The Gods Of Elsewhere

Has been Updated as world building continues

Introduction

This is not an exclusive list as unlike Telene, Elsewhere has a lot of gods and goddesses whose portfolio’s over lap owing to the nature of the world allowing mortals to be promoted to divine status often as associates of preexisting gods.

Greater Gods

• The Liberator – Chaotic Good , The over thrower of Tyrants and Eternal Rebel
• The Paladin – Lawful Good, Protector of the weak and defender of the world
• The Healer – Neutral Good
• The Harmony –  Neutral Good & Lawful good, patron of not only peacemakers but of the makers of laws, is viewed as Lawful good in this last aspect
• The Eternal King – Lawful Neutral, Patron of good governance and fair laws there is some evidence that this god started off as Lawful Good
• The Archduke – Lawful Evil, Lord of Hell and master of the nine Dukes, that which is most Evil
• The Mad One – Neutral, Patron of Lunatics and Magicians, has aspects which are of different but always neutral alignments
• The Hunter – Neutral, Patron of intelligent races as part of a natural order
• The Green – Neutral, Patron of all Nature
• The Brown – Lawful Neutral, Agriculture, live stock rural dwellers
• The Blue – Lawful Neutral , Weather as an element of rural life and particularly agriculture
• The Storm – Neutral Patron of the weather and maintainer of it as  part of the natural order
• The Black – Neutral Evil, Patron of Murderers and also of the Thinking undead bitter rival in this regards to the Slaver who it regards as a usurper  as it has sought to expand its portfolio from that of just mindless undead to all undead
• The Dragon – Neutral Evil, Patron of Greed and Dragons.
• The Guardian – Neutral, Death, dying and the afterlife, and maintainer of death as part of the natural order.
• The Destroyer – Chaotic Evil, Patron of vandals and those who would destroy wantonly
• The Hearth – Neutral Good , patron of the home and the family
• The Maker – Lawful Neutral, patron of all industries and crafts has an aspect and a sect which covers each
• The Night Sky – Neutral, Patron of the heavens  
• The Traveller – Neutral Good, patron of those who travel by land and sea, has some clashes with the navigator in the role of patron of sea going travellers.
• The Wise – Lawful Neutral, patron of teachers and the makers of laws
• The Mother of Monsters – Chaotic Evil, according to some accounts formally a demon lord
• The Beast – Neutral, Protector of animals and maintainer of the natural order with regard to animals  
• The Slaver – Neutral Evil, Protector of Tyrants and God of undeath
• The Elements – Neutral, four of these one for each of the classic elemental types
• The Merchant – Lawful neutral patron of trade
• The Creator – Chaotic Good the patron of the arts 
• The Thief – Chaotic Good the patron of those who would use any means to produce a more equitable society
• The Joyful – Chaotic Good patron of those who seek to make the world a better place either practically or just to increase the happiness and fun people have in their lives called the clown in some places.
• The Blade – Lawful Neutral the patron of soldiers and organised warfare
• The Warrior – Chaotic Neutral patron of irregular fighters and individuals who use arms often the favoured god of Halflings and rangers
• The Brigand – Chaotic Neutral, patron of those who would use any means to increase their own personal wealth
• The Sickened – Neutral, maintainer of the natural order with regards to disease, both in people and in animals.

Regional gods

There are a very great number of these many would on Telene be accounted for as aspects of the founder’s creation, being the deified founders of cities nations and even institutions. There are also a very large number who duplicate the roles of the greater gods in a region or who is long dead local hero’s or saints

Important amongst tem are

• The White Lady – Chaotic Good the Goddess of insurrections against tyranny and protest against poor or unfair government. Popular mostly in the Eternal Empire and the north lands but not unknown in other places. In the Eternal Empire she is seen as one of the Eternal Kings saints. She is also in some parts the Patron of healers as ill health, particularly chronic ill health is seen as a tyranny all of its own 
• The Good – Neutral, Lawful & Chaotic Good, also called the All Good the principle patron of the empire of the king of kings, has a large number of ten quarrelsome sects who all aim to increase the common well but often work at cross purposes.
• The Red Lord – Lawful Neutral but occasionally Lawful Evil patron of honourable warriors and solders popular in lea old Assuri lands in the empire of the king of kings more generally the Lawful Evil version of the sect is banned and hunted down by its co religionists in the Larger Lawful Neutral sect. There are suggestions that the Lawful Evil sect was the original one however being first over thrown by the Assuri’s falling into the power of devils when their king made a pact with the Archduke and then by the empire of the king of kings. 
• The Navigator –patron of sailors and navigators in particular as well as of ship builders where the portfolio crosses with that of The Maker popular amongst the sailors of the inner sea and more generally amongst the Vart people, who see it as a cultural patron
• The Lord under the Mountains – Lawful Neutral patron of dwarves
• The Ice Tyrant – Neutral, Patron of the frozen lands on the furthest north
• The Bright lord – Neutral Patron of the burning deserts and the steaming seas

Foreign gods with a local following

• Zildor – Neutral Good, God of Magic and Particularly gates, teleportation and interplanar travel
• Tor Gabas – Neutral Evil, & Lawful Evil, Patron of the greater Ork kind and would be conqueror of the Multiverse 
• Demon Lords – Chaotic Evil, owing to the opening of the Blight Scar large numbers of these have a following here though mostly around the Blight Scar itself.

Other religions and philosophy’s

The High Elves worship no gods what so ever and can be quite aggressively atheist, or rather antitheist since gods manifestly do exist, gods they hold are for the weak as are pacts with powers of the sort that Sorcerers make. Many Gnomes are of a similar mind but do not distain sorcererius pacts quite so strongly and recognise that they do have a racial creator god, commonly known as the cruel prankster. The Gnomes also hold that the Elves did once had a Creator god like every other intelligent species but that it was murdered either by the High elves themselves or by Tor Gabas  the story changes  depending on which they think will most annoy any Elves about. The official high Elven line is this is a Gnomish lie but some of the Common Elves do quietly honour the dead god as they refer to it as.

The other important philosophy which has gown into the status of a religion is the path of self mastery and improvement which is popular amongst the Renari and supports a number of sects who dwell in small and often isolated citadels and send out pilgrims to wander the roads and seek self knowledge, self control and ultimately self perfection and thence true immortality. Each sect supports its founding saint, who has by this way become immortal and seeks to follow their path to the same goal.