There are a common set of gods worshipped throughout the Cyllian Sea region. Different locations will give emphasis to certain gods, but will recognize the importance of the other greater gods. See the specific homeland keywords for information on religions for a specific region. The list here are the greater or original gods. They existed before the world was created and their power stems from their own essence or own otherworld.

There are many local minor deities and demigods throughout the Cyllian Sea region. These gain divinity strictly through worship and can loose their divine status if worship is lost. (A greater god may loose influence in the mortal world, but their power to influence their affinities is not based off worship.) These minor deities and demigods are too numerous to list here and can be dealt with in the proper regional writeups.

Aryk

Typical Affinities: Sky, Sun, Light

Aryk is the ruler of the skies, the god of the sun, and the source of light. Aryk's realm is the Upper Sky where he is the absolute ruler. All creatures that enter the Upper Sky, such as high flying birds, are sacred to Aryk. The Upper Sky is a separate realm from the mortal realm, but it is visible from the mortal realm and can be entered by those who know the secrete of passage. Aryk's sister is the Errikyn. Aryk's greatest enemy is Har Umbar.

Dyne

Typical Affinities: Death, Justice, Inexorable

Dyne is the ruler of Hades, the abode of the dead. He is the great arbiter of justice for the dead and for the mortal world. In many places, priests of Dyne are the temporal judges.

Erosel

Typical Affinities: Earth, Plants, Animals

Erosel is the ruler of the Earth and everything that grows on it or in it. Her daughters are the rulers of each species of living creature on the Earth, and her sons are the rulers of the living and nonliving things within the Earth.

Errikyn

Typical Affinities: Moon, Stars, Night

Errikyn appears as the moon and her lost children are the stars that provide limited light at night. She is the loyal sister of Aryk who battled their ancient enemy Har Umbar and was defeated. She was not killed, but she waxes and wanes as all of her abilities are applied repairing the wounds that Har Umbar constantly afflicts on her.

Groetesh

Typical Affinities: Water, Sea, Change

Groetesh rules the deep oceans of the world, and his sons and daughters rule the seas, surface waters, and mighty rivers of the world. His tempestuous personality has to be constantly appeased by mariners everywhere to appease him enough to allow them to move about on the waters of the world.

Har Umbar

Typical Affinities: Void, Night, Hate

Har Umbar rules the void. He fills the night with darkness, except for what little light Errikyn and her children provide. He fills everyplace not lit by Aryk with darkness. He represents all the is not, rather than anything that is.

Harken

Typical Affinities: Ideas, Trade, Speech

Harken taught humans trade. He is the good of exchange in all its forms: ideas, mercantile, and language.

Lorian

Typical Affinities: Love, Wisdom, Compassion

Lorian taught humans to about relationships. She represents all that is involved in relationships that go beyond the physical and into the mental and emotional. She represents that part of human relations that set them apart from animals. Lorian is also the goddess of intuitional wisdom: the province of oracles.

Orn

Typical Affinities: War, Debate, Athletics

Orn is the god of conflict and resolution. He is both the god of war and the god of debate. He is also the god of athletic competition. He represents all conflict that goes beyond basic survival.

Rel

Typical Affinities: Joy, Mischief, Arts

Rel is the god of laughter, joy, music, mischief, and the arts. He taught man how to create and how to aspire for more than a mechanical existence.

Runk

Typical Affinities: Strength, Metal, Craft

Runk is the massive god of the forge who taught men to work metal, the treasures of Erosel, into tools and weapons.

Rynn

Typical Affinities: Fertillity, Fecundity, Sex

Rynn taught humans agriculture. He is the god of fertility and production. He is viewed as a hard working farmer and as a amorous lover.