High Elven Pantheon

The High Elven Pantheon is a form of unstructured or pseudostructured polytheism, centered around an almighty progenitor diety and a retinue of divine cousins, some descended from her and others ascended from mortal elves. The elven matron goddess, Pyria Valpetor, is held to be both the mother of many of these deities and the progenitor of the elven species - in common understanding the Atarlie specifically, who hold that all other elves are simply distaff cousins.

While many public holidays center Pyria's worship, most Elves take actual patronage from one specific diety within the pantheon, with the public worship of any of these being nominally legal within the Atarlie Empire - there is no unified church as compared to the contrasting Bastonian Pantheon. This includes the evil dieties on the Pantheon, though most of their public worshippers are basically petitioning for mercy rather than for favour.

The collective belief among followers of dieties within the pantheon is that all elves who die go to Elysium, with only the most wicked among them being turned away from the Cradle of the Wise and instead swallowed up by the Abyss or, in some cases, damned alongside humanity in Hell.

Pantheon at a Glance

Dieties of the Bastonian Pantheon

Name	Portfolio	Worshippers	Domains	Alignment
Pyria Valeptor	Families, Divinity, Fortune	Universal, Mothers of Large Families	Community, Protection, Sun, Weather	TN
Rophalin Imperitor	Royalty, Rulership, Authority, The Empire	Officials (Military and Civil), Clerks, Historians	Glory, Law, Nobility, Protection	LN
Feno Ilirel	Medicine, Alchemy, Wellbeing, Births	Doctors, Healers, Veterinarians, the Ill	Good, Healing, Plant, Magic	NG
Navarre Yesbella	Liberation, Welfare	The Poor, Some Magistrates, Philathropists, Some Thieves	Community, Liberation, Luck, Protection	CG
Merellien Chaebalar	Justice and Just Causes	Many Magistrates, Jailors, Paladins	Healing, Law, Protection, War	LG
Camus Inakas	Magic, Scholarship, Exploration, Discovery	Mages, Philosophers, Scholars, Adventurers	Artifice, Knowledge, Magic, Rune	CN
Lysanthir Lugolor	Death, Final Judgement, Passing of Seasons and the Ending of Days	Mortuaries, Necromancers, Assassins, Some Magistrates	Darkness, Death, Erosion, Repose	LE
Shalaevar Shamaris	Disease, Disasters, Crises	Assassins, Bandits, the Ill, Some Doctors	Destruction, Evil, Ruins, Vermin	NE
Hycis Uriris	Rebellion, Arcane Disasters, Wild Portals	Some Mages, Philosophers, Rebels	Air, Chaos, Earth, Fire, Water	CE
Immarra Hyacinth	Beauty, The Arts, Love	Artists, Lovers, Aristocrats	Charm, Glory, Good, Plant	CG