The Dawn War Pantheon

Across the Material Planes, it is the Dawn War pantheon is the most widely worshipped, mainly due to its associated with humans, that most dynamic of species, but also because all the pantheons acknowledge the Dawn War pantheon as having had importance in both the Dawn War after which they are named, and the Portal Wars that followed after.
Their namesake, the Dawn War, was not between good and evil or chaos and order, as the pantheon includes deities from all sides of the alignment spectrum, but between being and non-being, between the universe existing and it not existing. According to legend, many gods died in this war, gods for whom there are no names, for no one remembers them. Those that remain are the ones given worship, both for their position as gods, but also for their constant vigilance against the spectre of unbeing that remains.
How this pantheon is related to the others is still a matter of conjecture. Current theological thinking is that the other pantheons arrived  after the fabled Dawn War. The elves in particular do not subscribe to this belief, as they claim they are the oldest civilised species in Iodax, so their gods must have come first. It is possible that the humans adopted their pantheon from the halflings, whose myths and legends state that they had a large Empire in the past. The two species commonly share the same beliefs, that is known for sure.

The Pantheon

Deity	Alignment	Domain	Symbol
Auril, Goddess of Winter	NE	Nature, Tempest	Six-pointed snowflake
Azuth, God of Wizards	LN	Arcana, Knowledge	Left hand pointing upward outlined in fire
Bane, God of Tyranny	LE	Order, War	Upright black right hand, with thumb and fingers together
Beshaba, Goddess of Misfortune	CE	Trickery	Black antlers
Bhaal, God of Murder	NE	Death	Skull surrounded by a ring of blood droplets
Chauntea, Goddess of Agriculture	NG	Life	Sheaf of grain or a blooming rose over grain
Cyric, God of Lies	CE	Trickery	White jawless skull on black or purple sunburst
Deneir, God of Writing	NG	Knowledge	Lit candle above an open eye
Eldath, Goddess of Peace	NG	Life, Nature	Waterfall plunging into still pool
Gond, God of Craft	N	Forge, Knowledge	Toothed cog with four spokes
Helm, God of Protection	LN	Life, Light, Protection	Light Staring eye on upright left gauntlet
Ilmater, God of Endurance	LG	Life, Protection	Hands bound at the wrist with red cord
Kelemvor, God of the Dead	LN	Grave, Death	Upright skeletal arm holding balanced scales
Lathander, God of Birth and Renewal	NG	Life, Light	Light Road traveling into a sunrise
Leira, Goddess of Illusion	CN	Trickery	Point-down triangle containing a swirl of mist
Lliira, Goddess of Joy	CG	Life	Triangle of three six-pointed stars
Loviatar, Goddess of Pain	LE	Death	Nine-tailed barbed scourge
Malar, God of the Hunt	CE	Nature	Clawed paw
Mask, God of Thieves	CN	Trickery	Black mask
Mielikki, Goddess of Forests	NG	Nature	Unicorn’s head
Milil, God of Poetry and Song	NG	Light	Five-stringed harp made of leaves
Myrkul, God of Death	NE	Death	White human skull
Mystra, Goddess of Magic	NG	Arcana, Knowledge	Circle of seven stars, or nine stars encircling a flowing red mist, or a single star
Oghma, God of Knowledge	N	Knowledge	Blank scroll
Savras, god of Divination and Fate	LN	Knowledge	Crystal ball containing many kinds of eyes
Selûne, Goddess of the Moon	CG	Knowledge, Life	Pair of eyes surrounded by seven stars
Shar, Goddess of Darkness and Loss	NE	Death, Trickery	Black disk encircled with a border
Silvanus, God of Wild Nature	N	Nature	Oak leaf
Sune, Goddess of Love and Beauty	CG	Life, Light	Face of a beautiful red-haired woman
Talona, Goddess of Disease and Poison	CE	Death	Three teardrops on a triangle
Talos, God of Storms	CE	Tempest	Three lightning bolts radiating from a central point
Tempus, God of War	N	War	Upright flaming sword
Torm, God of Courage and Self-sacrifice	LG	Protection, War	White right gauntlet
Tymora, Goddess of Good Fortune	CG	Trickery	Face-up coin
Tyr, God of Justice	LG	Order, Protection, War	Balanced scales resting on a warhammer
Umberlee, Goddess of the Sea	CE	Tempest	Wave curling left and right
Waukeen, Goddess of Trade	N	Knowledge, Trickery	Upright coin with Waukeen’s profile facing left

Type

Religious, Pantheon

Permeated Organizations

• Kingdom of Newia

Related Ethnicities

• Anor
• Duland
• Durinn
• Han
• Lightfoot
• Norska
• Schwarz
• Stout
• Zin