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  Gods of the Shards:

  Over the past hundred years or so, the spread of trade around the local city states have caused a number of separate gods to be melded into a single cosmology. The cities may or may not agree on this understanding of the gods, as there is still flux in the belief systems. No one system has spread to cover all known shards. Some still undiscovered civilizations might have a completely different belief system.

  Creation Myth: The gods have always been. Humans are a recent addition to the shards and cracks.

  The Father and The First Son had a fight of earth-shattering proportions. The result was the area of the shards called the beach, a great wasteland the shards radiate out from, there is a rumor that at the center of the beach lays a great black glass desert, and at the center of that black glass sheet there is a hole that leads to the realm of the gods, the hells. None have ever been able to reach the glass or the center of the beach and lived to tell about it, so it is all speculation.

  The son won the battle. In winning he dropped the father so hard on the ground it shattered the earth and cast the father deep to the center.

  During the fight blood was shed over the shards, from the blood of the Father came man, The first Son begat the animals and monsters.

  The brotherhood believe they come straight from the monsters that sprang up from the blood of the First Son.

  Most humans think little about the gods and religion. They pray to whoever is expedient. A few will become devote followers of a divine for special favors. Rivals between the different holy orders and non-believers can be brutal and bloody. There is little room for differing opinions between the fanatics.

  A few strange explorers have tried to master the many shards and cracks. Few have been able to chart more than a few. The Father keeps the people scattered to protect them from the horrors of the world. A few believe the shards are connected and all people spring from one connection between the mother and the father, like the gods they are made in their image. This is a limited belief mostly driven underground.

  Father:

  Also known as: The Sleeping One, The Absent God, The Uncaring Bastard.

  Patron: Currently not in favor of any specific city.

  Realms: Lost causes, sleep, and dreams.

  Depicted as: A senile crippled old man beat senseless by his eldest son. A twisted staff of wood for his weapon.

  Mother:

  Also known as: Durra’ah.

  Patron: Zar. Flag white tree on blue field.

  Realms: Spring/Rebirth and motherhood.

  Depicted as: A beautiful mother figure. A small set of shears for a weapon.

  Eldest Son:

  Also known as: The One Son.

  Patron: Abaraka and the Brotherhood of the One Son. Flag Black fist on a red field.

  Realms: God of war and the mountains.

  Depicted as: A large man with fames for hair a giant metal staff for a weapon.

  Eldest Daughter:

  Also known as: Sinead, The unstable one crazy bitch, keeper of the dead.

  Patron: Freeport. A plain black flag.

  Realms: The sea, the dead, and crazy people.

  Depicted as: A naked woman with green scaled skin sea snakes for hair. She needs no weapon she controls the sea.

  Second Son:

  Also known as: Zinan

  Patron: No city will claim him, but most taverns will have a shrine to him. Drunks, drug users, actors, and any profession that deals with the above people.

  Realms: Altered states

  Depicted as: A small man with a huge erect penis. He can use his member to great effect ending most fights before they start.

  Second Daughter:

  Also known as: The Huntress

  Patron: Currently the main temple for the Huntress in in Cliffside. A solid green flag

  Realms: Childbirth and Hunting

  Depicted as: A young woman in green leathers, she hunts with a bow.

  Third son:

  Also known as: Yuan

  Patron: Perdition, Flag White scales on black field.

  Realms: Trade and commerce

  Depicted as: A man that carries a large sack slung over his shoulder. The bag full of coin, he can wield with great effect.

  Third Daughter:

  Also known as Anshika

  Patron: Only a few scattered schools outside the wall.

  Realms: Magic and the twin moons

  Depicted as: a pale woman normally naked her body covered in magical runes, one breast larger than the other. She throws magic at ease.

  The Fourth child:

  Also known as: Harper or the conjoined fates.

  Patron: No city would risk the bad affects of worshiping this god.

  Realms: Good and bad luck, Fate.

  Depicted as: Male and female conjoined twins. Good and bad luck is all the twins ever need.

  The Old Ones:

  Over the history of the shards any number of human and nonhuman deities have been worshiped, many of these have slipped out of fashion and into antiquity with no current concentration of followers the citizens of the city-states know of. Collective they are called the old ones. In rare cases maybe collectively known as the Ginners.

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