The Lost Pantheon
The Lost Pantheon, the Tuath Dé, is a faith bound not by race, language, or heritage, but by culture alone - and that is part of why it has faded. Where other pantheons anchored themselves to a nation or a people, the Tuath Dé belonged to a scattered, decentralised folk, and as those folk dispersed and were absorbed, their gods slipped from common worship into half-remembered legend.
History
The people who kept the Tuath Dé were never a single cohesive nation; their unity was cultural rather than political, which let their faith spread far and wide but gave it no centre to hold. Over generations that rootlessness told against them, and today the Tuath Dé are a lost pantheon - their gods still real, still answering the rare devoted prayer, but their temples few and their worshippers scattered to the edges of the world.
The Loreshian Connection
Some scholars bind the Lost Pantheon to Loreshia, the nature-worshipping realm that once filled the Hub and fell to the great demon-flood. The archaeologist Corian Ballard, diving the sunken temple in Swadia’s Lament, judged it Loreshian and concluded that its builders had kept a unique, otherwise-unheard-of pantheon; his Lost Pantheon theory holds that a whole pantheon native to the Hub region was all but eradicated in the fiend flood.
Deities of the Pantheon
| Deity | Domain | Alignment |
|---|---|---|
| The Daghdha | Weather and crops | CG |
| Arawn | Life and death | NE |
| Belenus | Sun, light, and warmth | NG |
| Brigantia | Rivers and livestock | NG |
| Diancecht | Medicine and healing | LG |
| Dunatis | Mountains and peaks | N |
| Goibhniu | Smiths and healing | NG |
| Lugh | Arts, travel, and commerce | CN |
| Manannan mac Lir | Oceans and sea creatures | LN |
| Math Mathonwy | Magic | NE |
| Morrigan | Battle | CE |
| Nuada | War and warriors | N |
| Oghma | Speech and writing | NG |
| Silvanus | Nature and forests | N |
View of Other Religions
The Tuath Dé hold no jealous claim to exclusive truth; their decentralised nature makes them tolerant of, and tolerated by, the faiths that eclipsed them.
Appendix
Notes
- This pantheon is distinct from the Mictlān Pantheon of archfiends, which an earlier version of this wiki mistakenly conflated with the “Lost Pantheon.”
Sources & Attribution
- Primary lore:
content/Fables & Folklore/Fables & Folklore.md, Appendix E - The Lost Pantheon, Tuath Dé, author TrueMichato.
Deities
Link to originalGods Of Thelemar
Main Pantheons of Thelemar
Secondary Pantheons of Thelemar
The Mictlān Pantheon
The Lost Pantheon
Tuath Dé (Celtic) The Daghdha Arawn Belenus Brigantia Diancecht Dunatis Goibhniu Lugh Manannan mac Lir Math Mathonwy Morrigan Nuada Oghma Silvanus The Seelie Court
Other Deities
Beings Baba Yaga Magna Um Fearheart Nimue Morgan le Fay Deity-Mephistopheles Deity-Qotal Outsiders / Invaders Cirein-cròin Vecna Poetry Yagar Lesser Deities Yeenoghu Lolth Deity-Gruumsh Ioun Deity-Ragarra Deity-Vecna Deity-Yeenoghu Deity-Zehir Ascended Dragons Ko-Arto Gazu-Shirak Koru-Homura Ri-Omori Sunda-Kori Fates The Moirai The Norns Maʽat & Isfet Elemental Deities Imix Yan-C-Bin Olhydra Ogrémoch Nahatul Witsil Tezcat Quetzalcoatl Xipe Totec