Category: Religion

Gods of Egaar: Thingol

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Welcome back to the Egaan Pantheon. It’s certainly been a while! In these posts I delve into the details of my various gods. I attempt to provide background, descriptions and interesting tidbits to hopefully give you a better insight into the World of Egaar.

This project came about when I presented a document I referred to as my Godmaker Manuscript. I have been using this over the last year few years to revamp the pantheon of my world – Egaar. It’s been a while since I fully completed one of these templates for my gods but the other two I have published may be found here and here. The inspiration for completing this one came from not only a player in one of my campaigns who plays a cleric of Thingol, but also a student I teach, who plays in another one of my campaigns and is himself, an incredible artist. It’s amazing where inspiration and motivation comes from!

Below I present another one of these gods; Thingol, God of Earth, Ore and Stone.

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Creating a Religion – Part 3: Saints

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Since my last post in this religion building series, I have done a lot of work on the Egaan Way, a dominant religion in my fantasy world. As a result of this, I have come to realise that Saints can play a far more important role in your world than previously described. Therefore, I have decided that this post shall be dedicated to them, in order to hopefully do them justice.

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Creating a Religion – Part 2: The Basics of Belief

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Welcome to the second instalment in a multi-part series of posts that will help to take you through the many steps to creating a fully functional, realistic religion for your world. Not all of these instalments will be necessary for everybody and many may simply dip in and out for a bit of inspiration or guidance. This is not meant to be the perfect guide to creating fantasy religions, but I hope that it will provide some in-depth ideas and advice to those interested in doing so. Today, I start to explore what many people consider the core components of a religion and the different ways you can create a pantheon of gods and other deific beings. Future posts will cover other elements as we progress.

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Creating a Religion – Part 1: Why do it? and Where to start?

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Welcome to the first instalment in a multi-part series of posts that will help to take you through the many steps to creating a fully functional, realistic religion for your world. Not all of these instalments will be necessary for everybody and many may simply dip in and out for a bit of inspiration or guidance. This is not meant to be the perfect guide to creating fantasy religions, but I hope that it will provide some in-depth ideas and advice to those interested in doing so. Today, I simply explain my starting point with religion building, why you might want to create a religion for your world and where to start. Future posts will cover other elements as we progress.

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