The Primal Dancing Gods of Faddasar
The Faddasari religion is far and away the
most confusing and troubling to outsiders, for they embrace gods who hold
clearly good and evil intent, and can be hellishly capricious. The god
Shazarath might demand tribute from a starving village, for example, which the
priests readily obey, only to have the priests stricken with plague imparted
from the villagers to punish the priests for their greed. The gods of Faddasar
seem to treat mortals as playthings to be toyed with and discarded as they
wish.
Creation Myth: The Faddasari believe
that the gods are in a constant dance in the night sky, and the greatest of the
gods ride through the night sky upon their steeds, the planets. They are many,
but in their never-ending romp through the universe they cast of swirling lines
of creation and destruction, and it is a twisting tether of such cosmic fabric
that weaves together to create the universe as man knows it.
Emachus the Storm Lord
This primal
storm lord creates the weather with his dancing weave. His capricious and wild
dance can enthrall and destroy.
Navasar the Dancer of War
This is a
god of battle, and the refinement of the art. Many a warrior has prayed to this
god for a bounty of skill in battle.
Etyri the Goddess of Unity
AL: LG; Domains: Light, Knowledge; Symbol:
A scale and coins
She is the
Northern Star and the patron goddess of the Hub, the goddess who unites, and
the one by which diplomats swear by. She sings the song and plays the melodies
to which her brethren dance.
Natyne, the goddess of wisdom
Natyne is a
beautiful goddess and a purveyor of wisdom and thought. Her priesthood of
pacifistic men and women seek to expand the realm of understanding and
diplomacy, though they are not true pacifists in that there is a special sect of
the temple dedicated to enforcement; these paladins are cautious protectors of
the land. Natyne is presently the favored goddess of Selindar.
Yakaska Goddess
of Baubles
Chaotic Good Charm,
Luck, Nobility Faddasari
Adopted Goddess (origin unknown)
The
exact roots of Yakaska are unknown, but she was heartily adopted centuries ago
by the Faddasari and subsequently became very popular in Selindar. Yakaska is a
goddess of beauty and jewels, a keeper of wealth and beauty on display. She is
a vain goddess and very popular among nobility and elite women. She is such a
vain and impartial goddess that she is regarded with disdain by most other
priesthoods, but there has been some concern that Yakaska’s priesthood is
merely a front for more sinister political purposes. The fact that no one knows
where this goddess’s cult originates from (some claim it was adopted from a
Merillian cult to a goddess they call Sesera) only confounds the matter.
The Skarkathic Pantheon
Khashtagrat Lord
of Goats and Climbers
Neutral Good; Strength, Protection, Earth,
Air; Scarkathic Deity
This Enzadan lesser god is a patron of goats
and mountain-climbers, said to be a satyr-like spirit that dwells deep in the
Egat’is Mountains of the south near Waladar. Khashtagrat is worshipped by a
tiny monastery of monks who dedicate themselves to contemplative ways deep in
the mountains.
Isalkas The
Red Dervish
Chaotic
Neutral; Skarkathic Goddess
The tribes of Skarkathis are prone to some
strange beliefs, and the mystery of Isalkas, the Red Dervish, is among them.
They feel that all of their gods were mortals who were stolen by the spirits of
the In-Between and returned as divine beings. Isalkas is said to have been a
dancing mad woman who lured men to their deaths with her beauty and he dancing
deep in the deserts, and that one day she attracted the attention of desert
spirits who stole her away. When she returned, she was a divine being of the desert,
and an entity to be feared, the embodiment of the desert’s dangers. Only
witches and the mad worship her openly, all else pay penance and hope she
leaves them alone.
Merestor The
Snake Dancer
Lawful
Neutral; Skarkathic God
Another Skarkathic deity of dubious value,
Merestor is the snake dancer or snake charmer, an ascended mortal who was
imbued with divine properties by spirits. He is a master of serpents and it is
but for his grace that men are not overwhelmed by the might of these beasts. Some
say he was the first man to learn the secrets of the prehuman serpent kingdoms
and turn that knowledge against them. In this sense he is a protector deity,
but his other stories of destroying entire towns with serpents that did not
properly revere him are a sharp contrast.
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