Thursday, July 28, 2022

They Multiply Like Rabbits

 I did it again. I recently updated religion to have twenty-four Archons instead of twelve. 

We're at thirty-six, now.

Every God will have three children, or chosen Archons, who will help to build the world at their command in the creation story. Afterward, they will exist among races of mortalkind with avatars and represent their chief deity.

Jeohan, the Light God, has a child for the moon, the sun, and color. Harskael is Archon of sun and fire.

Kurdah, the Earth God, presently has a child for stone, metal, and jewel. Urwal is the Archon of stones and non-gem minerals.

Jhordone, the Air God, presently has a child for weather and scents. A third slot is under development. Bismodus is the Archon of all forms of weather.

Ividnon, the Water God, presently has a child for water, ice, and taste, as taste is seen as being paired with saliva. Shamaal is Archon of water.

Ta'al, the God of Sound, has a child for rhythm, voice, and vibration. Adinathi is the Archon of language and speech.

Aowar, the God of Body, has a child for fauna, flora, and fungi. Jarn is the Archon of fauna and is responsible for all variety of non-civilized animals.

Ordea, the God of Motion, has a child for speed and rest. A third slot is under development. Rest is associated with gravity. 

Probihan, the God of Instinct, has a child for emotion, intuition, and morality. Morality may be too similar to intuition. Eudis is the Archon of intuition.

Belgor, the God of Time, has a child for beginnings, ends, and the eternal. Eril is the Archon of ends and governs death and finality. Cern is the Archon of the eternal and governs the unending cycles such as seasons and the motions of the stars.

Akra, the God of Mind, has a child for perception, memory, and dreams. Dreams may replace morality under Probihan. Rubalkai, the Wandering Eye, is the Archon of perception and is every watchful of mortalkind, said to enforce the Gods' will with mortal death and punishment upon the soul. Groth is the Archon of memory and gifted mortalkind with written languages with which to catalogue history.

Balki, the God of Entropy, has a child for chaos, paradox, and arcana. These terms are in a state of flux at the moment.

Gorojin, the God of Balance, has a child for duality, harmony, and fortune. Parkareth is the Archon of duality and governs not only extremes, but the spectrums and varieties between them.

Of note, I've moved Rubalkai from Balki's custody to Akra's. 

I'm going to have a lot of naming and decision making to do.

Other notes:

Archons are worshiped as heavily as the Gods themselves. They are often worshiped in trinities by certain professions, such as Flora, Harskael, and Bismodus for luck in farming. Always present is a smaller idol to Fortune.

I'm not sure which Archon will be associated with the tide. Classical cultures are smart enough to understand the tide is tied to the moon somehow, and the moon is a child of Jeohan. Tides are a predictable perennial system, however, which is Cern's domain. And of course, Shamaal oversees the oceans. It could be an association with this trinity.

The painted forest of Atavai is locally known to be the product of Flora and Color's marriage celebration. 

Fungi is now its own child. I've decided not to leave it to the philosophers, after all.

Rest is associated with stillness and gravity is said to be Rest beckoning all things to come to a stop.

Birth defects and freakishly bizarre events are attributed to Chaos, Balki's child, but illnesses are Eril's domain.

Ordea is proving to be the most difficult to wrap my head around dividing into three. Jhordone isn't much easier.

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