Category:Deity

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Deity

Some people worship them, others fear them, and a selected few have outright hatred toward them. Still, the truth is that a deity's position is permanent and will never change. They are divine beings of immense power, older than most civilizations, larger than most histories, and present in the world in ways that most mortals never notice.

Although most deities are omnipotent, they cannot exist without worshippers. If all the followers and fanatics disappeared, a deity's power would diminish bit by bit until they could no longer act, or worse, ceased to exist entirely. Hence, every time someone gives up on their faith, something is lost. The exception to this rule is The Invisible Ones, whose domain over emotion requires no belief to sustain it. Emotions exist whether or not anyone worships the beings who govern them.

A deity's power may be tied to an attribute, an element, or both simultaneously. Their appearances are diverse. Their abilities are distinct. What they share is their permanence, and the fact that the world has been shaped by their actions and inactions for longer than recorded history can reach.

The Bigger Picture

These six deities have not existed in isolation. Their histories are entangled in ways that most worshippers never learn, and the world has been shaped as much by what happened between them as by what any of them did alone.

The clearest example is the event now known as the Snowstorm at the Devil's Cauldron. Pavlossus (the last of an ancient race of elemental guardians, carrying their combined purpose alone) decided that the phoenixes were a threat to the natural order and extinguished them. Demetra attended every death that followed and has not forgiven him. Faustina survived as the only hatchling born in the chaos of the storm, emerged from the volcano, and attacked Pavlossus bare minutes after her birth. A passing elf named Raiden, who had come to throw himself into the volcano as a final attempt at death, witnessed the fight. A feather knocked loose in the battle reached him. It changed what he wanted to do with his immortality. None of these four deities planned any of this. It happened, and they all carry it.

Koyous has been observing from its parallel dimension for longer than any of them, cataloguing the world without participating in it. Its hosts walk among mortals collecting information, erasing the people they inhabit, delivering confused souls to Demetra's garden without explanation. Demetra has been receiving those souls for long enough to know the pattern. Neither of them has addressed it directly.

The Invisible Ones have been shaping the emotional landscape of history since before recorded memory, using their Alma Primis to track what they have done. Koyous has been doing the same with its parallel dimension, recording what the world looks like rather than what has been done to it. The overlap between these two records would tell a more complete story of the world than either contains alone. Neither has suggested comparing notes.

What connects all six of them, underneath the specific histories, is that each one is dealing with a form of solitude that has no resolution. Pavlossus is the last of his kind. Faustina is the last of hers. Raiden is immortal in a world of mortals. Demetra tends a garden only she can enter. Koyous observes from a dimension no one can survive. The Invisible Ones exist in the gaps between feelings, invisible by nature. None of them chose this. All of them continue.

List of Deities

• Koyous, Deity of Mind
• Faustina, Deity of Luck
• Pavlossus, Deity of Body
• Raiden, Deity of Reflex
• The Invisible Ones, Deity of Social
• Demetra, Deity of Death