Categories of Deities

The deities can be categorised as the groups below. Note that these groups do not necessarily define a god’s allegiance. For example, Prometheus was originally a Titan, but sided with the Zeus (Olympian) against Kronos (Titan), he then later betrayed Zeus to deliver fire to humans. 

Chaos

Chaos was the first entity to exist, they are older than the cosmos itself. To worship Chaos is to worship absence and nothingness. Chaos does not grant any boons or rewards for worship.

Worshipers of Chaos are widely considered untrustworthy or deranged as worshipping the concept of nothing doesn’t make sense to most people.

Primordials

From Chaos came the first Primordials; Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus and Nyx. Together they sired the other primordials.The Primordials built the natural world and thus are usually chaotic in nature. 

Primordial worship is seen as unusual since most of the primordials have been stripped of their power.

Titans

Every night, Uranus covered the earth to mate with his mother Gaia. They sired the Hekatonkheires, the Cyclopes and the Titans. The youngest of these titans, with help from Gaia, castrated his father and flung his genitals across the sea. Kronos imprisoned the Hekatonkheires, the Cyclopes and many other Primordials before taking his father’s place as leader of the gods.

Titan worship is more accepted than Primordial worship, however it is still seen as somewhat unorthodox, especially those titans who have been dethroned and imprisoned, such as Kronos and Atlas.

Olympians

Kronos feared being deposed by his child, as he had deposed his father, so he decided to eat his children as soon as they were born. He did this five times until his sister and bride, Rhea swapped baby Zeus for a rock and hid him away on Mount Ida. Eventually Zeus returned to his father disguised as a cupbearer, he poisoned Kronos, forcing him to throw up Zeus’s siblings, the first Olympians. Together the Olympians overthrew Kronos, Zeus became the king of the gods and eventually was able to form his council of twelve olympians. Alongside lesser gods the Olympians now rule the cosmos.

The Olympians are the most popular gods for direct worship. Nearly every settlement with more than a few dozen people will have a shrine or temple to at least one of the Olympians.

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