Material Plane Pantheon
they all suck
Major Watchers
Lex [Also referred to as Lady Balance (east province) or Bodan (south province)]
Associated with order and soil. Her symbols include the baton and the scales.
Described as having two arms, no head and flowy garbs that drape into the earth.
Myths show her as an older-sister type to the other gods pre-fall, but she is the mother of everything that grows on the earth. Quite a reserved, quiet lady, who always follows logic and balances the wants and needs of the people.
Avis [Also referred to as Nebb (south province)]
Associated with change/chance and the sky. His symbols include the wheel, feathers and the sword.
Described as having two wings instead of arms, two heads (one is a seabird, symbolising Cetus) and great talons. Post-fall, is depicted as a large bird of prey.
Myths show him as the emotional younger brother of Cetus, and most of his tricks come from the motivation of wanting attention on him.
- after the fall many minor gods found him to be insufferable, which is why there are very few creatures that always stay in the sky.
Cetus [Also referred to as Anhaga (south province)]
Associated with doom/fate and the sea. Her symbols include rowboats, whales and the shield.
Described as having fins long enough to upturn warships and shimmery, glass-like skin. Post-fall, is depicted as a blue whale.
Myths show her as the duller, depressed older sister of Avis. Storms and bad sea weather is described as coming from her wails and tears.
- throwing shiny coins and crystals into the sea is meant to be good luck on a voyage because they distract her enough to stop her crying.
- the sea reflects the sky, and as such Cetus is often in the shadow of her brother, which is often why she is upset. It is unlucky to look up to the sky on a long voyage, because it makes Cetus upset.
Volans [Also referred to as Faran (south province)]
Associated with life, death and mirrors. Their symbols include white willow and shooting stars.
Volans is a deity that fractured during the birth of this plane, and is one deity and billions at once. There are as many of them as there are people in the material plane, and they bring each down their individual road to the afterlife after their death. Volans usually is depicted as someone the artist loves, though their arms and legs are painted/sculpted/ somehow made in gold.
Myths generally show Volans as benevolent, playing fewer tricks than the other deities, but the existence of revivification magic sometimes forces stories where they take people who aren’t meant to be dead. Some artists try to depict them as an evil, looming and reaping figure, while others see them as a loyal believer of Lex’s order.
- turning a mirror upside down and staring at it from behind is meant to show you a vision of what your road to death is like. This is not an actual thing.
- Volans is the god of death saving throws
Minor watchers
Bootes - Associated with the night. The two moons are supposedly the eyes of Avis, and basically the idea is that Avis doing sweeping rounds of the earth is what covers it in shade and light, and it is Bootes who tells him to move along.
Circinus - associated with the day. Partner of Bootes, searches for them with a lantern because their job shepherding Avis means the pair don’t get to see each other. The lantern’s light is the sun.
Fornax - associated with fire. Also metal. Modern day blacksmiths have myths that date back to them (facing the south while making things is bad luck because Fornax lost their hands facing that direction) but not many know it dates back to gods, they just think its a folktale.
Cygnus - associated with the undead. Why are they like that? It’s Cygnus. Maybe. That’s a theory, a god theory. But seriously Cygnus has mega beef with Volans because they passed on Cygnus’ child and so now they’re mad and mess up things. Also sometimes used as an explanation for disasters and things like eclipses and meteor showers, but they aren’t malevolent to humans, just want to mess with Volans.
Other watchers take the individual forms of things. Mostly nature. That rock? Yeah, its got a god in it. People are made of gods too, except it’s slightly different because they come from the spark of two gods falling in close connection. People are the fire made from flint and steel, basically.