#benign deity

Another of the Gray Sphere of Divines, here is Simarj. He is the Deity of Fortune, Wealth, and Trade, with his tenants being especially harsh upon those misusing wealth and resources--and especially favorable-sounding to the common merchant of a local guild, who tend to be at least mildly involved in Simarj-worship no matter the region or culture. He is especially well-regarded by Ratling traders, the Akkmese humans, the H'Zaari and all those dwelling around the Dark Elven city of M'zonathril. Sacrifices to him are made with precious gems or with minted money--which is quite illegal in some locations but underground Simarj cults make it work. Sacrificed riches tend to make their way back into Ancardia in another form, for another individual. The Deity's form, when he deigns to appear either via apparition or avatar, is very clearly that of a powerful dragon (though he has features of both the winged variety and the water dragons, and isn't clearly one or the other), with eyes that shine from within like rubies and scales of a rainbow of different jewels and precious metals. He is usually also holding a crystalline orb, resembling a scaled-up version of a mage's scrying sphere. His symbols are the crystal ball, the merchant's scales, and the dragon.

The second of the deities in the Grey Sphere of Ancardia's divines: Ozvenna. She's the Goddess of Voice, Word and Charm, and she may appear at myriad sizes when present as an avatar but always shows herself as a powerful, iridescent raven bearing a band with her insignia on it. Ozvenna is the progenitor of telepathy in this world, and her servants are always at work collecting, studying, and proliferating all forms of arts and music, as well as languages. The majority of her mortal followers are Gray Elves, Ratlings, Hobgoblins, Pixies and Hill Giants. Her symbols are the quill, the bell, and the raven (or a crow).

I need to flesh out the pantheon in my homebrewish, ADOM-based, Ancardia setting. I'm not even 100% sure where that name "Ancardia" came from for the setting, since I'm sure it's not an original thing to ADOM (because what is! XD). This is the next of the Day Sphere: Onnin, the God of Health, Mercy, and Medicine. He is a member of the Day Sphere of divine influence, and one of the more celebrated by a wide number of societies--most of all among Humans, Hurthlings, Dwarves, Wood Elves and Mist Elves. His avatar usually resembles a softly radiant minotaur-like being, clad in robes and a circlet of leaves, berries, and thorns and also sometimes carrying a quarterstaff. His symbols include the mistletoe sprig, a loaf of bread, and the ox.

I need to flesh out the pantheon in my homebrewish, ADOM-based, Ancardia setting. I'm not even 100% sure where that name "Ancardia" came from for the setting, since I'm sure it's not an original thing to ADOM (because what is! XD). Now we come to the first depiction of a deity in the Night Sphere--in most fantasy IPs, these would be the "Bad Gods" even if the creators claim they aren't inherently evil (despite making them embody outright nasty stuff in the outright negative way). Because darkness and dark color = bad. Nothing unsettling and real-life seeping into peoples' conceptions of fantasy worlds here, no sir. Definitely not something insidious in the subconscious bleeding through! /s So yeah. Nyya, the God of Fear, Pain, and Trial, is the first member of the Night Sphere of divine influence to show in this series. His actions and avatars in the physical plane of Ancardia are many--he is the Shepherd and the Harbinger of Emotion, the prophetic nightmare, the Black Dog in your periphery the hour before disaster. Despite a number of Surface-dwelling cultures giving him only a surface-level acknowledgement and often negatively mischaracterizing him (out of terror, no less), he is benevolent in his presence, and these aspects of his appearances are the focus of worship and veneration in most of the Underground cultures. Nyya's symbols are a drop of blood, a black cloud, and a black horse.