Religion (Setting Supplement)
The Religions of Gondwana and Xolteca
The Voodun Religion: All the deities come originally from a sleeping greater god called Bondeye but they are currently split into three known houses with a forbidden fourth house.
House Rada: The oldest spirits that focus on life, harmony, blessings and balance... their followers can be called the Serpents of the light. Three great serpentine dragons are the gods of this house, Damballa the Sky serpent and the grandfather, Ayida the rainbow serpent and life giver and Yewa the Jade Serpent
House Ghede: The house of the dead spirits who are ruled over by their King Baron Samedi, the Vulgar, hedonistic trickster god of the dead, his wife Maman Brigette and foreign aristocratic spirits like Xolotl and Comazotz from Tlaxcala.
House Kongo: the wild spirits, they are not directly ruled by any god but three major spirits compete for domination of this house... Papa Legba the messenger and trickster, Shango the Storm King and Marinette the Crimson witch of revolution.
Court of Xibalba: This "House" is considered forbidden and specializes in necromancy just like House Ghede but these spirits impose no laws or rules for the practitioner to follow and wish to spread death and agony across the land. They enjoy watching civilizations collapse... hence to the outsider it is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between a Xibalba follower and a Ghede Follower. Followers of Xibalba pretend to be other houses to sacrifice their unsuspecting victims to these psychopomps that rule the underworld.
Suqqatra still follows the Suqqatran pantheon but they are in a period of morning, it was said Set destroyed the last Pharaonic line of Osiris and currently there is only the council of magi who know rule the fractured kingdom. It is Prophesized that Horus would awaken in this age to drive out the hidden forces of Set.
Qajjari worship the Prophet Zoros, speaker of Ashruyan. The Various native deities have been converted to the faith of Ashyuran. Zoros is also named Zarathustra the Wanderer.
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