Editing Golarion (section)

==Gods of Golarion==
There are gods upon gods for the game but they split up into a number of different pantheons.

===Core Pantheon===
'''[[Abadar]]:''' God of Civilization, Walls, and Banking.  Doing pretty well in modern times, all things considered.  Lawful Neutral in a very reasonable kind of way, leaning more towards good, but still stuck doing shit like letting Zon-Kuthon into his Vault because he doesn't break his contracts. His herald is the Lawgiver, a giant gold-plated living statue with an equally-huge hammer. Also worshiped in Tian Xia.

'''[[Asmodeus]]:''' It's [[Asmodeus]], what the fuck do you expect? The most notable changes from OGL are that Asmodeus is actually a deity this time around, and that [[SJW|misogyny is an explicit part of his dominion. Because otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell that he's a bad guy.]] Yes, the leader of his greatest group of mortal servants is female. No, the setting material does not comment on this.  (One designer claimed this is because he doesn't care so much about ''mortal'' gender, since mortals are just going to die and the lawful evil ones will end up his anyway. While this was probably just the designer trying to keep his ass from getting ripped by angry neckbeards and doesn't make that much sense, it does line up with PF Asmodeus' general "they'll all see things my way eventually" mentality.)

'''[[Calistria]]:''' An elven goddess of Lust and Revenge, Calistria's temples often double as centers of intrigue and brothels. [[Slaanesh|Feeding into people's lust]] and also feeding people's anxieties until they seek revenge, she is seen often as a bit of an odd one. Her favored animal is the hornet since they can sting repeatedly. Seriously, if you piss her off she will show her disdain for you by having hornets sting your junk until it's black and blistered. She is Chaotic Neutral to the extreme, in fact she is so whimsical and unreliable that she is the only non-chaotic evil deity that even Asmodeus refuses to work with.

'''[[Cayden Cailean]]:''' Five humans in the setting have ascended to godhood, each with their own outlooks and spheres and Cayden Cailean is one of them. His outlook and spheres? Partying it up, [[dwarf|getting drunk]], helping people, and going on adventures. Cayden Cailean apparently got drunk one night and took the Test of the Starstone. There are plenty of legends around why exactly the drunken man did it but one says he saw [[Slaanesh|Calistria, goddess of lust and revenge]], and wanted some of that. The goddess rebuffed him and said only a god could pleasure her. Pissed and drunk, he grabbed a keg and set off. Three days later, rocking a heavenly hangover, Cayden emerged as the most recent of the gods. His herald is Thais, a former prostitute who was his best buddy back in their mortal days. 

'''[[Desna]]:''' An ancient space alien who befriended one of the first gods. When Lamashtu stole the beast domain from him, she took his travel domain.  Chaotic Good, and likes wandering around, but guides people with her control over luck, and has a bunch of scientist followers who see her as helping them find knowledge. Very chill for a goddess whose signature weapon is an oversized shuriken. Has a habit of creating and releasing gods, some of which are locked up for a good reason. Also worshiped in Tian Xia.

'''[[Erastil]]:''' Old-fashioned god of the harvest and rural areas; a grumpy but well-meaning old codger who's getting a little past it since "city living" became a thing, but is still popular out in the farming country and wilderness regions. Source of much [[SJW]] outrage when his first detailed writeup revealed that being "God of the Old Ways" also makes him a patriarchal chap who believes women should get married and make babies, though he will sigh and accept it if a woman wants to prove she can have a happy life doing something else. They kicked up such a stink about this, claiming there was no way he could be Lawful Good and think this, that Paizo hastily retconned it.  For the record, men are supposed to (eventually) be settling down too. Basically a generic wilderness/rural god, though he does have some similarities to [[St. Cuthbert]].

'''[[Gorum]]:''' Basically [[Khorne]]-lite, and including the bits about not killing non-combatants.  (Well, technically [[Conan the Barbarian|Crom]], but the kids only care about their 40k.)  Favors actual strategy and tactics over charging massed archers armored only with war-cries though.  

'''[[Gozreh]]:''' Nature god.  Most interesting thing about them is that they're a [[dickgirl|hermaphrodite]], with their female form being associated with the sea and their male form with the sky.

'''Green Faith:''' Not so much a deity as much as it is a nature-minded philosophy adhered to by [[druid]]s. It essentially gives the druids a sort of organization that'd be familiar to 2E's druid hierarchcies.

'''[[Iomedae]]:''' Aroden's herald, who mostly took over his job after his untimely demise.  A former paladin turned deity via the Starstone, and a righteous crusader type.  Paizo really screws with Iomedae depending on what source you read. Sometimes seen as a [[paladin|paragon of righteousness]], she sometimes comes across as a prick, [[That guy|going so far as to deafen people who are trying to save the world because they dicked around too much in her presence]] in one poorly-balanced and poorly-written adventure.  May or may not have banged the local Bahamut-equivalent, Apsu, as a gold dragon calling her mom hangs out in her court.

'''[[Irori]]:''' Fantasy Kung-Fu Buddha.  A former mortal, but unlike the others, whom he mocks for just copying his old friend Aroden, he got there on his own, by refining and honing his body and mind into literal perfection.  Has more followers out in Tian, but he's making waves in Golarion.  His clerics get [[monk|Improved Unarmed Strike instead of a favored weapon]].

'''[[Lamashtu]]:''' Mother of monsters and a former female demon lord who stole the domains from a god she murdered.  Most of the "monster" races pay homage to her, and her evil favor usually manifests as hideous deformity and mutation.  Usually manifests as a [[/d/| heavily pregnant mishmash of monster parts]]. Also worshiped in Tian Xia.

'''[[Nethys]]:''' The god of magic.  Played too much ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' and broke his brain by briefly gaining omniscience.  His fractured mind usually manifests as two faces, one white and benevolent, one black and destructive. Has self-contradictory holy texts. The only things he consistently cares about are a policy of not giving spellcasting to people who weren't born with it, nor have earned it, and opposing Rovagug.

'''[[Norgorber]]:''' A supposed mortal who became the god of trickery, secrets, backstabbing, and deceit and thus is represented by a very inconspicuous-looking bugger who totally won't fuck you over at the first opportunity. His worshipers tend to either worship one of four extremes of his character: the trickster, the serial killer, the saboteur, and the assassin.  All information about his past is '''REDACTED''', and trying to learn too much about his church can get you killed even if you're a member.

'''[[Pharasma]]:''' [[The Raven Queen]], sort of.  The deathly-neutral type of death goddess, survivor from the previous multiverse and shaped the beginnings of this one while protecting it from [[Cthulhu]], and is, along with [[Yog-Sothoth]] one of the two anchors of the current multiverse. Is grooming one of her psychopomps to do the same for the next multiverse as she herself did to this one. ''Haaaaates'' undeath, so much that her clerics get a custom variant of the Death domain with the undeath-related parts replaced. Judges the souls of every creature that ever dies before assigning them to their proper afterlives, with allowances made for things like racial affiliation and belief in reincarnation. Also worshiped in Tian Xia.

'''[[Rovagug]]''': An ancient primordial force of destruction, despised by all the other gods and worshipped only by madmen and lesser primordial forces of destruction. The other gods put aside their differences long ago to trap him in the Cage, which is Golarion itself.  Bad Things will happen if he ever gets out, [[Starfinder| which might be fated to happen]].  His spawn still rampage around the world, one of which is the [[tarrasque]].  A ''mid-tier'' one.

'''[[Sarenrae]]:''' [[Rule 63]] [[Pelor]].  Asmodeus's good-aligned brother's first servant, who took up his portfolio after Asmodeus murdered him.  Ironically, the two allied to take the foremost role in defeating and caging Rovagug.  In addition to being a sun goddess, she emphasizes the idea of compassion and redemption for the truly-repentant and destruction for those who're truly past all that. Also worshiped in Tian Xia.

'''[[Shelyn]]:'''  Beauty, art, and love goddess.  Not so much sex though, that's Calistria's job(this has not stopped her from getting cozy with both Desna ''and'' Sarenrae).  Literally all beings love her...  some are just incapable of expressing that love in healthy ways. Lamashtu in particular gives her the creeps. Zon-Kuthon's sister, and responsible for containing the worst of the monster he's become. Also worshiped in Tian Xia.

'''[[Torag]]:''' We have come up with interesting twists for at least most of the blatant copies on this list.  No such luck here.  Torag is [[Moradin]], dwarf without end.  Amen.

'''[[Urgathoa]]:''' Once upon a time, when the world was young, there lived a decadent queen who spent her whole life in unbridled hedonism. So much that, when she died, and went to wait in line in Pharasma's Boneyard to await judgement, she cut out of the line and slipped back into the world because she couldn't stand the thought of giving up the pleasures of life. In the process, she became the first undead creature and infected the world with both undeath and disease. Aw well. Very cheery for an evil goddess, since she's all about doing what you love... though for most of her followers, that's various shades of cannibalism and plague-spreading.

'''[[Zon-Kuthon]]:''' Originally known as Dou-Bral, half-brother to Shelyn, he got so asshurt about his sister's talents that he decided to go to the leather club between realities to brood. There, he was [[Rape|enlightened]] by an [[Slaanesh|alien presence]]. He returned to Golarion as a hyper BDSM fetishist known as Zon-Kuthon, god of pain, torture, and edge. His unholy symbol is a skull with a spiked chain going through the eye sockets, for fuck's sake. Despite his worshipers being evil touturing murderers and his servants being straight-up Cenobites, his clergy still tends to be kind to those who worship Shelyn because he still loves her, deep down in the irrevocably-ruined part of him that's still Dou-Bral.

===Tian-Xia Deities===
'''[[Daikitsu]]''': Basically the Shinto god(dess) Inari. Literally named "big fox". Goddess of kitsune, farming and rice making her one of the most popular Tian-Xian gods. Rumored to have had relations with Nalinivati but both deny this.

'''[[Fumeiyoshi]]''': After murdering Shizuru (see down) he was cursed to be god of the undead (though he is not one himself), and dishonor and has picked up evil oni. He is named for the Japanese word "dishonor" (Fumeyo) paired with the common suffix for male names yoshi.

'''[[General Susumu]]''': Shizuru's evil brother (though with the low detail on these deities it isn't clear why he is evil instead of lawful neutral) and god of asshole samurai instead of honorable ones. Also horses, even though he has no domains to support this. Curiously gets the glory domain which is full of good aligned spells. He is named for the Japanese word "advance" (in the military sense). Vaguely based on Susa-no-O.

'''[[Hei Feng]]''': Tengu god of thunder, storms, sea and winds. Also the god of Chaotic Stupid characters, being that his creeds include "flipping your shit if somebody insults you or Hei Feng". Funnily enough his Anti-Paladin code includes a clause about helping good causes if it entails violence visited on others and another clause where you have to be honest about your hatred for others.

'''[[Kofusachi]]''': God of Joy and Prosperity 

'''[[Lady Nanbyo]]''': Her name is Japanese for "incurable disease", and is predictably goddess of disease.

'''[[Lao Shu Po]]''': A rat who feasted on the corpse of Tsukiyo during his brief death.  Lives in the alleys and sewers of a daemon city.

'''[[Nalinivati]]''': Goddess of Naga, Nagaji, sorcery, lovers, and patron goddess of Nagajor. Rumored to have had relations with Daikitsu but both deny this.

'''[[Qi Zhong]]''': God of medicine and the elements.

'''[[Shizuru]]''': Shizuru is your typical asian themed goddess of sun (vagely based on Amaterasu), honor, ancestors, and swordplay. She's generally on good relations with every other Tian deity. She's typically worshiped by honorable samurai and weeaboos. She is the lover of the moon god Tsukiyo and had to get him resurrected by the help of Qi-Zhong, the god of medicine, after his brother Fumeiyoshi grew so damn jealous of his brother actually having a girlfriend that he geeked him. She has an star archon daughter called the [[Weeaboo|Dusk Ronin]], who got kicked out of her mother's house and now wanders the Great Beyond in search of redemption. Oh and she's a dragon. Not "depicted as a dragon", an actual massive dragon that's on fire.

'''[[Sun Wukong]]''': The classic trickster from ''[[Journey to the West]]'', now as an outright god instead of mere celestial after he tricked the gods into making him divine.

'''[[Tsukiyo]]''': God of the Moon and Jade. Lover of Shizuru which got him killed by Fumeiyoshi. Brought back to life by Qi Zhong, but not before he was nibbled on by Lao Shu Po. Noted for being a lawful good god with the madness domain.

'''[[Yaezhing]]''': Ninja god of murder, death, and punishment 

'''[[Yamatsumi]]''': God of Mountains and Volcanoes.

===Other Major Deities===

'''[[Zyphus]]''': God of Accidental Deaths and pointless tragedy. He achieved godhood by rejecting his death after dying a pointless accidental death. Hangs around with daemons all day and snatches any and all souls who died from accidents, making him a true parasite and a hated foe to all good and neutral gods, especially Pharasma.

===Dwarven Pantheon===

'''[[Droskar]]''': Dwarven God of Pointless, Soul-sucking jobs. He mostly took over those Dwarfs who refused to take the Quest of the Sky and eventually became Duregar.

'''[[Torag]]''': Leader of the Dwarven gods, noted for having a substantial following with humans. Made Nivi Rhombodazzle the first and so far only Gnome god(deep gnome) after she traded him a gem stone.

===Elven Pantheon===

'''[[Alseta]]''': Goddess of Doorways and Portals, friendly with most other gods even house-sitting for them when they have to step out. More a shrine than a church kind of goddess. Not technically an Elf

'''[[Ketephys]]''': Down-to-earth god of forests and the hunt.

'''[[Yuelral]]''': Neutral good goddess of Magic and jewelers. Very open to Half-Elves.

'''[[Findeladlara]]''': Goddess of Art and Culture. Looks down on invention and new ideas ignores the prayers of non-elves.

===Halfling Pantheon===

'''[[Chaldira Zuzaristan]]''' Goddess of luck and battle and sidekick to Desna, tends to run headlong into fights to protect Halfling kind.

'''[[Thamir Gixx]]''' God of thievery, strongly opposed by Chaldira Zuzaristan but supposedly friends with Norgorber the primary god of thieves and murder.