Pantheon of the Central Grasslands

Identifying the gods and demigods worshipped and appeased by the sentients living in the middle areas of the continent.

Origins

The roots of this loosely connected pantheon clearly go deep, back to an early pocket of humans and half-elves coexisting with a much larger and more powerful population of elves, but distinct from it, likely due to some degree of physical separation; the emphasis on sun, moon, stars and celestial phenomenon suggests they may have originated in the eastern Ravenrock region, blessed with the clearest skies on the continent and protected by steep approaches in the south and west, an ocean to the north and a desert to the east.

Major Deities

• Aot (AY-ott): Sun God, the literal sun but also fire in all its forms. As aloof and seemingly unconcerned with the world as the sun itself, but still watches over it every day and provides the warmth to live on the world and grow crops. Works with Nylea on 3 seasons of the year, but lets Tenma handle winter while he spends more time in the underworld.
• Tenma: Moon Goddess, once a sun god also but gave up a portion of her power to her children Alitel, Jinshea, Danildee and Coilioc. An indulgent mother often allowing her children to do as they please (the phases of the moon). Patron of Rogue and Assassin guilds, Bard Colleges and some Druidic Circles.
• Alatel: God of protection and safety, twin brother of Jinshea. Patron of travelers, children, the aged and infirm and all vulnerable things and people.
• Jinshea (jin-SHAY): Goddess of mercy and forgiveness, twin sister of Alitel. Generally the two are depicted together in iconography. Jinshea is clearly related to the Eastern goddess (and concept) of mercy Jin-shin, suggesting early trade routes or other connections existed in ancient times between what is now the Borderland Marches and the Empires of Spice and Silk.
• Coilioc (KOY-lee-ock): Asexual (robotic?) deity of fairness and justice. The name is a palindrome. Possibly an interloper from the plane of Mechanus crossed paths with early civilization on the central continent as Coilioc is always depicted as a machine rather than a being of flesh. Coilioc's influence over Matahan preserves peace. Coilioc is also the patron deity of artificers and most skilled trade guilds, shipbuilders, etc. Overlaps with the demigod Fer, but is associated with the balance, perfection, and engineering of made things, where Fer is about the metal itself. Usually has no pronouns, just 'Coilioc'. Nevertheless, a child of Tenma, perhaps coming literally from the moon.
• Danildee: The goddess of joy and good fortune. In modern times her worship is found everywhere on the continent, but her appearance and particulars differ from place to place, suggesting a slow but steady dispersal over thousands of years. Tenma's favorite child, spoiled in her youth, and her rejection of Matahan is the explanation for war. She rejects him still to this day
• Matahan: God of war. Favored highly by many aggressive humanoid tribal cultures as well such as the Orcs and Goblinoids of the Wild Wasteland.
• Nylea: Goddess of nature. An import from Theros, thoroughly localized into a mysterious shape-shifting woman whose appearances in myth run the gamut from innocent wild forest child to the queen of hags, Baba Yaga herself. 

Minor Deities

• Fer: Goddess of the forge and metalwork of all kinds. Patron of all blacksmiths. Closely associated with Matahan.
• Nautine (naw-TEEN): Goddess of open water and everything in the sea, closely associated with Nylea (Sister? Lover? Both?) and somehow even worse when angry.
• Briah (BREE-uh): Patron of the Mendicants, a religious order dedicated to healing and field hospitals; She was a mortal half-elf elevated to the postion after caring for Matahan in disguise, according to her lore.
• Lamius (LAY-me-us): "The leprous lord", an elaborately mummified keeper of the dead depicted as an immortal slave trader. Those who live unrighteously belong to him after death and must bargain, wheedle and promise their way into a more blessed afterlife, usually at the expense of the living relatives they left behind. Obliquely a god of necromancers and the undead, but also of shady business and evil riches.
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