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The Pantheon Of Bohavia

Deity	Domain	F&A Equiv	Priest	Paladin	Gen	Align
Boli	Goddess of Pain	Loviatar	Pain	NerveWracker	3	CE
Dazbag	God of Sun	Amaunator	SunLord	SunShiner	1	N
Kitry	God of Learning	Oghma	LoreMaster	TruthSeeker	3	LG
Kozlo	Goddess of Magic	Azuth	Magister	MageMinder	2	LN
Laska	Goddess of Love	Sune	HeartWarder	LoveMaster	3	CG
Lechit	Goddess of Healing	[Healing]	PainBearer	FaithHealer	3	LG
Lov	Goddess of Hunting	Malar	Talon	BeastHunter	2	CN
Mir	Goddess of Peace	[Peace]	Dove	PeaceMaker	3	LG
Nemotz	God of Disease	Talona	DarkBringer	GermSpreader	3	CE
Obkod	God of Merchants	Waukeen	Prophets	ProphetMaker	3	LE
Ohen	God of Fire	Kossuth	Flame	FireStarter	1	CN
Perun	God of Storms	Talos	StormLord	StormBlower	1	NE
Prirodna	Goddess of Nature	Silvanus	Druid	Ranger	1	N
Radegast	God of War	Tempus	Padre	WarMonger	2	LN
Seela	God of Strength	[Strength]	StrongArm	MuscleFlexer	2	NE
Smurt	God of Death	Myrkul	Death	GrimReaper	1	LE
Spravedelna	Goddess of Justice	Tyr	Justice	LawBringer	3	LN
Vitur	God of Wind	Akadi	AirWalker	FrequentFlyer	1	N
Voda	Goddess of Water	Istishia	Delphine	WaveSurfer	1	N
Yarovit	Goddess of Agriculture	Chauntea	SoulFarmer	CropDuster	2	N
Zelezny	God of Blacksmithing	Gond	Artificer	MetalWorker	2	LN
Zemnye	God of Earth	Grumbar	Bastion(ess)	EarthMover	1	N
Zima	Goddess of Winter	Auril	IcePriest(ess)	FridgeFreezer	1	NE
Zlodey	God of Thieves	Mask	Demarch(ess)	WealthStealer	3	CE

Notes

Deity

The name of the god or goddess in the Bohavian Pantheon.

 

Domain

That area over which the god or goddess has jurisdiction. Most of the gods cover a wider area than that which is described above, i.e. Perun has jurisdiction over storms, lightning, thunder, etc.

 

F&A Equiv.

My all-time favorite TSR supplmenet has to be Faiths & Avatars. It's meant for Forgotten Realms but, as can be seen above, it can easily be adapted for use in most other type of campaigns. Listed above are the deities from Faiths & Avatars that equate to the Bohavian deities. In a few cases, there are no direct comparisons from the pantheon contained in Faiths & Avatars and these are marked with [brackets]. In these few instances, I have used information from Complete Priests instead.

 

Priest

This column shows the name of the priests from each faith. These are only general terms, and higher ranks in each church usually have different and more elaborate titles. Bohavia does not use generic priests for each faith. Instead the abilities of each priest come from the aforementioned Faiths & Avatars [or Complete Priests, as noted above].

 

Paladin

As with the case of priests, each church has paladins with differing names and abilities, as it seems illogical to me that they are all the same. Unfortunately there is no supplement that gives the abilities of each type of paladin and so I have made them up. In general, they tend to have similar extra abilities to the priests of their faith, with corresponding disadvantages so that they average out with one another, yet each have a unique make up.

 

Gen

This tells which generation that the deity belongs to. Over the millennia that humans have occupied Bohavia, the deities that they have worshiped have changed. In the beginning, the humans were primitive cave dwellers that lived a totally hand-to-mouth existence and this was represented in the gods that they worshiped. Dazbag, the Sun God, was the original deity in Bohavia. Over time, however, the humans realized that the sun was probably going to rise each day as it always did and so started worshiping other gods, including those representing the four elements and also the nature gods.

This was the limit of the human pantheon until the humans stopped fighting with the elves that they came into conflict with in the forests and realized that the elves could teach them a thing or two. The humans stopped living in caves at this time and started to found villages, and learned that having members of the community specializing in different functions was the way to go. This led to the second generation of deities coming to be worshiped, with the most important trades of the time such as blacksmiths, farmers and warriors getting their own deities. The first generation of deities started to wane in popularity as the second generation of deities grew in prominence.

Over the past half-millennium, the humans have come to dominate Bohavia through the fact that they breed at a much faster rate than any of the other races in the country. Their villages grew into towns and their towns grew into cities and there became so many of them that they were able to specialize in areas that not even the elves had considered. In this age of enlightenment, the rich did not have to worry about where their next meal might come from and so were able to consider less mundane concepts. It was into this environment that the third generation of gods began to appear, those concerning such principles as knowledge, justice, peace and love. As the third generation of gods took over from the second in popularity, so the popularity of the first generation waned still further, until there were practically no worshipers of these gods left at all. These gods are now referred to as the 'Elder Gods' and there are few remaining temples left to them any more among humans, except in very small villages. Most Bohavians consider followers of the Elder Gods to be rather primitive these days, although they are still worshiped widely among the demi-humans.

Other races worship many of the same gods as humans do, although often the gods are known by different names. They generally fall into the first and second generations, however. Demi-Humans also worship a few gods that do not appear in the human pantheon.

 

Align

This shows the typical alignment of each faith although there is a lot of variance in alignment from temple to temple. Typically though, each church will only differ from the norm by one degree however, so a church that was good could have neutral followers, but never evil, and a church that was lawful might have neutral members, but never chaotic.

 

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