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REALMS OF THE UNIVERSE:
Divine Realms: home of the gods, immortals, Dragonlands
Living Realms: mortal earth
Peaceful Realms: kingdom of the dead
Chaos

First Powers: (both are parents to the Great Gods)

Father Universe - created the realms

Mother Flame - created light, stars, death

Three Sorrows: (housed in Divine Realms but not gods in themselves, rather forces brought into the Mortal Realms by human excess)
  • Malady (Rat)
  • Starvation (Yellow, cur dog)
  • Slaughter (Hyena)
The Great Gods:

Great Mother Goddess, the - Three aspects: Maiden, Mother, Hag
Titles: Mother of Mountains, Mother of Waters, Mother of Mares
goddess of crops, weaving, spinning, women, childbirth, offenses against women, children; with Mithros, chief goddess of pantheon

Mithros - sun-god, brother-consort to Goddess; god of mage-craft, war, law, fire; with the Goddess, chief god of pantheon

Black God - the god of death, ruler of Peaceful Realms

Crooked God - god of thieves in Eastern Lands (another name for Kyprioth the Trickster)

Smith's God - god of all smiths, coopers, wainwrights

Gainel - also called the Master of Dream, the Dream King, Dreamer; he has one foot in Chaos, one foot in Divine Realms; he is the only Great God who cannot leave divine realms or chaos, can only send his messengers (dreams)

Kyprioth the Trickster - chief of the trickster gods and patron god of the Copper Isles; Wind god of all the winds in the Emerald Ocean (including Copper Isles and Yamani Islands)

Carthak: (in addition to the Great Gods)

Mynoss - the judge of the underworld and the dead

Shakith - blind goddess of seers

Graveyard Hag - patron goddess of Carthak, rules over graveyards, gambling, practical jokes; sacred animals: hyena, rat; silver dice cup (she cheats)

Jihuk - master of deep desert winds and demons, central Carthak

Banjiku gods: (southeastern Carthak)

Lushagui - goddess who bore them and gave them three gifts: to bind men to beast-people, to know gods, and to be slaves (this last is open to interpretation)

Kidunka - male, the world-snake (wraps around the world), all-wise, Lushagui's brother

K'mir tribes of northern Sarain:

Father Storm and Mother Fire -gave birth to the world and the stars, parents of The Four Horse-Lords:
  • Bian North-wind - goddess of trade, sleep, horses (she gave birth to horses), fertility
  • Chavi West-wind - goddess of cleansing, belief or religion, music, marriage
  • Vau East-wind - god of creation (helped Bian to give birth to horses), travel, strength, truth
  • Shai South-wind - god of magic, volcanoes, sex, healing
  • Grandmother Stone - goddess of age and time
Yamani Islands:

Yama - patron goddess, created the Yamani Islands, goddess of childbirth and rice

Wave-Walker - sea goddess, goddess of mercy, can banish storms and keep ships safe (also another name for the Goddess in northwestern Tortall)

Sakuyo - benevolent Yamani trickster god, god of jokes and pranks

Galla/Scanra/northeastern Tortall:

Weiryn - minor god of the hunt and the forest in northeastern Tortall and in Galla and Scanra; a god who's one with mountain forests (Daine's father)

Green Lady - northwestern Galla, a goddess of healing, childbirth, and wells (Daine's mother)

Yahzed - minor god of righteousness and repentance

Copper Isles, the:

Gunapi the Sunrose - raka goddess of war and molten rock

Chaos:

Uusoae - Queen of Chaos, disrule, uncertainty, imagination, destruction that leads to change and new growth, new opportunities

Gatekeepers - Discord, Violence

Animal gods:
  • Badger - badger god, doesn't particularly care to have a name
  • Mother Brock - badger goddess
  • Old White - wolf god
  • Night Black - wolf goddess
  • Queenclaw - cat goddess
  • Bitebone - cat god
  • Chrrik - marmoset male god
  • Preet - marmoset female god
  • Broad Foot - male duckmole god
  • Paddlebill - female duckmole god
  • Ghostwing - goddess of the great horned owls
  • Nighteyes - god of the great horned owls
  • Dawn Crow - crow god
  • Sky - crow goddess
  • Ssitak - striped skink goddess
  • Shhess - striped skink god
  • Lord Mauler - crocodile god
  • Crunchbone - crocodile goddess
Points to Note
  • Service for Mithros is held on Sunday's
  • The Gods can guide, or show, mortals paths of life, but they cannot control mortals because they are free
  • Unlike Greek Gods, the deities in Tortall can give and take back their gifts
  • Constellations have been known to disappear, then reappear, every hundred years or so
  • Many citizens swear by Mithros, or the Goddess, and those in Carthak have picked up "Mithros, Mynoss, Shakith", and the K'mir "Horse Lords".
  • The veil between the Realms is thinnist on the equinoxes, and easiest time for God's to travel between.
  • Time passes by much faster in the Divine Realms then the Living
  • The Gods destroyed one race of humans, known as the Old Ones; all that is left of them are ruins, and it is said that the Great Southern Desert was once a forest, but the God's blasted it.
  • There are beings more powerful then the Gods, that are even older then them, and were born with the land.
Sources:
Tamora Pierce Main Site
Words of Tamora Pierce and the books.




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