Unaligned Gods¶
"The Unaligned. The 'Lesser' Gods: patrons of the lesser races, beasts and niche causes." — the Gods and Astral Domains register (S420)
Contested
The section on the four winds below is named in the open question Canon status of the four winds (Boreas, Notus, Eurus, Zephyrus). The winds appear in a single rules document and bear the names of real-world Greek wind gods; whether they are gods of Terrun has not been ruled.
The Unaligned are the gods of Terrun who belong to none of the three great pantheons. The most recent register of the gods sets them beside the Kalari, the Rakkarim and the Dark Gods as a fourth grouping, calling them, with the quotation marks in the original, the "Lesser" Gods. Six are named in that grouping outright: Pyri, Achelus, Tyche, Arcantus, Menae and Erolan. The same document then lays out the gods by the Five Astral Domains and marks each with a sigil for its allegiance, and the hollow circle of the Unaligned falls on some three dozen names, from the demon gods Abraxas and Jorogu to gods of rain, mist, birds, charm and oaths who appear nowhere else in the sources.
The word "unaligned" describes their position in the war of the gods, not their character. The grouping holds a goddess of fire who betrayed her husband, a keeper of secrets whose ascendant sits at Kalari councils, a demon prince who eats wizards, and a god of battle whose orders garrison frontier towns. What they share is that none of them owes allegiance to Kalar, to Rakkar or to the Dark Gods' design for "the end of the world / complete reordering".
Members with their own pages¶
| God | Title in the register | Astral Domains | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraxas | Demon God of Sorcery | Thought | Demon prince cast out of the Host of Asmodeus; the Wizard-Eater. |
| Arcantus | God of Magic | Thought, Union | Once a High Lord serving Kalar; his fate is contested between the sources. |
| Erolan | Lord of the Sky | Matter | A Sleeping God, imprisoned through Pyri's betrayal; creator of the Storm-Giants. |
| Jorogu | Demon Goddess of Spiders | Life | The Spider Queen of the Dark Elves; holder of the Golden Web. |
| Nyx | Keeper of Secrets | Thought | Patron of the Druids of Nyx and the Nyxian Wardens of Proturas. |
| Pyri | Goddess of Fire | Matter | Once counted among the Dark Gods; her temple stands in the Drakkani Wastes. |
| Tarus | God of Battle | Union | Lord of the Hunt and Survival; author of the Eleven Precepts. |
The Five Astral Domains¶
The register arranges every god, aligned or not, under five Astral Domains: Matter, Creation, Life, Thought and Union. Kalar heads each list as the Creator, and the remaining gods follow with the title they hold in that domain, so that a single god may appear in two domains under two titles: Tyche is Queen of Fate in Creation and Lady of Luck in Thought, and Arcantus is God of Magic in both Thought and Union. The domains are the purposes of the Astral Shards, each of which the register calls "a living thing with its own will", "dedicated toward fulfilling some part of creation's purpose (its Domain)". Where the Unaligned stand within each domain is given below; the register gives titles and allegiance and nothing more, so most of these gods are known by a title alone.
Domain of Matter¶
| God | Title | Elsewhere in the sources |
|---|---|---|
| Hathar | King of Minerals | Only here. |
| Pyri | Goddess of Fire | See her page. |
| Pellenor | Goddess of Volcanoes | Only here. |
| Erolan | Lord of the Sky | See his page. |
| Lonyss | Mistress of Rain | Patron goddess of the kingdom of Uthein (S319). |
| Marduk | God of Thunder | Only here. |
| Aether | Lord of Mists | Only here (see the note below). |
| Xolos | Goddess of Lightning | Only here. |
| Sidhe | Goddess of the Trade Winds | Patron goddess of the kingdom of Miydal (S319). |
| Achelus | God of Water, King of Rivers | The Ring of Water is his (S182). |
Domain of Creation¶
| God | Title | Elsewhere in the sources |
|---|---|---|
| Tyche | Queen of Fate | A Night God of the Fifth Age (S020); a shrine in Altandon (S189). |
| Lachesis | The Measurer | Only here. |
| Clotho | The Spinner | Only here. |
| Atropos | The Shearer | Only here. |
| Astrin | Goddess of Dreams and Visions | A Kalari Sleeping God in the earlier accounts. |
| Aeos | God of Discord | Only here. |
Domain of Life¶
| God | Title | Elsewhere in the sources |
|---|---|---|
| Leda | Queen of Birds | Only here. |
| Artenys | Lady of the Wilds | Revered by the Naher (S524). |
| Askle | God of Health | Only here. |
| Jorogu | Demon Goddess of Spiders | See her page. |
Domain of Thought¶
| God | Title | Elsewhere in the sources |
|---|---|---|
| Lattia | Goddess of Music & Art | A Kalari goddess in the earlier accounts. |
| Arcantus | God of Magic | See his page. |
| Abraxas | Demon God of Sorcery | See his page. |
| Nyx | Keeper of Secrets | See her page. |
| Adranus | Lord of the Forge | A Dwarrow who became a shard-holder after Khardas (S529). |
| Tsarion | Lord of Lies | Only here. |
| Tyche | Lady of Luck | See the Domain of Creation. |
| Menrva | Goddess of Wisdom | Only here. |
| Menae | God of Illithids, the Insane | A Night God of the Fifth Age (S020). |
Domain of Union¶
| God | Title | Elsewhere in the sources |
|---|---|---|
| Aphalia | Goddess of Charm | Only here. |
| Chiryss | Goddess of Beauty | Only here. |
| Arcantus | God of Magic | See his page. |
| Tarus | God of Battle | See his page. |
| Lazeo | Lord of Vices | Only here. |
| Horcus | Keeper of Oaths | Only here. |
The lesser Unaligned¶
Achelus¶
God of Water and King of Rivers in the Domain of Matter. Among the three rings of the Mithis Heartstone, the Ring of Water is Achelus's, "hidden in Er'Astia", where the Ring of Air belongs to Erolan and the Verdant Ring to Arya (S182). He is one of the six Unaligned named in the register's pantheon list.
Tyche¶
Queen of Fate in the Domain of Creation and Lady of Luck in the Domain of Thought; the register gives her name's pronunciation as "tI Key". The three gods listed beneath her in the Domain of Creation, Lachesis the Measurer, Clotho the Spinner and Atropos the Shearer, are known by their titles alone. In the Fifth Age list of surviving gods (S020), Tyche stands second only to Necatus in relative power among the Old Gods, the pantheon "known widely as the Night Gods", gods "which have been well known for much of recent history and remain active (survived the age of the dark sun)". A Shrine of Tyche stands in Altandon, the capital of Brusau, among the ancient Aquitanian temples of its farmers' market (S189).
Menae¶
God of Illithids, the Insane, in the Domain of Thought, and the last of the six named Unaligned. The Fifth Age list of the Night Gods closes with him, below Pyri and Uaros (S020). Nothing else is said of him; the Illithids themselves are described elsewhere.
Lattia¶
Goddess of Music & Art in the Domain of Thought. Earlier accounts make her a goddess of the Kalari: "Mistress of Truth, Knowledge, Honor, Music, Poetry and Art", whose "common symbols include Book, Harp, Scroll, Owl, Songbird", and the ex-wife of Uaros (S372, S429). The newest register moves her out of the Kalari and marks her Unaligned, keeping only music and art of her old portfolio.
Astrin¶
Goddess of Dreams and Visions in the Domain of Creation. Earlier accounts place her among the Kalari and among the Dreamers, the Sleeping Gods: "Mistress of the Heavens, Stars, Dreams and Visions", married to Khardas (S372, S429). The Naher horse-clans count her among the gods they revere, with Artenys, Khardas, Lunaris, Pyri, Erolan and Damara (S524). The newest register marks her Unaligned.
Lonyss and Sidhe¶
Two goddesses of the Domain of Matter who are patrons of Riven kingdoms (S319). Lonyss, Mistress of Rain, is "the patron diety" of Uthein, the largest of the Riven kingdoms and "a true melting pot" of peoples, "a haven for Sancturi and Riven outcasts alike". Sidhe, Goddess of the Trade Winds, is the patron of Miydal, the seafaring island kingdom of the Broken Sea. In Miralt, Duchess Lavinia Zul-aw-ta is an acolyte of Sidhe (S174).
Adranus¶
Lord of the Forge in the Domain of Thought. The account of the Dwarrow says that Khardas, himself a Dwarrow, "became the first Dwarrow shard holder/god. In time, there were others (Adranus and Malix)" (S529), which makes Adranus a Dwarrow by origin and a god by the taking of an Astral Shard.
Hathar, Pellenor, Marduk, Aether and Xolos¶
Gods of stone, fire and weather in the Domain of Matter: Hathar the King of Minerals, Pellenor the Goddess of Volcanoes, Marduk the God of Thunder, Aether the Lord of Mists and Xolos the Goddess of Lightning. They are known from the register alone. The word Aether is also the name of an arcane domain of spirit magic in the rules drafts of the Sancturi years (S304); those documents describe the magic, not the god, and nothing in them connects the two.
Aeos, Leda, Askle, Artenys, Tsarion and Menrva¶
Aeos, God of Discord, in the Domain of Creation; Leda, Queen of Birds, Askle, God of Health, and Artenys, Lady of the Wilds, in the Domain of Life; Tsarion, Lord of Lies, and Menrva, Goddess of Wisdom, in the Domain of Thought. Of these only Artenys appears elsewhere, as the first of the gods the Naher revere (S524).
Aphalia, Chiryss, Lazeo and Horcus¶
The Unaligned of the Domain of Union, the domain where Quitas is Lord of Truth and Justice and Tarus is God of Battle: Aphalia, Goddess of Charm; Chiryss, Goddess of Beauty; Lazeo, Lord of Vices; and Horcus, Keeper of Oaths. They are known from the register alone.
The four winds¶
A single document of the Sancturi years, a spell list for the Wind domain of Fae magic (S290), names four "mythical sources of wind", collectively the Autai, "winds". The spell Winds of the Autai lets a caster choose one of the four, and "only one type of wind can be active in an area at a time":
| Wind | Character in the source |
|---|---|
| Boreas | "Cold and foggy winds"; the north wind. |
| Zephyrus | "Powerful/Fast Wind"; the west wind. |
| Notus | "Wet Stormy winds"; the south wind. |
| Eurus | "Wild and Erratic"; "the mythical source of the East wind, often referred to as the unlucky wind of the east. It is inconsistent and gusts in random directions with random intensity." |
The design note behind the spell quotes a classical text: "It is Notus (the South Wind), and Zephyrus (the West Wind), and Sithonian Aquilo (the North Wind) [Boreas], over whom he rules, and over thy pinions, wanton Eurus (the East Wind). He rules the winds." The four are the wind gods of real-world Greek myth, and the document does not say whether they are gods of Terrun, personifications used by the Fae Shamans who cast these spells, or borrowed names awaiting replacement. Their canon status is unruled; see the Contested note at the head of this page. Until it is ruled they are recorded here and nowhere else, and no page should treat them as members of a pantheon.
Earlier accounts¶
The 2015 Compendium (S372, and its identical copy S384) and the 2019 Overview of Gods (S429) know no "unaligned" grouping. They sort the Einar into the Kalari, the Dark Gods or Rakkai, and the Twilight Gods, with the Dreamers or Sleeping Gods and the Dead Gods as conditions rather than allegiances. Under that scheme the gods the newest register calls Unaligned were scattered: Pyri was a Dark God, Tarus and Erolan were Twilight Gods ("not in direct opposition to Kalar. They are following their own path and will ally themselves with the Kalari or Rakkai based on their own objectives"), and Lattia and Astrin were Kalari. The 2019 overview already carries a note that its Dark Gods section "is no longer correct", the Dark Gods and the Rakkai having become separate.
The Fifth Age list of deities (S020) uses yet another scheme, by condition after the Age of the Dark Sun: the Kalari as Dead Gods, the Elder Gods as Awakened Gods, the surviving active gods as the Old Gods or Night Gods under Necatus, and the Rift Gods "which have appeared since the opening/creation of the rifts". Tyche, Pyri and Menae are Night Gods there.
Gap
The sources do not say what, if anything, binds the Unaligned together, whether they treat with one another, how they stood in the Godswar over Kalar's shards, or how most of them are worshipped. Seventeen of the names above are known from a title and a domain alone.