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Title: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: GenericOverusedName on January 02, 2009, 05:13:56 pm
It can be fun to run through your Legends mode and look at the various deities. Most of them make sense, but occasionally you find one that is a little off. Post 'em here!

This is a goddess of a custom civilization I made. I might have to take another look at the spheres tags...
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Not a carp, but almost as good. (Same custom civilization)
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But they don't like the sun! (Dwarven deity)
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Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Yanlin on January 02, 2009, 07:11:51 pm
Ah. Reminds me of playing Civ IV.

"Our gods can beat your gods any day of the week. Convert before it's too late."

paraquote.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: woose1 on January 02, 2009, 08:01:24 pm
Urist Armorbear was a deity that occurs in the myths of The Iron Hall. Urist was most often depicted as a male dwarf and was associated with the war, chaos, and dancing.

Kind of un-dwarflike...
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Fenrir on January 02, 2009, 08:23:42 pm
Quote from: woose1 on January 02, 2009, 08:01:24 pm
Urist Armorbear was a deity that occurs in the myths of The Iron Hall. Urist was most often depicted as a male dwarf and was associated with the war, chaos, and dancing.

Kind of un-dwarflike...
No, that could be awesome! Chaotic Wardancers, anyone?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Glacies on January 02, 2009, 09:46:57 pm
What was that one god called? The one who had Death, chaos, suicide and rainbows?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Escudodeteixo on January 03, 2009, 12:06:03 am
Quote from: Glacies on January 02, 2009, 09:46:57 pm
What was that one god called? The one who had Death, chaos, suicide and rainbows?

If the chopping is frenetic and bloody enough a thin haze rizes from the bloody pulp, from that haze a glorious rainbow emerges.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Warlord255 on January 03, 2009, 05:30:19 am
I remember I had a goddess of suicide who most often appeared in the form of a corpse... not really contradictory, but rather perfectly fitting.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Yanlin on January 03, 2009, 08:03:24 am
(keeping inflammatory thread derailment to a minimum)
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: flabort on January 03, 2009, 01:02:17 pm
i forget his name, but my dwarves worshipped a god in the form of an elf (ugh!) related to trees, rainbows, and suicide. in the same civ, i got a goddes in the form of a Human related to fortresses, earth, and socks.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Heron TSG on January 03, 2009, 07:39:08 pm
Can't remember the name, but my current expedition leader's god takes the form of a demon, and is associated with greed, darkness, pain, suicide, and kittens.

emo kitten god!
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: StrikeTheSand on January 03, 2009, 08:45:12 pm
A modded race (Gothic Humans) of mine had an interesting pantheon...

1. A god of pain, war, and darkness that takes the form of a Gothic.

Not so bad, but the other god?

2. A god of greed, fire, and kittens that takes the form... of a Demon.

WTF... I really need to recheck the religion spheres... I may/may not have been half-asleep at the time. But before I do that, I still need to figure out why the hell it keeps crashing...
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: lastofthelight on January 03, 2009, 09:14:19 pm
Not /technically/ a deity, but the most influential worshipped figure in the history of my current world seems to be Smunxaz Vomitmuck, the Princess of Vice, a male tentacle demon who ruled the Dread of Twilight. The Dread of Twilight /was/ a goblin civilization.

The interesting thing about her is two-fold. Firstly The age of Myth turned into the age of legends in the year 40 when a number of titans and Bronze collosii went on rampages and were killed. In the year 41, she turned the age of legends  into the Second Age of Myth, when a brave dwarf attacked her with an army, and got slaughtered. She then went on a rampaging spree of terror until she was struck down by chance in the year 185.

The really interesting part is this: After she died, worship of her would blossom for over a century among dwarves and humans, until today the Dread of Twilight is a civilization of mostly cannibalistic dwarves and humans. (I have no idea how in the heck they became cannibals, I thought that was an elven thing, but I can see in the legends that they've eaten a few people).

So though not a deity, her (his? What gender pronoun do you use for a male princess) - worship remains popular, and her/his name feared.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: DeKaFu on January 03, 2009, 09:37:10 pm
I completely forget the name and have long since deleted the world, but my all-time favourite so far was a brook lamprey god who was associated with lakes, ponds, rivers, oceans, gambling and luck.

Luck be a lamprey tonight.  ;)
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: chaoticag on January 04, 2009, 04:30:46 am
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Very fitting really.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Rhenaya on January 04, 2009, 12:35:50 pm
Quote from: chaoticag on January 04, 2009, 04:30:46 am
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Very fitting really.

the 5 dwarven horsemen of apoclypse
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: SHAD0Wdump on January 04, 2009, 03:42:04 pm
No, that's marriage,carp,flooding,socks,and elves.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Thnikkafan on January 04, 2009, 05:21:36 pm
Just saw a dragonfly god assosciated with the sky, sun. light, rainbows, and sacrifice.

o.O
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Plank of Wood on January 04, 2009, 05:29:24 pm
Quote from: Thnikkafan on January 04, 2009, 05:21:36 pm
Just saw a dragonfly god assosciated with the sky, sun. light, rainbows, and sacrifice.

o.O

So THAT was what the Aztecs were worshiping.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Grek on January 04, 2009, 06:09:04 pm
Sacrifice in DF apparently means "self sacrifice" rather than "ritual scarifice". Which is sort of disappointing.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: R1ck on January 04, 2009, 07:59:58 pm
I scoured the legends of a new world I made to find these ones.

Gogol- Skeletal male human. Associated with death, rebirth, and creation.
Also there was another skeletal deity to go along with him.
Vutu- Skeletal female human. Associated with blight, disease, deformity, scholarship and wisdom. Is it just me, or do those last two not quite fit?

Also a couple of scary deities:
Justras the whisper of abysses- Male human. Associated with darkness, pregnancy, and marriage.
Zikath the flowery vice- Female dwarf. She was associated with lust and depravity. She was one of the deities of the bronze whip.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Orange Drink on January 06, 2009, 07:12:37 pm
this deity just makes too much sense:

Or Washmoistened the Costal Beach of Crabs. she takes the form of a female dwarf and is associated with rain.
every single part of her name has to do with water.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Old-Man-Gator on January 06, 2009, 07:23:35 pm
But dwarves won't even drink water (if given a choice).

How does that make sense? It's MADNESS!
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: PTTG?? on January 06, 2009, 07:37:21 pm
Quote from: R1ck on January 04, 2009, 07:59:58 pm
Gogol- Skeletal male human. Associated with death, rebirth, and creation.

That's actually pretty reasonable- I could see the creator god watching over the beginning and the end of each person and ensuring that they return in the next world/life. Most likely a major, even king of the gods. How appropriate that he's named after Google.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: MuonDecay on January 07, 2009, 03:22:29 am
Quote from: PTTG?? on January 06, 2009, 07:37:21 pm
Quote from: R1ck on January 04, 2009, 07:59:58 pm
Gogol- Skeletal male human. Associated with death, rebirth, and creation.

That's actually pretty reasonable- I could see the creator god watching over the beginning and the end of each person and ensuring that they return in the next world/life. Most likely a major, even king of the gods. How appropriate that he's named after Google.

Or he's a letter shy of a googol!
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Keilden on January 07, 2009, 04:05:20 am
Not the best god but not the worst either:
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z198/Keilden/Dwarfs/1-1.jpg)

And somthing more evil:
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z198/Keilden/Dwarfs/2.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: chaoticag on January 07, 2009, 12:13:52 pm
"He stole hell to give it to the masses."
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Danarca on January 08, 2009, 03:34:07 pm
(http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alisui7.png)
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Yanlin on January 08, 2009, 04:44:29 pm
Quote from: Danarca on January 08, 2009, 03:34:07 pm
(http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alisui7.png)

Maybe it's a dwarf seahorse?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: perilisk on January 08, 2009, 11:12:15 pm
Quote from: R1ck on January 04, 2009, 07:59:58 pm
Vutu- Skeletal female human. Associated with blight, disease, deformity, scholarship and wisdom. Is it just me, or do those last two not quite fit? 

Patron goddess of epidemiologists?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Solmyr on January 24, 2009, 07:35:04 am
My latest world has the following:

Guz Coastalcreature the Drool of Nightmares, a female dwarf deity associated with depravity, lust, fishing and fish. Those lustful depraved dwarf fishermen!

Othri the Labyrinthine Plague, a male human deity associated with peace and theft.

Birod the Hairy Fame of Yearlings, a male leopard deity associated with youth and muck. ???
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Areyar on January 24, 2009, 07:42:23 am
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But they don't like the sun! (Dwarven deity)
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Ara Cometcontrols the Sport of Sparks was a deity that occurs in the myths of The Frilly Citadel. Aran was most often depicted as a male bat and was associated with the sun, light, rainbows and the sky.

Could be the evil devil/bad guy (heh bat guy) in that dwarven pantheon. ?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Neonivek on January 24, 2009, 07:21:44 pm
I don't have it infront of me

but I had a god named *Something* The Gerbil of Pregnancy
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: inaluct on January 24, 2009, 11:06:53 pm
I really, really tried to think up something witty to say about that, but I just couldn't. It sort of defys comprehension.

When you think about it, it's no wonder that the dwarves are so... Dwarven, when they have deities like these.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: PTTG?? on January 25, 2009, 03:05:36 am
Quote from: R1ck on January 04, 2009, 07:59:58 pm
Vutu- Skeletal female human. Associated with blight, disease, deformity, scholarship and wisdom. Is it just me, or do those last two not quite fit? 
You'd be surprised at how you can justify these things. Perhaps in this culture the weak and sickly cannot fight, and so are directed to study? These deformed ones are thus studious and wise.

Quote from: Solmyr on January 24, 2009, 07:35:04 am
Guz Coastalcreature the Drool of Nightmares, a female dwarf deity associated with depravity, lust, fishing and fish. Those lustful depraved dwarf fishermen!
Ever see the old woodcut "the Dream of the Fisherman's Wife"?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Beardless on January 26, 2009, 03:24:36 am
I just saw this thread and decided to take a look at the deities of my newest fortress.  Most are disappointingly reasonable, but one is just frighteningly appropriate:
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Asol Bitematched the Seizure of Blazes is a deity of The Urns of Patterning.  Asol most often takes the form of a female dwarf and is associated with chaos, war, fortresses, volcanos and mountains.
A full third of my surviving dwarfs worship this particular deity.  Is it an omen?  I sure hope so!
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: PTTG?? on January 26, 2009, 03:33:55 am
Quite frankly, I think that Asol Bitematched the Seizure of Blazes IS pretty much the whole of DF in a nutshell. Asol can stand next to Armok any day.

I wish I had Asol in my fortress.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: NewMartianEmperor on January 26, 2009, 04:52:16 am
Truly he is a god of gods. :)
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: DennyTom on January 26, 2009, 06:32:15 am
Quote from: NewMartianEmperor on January 26, 2009, 04:52:16 am
Truly he is a god of gods. :)

He? God of Dwarf Fortress is hermafrodit? I am not sure if this will be good for luring more players :P
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: G-Flex on February 01, 2009, 01:01:01 am
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Uvno Blocksaved the Gloved Keeper, deity: sacrifice

Apparently, this Dwarven civlization worships a hockey goaltender. It's goddamn perfect.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Astus Ater on February 01, 2009, 01:33:04 am
Wow. I want a hockey god...
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Rysith on February 01, 2009, 01:43:13 am
Enir the Dark Guilt was a deity that occurs in the myths of The Gear of Heroes. Enir was most often depicted as a male dwarf and was associated with music, dance, and misery.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Yanlin on February 01, 2009, 02:01:52 am
Dwarves hate music and dancing.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Chandrasekhar on February 01, 2009, 04:09:44 am
Quote from: G-Flex on February 01, 2009, 01:01:01 am
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Uvno Blocksaved the Gloved Keeper, deity: sacrifice

Apparently, this Dwarven civlization worships a hockey goaltender. It's goddamn perfect.
Canadian dwarves, eh?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Zai on February 01, 2009, 01:55:33 pm
Quote from: Yanlin on February 01, 2009, 02:01:52 am
Dwarves hate music and dancing.

That's why he was also the god of misery. ;D
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Strife26 on February 01, 2009, 02:37:07 pm
Or, a god of rain, storms, and thunder.

I added 'Th' to the front for my uses.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Dakk on February 01, 2009, 04:35:21 pm
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s184/radalus/redundancy.jpg)

God of redundancy!
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Zeful on February 01, 2009, 04:41:29 pm
Quote from: Dakk on February 01, 2009, 04:35:21 pm
God of redundancy!
Treachery is very different from Trickery.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Dakk on February 01, 2009, 04:45:06 pm
Not quite, treason can be reffered to as a form of trickery, and trickery can be considered treason.

He tricked me!

He betrayed my trust!
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Zeful on February 01, 2009, 04:50:14 pm
Trickery as treason? So mysteries and good-natured jokes are punished with death?
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Dakk on February 01, 2009, 04:52:51 pm
Not trickery as jokes and mysteries, but trickery as to "trick" someone, which can be considered treachery.

Good Armok, have i turned this thread into a english lesson?

BRB, ALE.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Zai on February 01, 2009, 06:27:12 pm
ALE? ARE YOU NOT A PROPER DWARF? EVERYONE KNOWS BEER IS THE OFFICIAL ALCOHOL FOR DWARVES!

Or something. Ah well.

But yeah. Treachery is like a form of trickery. Notice I say "like." =)
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: G-Flex on February 01, 2009, 09:58:47 pm
Quote from: Dakk on February 01, 2009, 04:52:51 pm
Not trickery as jokes and mysteries, but trickery as to "trick" someone, which can be considered treachery.

Good Armok, have i turned this thread into a english lesson?

BRB, ALE.

Er, huh.

Tricking someone doesn't mean you are betraying them. You might play against their expectations or technically lie or things like that, but "trickery" is generally a benign or at least not explicitly malicious thing. Treachery is, uh, a tad different. Trickery can be playful and not cause any actual conflict or problems, whereas the entire point of treachery is a violation of trust beyond "ha ha I fooled you"; it's more like "ha ha screw our friendship/marriage/allegiance, I want the treasure for myself".
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Dragooble on February 01, 2009, 11:26:52 pm
Kizbiz the gully of rams was a deity that most often occurs in the myths of The tools of flight. Kizbiz was most often depicted as a female dwarf and was associated with plants and animals.
I on the other hand depict Kizbiz as an elf wearing a dwarf mask.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Mook on February 02, 2009, 04:24:00 am
My mayor worships a deity known as Nolthag the Hideous Itch, a deity of suicide, death, disease, and blight.  I also like to think it's a deity of PURE ITCHING.  This deity takes the form of a female dwarf, and my mayor is apparently casually interested in his religion.

He is one of a dozen dwarves in the world who worships said deity.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: StealthArcher on February 03, 2009, 11:05:36 am
Illrokk

 Depicted as an Elephant, related to elephants, fishing, murder, fire and suicide. 


Yeeeeaaaahhhh.......  I think we all know where he's from originally.  No idea how I got that out of the random gen.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Solmyr on February 04, 2009, 11:38:19 am
Gamo Paddlewashed the God-forsaken Bones, a female human deity of murder, the rain, and rainbows. A goddess of murder who likes rainbows? :o
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Fourth Triad on February 05, 2009, 10:57:32 pm
A long time ago I got a god of nature and suicide, who was often depicted as a male cockroach...
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Dragooble on February 05, 2009, 11:06:13 pm
they must have an awesome creation myth.
Title: Re: Your Most Insane Deities
Post by: Arkose on February 05, 2009, 11:15:46 pm
Quote from: Solmyr on February 04, 2009, 11:38:19 am
Gamo Paddlewashed the God-forsaken Bones, a female human deity of murder, the rain, and rainbows. A goddess of murder who likes rainbows? :o
Now if it had been disease or decay, you could argue on the grounds of all the wonderful colors your body can make;

red of blood and rashes,
orange of jaundiced skin,
yellow and green of bile,
blue and purple of bruises.