Pelithine Divinity

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The Theoi and Their Mantles

• The nine Theoi were the shard-god Primarchs of Pelithos. By the end of the Time Storm, they had ceased to exist, and little is known about them or deeds.
  • Their names are not remembered, so they are known only by their titles.
  • They are generally believed to have sacrificed themselves to contain the chaos of the Time Storm and the attempted escape of the titans.
• Each Theos shattered into three parts, referred to as Mantles, each a combination of the god's divine focus and their soul.

Pelithine gods come out of the Shattering broken into Mantles. The Dancer, Sentinel, etc were the shard gods within the Timestorm, but sacrificed themselves to keep Pelithos whole (keep the titans from breaking free; as the Timestorm ends, damage to the Apparatus results in the leaks (proto-Vaultlands), which lead to titan cults and the First Titanomachia in the early Shattered Age). The cults manage to call Starfall down, empowering the Vaultlands to their current severity) before the imitheoi triumph.

The Builder

• God of Form. Traditionally represented as an older, muscular man with a crooked leg. He was the craftsman and architect of the gods. Serious, perfectionist, curious and creative, sometimes even a little playful in his works.
• Mantles
  • The Key
  • The Hammer
  • ???clay (argilos)

The Mariner

• God of Life. Represented as a muscular, bearded man in his prime, boisterous and passionate, fond of revels. He had a fiery temper, but was abundantly generous and forgiving when his ire was spent. Always roaming the seas in his ship.
• Mantles
  • The Trident
  • The Cornucopia
  • The Caduceus

The Weaver

(destiny, woman)

• Mantles
  • The Loom (fate, beginnings?, order time and space)
  • The Owl (guidance, strategy, farsight, wisdom, travel)
  • The Pyxis (doom, disruption, breadkdown of space and time) ???the bearer is turning the box into a die to become chance (carved runes on the faces of the box, it can grow and shrink)

The Keeper

(death, man)

• Mantles
  • The Oboloi (ruler of the underworld, crucible, lead coins, gravity)
  • The Sickle (dying, entropy, killing)
  • The Amphora (psychopomp, gathering of waters, holds the memories/experiences of the dead; in vino veritas; poet speaks the stories of the dead? drink to forget / river lethe? maenads (lose the drinking contest and become a maenad, dionysus and thanatos)

The Sentinel

(day, woman)

• Mantles
  • The Aegis (protection, courage, hope)
  • The Wreath (charismatic leadership, harmony)
  • The Beacon (clear sight, revelation, truth, light)

The Reaver

(night, man)

• Mantles
  • The Helm (tyrany, domination, fear)
  • The Viper (treachery, discord, hate)
  • The Spear (mercilessness)

The Huntress

(summer, woman)

• Mantles
  • The Bow (speed, movement)
  • The Horn (sound, call to passion)
  • The Hound (swift, hungry, and howls)

The Dancer

(pattern, enby)

• Mantles
  • "the edict" "the scroll" "the tablet" "the message" (language, law, commerce)
  • The Lyre (music, art, stories)
  • The White Tree (now a vestige)

The Witch

(winter, woman) - white witch vibe

• Mantles
  • The Jewel (greed)
  • The Wand (ice, cold; can't fully inherit until you have a daughter of your own)
  • The Veil / Shroud (stillness, heat death, grief, sorrow, regret)

The Imitheoi

• shards of power and personality
• passing of mantles and other rules
• amorphous heraldry and cults
• use of temenoi for greater feats (temenos = local Telar forgehearts)
• Thrones

• There are 9 Thrones. 1 Enthroned bearer from each domain is most stable. Not having that leads to upsets in natural order.

Servitors

• There are lots and lots of servitors on Pelithos. They are manifested by the Apparatus to deal with disruptions to the natural order, but end up staying so long they form identities. They stick around, but also develop their own ideas about their domains (river-gods, city-gods, etc). The Imitheoi don't always have full authority over them, esepecially the powerful ones.

Heraldry

• the power a Primarch has to invest in heralds and exarchs is more fungible for Imitheoi. They create cults with different manifestations and distributions of power, A new bearer may take over an existing cult, or seek to reapportion power according to their own knowledge / understanding / desires / instincts. This can leave residual cults from older bearers, who may even be antagonistic to the new bearer, who might want to reclaim the mantle's power from the current holders to reassign.

• "folk heraldry" fills more of the gaps in domain maintenance. people deal with servitors to get things done, and thus practices varies greatly based on the personalities of their local servitors. Festivals, feasts, and other public ceremonies are also used to "amp up" a domain a little; a feast and orgy to boost spring, a brutal contest before a war to boost night, etc.

The Mantles

Sample Mantle

• appearance
• powers
• rules of succession
• famous bearers
• cults & focus distribution

Builder (form, man)

The Key (modulates the flow of fury energies; throw lightning bolts)

The Hammer

???clay (argilos)

Mariner (life, man)

The Trident (controls water, seas, rivers, rain; created the spring of Pyrgos)

The Cornucopia (birth, fertility, growth)

The Caduceus (healing, medicine)

Weaver (destiny, woman)

The Loom (fate, beginnings?, order time and space)

The Owl (guidance, strategy, farsight, wisdom, travel)

The Pyxis (doom, disruption, breadkdown of space and time) ???the bearer is turning the box into a die to become chance (carved runes on the faces of the box, it can grow and shrink)

Keeper (death, man)

The Oboloi (ruler of the underworld, crucible, lead coins, gravity)

The Sickle (dying, entropy, killing)

The Amphora (psychopomp, gathering of waters, holds the memories/experiences of the dead; in vino veritas; poet speaks the stories of the dead? drink to forget / river lethe? maenads (lose the drinking contest and become a maenad, dionysus and thanatos)

Sentinel (day, woman)

The Aegis (protection, courage, hope)

The Wreath (charismatic leadership, harmony)

The Beacon (clear sight, revelation, truth, light)

Reaver (night, man)

The Helm (tyrany, domination, fear)

The Viper (treachery, discord, hate)

The Spear (mercilessness)

Huntress (summer, woman)

The Bow (speed, movement)

The Horn (sound, call to passion)

The Hound (swift, hungry, and howls)

Dancer (pattern, enby)

"the edict" "the scroll" "the tablet" "the message" (language, law, commerce)

The Lyre (music, art, stories)

The White Tree (now a vestige)

Witch (winter, woman)

The Jewel (greed)

The Wand (ice, cold; can't fully inherit until you have a daughter of your own)

The Veil / Shroud (stillness, heat death, grief, sorrow, regret, the wisdom and insight of regret)