hidden in the shadows of Creation. It has no church in Kanith, but has invisible shrines in nearly every city large enough for a thieves guild. It is said to choose it's priests and raise them to her faith. It has no known holy symbols or iconography as the other gods do. Some debate whether or not there is such a god at all, believing that this intangible faith is little more than a ruse amongst thieves.
• Shall, the inventor of murder. Shall is a vain & narcissistic god who likes to dress in the finest of current mortal fashions, but always in black & red. He states that he invented the first murder long ago when he murdered his wife & children. He loved them dearly, but they were slowing him down as he fled the destruction of Heaven. In order to spare them the tragedy they were doomed to & in order to free himself this same fate, because he would perish with them if they lived, he had a fantastic new idea. So he invented murder & used it to destroy them all, allowing him to flee the destruction. Sociopaths & murderers are said to have had been touched by Shall, forever darkening their hearts.
• Arah, the goddess of love, romance, sex & lust. She is the goddess of both romantic love and marriage as well as carnal lust and casual sexual encounters.
• Ilnevar, commerce, wealth, merchants, currency. Ilnevar appears as a splendid man with a silver voice, an endearing smile & charming manner that dresses in clothes heavily embroidered & trimmed in all the metals used in minting coins. He is always interested in buying and/or selling things, but only so long as there is a profit to be made.
• Varron, battle, war, strategy, martial & siege weaponry. Varron is calm & calculating. He is not a god of berserkers or fury, he is cold. He fights with strategy & he fights to win.
• ????, agriculture, horticulture, farmers, harvest
• Alessa, music, poetry, literature, literacy & language
• Raullis, wizards, arcane research & lore, alchemy. Raullis appears as an old bearded man wearing blue robes with a staff. He is obsessive with all things related to his realm of influence & rarely ever leaves his domain, much less voyage into the mortal world.
• ????, excessive drinking & eating, festivals, debauchery, gluttony. ???? wears many guises based on the region he is or was most recently in, but is typically disheveled in appearance and in various stages of partial dress. He is fond of attending parties & festivals, his mere presence often sending them well out of control. He is also keen on crashing more somber events & lightening them up (or turning them into orgies).
• Meredith, ships, sailing, rowing, sailors, navigation at sea. Meredith is a strange deity. She was not part of the children that fled Heaven. When the gods fled Heaven they found themselves in an endless sea of chaos, for the planes had yet to be formed. A massive ship came upon them & Meredith was it's captain. She scooped the gods up in her nets, but would not allow them on the deck. She sailed them all over the planes, dropping each of them off on small islands that would become the seed that each of the gods domains would grow & spread from. Meredith appears to be a human with dark, almost black, skin and impossibly bright blue eyes. She is very practical & her mood is quick to change depending on the situation. Her enemy nemesis is the storm primordial who's dreams manifest in a variety of terrible storms to try & drown her.
• Tobrum, mines, miners, excavators, archaeologists, delving below ground - another dwarven patron deity. Short, even for a dwarf, dour & dirty, Tobrum dwells in the deep places underneath the world & the planes. He digs & delves deeper & deeper, often uncovering lost & forgotten secrets.
• Jal, stone cutting, stone masonry, gem cutters - another dwarven patron deity.
• ????, hunters, archery, the hunt
• Avande, wilderness, animals,
• ????, marriage, leadership, rulers, heirs, government.
• Faregest, law, legal systems, lawyers. Mr. Faregest is a tall & rigid man dressed in stiff, black formal clothing & hat. He never smiles, save for when he has won a conversation, debate or case - and then it's a discomforting smile to any who witness it. He does not represent any sort of justice or truth. He represents the cold letter of the law, including any loop holes that it leaves for him to weave a noose around the neck of his rivals. Sometimes he is allied with the Justicar and sometimes he is allied with Nerio, whichever he deems most useful to him in winning his current case.
• The Justicar, truth & justice, judges, justicars & righteous punishment. If this god has a name, it's unknown amongst mortals - he only goes by The Justicar. He is a strict judge & believes in truth above & beyond all things. He is always prepared to discern truth, pass judgement & carry out punishment, whether it be imprisonment or execution. He appears as a towering figure in a hooded black robes with chains & shackles wrapped around his waist, wielding an impossibly large hammer.
• Ulina, baking, cooking, brewing, food, drink - a hobbit patron deity. Appearing as a smiling & plump hobbit woman in an apron, Ulina is always preparing food & drink to share with others.
• ????, bloodlust, berserkers, rage.
• Nerio, hatred, strife, lies & deceit.
• ????, carpentry, wood working, bowyers & fletchers
• Corinth, rodents, secrets & mysteries. Like Meredith, Corinth is not one of the children of Heaven. He was already crawling around within Creation when they began to play with it. He is a rat, or many rats, sometimes he's a squirrel or a beaver. He watches & listens to the world & the planes. He is the keeper of secrets and hoarder of mysteries. He is known to trade secrets for secrets, but the mysteries are for him alone until another unfolds the truth - and in that moment, he is there, probably unnoticed to them, smiling his ratty grin.
• ????,

The Primordials

The Primordials existed before Creation. They do not have names, though many cultures & civilizations through time have labeled them & called them by many names. They had created a place referred to as Heaven within Chaos where they could dwell. When the Lance of Kanith pierced Heaven and set it aflame, the Primordials were right atop the rupture between Heaven and Creation and their forms were shattered and the flaming shards rained down upon Creation. The will of a Primordial cannot be destroyed, thus they continue to have power & influence in the world, but they cannot directly influence Creation, forcing them to rely upon the pathetic mortal creatures they loathe. The Primordials dream of revenge against Creation and their children, the gods.

• The Hunger, destruction, oblivion - seen as an eternally hungry & devouring force. A symbol of cannibalism and other unwholesome aspects of carnal appetite. The Hunger seeks to consume & end all things, including Time & Inevitability. Only then can it cease to be as well. This is the patron of the Grangou kobolds that inhabit Nir.
• Maiden of the Night Eternal, darkness - seen as a power of the dark & the absence of light, night, loss, fear & unseen terrors of the psyche. She is the virgin mother who gave birth to both Rhys & Ilrin. Many hags worship the Maiden.
• The Horizon, void, air, wind, the sky above & the space beyond it
• The Mother of the World, the earth, mountains, the world as a whole. She is revered by many druids & witches as well as The Horizon & The Deep.
• The Deep, the ocean is his body and the rivers & lakes his flowing blood.
• ????, the enigmatic primordial of time
• ????, inevitability
• ????, magic, spells
• ????, storms, earthquakes, cataclysms