The Elven Pantheon
The Pantheon of The Elven People
Perhaps the oldest and more ancient of all the Pantheons, The Elven Pantheon is one that, much like the Elven people, is fragmented and divided. It is ruled by Gregaia from his home of The Primordial Wilds, though unlike other Pantheons the other members of this Pantheon are only rarely found alongside him in his realm.
In ancient tales, it is told that Gregaia existed alone as patron deity of the Elven people as his solitude and lack of interest in companionship meant that as he sculpted his people out of life itself and gave life to the High Elves of yore, he never cared to find a companion...thus ensuring the Elven pantheon would remain barren for untold time. However, a different version of this history is told by some incredibly ancient Elves that attributes their Patron God's solitude to an even older event in which his companion and wife that he had emerged together with, Lolth(Though she then went by a different name that has since been lost to time), after the two had spent untold eons together as wild, formless gods of pure chaos that gave shape to reality with their thoughts, finally took solid form and began to shape the High Elves of yore...and it is then, as the High Elves spread out into the world, that the two became disillusioned with the other. Lolth, having seen the other Gods of the time creating races and setting them loose upon the world, looked to the races made and watched as they united and built cohesive nations and structures...compared to the High Elves who scattered and chaotically roamed wherever their hearts took them, she realized that her husband's creations were inherently flawed.
They, she believed, would never amount to anything and in time would vanish entirely...that by allowing them such freedom and open-ended lifestyles, they had grown distant from him and her. So, in time, the two feuded and eventually came to blows in a full-scale divine battle that saw Lolth use her powers as an Elven Deity of Creation to give birth to a race she believed would embody an ordered chaos, a race that would stick by each other no matter what and follow the dictations of a higher power unswervingly and without question...in this way, the Wulven were born, and for a time the Wulven and the High Elves warred unceasingly, a reflection of their married Patron's disputes. However, in time, Lolth was beaten by her husband and cast out from the Pantheon...though some High Elves and Wulven, believing in their Goddess's dogma of a more ordered lifestyle, followed her into exile and became what would eventually become the Drow and other races of the Underdark. In this way, it is said, Gregaia became solitary and morose, and for countless eons afterward, spurned contact with others and soon created the Elves of today, forming them in his more reclusive, solitary image.
Yet, it wasn't until much, much later that Gregaia finally gained his first companion within the Elven Pantheon since his schism with his wife...the patron god of the Wulven, Muzaka. As he ascended to godhood, Muzaka and Gregaia became fast friends despite their differences, and together they became the twin patron deities of The Elven Pantheon as Muzaka opened his brother's heart to the ways of joyful chaos...as it had once been, long ago.
Though Muzaka is worshiped less frequently by the Elves, his ideals of actions without restraint and a life lived to its fullest appeal to those Elves who have grown annoyed with their kind's notorious inaction, and who wish to live as chaotically and freely as their Wulven allies.
Lilac is a Goddess that Elves hold in especially high regard, as they identify closely with her moods and highly volatile and changeable nature. However, she isn't a true part of the Pantheon.
Allana and Nifora, The Wild Sisters, are the second most popular deity of Elvenkind outside of Gregaia, Lord of the Wild, a pair of identical twin sisters that oversee all the things their father cannot be bothered to. Said to be so identical that not even the other Gods within the Elven Pantheon or elsewhere can tell them apart, they are said to be incomparably beautiful, but with slightly different personalities...one embracing Natural Order and neutrality of things, the other embodying the darker side of Order as an Arrogant Goddess who isn't afraid to force others to kneel to attain that order...not even Gods of Divination or seeing things as they truly are can tell them apart, and the two Twin Goddesses are said to relish this confusion, tricking and accosting friend and foe alike with impunity. Representing all the sum total of Elven Arrogance, they promote equality amongst the Elves through shared arrogance, and are the matrons that most Elves pray to when on the hunt, when wishing to have children or make themselves more beautiful, when seeking to cast druidic or nature magic, or making an item they wish the perfect twins to bless their work in. They are the very definition of absolute beauty and fertility and pride to the Elves who wish to embody all those things in spades, the ladies of the hunt, of all wild animals, who protect all the beasts which dwell in their father's forests and keep the otherwise sexually uncaring elves populous and having children when needed.
Once the deity of the Desert Elves, Hākem, The Vigilant One is now the main Deity of the Sea Elves and other Elven warriors, said to have survived the events of The Sundering and the extinction of his former people but survived thanks to his own deific durability and his followers amongst the other Elven races. Careful, vigilant, and concerned only with survival, he has changed to represent the brutal, unforgiving environments the Sea Elves live within and the mindset they must live with eternally to live even one more day.
Later, it is said, when the Desert Elves were nearly exterminated in the chaos of The Sundering, Nour appeared as a brother to Gregaia and a counterpoint to his more chaotic ideals...unlike Gregaia's close relationship with Muzaka, his relationship with Nour is more that of two siblings who bicker and debate each other constantly though love each other through all of it...yet, it is said that their relationship is a tragic one, as Nour sits imprisoned where he was made a god, unable to truly see his brother or daughter as even Gregaia is unable to assist the imprisoned god in an escape from his eternal martyrdom. Nour's daughter, Nour'Ana, arrived some time later, and with that, Gregaia finally found that his once lonely Elven Pantheon had become quite lively...he finally had a family, and his people finally had many gods to worship and call their own.
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