Deities

[b]Protector of the Nobility[/b]
[i]Lesser God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Domains[/b]: Diplomacy, Healing, Law, Nobility, Protection
[b]Symbol[/b]: A lion’s head or mask, usually crowned
[b]Garb[/b]: Nobles’ finery, formal robes of office, royal vestments and regalia including crown, scepter, signet ring, coat-of-arms, chalice, royal seal, and sovereign orb
[b]Favored Weapon[/b]: Longsword
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Lavish ceremonies held on High Holy Days. Regional and local festivals held according to the traditions and customs of individual noble families
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Many nobles, Foerdewaith traditionalists, some magistrates and judges in remote provincial areas of the Kingdoms of Foere.

[b]Wanderer in White[/b]
[i]Lesser God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Neutrality [Lawful tendencies]
[b]Domains[/b]: Knowledge, Magic, Travel, Trickery
[b]Symbol[/b]: Clear quartz crystal or flawless diamond
[b]Garb[/b]: Travelers clothes and long white traveling cloaks
[b]Favored Weapon[/b]: Quarterstaff
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Offerings of silver given at the beginning and end of long journeys.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Rangers, bards, wandering wizards, those who make their living traveling

[b]Alignment[/b]: Neutral
[b]Areas of Influence[/b]: War, Chaos, Strength, Vengeance
[b]Symbol[/b]: Crossed Sword and Hammer of Bowbe
[b]Garb[/b]: Furs, skins and pelts over battle armor
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Two-handed sword, warhammer
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Great feasts and blood sacrifice precede battles. After battle, the treasures, arms and armor of defeated foes are offered to the god. Those that he doesn’t keep belong to the victors. His priests specialize in wild cursing and imaginative insults.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Barbarians, raiders, reavers and plunderers.

[b]Goddess of the Home and Midwives; Goddess of Healing, Mercy, and Patience; Goddess of the Millstone[/b]
[i]Greater God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Domains[/b]: Community, Good, Healing, Plant, Protection
[b]Symbol[/b]: A millstone
[b]Garb[/b]: Simple robes of white
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Flail
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Simple services are held each week on Ardsdag followed by a family or communal meal where freshly baked loaves of bread are broken in her honor. Half of each loaf is donated to orphans or others in need.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Human matrons and mothers, midwives, bakers, millers, orphans, the poor, farmers, some civic leaders, halflings

[b]Firstborn; Father of the Elves[/b]
[i]Greater God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Domains[/b]: Air, Animal, Magic, Plant, War
[b]Symbol[/b]: A bow and sword hanging from the Eternal Oak
[b]Garb[/b]: Garments in shades of gray, green, hazel, chestnut, and sable
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Longbow, longsword
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Major religious services are held on the solstices and equinoxes, while special night festivals are held on the eve of every mid-month (Ides) during the summer.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: High and wood elves, elven warriors, wizards, and rangers

[b]God of Industry and Hard Work[/b]
[i]Greater God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful [Neutral tendencies]
[b]Domains[/b]: Artifice, Creation, Earth, Fire, Knowledge, Magic
[b]Symbol[/b]: Three interlocked cogwheels
[b]Garb[/b]: Crafter’s outfit (different outfits for different crafts)
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Warhammer
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Worshippers sacrifice one magic item per year (if they can afford it). Worshippers without the means to create or purchase magic items for sacrifice can purchase small tin replicas at local temples for use in sacrifices. Late summer craft festivals, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions are also occasions when sacrifices are made to Dre’uain.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Human, gnome, dwarven, and halfling craftsmen, inventors, laborers, union organizers, maimed workers, wounded veterans, beggars

[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Areas of Influence[/b]: Animal, Good, Healing, War
[b]Symbol[/b]: Falcon
[b]Garb[/b]: Robes and cloaks of white, trimmed with white fur
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Longsword, longbow
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Harvest moon feast and before large hunts
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Human females

[i]Lady of Pestilence[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Chaotic
[b]Areas of Influence[/b]: Air, Animal, Death, Earth, Fire, Plant, Water
[b]Symbol[/b]: A face, black on one side and white on the other
[b]Garb[/b]: Druidic garb of a midnight black and snow white
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: poisoned dagger or sword
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Rites to Hel are practiced by her worshipers during blights and plagues, likewise sacrifices are made to her by fearful non-worshipers to stave off plagues and illness.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Diseased and disease-causing -+-creatures, evil humanoids, evil druids, women, bards.

[b]He Who Hears the Secrets of the Dead[/b]
[i]Greater God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Neutrality
[b]Domains[/b]: Esoteric, Knowledge, Magic, Repose, Trickery
[b]Symbol[/b]: An eclipsed sun
[b]Garb[/b]: White robes trimmed in green and black
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Quarterstaff, dart
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Regular worship on the last day of the week, holidays at the end of each month, and the major holiday of Reckoning at the end of the year, funerary rites, and solemn observances of the dates of death of significant historical figures
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Arcane spellcasters, sages, seers, mediums, spies

[b]The Little Miner; Mickey Two-Cups[/b]
[i]Greater God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Domains[/b]: Artifice, Earth, Good, Luck, Protection, Trickery
[b]Symbol[/b]: A candle in a cave
[b]Garb[/b]: Breeches, shirts, and waistcoats of browns, yellows, oranges, and other earth tones but always barefoot. For underground ceremonies, a miner’s helmet is worn.
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Heavy pick
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Few formal worship services, followers of Mick O’Delving tend to offer up short personal prayers for luck when needed or spill a bit of libation in his honor before feasts. Most festivals honoring Pekko include some nods to Mick O’Delving as well. On one High Holy Day a year, a formal ceremony is held in a mine, basement, or other underground setting to praise the halfling patron, celebrate his tumultuous marriage to Mother Hester, toast his relationship with Vergrimm Earthsblood, and memorialize his late wife Suzanne.
[b]Typical Worshipers[/b]: Halflings, some burrowing creatures, drunks, Barefeet assassins

[b]Sun Father; The Truth-Speaker[/b]
[i]Greater God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Domains[/b]: Good, Healing, Law, Protection, War
[b]Symbol[/b]: A golden sunburst surrounded by the trifoliate leaves and thorns of a myrrh tree
[b]Garb[/b]: A seamless linen tunic and hood of pure white without ornament or footwear
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Longsword
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Worship services are held on the first day of every week with congregational singing and prayer, followed by acts of service among the community. The Calends of the eighth month is devoted to Mitra and are when a sacrificial collection of material wealth is made among the faithful for the purpose of establishing and funding hospitals and almshouses.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Common folk, Foerdewaith knights and rulers, magistrates and judges, healers, the sick and disabled

[i]The Bull[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful Neutral
[b]Domains[/b]: Law, War
[b]Symbol[/b]: Bull’s Head
[b]Garb[/b]: Armor
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Not applicable; Mithras favors all weapons
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Various holy days are observed in underground spaces, with practice varying by the level of initiation of those present
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Soldiers

[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Areas of Influence[/b]: Law, Good, Protection, War
[b]Symbol[/b]: Blood-red upraised sword on a white background
[b]Garb[/b]: White wool robes with an upraised sword and hand in red.
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Longsword or bastard sword
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Regular worship and fasting on the eve before known battle or before confirmation or promotion of the ranks of the faithful.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Humans and paladins

[b]Alignment[/b]: Neutral
[b]Areas of Influence[/b]: Animals, Darkness, Nature, Plants, Water
[b]Symbol[/b]: An upturned crescent moon
[b]Garb[/b]: Dark robes, midnight blue cloaks
[b]Favored Weapon[/b]: Light mace
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Regular worship and fasting on the full moon. Eclipses and other astrological events are sacred.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Humans, druids, lycanthropes, oracles

Goddess of the Sun and Healing
Greater God
[b]Alignment[/b]: Neutral Good
[b]Domains[/b]: Life, Light
[b]Symbol[/b]: A blazing sun inscribed with an open palm
[b]Garb[/b]: Pale robes bearing the symbol of Solanus. The color of robes changes as adherents progress through the hierarchy of the church. Initiates wear robes of red that are then changed to those of orange, then yellow, and then white for the high priest. There are even multiple subtle shades between these main colors to denote gradations within their ranks.
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Mace, quarterstaff
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Regular worship on the first day of the week (Solsdag), special observances for the clergy at each dawn, major holidays on the summer and winter solstices (High Sol and Low Sol, respectively), and the Ides of the eighth month is devoted to Solanus as well.
[b]Typical Worshipers[/b]: Rangers, bards, healers, soldiers, undead slayers

[b]Alignment[/b]: Lawful
[b]Areas of Influence[/b]: Good, Healing, Law, Knowledge, Protection
[b]Symbol[/b]: Silver cross on a white field
[b]Garb[/b]: White robes trimmed with silver, purple or gold — the colors of kingship
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Light or Heavy Mace
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Last day of every month, on the last holy day of every year is set-aside for non-royalty to have their grievances heard.
[b]Typical Worshippers[/b]: Humans, Royalty

[i]Lesser God[/i]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Neutrality
[b]Domains[/b]: Knowledge, Magic, Monastic, Protection, Rune
[b]Symbol[/b]: A gleaming silver scroll
[b]Garb[/b]: Gray scribes’ robes
[b]Favored Weapons[/b]: Quarterstaff
[b]Form of Worship and Holidays[/b]: Worship is through study, teaching, and learning. The last day of the week (Thingsdag) is given over to quiet contemplation. Monastic orders of Yenomesh set aside the High Holy Days of the Cusp of Freya (vernal equinox) and the Cusp of Mithras (autumnal equinox) for daylong ceremonies that take place in total silence.
[b]Typical Worshipers[/b]: Loremasters, wizards, scribes, authors, historians