Rebirth Pending...

God Name:
Nemea
Avatar Name:
*Deceased*
Annipe
Orphei
Kal-Minar
*Living*
Gairus-Nar
Title:
Goddess of Technology, Ambition, Gossip, Weaving and Merchants
Gender:
Female
Alignment:
Evil
Terrain Preference:
Against mountains and secluded, easily fertilized valleys, as well as along the coasts. It is best to control trade routes, particularly through deserts and mountains. Maintaining control of fresh water supplies is also a great way of controlling people.
Opinion of Humans:
Humans are the ultimate resource, without them the Gods are nothing, but they are manipulated, and prone to passion. They have a divine spark, and ambition, a gift above all else in the world, they will inherit all the Earth, and it is my job to rule over them when that happens.

While humans long for a place in heaven, while living lives bent towards hell, Dwarves seek perfection in all things, and believe that war and courage and honor are things surpassing even the deities. Idiots. They are mine and mine alone!

My Golden Guard is a power far beyond mortal comprehension, and when last they entered the human realm my plans were foiled, I will not let such a failure occur again.

God Appearance:
Nemea has two forms. When her power has been focused outward, on her people or new creations, she is an old woman, with hair of dusty gray and skin which hangs off a decrepit old skeleton. Her hands are gnarled and gross, but work more skillfully and hold a mastery beyond any other. She will wear 1000 layers each as thin as sunlight, which furious flap about her when she exercised her power, and are of browns and golds and other earth tones, struck with green detailing. She has a brooch with three Styli crossed, her symbol. She will smell of smoke in this form.

When she is focusing on herself and deceit, she will be a beautiful dancer girl with hair darker than night, and dark skin which radiates with warmth. Her gray eyes turn vivid greens and her body becomes supple and youthful again. She cannot create as brilliantly in this form, for she is using her power to make herself beautiful, not her creation. Her body will be wrapped in entwining layers of blues and green, with silver jewelry which jangles about as she moves. Her hair will be decorated with pearls, and she will give off the smell of sacred vanilla.

In either form she can hide her divine radiance and walk about mortals, though with care.
Avatar Appearance:
Gairus-Nar is a beautiful man. A chiseled body with perfect Dendapim form, he looks to be, himself, carved from solid stone. He is the example of a perfect Dendapim, strong, efficient, yet beautiful. He has skin slightly darker than honey, with a head of utterly black hair to his shoulders. He wears the Starweave, the holy grail of the Dendapim, which holds Nemea's unabridged power, and cannot be taken from its wielder, only given. He removes it only for the pleasures of the flesh. He holds a "Dragon Gun" (Imagine an oriental dragon pulled out straight, the head being the butt of the gun, the tail extending into a sweeping bayonet) Which is decorated with the Dendapim colors of Green, Blue, and White. Otherwise he wears a crown with two prongs on either side, and three crossed Styli on the crown, representing the two lost towers of Alchemy, and the hearth of Nemea.

Personality:
God:
A cruel goddess in most respects, Nemea has a very deep understanding of human nature, and wishes to abuse the gift of ambition. She will happily take credit for anything the Dendapim will give her credit for, like the industry of bees or the resilience of shellfish to protect their meat. She "lost" herself into a desert, and there discovered some dark and evil things, including the ability to defy the very nature of the universe. This corruption was caused by a grief from the destruction of her city of Kel'p-Hai, and the powers she learned from that experience were enough to destroy the human soul, the second most powerful thing in existence, which no divine thing can alter, so she used something even more powerful, love. This act was defying not just nature, but the foundations of existence, and it something more than evil.

Yet still she puts on a smiling face, and the deities can only assume it was her horrid act, for just when her plan could have come full circle, and a greater power realized, Little Sudri was lost from the Elves... now she must try again.
Avatar:
Gairus-Nar considers himself (Rightfully, some agree) To be the most perfect being in existence, part of a greater culture that surpasses all others, and thus deserves the most. He is taught as Nemea would like, and believes the Dendapim are the most worthy of ruling the world. He is easily distracted by beauties and physical desires, however.
Other:
Nemea rules over a people collectively called the Dendapim, who are, in a greater sense, an ethnicity similar in appearance to Middle Easterners, having dark skin and dark hair, but with eyes of a variety of colors, actually due to the toxins present in their old city, which just became part of them. They live in a country called Aruvorne, and speak a language called Nyarlathotepna. They use a purely cursive abugida style script, to write their language which relies on trills not found in any other language to separate nouns and verbs and present from past, in a rather complicated system. They pride themselves on having single words for more complex ideas, such as "Tasting like something else smells" or, "Something which is the best that can be, though it was made from something worthless" The latter is "Zi" which is a very important word to the Dendapim, as they believe it describes themselves.

Nemea is part of a trinity with Yorinaphe and Grumpsh. The item which represents her power specifically is the staff of Esec-Zi, which is a long clockwork stave which is slowly releasing all the technology of the world. It is topped with three crossed styli which hold a bowl of copper which never tarnishes, and is constantly burning with fire from the depths of the machine. It is decorated with copper leaves on copper vines, meant to mock nature, being eternally golden and beautiful, while true leaves must wither into the Earth. It is unknown where the staff is, though it used to be the scepter of the ruler of Aruvorne, it was lost when Orphei died and it fell into the sea. The fire still burns under water, and the various technologies it releases are still being learned around the world.


God Name:
Yorinaphe, Called Enya
Avatar Name:
*Deceased*
Orphei
Title:
Goddess of Perfection, Teaching, and Mastery.
Gender:
Female
Alignment:
Ultimately Good
Terrain Preference:
The Land of the Dead, where she lingers and studies.
Opinion of Humans:
They are beautiful, and capable of great things, but they cannot see their fate, and they do not know what they do!
God Appearance:
Yorinaphe is perfect. Physically, none can surpass her. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so she may appear different to different tastes. Her skin usually seems to fade in and out, as though she were a ghost, or made of dew, and her hair is silver. Her irises are radially decorated with blue and green, and her whites are as stunning as her teeth. Her divine aura is almost always hidden within her, so her hair does not shine and her eyes do not glow. She wears clothes that seem humble to her breathtaking form.
Avatar Appearance:
The closest thing to an Avatar Yorinaphe has is her disguise as Enya. She appears to be a woman in the prime of her youth, but with tear filled eyes and hair that, though expected to be full of life, is gray. Her skin is usually very, very pale, and all the more ghostlike. She no longer looks like the dark skinned, bright eyed, vivacious Dendapim beauties.
Personality:
God:
Yorinaphe gained free will after her mother destroyed the soul of her beloved, Orphei. This has made her skeptical of the gods, except for Crypt, who she respects as a God who will embrace any and sees the joys of life and death.

Other: Yorinaphe lives with the followers of Crypt, or else in hiding, studying, doing everything she can to inhibit her mother's evil, and trying to forget Orphei, so that he might again regather and be whole.

God Name:
Grumpsh
Avatar Name:
Sudri the Great
Title:
God of Natural Talent, Metalworking, and Mining.
Gender:
Male
Alignment:
Neutral
Terrain Preference:
The veins, bones, heart and marrow of the mountains.
Opinion of Humans:
Humans are to be respected, but they only know killing. While they may not deserve the world, they shall receive it, and it is up to my Dwarves to support them, but in no circumstances should a Dwarf compromise their honor.
God Appearance:
Picture a great, bearded Dwarf, with the antlers of an elk, but about 9 feet tall. Most of his torso is covered with a great beard, and his head with a great mane. He is infinitely strong, and dresses simply.
Avatar Appearance:
Sudri is the greatest of Dwarf craftsmen. His hair is straight, which is strange for a dwarf, and is red with a touch of silver as though he had decorated it himself. His face is jolly and bright, and his beard is the color of his hair, tied into three parts. He wears magnificently soft white robes, with silver detailing. He wears a scale male of attached hexagons, each hex decorated with a unique rune, and shoulder pads of powerful steel. He often is decorated with pearls, but on his finger is a ring of amber, the band is split, and it never leaves his hand. He wears a helm like a crown, with the two towers of Alchemy and the crossed styli, as well as a place for a round jewel to go... that jewel is the Dashuria, which he misses dearly, but lost to the Elves.
Personality:
God:
Grumpsh is silent and watchful, guiding his Dwarves faithfully, and granting innate talent to the newborn humans. He does this without bias, for he cannot see the future, or their past lives, and can only hope his gift will not be in vain.
Avatar:
Sudri is a world traveler, and highly cultured. He has stayed with most of the peoples on the island, and now leads the Dwarves to safety and greatness. He wishes he had not run away when his greatest nightmare occurred, and though he hates the Elves for betraying him (as he was told they did) he longs to see their city and know their culture.
Other:
Grumpsh is the top of the pyramid trinity of Aruvorne. He is natural talent, at his right is what he dominates, Nemea, ambition, and to his left is Yorinaphe, which Nemea dominates, and which dominates him, good teaching. So Natural skill, beats ambition, ambition beats good teaching, and good teaching beats natural skill.