A New Polyhedral Pantheon

I was goofing around a bit today with the Polyhedral Pantheons methodology and ended up with some potentially interesting results.

The only constraint I put on the result is that I wanted all nine alignments covered. This requires that the alignment domains be placed on the nodes, with certain relationships between them (which are conveniently marked on the spreadsheet I use to save me work).  Other than that, I didn’t put much deliberation into where the domains ended up.

Consequently, I got some combinations that have been described as “counterintuitive”.  I don’t see any that are outright unworkable, though.

God	Alignment	Primary Domain	Secondary Domains
1	LG	Destruction	Law, Darkness, Nobility, Good, Death
2	LN	Luck	Law, Death, Water, Fire, Animal
3	LE	Earth	Law, Darkness, Water, Knowledge, Evil
4	CE	Magic	Darkness, Nobility, Evil, Rune, Chaos
5	CG	Void	Nobility, Good, Chaos, Strength, Community
6	NG	Weather	Good, Death, Community, Glory, Fire
7	NE	War	Knowledge, Evil, Rune, Protection, Repose
8	TN	Sun	Water, Knowledge, Animal, Air, Protection
9	TN	Healing	Glory, Fire, Animal, Air, Trickery
10	TN	Madness	Strength, Community, Glory, Artifice, Trickery
11	CN	Plant	Rune, Chaos, Strength, Repose, Artifice
12	TN	Travel	Air, Protection, Repose, Artifice, Trickery

Some of these might require some mental gymnastics to explain.  All eight non-neutral alignments are covered, along with four True Neutral gods.  If I include the secondary gods I’ll get one more of each of the primary alignments (Chaotic, Evil, Good, Lawful) and sixteen more True Neutral.  I’ll likely want to shift that around some.

God	Alignment	Primary Domain	Secondary Domains
A	LN	Law	Destruction, Luck, Earth
B	TN	Darkness	Destruction, Earth, Magic
C	TN	Nobility	Destruction, Magic, Void
D	NG	Good	Destruction, Void, Weather
E	TN	Death	Destruction, Luck, Weather
F	TN	Water	Luck, Earth, Sun
G	TN	Knowledge	Earth, War, Sun
H	NE	Evil	Earth, Magic, War
I	TN	Rune	Magic, War, Plant
J	CG	Chaos	Magic, Void, Plant
K	TN	Strength	Void, Madness, Plant
L	TN	Community	Void, Weather, Madness
M	TN	Glory	Weather, Healing, Madness
N	TN	Fire	Luck, Weather, Healing
O	TN	Animal	Luck, Sun, Healing
P	TN	Air	Luck, Sun, Healing
Q	TN	Protection	War, Sun, Travel
R	TN	Repose	War, Plant, Travel
S	TN	Artifice	Madness, Plant, Travel
T	TN	Trickery	Healing, Madness, Travel

There are three domains not represented above: Charm, Liberation, and Scalykind.  All others are present four times (if they land on a “node god”) or six times (if they land on a “face god”).  Each domain pair present above shows up twice (“Law and Destruction” is present in God 1 and in God A, and only in those two… but that means that people who want those two domains have access to different other sets of domains as well).

If I want to have it so no two gods share two domains exactly the same, I’m going to need to apply a bunch of subdomains.  I haven’t looked into it recently, but I’m not absolutely certain I have enough.

I’m going to have to think about these for a while.  If anyone has any ideas for what some of these gods might mean, I’d be happy to hear them.