#5 if you count Arion (the moon's) antics with falling from the sky yearly

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its lore rant time but it's late and I'm sleepy and also had two breakdowns so there's no brain function!!! but I have. so much about my religions teehee under the cut because I fear it will be long (it is. it's so long. I have so many thoughts and Feelings)

Gods

okay so the first thing to know is my world is broken up into. I think 6 major continents (the 7th is a country made entirely of floating islands)!! Erreliuma, the continent divided into the most countries (6; Rethan, which El, roh's mc is the third princess of; Regallia, where most of roh takes place; Auvovia, where Zircon is from, Cerrin, Koran, which Flare is from, and Tashen, which is Astraea's homeland once upon a time) is where the Actually existing gods are mostly associated with!!! all of my notes actually call them Erreliuma's Gods because originally that's what they were

As of now, there are 33 of them, divided into four categories:

Celestials, which are the sun, moon, darkness, and light

Heralds, which are nature, life, death, and time

Majors, which is a rather long list but includes war, wisdom, love, magic, alchemy, etc.

Minors, which is also a long list but includes mischief (Calixto moment!!), nightmares, dreams, both hunts, the arts, strategy, etc.

Astraea is technically counted as a minor god, as she is judgement, but she is kind of undefined by the gods themselves

But basically, these gods are the ones that are really Real!! If you mention a god in my world, these are the ones that Will Hear, even if they're not the ones you're explicitly mentioning! Multiple other countries follow these gods beyond Erreliuma, including 2 other continents (3 countries between them) and the nation of floating islands :)

Entities, Unfathomables, Chaos

There are also technically 2 other "real" things; the only beings everyone believes in, and the Unfathomables :> the Beings include The Cosmos, from which everything came, The Skies, which is sort of like the underling of the Cosmos and just watches this planet more closely, and The Guardian Star (who is technically the narrator of all the stories I write in this world!! teehee)

the unfathomables are. the horrors. The Infinity, The Eternity, and the Dream Eater! Infinity and Eternity are very similar, but basically Eternity is more rooted in reality, and Infinity is more weird and shifty! Dream Eater does very little other than Haunt People, so not exactly part of a religion, but...

Infinity is where an oc I mentioned kind of vaguely (I think), Knave, gets his ability to alter reality! The Infinity is also the being which created dragons in my world, so Pallas also technically gets her reality shifting from it, although hers is more diluted!

The Eternity has a cult that follows it. it's currently nameless but they send a member to go burn books in the woods every year cycle and it's kind of fucked, because typically the person is also sent as a sacrifice they expect the Eternity (or y'know. The fire they start) will claim the person. The Eternity doesn't really accept this but also has no way to stop it because it doesn't like to leave

And then there's Chaos! Chaos is. undefinable but weirder. technically it created all 3 unfathomables and has also existed since the dawn of time, but The Cosmos ignore it and no one else knows how to categorize it

The Musician

One country in my world, known as Citruine, has a. a thing. that j call The Musician. It is kind of like a worm in the sense that in myth, it was cut in half by chaos but not all the way??? So it split down the middle and one Not Quite Half is male (Aranos) while the other is female (Aranosia) it's. it's weird. I don't know why I came up with it but now I did and I'm keeping it (it was because I'd already named landmarks and didn't feel like fixing it)

Fae Worship Cult

my last religion is technically not even real. the fae in my world are Not Gods, and actually have their own set of Concepts they tend to call on (Fate, Fame, and Fortune) although they are more likely to reference the Skies than anything :]

Now, my fae are very very connected to The Weather. This is actually part of how most of their magic is set up and how my court division system works (weather events and types)!! now psople. People see that Fae can control the weather (not true) and go damn I need this rain to stop. what can I do? let me sacrifice a person!

And so at every Major Change Needed this cult known as Beacon Lighters throw someone off into Faerie, which is a feat in itself! Faerie is beneath a continent like. hell but physical. real. why not screw witg reality more? but yeah they sacrifice a person hoping to appease the fae even though the fae themselves are not gods and it's Strange

Anywyas yeah that's what I have going so far I have a lot of moving elements and it's weird and hard to follow cause I'm not naming very many countries but like!!!! these ideas do spread around as well I just have them mainly region focused for basics for now :D

if you read all that thank you I am just cheerfully yapping away lol!! none of this is completely finalized either I am just being Silly in my natural habitat