Main Deities, Tian Xia Deities, Racial and Cultural Pantheons, Outer Gods, Empyreal Lords, Fiendish Divinities, Great Old Ones, Other Deities
Tian Xia has its own pantheon of gods, which shares some members with the core pantheon (Abadar, Desna, Irori, Lamashtu, Pharasma, and Shelyn).
It is not surprising that the Tian Xia goddess Daikitsu is a common object of veneration, given that she has the everyday subjects of rice, agriculture, and craftsmanship under her divine purview. Her holy symbol is that of a nine-tailed fox.
- Ambiguously Gay: Is rumored to either be in or have had a relationship with Nalinivati, who apparently denies this.
- Ethnic God: Appears as a kitsune woman with white fur and nine tails, and is patron to the kitsune race.
- Expy: She's one to Inari, deity of rice, good luck and foxes.
Fumeiyoshi is a Tian Xia deity most often associated with the undead and graves, although he is also the patron deity of the evil oni, mostly out of mutual spite for the Celestial Court. He does, however, have some more heroic worshipers, who have genuine things to hate about the social order.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to the Abel of his brother Tsukiyo, whom he murdered out of envy and feeling abandoned by Shizuru.
- Enemy Mine: The reason he's the patron of the oni is that, like him, they feel unjustly slighted by the gods and abandoned, needing to pull themselves up instead. He is not bound to them as an Ethnic God, and will happily support worshipers who feel vengeful towards them if he feels taken for granted or slighted.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Did this to Tsukiyo, because while both brothers loved Shizuru, Tsukiyo was God of the Moon and could interact with and woo Shizuru more reliably - while as the god of the night, Fumeiyoshi was repelled by her presence. His attempts backfired spectacularly, as Tsukiyo was revived by Shizuru, who had Yaezhing bury Fumeiyoshi in Tsukiyo's own old grave alive, turning him into the god of graves and undeath.
General Susumu, also known as the Black Daimyo, is the Tian Xia patron deity of samurai who are interested more in glory and battle than honor and heroism - and those who feel they must become utterly ruthless for as quick and bloodless a victory as possible. He is the brother of Shizuru, and the two seldom see eye to eye. His unholy symbol is a black winged horse, and he is worshiped primarily in Chu Ye, Hongal, Kaoling, Minkai, Shokuro, and Xa Hoi.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the Remaster, rather than just being a Blood Knight, he's also the god of people who want to end wars victoriously by any means. He also does not look kindly on people who abuse animals, see Everyone Has Standards.
- Everyone Has Standards: He is no coward, and part of the prohibition he has on maintaining a warrior's gear is also being a good horse owner; not only does abusing your steed show a complete lack of concern for your possessions, it's also a vital part of being a cavalry trooper.
- Expy: His name is derived from Susanoo from Japanese Mythology.
- Jerkass: Especially compared to his sister, Shizuru. He feels it's a sign he's honest.
- War God: He embodies the Blood Knight aspects of war.
- War Is Glorious: He prefers war for personal glory than honor and heroism. Played with, however - see War Is Hell.
- War Is Hell: He is upfront that war's most honest face is like him - brutal, uncompromising, and often takes more than it gains. Notably, his Anathemas include never refusing a challenge from an equal, admitting you aren't up to snuff and avoiding a pointless Curb-Stomp Battle is being a good tactician rather than a coward.
Hei Feng's domain is the sea and the sky, whether it brings good fortune or ill. His holy symbol is a lightning bolt arcing out of a dark storm cloud. He is the patron deity of tengu, and is worshiped in many lands. He often appears as a powerful tengu swordsman with a nine-ring broadsword and is accompanied by divine servants known as the counts of wind, rain, thunder and lightning.
- Bird People: He's the patron god of the tengu race, and usually takes the form of a raven-like tengu with glowing eyes.
- Blow You Away: He grants his followers access to Air domain spell, most of which focus around creating winds and whirlwinds and summon air elementals.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Combative, emotional, hedonistic, and frequently drunk.
- Elemental Powers: He has dominion over air, water, and lightning.
- Ethnic God: Although he's worshipped by seafarers throughout Tian Xia regardless of species and nationality, he's also the patron deity of the tengu and maintains a strong following among them.
- God of Thunder: He's Tian Xia's god of storms and thunder, and quick to punish transgressions through lightning and lashing weather. He's usually accompanied by divine servants known as the counts of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning.
- Lord of the Ocean: He's the mercurial, temperamental god of seas, storms and thunder, and is widely worshipped and feared by Tian sailors.
- Making a Splash: He's the god of the sea and its waters — besides controlling them himself, water-themed spells are among those his worshippers have access to.
- Mood-Swinger: Hei Feng is prone to wild mood swings. He is easily stirred to anger, and while his temper usually subsides as quickly as it rises, he has been known to hold grudges for millennia.
- Nature Spirit: Or Nature God; Hei Feng is very closely tied to the elements of nature, especially air, water and thunder, and to the oceans and their native life in general.
- The One That Got Away: Hei Feng and his wife Lady Jingxi have been estranged for centuries, but he still misses her.
- Shock and Awe: He's the god of storms and lightning, among other things. Further, his followers can control electric phenomena through the Air domain spells he grants them.
- True Companions: Has this relationship with his adventuring buddies the Counts of Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, and encourages his followers to form such bonds as well.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Hei Feng and Sun Wukong's friendship is punctuated by frequent quarrels, and it is not uncommon for their carousing to erupt into titanic brawls.
- Weather Manipulation: As part of his role as the god of storms, he can give his followers magic themed around creating and controlling various types of weather, most of them inclement in some form or another. Specifically, he grants the Weather domain and the Storms subdomain.
- Determinator: Jin Li never stops once he sets his mind to something, be it swallowing a whole lake dry or leaping to the top of a waterfall to prove to Sun Wukong just how much the carp valued their friendship. Failure is the mother of success, and for those who worship Jin Li, the success in the end often transcends even what they envisioned in the first place.
Kofusachi is a Tian-Hwan god of joy and prosperity, and is primarily worshiped in the Tian Xia nations of Hongal, Hwanggot, and Tianjing. His holy symbol is a string of seven coins.
- Really Gets Around: Has had numerous relationships with gods and goddesses.
The Tian Xia goddess Lao Shu Po began her life as an ordinary rat, and stole her divinity by feasting off the corpse the the slain god Tsukiyo. Her unholy symbol is an emaciated rat curled into a circle, and unsurprisingly, she considers rats her sacred animal.
- Affably Evil: She considers outcasts who turned to crime as her kin and she actually has several edicts based around helping the downtrodden.
- Deity of Human Origin: A rat who ascended to godhood by feeding on the body of Tsukiyo while he was dead.
- You Dirty Rat!: She's a rat deity with an evil alignment, who attained godhood by desecrating a corpse. Downplayed, in that she is Affably Evil and a Benevolent Boss.
Nalinivati is the patron naga goddess of the snake-like humanoids known as the nagaji. She is most popular in the Tian Xia realm she founded, Nagajor, but is also commonly worshiped in Dtang Ma, Xa Hoi, and Xidao. Her holy symbol is a lotus flower wherein a snake lies coiled. Snakes are naturally considered holy animals to those of her faith.
Said to have created the nagaji, Nalinivati long ago gifted the race with free will. They number among her most devout non-naga worshipers.
Nalinivati has been romantically linked with the kitsune deity Daikitsu, although both deities deny this claim.
- Ambiguously Gay: Denies rumors that she either is or was in a relationship with Daikitsu.
Qi Zhong is the Tian Xia god of magic and healing. Originally worshiped by the Tian-Shu, he is now popular in Jinin, Quain, Tianjing, Xidao, and Zi Ha. His holy symbol is a wagon wheel with spokes made of the five elements: water, earth, metal, fire, and wood.
- Healer God: He's the god of healing, and a skilled enough medic to bring slain gods back from the dead.
- The Smart Guy: For the Tian Xia pantheon. He grants the Knowledge domain and is associated with the learned disciplines of magic and medicine.
- Super Doc: Again, he has medical skills capable of reviving a murdered god.
Shizuru is the Tian-Min goddess of the sun, honor, ancestors, and swordplay. As she holds swordplay in her portfolio, Shizuru is also the patron of samurai and other noble and honourable swordsmen and women.
- The Ace: She's a paragon of perfection, a peerless queen and monarch of unmatched honor, dignity and skill.
- Dragons Are Divine: She's often represented as a radiant gold-scaled Eastern dragon, and is almost universally worshipped or at least respected by imperial dragons.
- Expy: She's heavily based on Amaterasu-ōmikami, goddess of the Sun and ruler of heaven from Japanese Mythology.
- God of Light: She's the goddess of the sun and honor and the patron of righteous rulers and honorable warriors, and grants her worshippers a number of light-based magical powers. She is the ruler of the Tian pantheon and is married to Tsukiyo, the god of the moon. Their relationship is strained due to their separation, as they can only meet when the sun and moon join during an eclipse.
- The High Queen: Shizuru is the perfect sovereign who encompasses the glory of Tian Xia. She rules with immaculate composure born from the confidence of an empress who has fought and won her own battles. Shizuru's reign is wise, measured and just, for she has no need to prove herself to others or defend her pride.
- Light 'em Up: She's associated with the sun and with light in a general sense, and grants her worshippers the ability to magically manipulate light through spells like color spray, scorching ray, unbearable brightness and prismatic spray.
- Older and Wiser: To Iomedae. The two goddesses have much in common in terms of personality, concerns, outlooks and beliefs, but Shizuru is much older and more experienced. She has long since won her crusades and settled into the role of a ruler, and has had to temper her youthful furor with the realities of having to rule a nation. She views Iomedae's comparatively youthful zeal with tolerant amusement, much like an old veteran with a brash but talented young soldier.
- The Paladin: She's the closest of any of the Tian Xia gods to this, being the rough equivalent to Iomedae. Her paladin code (in Faiths of Golarion) requires the defence of the land and its health, defence of nature from undead and aberrations, and the seeking of mutual peace with creatures that defend nature from humanity.
- The Power of the Sun: She's an Amaterasu expy who grants the Sun domain.
- Solar and Lunar: The Solar to her lover Tsukiyo's Lunar.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Somewhat literally. She and her lover, the moon god Tsukiyo, can only be together very briefly whenever there's an eclipse. It's even written in her paladin code that her paladins are forbidden from separating lovers.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Shizuru can tolerate evil Tian deities such as Yaezhing and Lady Nanbyo, whose interactions with her are underlined by the unspoken understanding that Shizuru is their ruler. So long as her subjects obey the edicts of the Heavenly Court and pay due homage to her, she feels bound by celestial law and honor to allow them a degree of leeway in handling their own affairs.
- Top God: She's the queen of the Tian pantheon, ruling heaven and earth as an undisputed divine monarch.
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is the Tian Xia god of trickery, nature, and drunkenness. Originally a stone statue, Sun Wukong was given life and eventually became king of all monkeys. That was not enough for him, so he went before Qi Zhong, god of magic, hoping to glean the secret of immortality. Qi Zhong would not part with this secret, but taught Sun Wukong many other techniques. Undeterred, the ambitious Monkey King then sneaked into Pharasma's Boneyard and erased his name from her records, so gaining immortality.
The Monkey King is worshiped throughout Tian Xia. He loves traveling the Material Plane in the guise of a drunken human martial artist; in this way, the hedonistic god picks fights, woos beautiful women, and drowns himself in potent alcohol.
- The Alcoholic: Well, he's the Tian Xia god of Drunkenness. Also a Drunken Master.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: How he gained his immortality. He erased his name from Pharasma's records, which essentially removed his ability to die, as he's no longer listed in her books.
- Public Domain Character: He's originally from Journey to the West.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Hei Feng and Sun Wukong's friendship is punctuated by frequent quarrels, and it is not uncommon for their carousing to erupt into titanic brawls.
- Walking the Earth: He's fond of wandering the material plane for fun.
Tsukiyo is the Tian-Min deity of the moon, jade, and spirits. He is the brother of the evil Fumeiyoshi and the paramour of Shizuru.
- Back from the Dead: He was resurrected by Qi Zhong at Shizuru's request after being murdered by his brother.
- Cain and Abel: The Abel to Fumeiyoshi's Cain; Tsukiyo is the kinder and more benevolent of the two, and the one to die at the hands of the other.
- Came Back Wrong: A downplayed example. There's nothing metaphysically wrong with him, and he's still a good guy, but his personality changed after his resurrection.
- Cloudcuckoolander: As one might expect from a deity with the Madness domain, he's a bit eccentric.
- Dark Is Not Evil: His domains include Darkness and Madness, but he is lawful good.
- God of the Moon: He's the Tian god of the moon, nighttime and spirits. He is the lover of Shizuru, the goddess of the sun, but their relationship is complicated by the fact that they can never meet except during solar eclipses. His sacred animal, the hare, is also a reference to the Moon Rabbit.
- Moon Rabbit: He's a moon god, and his sacred animal is the hare.
- Mystical White Hair: He has white hair, and is associated with the spirit world.
- Solar and Lunar: He's the Lunar moon god to his wife Shizuru's Solar sun goddess.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Somewhat literally. He and his lover, the sun goddess Shizuru, can only be together very briefly whenever there's an eclipse.
- Used to Be More Social: He was fairly outgoing before his murder and resurrection, but afterwards became reclusive and withdrawn.
- We Help the Helpless: Tsukiyo's paladin code (in Faiths of Golarion) requires that his paladins help those who go unheard, be they spirits who cannot speak or those who society has judged broken or insane. Paladins of Tsukiyo are also required to teach others how to accept and support those who think and speak differently than they do.
Yaezhing is the Tian-Shu deity of murder, death, and punishment which exceeds the crime; he is patron of ninja and assassins. He also acts as the enforcer of justice among the gods. His unholy symbol is a shuriken drenched in blood.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He's an evil god and the one responsible for upholding justice among deities.
- Noble Demon: He's
Lawful Evil, but is the enforcer of justice for the Tian Xia gods. - Professional Killer: The patron of ninja and assassins.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He's not actively evil, it's just that his job description is defined as Lawful Evil.
Yamatsumi is the Tian-Min god of winter, mountains, and volcanoes. His holy symbol is an erupting, snow-capped volcano.
- An Ice Person: He is the god of winter and snow-topped mountains, grants the Ice subdomain, and is frequently depicted with ice for skin.
- Fantasy Counterpart Religion: His followers are Golarion's equivalent of the Japanese Yamabushi
tradition.
