Creation Deities

None of the deities of Creation are worshiped normally.  They exist more as points of scholarly interest, facts about the creation of the universe as we know it that modern science is beginning to only faintly understand.  Nonetheless, The beings of creations are incomprehensively powerful, far beyond the scope of Gods as we know them.

Despite not having traditional worshipers, some of these beings do have agents in the mortal world, or are observed by ancient traditions that predate religion.

In the space between creation, there is only the Old Ones, beings whose very existence defies reality & makes a mockery of sanity.  They are ancient and unknowable.  The greatest of these is Geddon, The Slumbering One.  Geddon awakens only to unmake all reality, and to breath it anew.  The Awakening of Geddon marks the end of the world.

When reality as we know it was created the last time Geddon woke, there were only three beings that survived.  The first was Io, the Great Dragon.  Io is the father of the two Dragon Gods that are worshiped by all dragons, Tiamat the god of evil dragons and Bahamut the god of good dragons.  These are the oldest gods in existence, and Dragons are among the oldest creatures in all the world.

The second being to survive the creation of reality was The Great Crafter.  It is unknown what form he took but it was he that forged the sparks of life that took root in the magic of the world and became all the different lifeforms that populate the world.  Notably, it was the castings of the Great Crafter’s forge that took root in the mountains and became the Dwarven Gods.  Because of this, the dwarves still reference the Great Crafter in their worship of the Dwarven Gods, although he is not considered a god himself.

The third survivor is far less knowable.  It has been called the firstspark, the lifespirit, or the Seedling.  It is this being that flooded the new world with raw magic.  At the time, magic was pure, undiluted, and above all else, powerful.  It was this magic that fertilized the lifeseeds of the Great Crafter.  It was this being that created the Feylords, the powerful creatures of raw magic and natural energy that brought about the shape and form of the natural world.  The most powerful Feylord was Obin, who would go on to create the Fey and become the founder of several pantheons of Gods of magical races.  Some of the earliest people, before there was religion, would commune with the Feylords, becoming the earliest Druids. 

Other than the beings that survived the creation of the universe, there was a single God forged by Geddon meant to serve as the single god overseeing all of existence.  Karnak was a God of Chaos, and his machinations over life, magic & creation forged the world as we’ve come to know it.  He created gods of his own, the earliest of the central pantheon of gods, and ultimately this proved his downfall, as these gods would eventually betray and kill him.  While the influence of the Chaos of Karnak is felt to this day, the deity himself is deceased.

It’s noteworthy that the creation gods are more a function of history than religion.  The druidic observances that communed with the Feylords continue to this day, but they were not considered religious observances, and they were never considered Gods, and were never prayed to.  The Old Ones have no observances in their names in any sense, although their influence is still felt through warlocks.

While none of these creatures have TRUE religions in their name, there are some minor cults that venerate them, although these are perversions of true religion.