Our Pantheon (ZOMG Numi had to much caffiene and added pictures and shiznit)

Greetings my friends and welcome to our Pantheon, muhahahaha.
Before I begind, please enjoy some mythos. Again this is very simple and sweet. The pictures at the bottom are of the gods in order they appear

OUR MAJOR Dieties

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Greetings my friends and welcome to our Pantheon, muhahahaha.
Before I begind, please enjoy some mythos. Again this is very simple and sweet. The pictures at the bottom are of the gods in order they appear
OUR MAJOR Dieties

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Zeus

Father of Gods and Mortals
Greater Diety
Home Plane: Olympus
Align: CG
Portfolio: Sky, Air, Storms, Fate, Nobility
Worsphipers: Everyone
Cleric Alignments: CG, CN, NG
Domains: Air, Chaos, Good, Nobility, Strength, Weather
Favorite Weapon: ShortSpear or Halfspear

The king of the gods, Zeus, appears as a mighty male human standing about 15 feet tall. He has white hair and long, white beard. He wears a white tunic and carries his shield, Aegis, which bears the likeness of the head of the first gorgon. A white celestrial giant eagle is always at Zeus's side.





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Aphrodite

Intermediate Deity
Symbol: Seashell
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: CG
Portfolio: Love, Beauty
Worshipers: Artists, Lovers, Bards, Elves
Cleric Alignments: CG, CN, NG
Favorite Weapon: Dagger

The deity of romantic love, sexual desire, and physical beauty, Aphrodite embodies those ideals. She appears as a human woman of phenomenal beauty, dressed in simple gown and adorned with jewelry. She is usually smiling and in fact is often called "Smile-Loving" or "Laughter-Loving Aphrodite." Aphrodite was born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated his father Uranus and cast his severed genitals into the sea.





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Apollo

The musician of the Gods, The Archer God, The FarShooter, The Healer, The God of Light, The God of Truth
Intermediate God
Symbol: Lyre
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: CG
Portfolio: Light, Prophecy, Music, Healing
Worshipers: Bards, elves, wizards, sorcerers, healers, sages
Cleric Alignments: CG, CN, NG
Domains: Good, Healing, Knowledge, Magic, Sun
Favored Weapon: Composite Longbow

The god of Music, Light, and healing, Apollo, appears as a comely, beadless young man carrying a golden lyre and a silver bow.

It was Apollo who first taught people the healing art. While generally benevolent and helpful, he can be truely terrible when angry, often loosing arrows that visit disease and death on targets they strike. He is quit vain about his musical prowess.





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Ares

The Ruthless God, He Who Delights in Battle
Intermediate God
Symbol:Spear
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: CE
Portfolio: War, Killing, Strife
Worshipers: Fighters, Barbarians, Half-Orcs
Clerical Alignments: CE, CN, NE
Domains: Chaos, Destruction, Evil, War
Favorite Weapon: HalfSpear

The God of Strife, Ares, usually appears as a large man with burning eyes and permanebt scowl etched across his face. Ares is the personification of the savage side of war. he is fond of strife, anger, and unrestrained bloodletting. He also is jealous, untrustworthy, and easily offended. As such, he is not a very popular god among mortals or amonng other gods. He is son of Zeus and Hera, both of whom detest him. Ares is the archfoe of Athena, his half sister and fellow war god.





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Artemis

Artemis of the Golden Shafts, Friend of Youth, Lady of the Lake, The Huntress
Intermidiate Deity
Symbol: Bow and Arrow on a lunar disk
Home Plane: Olympus
Alighnment: NG
Portfolio: Hunting, Wild beasts, Childbirth, Dance
Worshipers: Rangers, Druids, Elves, Halflings, Hunters
Cleric Alignments: CG, LG, NG
Domains: Animal, Good, Plant, Sun
Favored Weapon: Short Sword

Artemis, Deity of hunting and wild beasts, appears as a young woman in rustic clothing, always carrying a bow and sword. In addition to her normal titles, she also sometimes called "Noisy Artemis" because of her loud hunting calls. Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo, Daughter of Zeus and the Titan Leto. She generally remains aloof from mortals, though she enjoys the company of nymphs and dryads.





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Athena

Greater God
Symbol: An Owl
Home Plane: Olympus
Alighnment: LG
Portfolio: Wisdom, Crafts, civilization, War
Worsphipers: Paladins, Fighters, Monks, Judges, Constables, NUMINOUS!!!!
Clerical Alignments: LG, LN, NG
Domains: Artifice, Community, Good, Knowledge, Law, War
Favorite Weapon: ShortSpear

Deity of Noble combat, skilled craftwork, prudence, and cities, Athena appears as a statuesque woman with fetching gray eyes. She usually carries a shield and wears helmet and armor. Because she is Zeus's favorite child, Zeus lends Athena his shield, Aegis, from time to time.

Athena is the daughter of Zeus alone, because no mother bore her. One day, Zeus developed a terrible headache. To relieve it, Hephaestus used his axe to split open the mighty god's head. Out sprang Athena, fully grown, and fully armed and armored.
Athena was the first to teach mortals many of the civilized arts. She is credited with inventing weaving, the potter's wheel, the horse bridle, and many other crafts. She also created the olive tree as a gift to mortals. She is the protector of weavers, and , along with Hepheastus, the patron of handiwork and all the arts that make civilization possible.

Athena is warlike, but only in defence of things she believes are worth protecting, such as cities, towns, and planted fields. She opposes the destructive rampage of her half brother, Ares, whenever and however she can

NOTE: Does this sound like Jupiter and Ares to Anyone?!?!?!





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Demeter

The Gift-Giver, Lovely-Haired Demeter, Demeter of the Splendid Fruit
Lesser Deity
Symbol: Mare's Head
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: Neutral
Portfolio: Agriculture
Woshipers: Farmers
Cleric Alignment: CN, LN, N, NG, NE
Domains: Earth, Plant, Protection
Favorite Weapon: SHortspear or Halfspear

Seeing as this is a Diety we will not majorly use, I will not be writing a speil for her





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Bacchus

Woman-Maddener, Ivy-Wreathed Dionysus, Loud-Roaring Dionysus
Intermediate Deity
Symbol: Thyrsus, a staff tipped with a pine cone and twisted with a vine
Home plane: Olympus
Alignment: CN
Portfolio: Mirth, Madness, Wine, Fertility, Theater
Worshipers: Satyrs, fauns, revelers, rogues
Cleric alignments: CE, CG, CN
Domains: Charm, Dream, Feast, Illusion, Joy, libertaion, Passion, Pleasure, Sex
Favorite Weapon: Quarterstaff

Deity of wine, mirth, madness, and rampart sex, Bacchus appears as a young man carrying an amphora of wine,a lyre, and a thyrsus. Like Demeter, he is an agricultural god with powers over fertility both land and creatures, but his portfolio is limited to vines, wines, and wine's influence on mortals

One of his major festivals, the Baccanalion, is basical a giant, drunken orgy, with amazing food, and wine, and of course rampant animalistic sex.





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Hades

Greater Deity
Symbol: Black ram
Home plane: Hades
Alignment: NE
Portfolio: Death, Underworld, Earth, Wealth
Worshipers: Necromancers, assassin, rogues, murderers
Cleric Alignments: CE, LE, NE
Domains: Death, Earth, Evil
Favorite Weapon: Longsword

Hades, the god of death and wealth, appears as a large, powerfully muscled man with gray skin. He has a bushy black beard and black eyes, and he wears gold jewelry sylbolizing his wealth.
Our God of Death and such





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Hecate

Goddes of the Dark of the Moon, Goddess of the Crossways, Dread Goddess of Night
Intermediate God
Symbol: Setting Moon
Home Plane; Olympus
Alignment: NE
Portfolio: Moon, Magic, Adundance, Undead
Worshipers: Wizards, Sorcerers, Assassins, Hunters, Rogues
Cleric Alignments: CE, LE, NE
Domains: Creation, Evil, Knowledge, Magic
Favorite Weapon: Dagger

Pronounced (Heh-Kuh-Tay)

Deity of the moon, Magic and plenty, Hecate is both feared and revered. Her true form is that of a woman with three heads. However, she can appear in any form she likes, and she most often appears as a beautiful woman with lustrious, dark hair. She is known as a provider of food, riches, and other desirable things, and as a defender of children. She also is an independent and capricious deity who wanders the night wian a pack of hell hounds, which she sets on anyone she finds traveling about





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Vulcan

Workman of Immortals, God of the Forge
Intermediate God
Symbol: Hammer and Anvil
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: neutral Good
Portfolio: smithing, crafts
Worshipers: Dwarves, Artisans, fighters
Cleric Alignment: LG, LN, NG
Domains Artifice, Community, Earth, Fire, Good
Favored Weapon: Warhammer

The god of blacksmithing, fire, and crafts, Vulcan, usually appears as a tall bearded giant with a club foot and a hunchback. Among the comely gods of Olympus, only he is ugly. It is said that his mother, Hera, tried to cast him out. If so, that must have been in the distant past. Vulcan is highly honored among the gods as their armorer and smith. Bard's tales say that volcanoes mark the sites of his Forges.

Vulcan is a patron of all civilized arts, though smiths are his special charges. He is married to aphrodite but secretly loves Athena, who either does not notice or does not deign to acknoledge his affection.





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Hera

Protectress, Bride, Flowery Hera
Greater Deity
Symbol: Fan of Peacock Feathers
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: Neutral
Portfolio: Marriage, Woman, Intrigue
Worshipers: Woman, Wives, Spies, Planners
Cleric Alignment: CN, LN, N, NE, NG
Domains: Community, Nobility, Protection, Trickery
Favored Weapon: Light Mace

The queen of the Olypian Deities, Hera, appears as a tall and nobal woman. She is patron of marriage but also of jealous wives, for her marriage to Zeus is anything but a model of fidelity. In her jealousy over Zeus's many dalliances with other goddesses and mortal woman. Hera has often acted violently. She conspired with the Titans to have Zagreus killed, tricked Dionysus's mortal mother Semele to cause her own doom, and tried to harm hercules throughout his mortal life.

Hera is one of the six children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea., and is thus Zeus;s sister as well as his wife. She fought valiently againstt he titans at Zeus's side, but her importance has waned with every new deity or hero that Zeus sires with someone else.





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Hercules

Demigod
Symbol: Lion's head
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Portfolio: Strength, Adventure
Worshipers: Fighters, Athletes
Cleric Alignments: CG, LG, NG
Domains: Chaos, Luck, Strength
Favored Weapon: Great Club

Hero of Strenth and victorty. The tasks of hercules ring out through the halls of olympus and the mortal planes. He is there hero of champions and the good, of athletes and victors.





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Hermes

The Master Thief, Messenger of the Gods
Intermediate God
Symbol: Caduceus (winged staff with two entwining serpents)
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: CG
Portfolio: Travel, Trade, Theft, Gambling, Running
Worshipers: Rogues, Illusionists, Travelers, Merchants, Athletes
Cleric Alignments: CG, CN, NG
Domains: Chaos, Good, Luck, Travel, Trickery
Favored Weapon: Staff

The deity of travelers, merchants, thieves, gamblers, athletes and elegent speakers, Hermes appears as a handsom young man carrying a white caduceus. He wears a winged helm and candals. He is perhaps the shredest and most cinning of all the Olympian deities; he began his career as a thief before he was a day old by stealing a her of cattle from Apollo.





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Hestia

Lesser Diety
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: NG
Portfolio: Home, hearth, family
Worshippers: Commoners
Cleric Alignment: CG, LG, NG
Domains: Community, Good, Protection
Favored Weapon: Dagger

One of the gods I don't see us using much, just thought I would list it. Goddess of Homes and families and such





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Nike

Goddess of Voctory
Demigod
Symbol: Winged Woman
Home plane: Olympus
ALignment: LN
Portfolio: Victory
Worshipers: Fighters, Athletes
Cleric Alignments: LE, LG, LN
Domains: LAw, Nobility, War
Favored Weapon: Light mace

Another one not see using: Goddess of victory and the patron of the olympics





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Poseidon

Earth-Shaker, Savior of Ships, Poseidon of the Dashing Wave
Symbol: Trident
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: CG
Portfolio: Sea, rivers, earthquakes
Worshipers: Sailors, Fishers, Coast Dwellers
Cleric Alignments: CE, CG, CN
Domains: Chaos, Earth, Water
Favored Weapon: Trident

Poseidon, god of the sea, appears as a large male human with long, flowing black hair and beard. He wears a tunic and carries a trident. Tritons, merefolk, and sea nymphs often accompany him.





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Tyche

Lesser Deity
Symbol: Red Pentagram
Home Plane: Olympus
Alignment: Neutral
Portfolio: Luck
Worshipers: Those wishing Luck
Cleric Alignments: CN, LN, N, NE, NG
Domains: Luck, Protection, Travel
Favored Weapon: Short Sword

Tyche (Pronounced Tyk-Ee) is the deity of good luck in the olympian pantheon. She appears Human sized- small compared to the rest of the gods- with a slim, agile body. She wears a sky blue tunic and carries either a cornucopia or a rudder, indicating that she steers mortal life.