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| Gods | |
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| Allmighty beings | |
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| Size | endless |
| Lifespan | immortal |
| Behaviour | inculculable |
| Language | unknown |
| Religion | unknown |
| Region | God's sphere |
| Specials | allmightiness |
| Familiars | |
| Demongods | |
Gods are propably the most powerful beeings in the world of Legonia. Although their existence isn't prooven, all beliefs and sources explaining them with same basic characteristics. So, a god is supposed to be an immortal, amorphous beeing that can rule over all kinds of natural laws and are neutral to all other races. But gods must be separated from demons or demongods, who are defined by beeing evil.
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Myths and theories
- See also: Religion
In most religions, gods are seen as existing living individuals, who live in their own sphere, the god's sphere, but can act in Legonia, too. In the southern polytheism, it's normal that gods contact lower races, visit Legonia in material form (e.g. animals) or interact directly with our environment. They're also able to fight each other or beget childs. This type of god can own good and bad characteristics like all humans but have superior power over nature and people. In this interpretation of god-being, their only natural opponents aside themselves are the evil demongods. In other cultures, gods were just the creators of the world and don't interact as person. So, the big something for example is mostly just an imagination of a creation's force, that once set the rules of the world. For atheists and scientists, gods aren't alive. They're seen as people-invented or rather as terms for all-time existed nature forces. Depending on religion and church, the hierarchy can variate and there's no universal pantheon. Some gods have their origins in different cultures, appear in several incarnations and meanings or are unique to a group. Also, most gods aren't bound to a specific race. Mentionable, all religions seem to point one specific god as first and creator of the world. In most cultures this godfather is known as The big something. All other gods are its children due to creation myth.
Popular gods
Basicly all gods are related with each other on some ways but while legends changed and historic evidences got lost, not all origins of every god can be clearly specified to a pantheon or religion. In conclusion, some gods in different religions are referring to a conjoint beeing.
Gods of Ark'tohl Pantheon
Gods in Amazon Mythology
Gods in Insaani Pantheon
Other gods
The Big Something
The first god,the entity which created the World.
- See also: Creation myth
In nearly all myths, there was an endless nothing at begin of time, which got so bored that a new beeing had split from it, the big something. Every religion has its own incarnation and meaning of it. In polytheism, the big something created Arkos/Arkando as first male and Venari/Vendra as first female beeing. In some churches, the big something is a still acting individual guarding the people, in other it doesn't care for the present. In northern states, it's the main god while the southern world doesn't give it high importance. People of Peng Cheng honours it as mother of Peng.
Other names are:
- The first One (Elves)
- The holy fire (Dwarves)
- Father and Mother of Peng (Peng Cheng)
- The big lie (Demonologists; Blood Wraith)
Thar
Insaani god of war and honour. Patron of warriors.
Son of Naja and Saard and part of the 3rd level of the insaani pantheon. Thar inhertited the passion of his father but not the calmness of his mother, so his lust for action can never be filled. Early he found joy of violence and so he became the god of honorable war.
Thar is also known in Therian myths and still often used in Castallanian architecture and arts.
Thorun
God of death, disease, curses and sleep. Thorun is shown mainly as skeletonstatue made of marble. Older idols are made of bones. He’s not familiar with Arkos, so it can be assumed, that he came from a different culture of a jungle tribe. Nearly everyone fears him, altought he’s neutral as lord of the death realm and isn’t a god of destruction or evil. The myths say, he’s holding the balance between old and new, good and evil, living and dead world. If you want to contact or bless any ghosts, you have to beg for his help first. The Thorun belief is only spread in southern cultures e.g. the Ark'tohl pantheon. As his opposite the demongod Nekron is assumed.
Venari/Vendra
Venari in ark'tohl pantheon
Godess of fertility, family, home, peace, femality and friendship. Venari is the sister of Arkos and first female lifeform. Praised mainly by women and children. The everyday life of a family is leaded by prayings to her. At festivals and meetings with foreigners she’s mentioned often. Her idol is a glass cylinder with crystal and 2 rolling arms. The demongodess Orphelia is seen as opposite of Venari.
Vendra in amazon mythology
She's shown mostly as tall, strong but also attractive woman with long, blond hairs in beautiful clothes, in some shrines, a very long snake surrounds her covering her naked body. Main characteristics are power, intelligence and compassion.
Xo Ra
God of Knowlegde, science and creativity. Master and inventor of spoken and written language. Xo Ra is son of Nepht'uhl and Norae and belongs to the second level in the Insaani pantheon.
By trying to bring the chaos of the world a law while the forgotten 200 years he managed to split the sky from earth. Since then his intelligence and arrogance has grew up continousily. At some point, before the ancient war between demongods and gods has started, he was in danger to become crazy. To safe himself and the world from his dangerous knowlegde, he split himself apart into 3 personalities. Xo Ra is still known as guardian of science and creativity, his other incarnations, Ox and Ar are sharing sky and earth with their nature-born powers. Rumours say, that his crazy mind never really healed but formed into an own personality, the demongod ArOxRaXo.
Others
The heptarchy of Skorpion Emirates destroyed the original cultures of many enslaved races. So only specific gods were choosen for the new pantheon. The many missing ones, for example sons of Arkos and his brothers and sisters got forgotten in time. In free tribes of the jungle some are still alive. In the jungle and desert you can find ruins of old temples at closer look. Also, ther're many other gods in undiscovered parts of the world like the eastern continent. Not gods per definition are god-like ambassadors of the big something like pharaos, kalifs and the prophet Sal'nah.
