Tuatha de Danaan

The tribes of Danu are the deities commonly worshipped by humans in Phaldorya. Although in different regions a divinity could receive a special veneration depending on social substrate, all the members of the tribe are respected and venerated.

Summary

The Tuatha de Danaan or Tribe of Danu is a genealogy of ancient heroes whom helped mankind to re-organize society from the primordial chaos. Anyone of them has human features and a specific portfolio.

Historical Basis

Most of the physical features in the modern depiction of the deities has been inspired to historical characters from the times following the Great War of the Mages, when humans surviving centuries of cataclysms and disasters, reverted to a barbaric society and semi-primitive lifestyle started to found new settlements to increase their chances to survive against the monster that roamed the wilderness.

Spread

The cult of Tuatha de Danaan is diffused to all human settlements on Phaldorya, including the people of the planes who refer to them using slightly different names. All the members of the Tribe are publicly adored with the exception of Balor, the banished, who incarnates demonic and evil power, for this reason his followers worship him secretly.

Variations & Mutation

The original cycle of Tuatha de Danaan has been written by a hermit from a small village called Alkar. The prophet Herbert di Alkar would have received a visit from Morrigan ordering him to write down the saga from his visions and diffuse the legend. The hermit was already elderly, but according to the legend, wrote for several months, resting only when strictly needed, in order to complete his tale before his death. It is uncertain whether the original manuscript survives today in one of the libraries of Phaldorya, what we know is that several copies have been produced through the years in the monasteries of different deities, although they may differ from the original and include some apocryphal addition of a later period.

Date of First Recording

672

Date of Setting

0-672