The House of Music is one big, endless concert, from the amateurs in the dingy basement to the lunatics on the roof (which is on fire). It's just as well every wall, floor and ceiling in the House is soundproof, as you may walk from a screaming crowd in one room, to an elegant ballroom dance in the next, and go downstairs to find a cacophonous endless jam session where the greatest musicians in history all have their styles clash horribly.
An entire security force of bouncers, some of whom are said to be trainees from the Defense house, do their best to keep things in line but the Music house is still the best place to find all kinds of mind/-altering substance if you know where to look (in particular, in the backyard it's like Woodstock never stopped).
Naturally, this house gets endless calls for being too noisy, but blame whoever decided to put it across the road from the House of Knowledge. The reason why the House of Craft didn't soundproof its outsides is generally speculated to have something to do with the Council Of Shadows.
Elvis Presley, The King Of Rock And Roll
Symbols: "Steal Your Face" aka "Stealie", Dancing Bears, Dancing Terrapins
Portfolio: Never having two shows the same, Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, Acid Tests
Domains: Music, Crafts, Hippies, Art, Songs, Lyrics, Mind Altering Substances, The Wall of Sound, Blues, Folk, Rock, Psychedelics, Improvisation, Long Strange Trips, Shakedown Street
Allies: Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane
Enemies: "The Man"
Followers: Deadheads,
Phish has taken up the mantle of de facto jam band
Jimi Hendrix is the god of all guitarists who have ever and will ever exist, and is the greatest guitarist in all of existence. Even the other guitar-playing gods look to him as the highest authority on guitar playing.
Jimi Hendrix had left the Earth to give the other gods guitar lessons. He is highly sought after by the rock, jazz and blues musicians in the Pantheon, and doesn't get much time to himself.
Can combine any musical style with any other and produce a masterpiece, regardless how impossible it sounds at first. Her soundtracks have touched the hearts of even the most cynical gods.
It is said that when the End Time comes, she will combine all music ever made into a single, beautiful melody that will echo throughout all eternity.
The best two people ever to make video game music, these two Bellevue-based Video Game music makers are best known for their epic music in the main franchise of the company they're with. Marty is known and loved for his work on the Halo Series and Kelly, while cursed with a girls name, is known and loved for his music heard in the Half-Life Franchise.
Frank Klepacki, God of RTS Game Music
Lesser God
Symbols: Frank's custom guitar◊ leaning against a Mammoth Tank
Domain: Real-Time Strategy Games, Incredibly Kickass Mixtures of Electronica and Heavy Metal
THE composer of choice if someone wants an action-focused soundtrack for a strategy game. If you hear a game was made by Westwood Studios or Petroglyph Games, chances are Frank's behind the soundtrack. Even his 15+ year old songs are remixed to this day; hell, he's not above remixing his own songs to be used in new games! Outside of the world of videogaming, Frank composed several independent albums with the same kickass style of his.
If there's a song to be written, Weird Al will find a way to make it funny by changing the words to include easy-to-recognize pop-culture references. He scoffs at the Friedberg/Seltzer directing team for taking the shotgun approach to parody by throwing out unrelated references to see what sticks.
He also has the magic ability to turn nearly any song into some form of polka mix. all he needs is his divine accordion.
Morrigan Aensland once tried to seduce him, but when he noticed that one of her teeth was 0,0019 milimeters smaller than the others, he simply replied with the following line before calmly walking away: "You're close, but no cigar!".
Gaga has succeeded in creating some of the most incredibly catchy songs the world has ever experienced. The only possible explanation has to be divine power. Her cult is widespread, and her music videos don't afraid of anything.
Doesn't like the fact that she shares two portfolios with Orihime Inoue, and has been plotting to overthrow her with The Plan.
After the release of Gaga's "Born This Way" music video the Council of Shadows and even the Main House immediately held meetings behind closed doors, perhaps to discuss the video, how this affects Lady Gaga's godly position, and even how this might affect the Pantheon itself.
Fans are convinced that Jigglypuff would have the #1 single in every country in the world if her songs utilized mind control rather than putting the judges to sleep.
As a human, she shares notes with Edward to help him make his songs more passionate. As a mermaid, she spends time with Ariel chatting about the princes they used to know and love.
Has earned the ire of Eddie Riggs, though he knows it's not his place to complain.
Kotomi is a frequent figure on Celestial Idol, but in recent years has been shown the door repeatedly before she even gets a chance to unpack her violin case. Simon Cowell is still trying to block out the days-old ringing in his ears.
Just as long as she doesn't bring her violin, she's always welcomed to any party. But if she ever brings her violin, she'll end up Bound and Gagged in the corner.
Followers: Several hundred famous pop musicians, Bubbles the Chimp
Allies: MTV, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Ross, The Simpsons, Eddie Van Halen, Motown, Brooke Shields, Macaulay Culkin, Thomas Mesereau, Chris Tucker
Enemies: CNN, the paparazzi, "they", Joe Jackson, Martin Bashir, Thomas Sneddon, Debbie Rowe (former ally)
Was accused twice of using his divine power in ways not approved of by the Moral Censors, and was eventually taken to the Court of the Gods. There was little evidence that he had actually done, well, anything, but the trial was sensationalized immensely, the God of Judgment gleefully extending it for three days. At the end of the third, the God of Justice walked into the courtroom dragging an unconscious Red Skull, looked about at the proceedings in disgust, and decreed, "You're still debating this? It's a simple case. Just call Jean Valjean in here, determine whether this man violated Dream's restrictions on What Gods Are Not To Do, and have done with it. You're trivializing our justice system with this farce. Now finish, or I tell my second in command that he can have my throne for a day."
Eventually, Michael was acquitted before the Captain had to make good on his threat, but public opinion of him was low enough that he was constantly on the verge of being cast out of the Holy Garden, and his powers were curtailed. There was fierce debate on whether or not his title and position should pass on to another, but it was eventually decided that he could keep it out of respect for his early life.
Before being deified, he was an avatar of Char Aznable. He was deified in his own right due to a legendary Game Bug.
Nekki Basara was his follower, or to be exact... the former God of Theme Song, until Elzam replaced him and refined the title. One of his lesser archangels, Stan Bush, performs whenever the Autobots pick up the Matrix of Leadership.
Allies: Ichigo Kurosaki, Hinata Hyuga, Prince Edward, Mikuru Asahina
Every song that remains forever ingrained in the minds of the Gods and the universe is a manifestation of Orihime's overactive imagination, having taken a musical form.
Shares a special friendship with Hinata of the Love Pantheon, due to sharing the same English voice actress, which normally results in sharing her special cooking, and talking of the boys they pine for.
Also has some connections with Mikuru Asahina, Goddess of Moe, due to similar appearance and English voice as well.
Same with Prince Edward, but only because she likes spoons...and bards.
Although he'll serve any musician without complaint, has barely-hidden contempt for Lucia and her followers and can be seen Face Palming backstage during concerts.
Maintains the pantheon's instruments when they're not performing.
In his presence, all visitors and gods Intermediate level or lower are compelled to start singing instead of speaking, and posing or even dancing as they do so. It's possible to resist, but every second he is present the compulsion becomes more powerful. Batman distributes earplugs which convey immunity, but careful - they tend to fall out.
Rivals: Buddy Rich (because Animal threw a drum head onto him after Rich won a drum battle against him)
The Pantheon provides him with some of the strongest drums on the planet. Regular drums tend to break at the force of his drumming skills ever since he became a diety.
He keeps Dethklok in check and has forced them to stop making Tenacious D do their dirty work. The only objectors to this are Dethklok themselves.
Is known to command a legion of demons, devils and fallen angels. He enslaves them by the power of his music alone. This ability has saved many members of the pantheon in the past since he can use them for both good and evil. Dio himself is universally recognized as one of the most benign and likeable of the gods in the pantheon, but those who underestimate him because of this end up destroyed by his powerful voice of pure metal awesomeness.
There is no need for altars or temples for Dio. Those who pray hard enough to one of his posters will recive his aid and wisdom when they need it the most.
The Naive Newcomers of the Pantheon for now, known chiefly for their ability to make any loud noisy guitars sound beautiful and their incredibly resistent ears.
They're just as unintelligible in person as they are in music.
The second most frequent question they're asked after "Can you turn that down?" is "So, how do you pronounce 'Colm Ó Cíosóig'?" The gods are still trying to decipher their answer.
The eccentricity from various gods came together, and another deity formed as a result – Tori Amos. She came to Earth as an alt. rock/baroque pop singer-songwriter and attracted many loyal and equally strange fans known as Ears With Feet or Toriphiles with her therapeutic music. She has gained an army useful in attacking misogynistic & homophobic bases.
She never was a cornflake girl.
She prefers to wear powerful orange knickers.
She used to be allied with Trent Reznor, but Courtney Love broke up the alliance, possibly to get more money to buy heroin. They still hold a grudge against her for that.
May be an avatar of Delirium. Or maybe not. Who knows?
Pink Floyd: Gods of Progressive Rock (That Sound Effects Band, The Pipers at the Gates of Dawn, Purveyors of the Interstellar Overdrive, Stethoscope Owners, The Crazy Diamonds)
Lesser Gods
Symbol: A prism pyramid with a ray of light going through it, a brick wall with "Pink Floyd" written on it, a giant inflatable pig (sometimes floating over Battersea Power Station), a businessman shaking hands with a man on fire, a shining diamond, a giant human meatgrinder, marching hammers, a cow on a pasture, a saucerful of secrets, a pillow of winds
Their music is known to be a great cure for nightmares. There have been rumours that they were specifically created by Dream to be living Sweet Dreams Fuel and that they possess the oil of angels. When confronted with this question, they just shrug and carry on.
Served as Mentors to My Bloody Valentine, and share the portfolio of Indecipherable Lyrics and Word Salad Lyrics with them. So far they're the only people in the pantheon who don't avoid them, and translate their incomprehensible mumbling into English for the benefit of everybody else.
Yoko Kanno is interested in collaborating with them.
Followers: Green Day, The Offspring, Sum 41, blink-182. The Ramones refuse to respect them because these bands are "corporate."
Known for putting on the loudest and fastest-paced concerts in the Pantheon. Like Pink Floyd's, they are exciting, but are completely different in style.
The Clash were formerly allies, but were dumped by the Ramones for "selling out."
Joey and Johnny Ramone have conflicting opinions, yet each seems to allow the other to express his opinion in song.
Some say she is the illegitimate spawn of Nekki Basara and Sharon Apple made possible by The Power of Rock.
Her first scene was Fanservice. Her first words were a sleepily uttered "Strawberry pie..." In effect, she hit the demographic attracted by the sexy and the demographic attracted by the Moe, or, in short, everyonein the first forty-five seconds.
Legend has it that Yoko Kanno noticed Sheryl Nome when she was a mortal child, and so Graced her with an avatar to guide her into becoming a star. Unfortunately, the Queen of Mixing found she was simply unable to create something that was not Crazy Awesome, which compromised her desire to create a timid Sexy Secretary. She instead forged a Complete Monster out of Despairs and Nightmares who would play the part in secret. In the end, The Plan proved successful, and the ensuing events developed Sheryl into a being worthy of godhood.
As a very young goddess, she tends to fail epicly when attempting anything beyond her godly domains, though as she is an orphan, The Blues Brothers ensure her protection even while Hilarity Ensues. She was such a good sport that they even gifted her with an R&B song.
Her opposition to Elzam von Branstein stems from his overthrowing of Nekki Basara as God of the Unstoppable Theme Song, and from when he denied her his favor when she tried to summon a Theme Music Power-Up as a mortal. As a result, she frequently aids Basara in attempts to regain his former title.
Heroes pray to her for success and survival, and she may show them her favor, especially if they're hot Bishōnen fighter jocks. Those favored may hear her singing, if she chooses to sing for them, which will fill The Hero with a HotbloodedUnstoppable Rage, providing a huge force multiplier to the pilot's Badass level. Note: Survival and skill power up only extends to the physical pilot, and NOT said pilot's Cool Plane, which may or may not get shot up (or down) in the process of your Crowning Moment of Awesome.
More recently Sheryl released the Universal Bunny concert vid in an attempt to flat out steal the Fanservice portfolio from I-No. It was sprinkled liberally with Fanservice, BDSM, Lesbian Vampires, and even a little Sheryl on SherylLes Yay. The jury is still out on if she should inherit the portfolio, in part due to most of it being closer to examples of Playing to the Fetishes, a portfolio that Sheryl already owns outright.
The implosion of the Playing to the Fetishes portfolio into the Fetish Fuel portfolio did not affect her nearly as heavily here as it did in the House of Love, but, like there, she was able to nab the Fetishes portfolio here in its place. The battle for it was less epic, as the competition was not high in this pantheon, nor did it have as much of an effect on her power level.
Gained a Cool Car in the Nyan Cli short, an interview/music video montage, in the form of a red Ferrari California with a six-speed manual transmission. The Blues Brothers were probably involved with this.
Took a spot in the House of Love when she heard they had the best sound systems, getting in simply by the Playing to the Fetishes portfolio being open at the time.
Promoted to Intermediate Goddess after the second movie (The Wings of Goodbye) when she wrote a new song on a prison wall in her own blood while sitting on death row. Then there's The WingsOf Goodbye, and when she sings that, it empowers Alto's YF-29 with golden wings and Crazy Awesome. Yeah, we kinda thought that was awesome enough to warrant a promotion here, too. She got promoted in the Love Pantheon, too, but that was for a different reason.
Among her mortal accomplishments, when her home is threatened and the local government refuses to help (That distress call is sabotage. Really), what's a gilr to do? She has no skill at fighting, no weapons, no soldiers, but what does she have? A credit card and a credit rating better than most countries. She hires an entire Badass Army of mercenaries for a rescue mission, including a full squadron of Super PrototypeSpace Fightersand the carrier they come with. Did we mention said carrier packs a Wave Motion Gun? It takes her all of two minutes, she just throws them her credit card, the Black Vega, which is why the Black Vega is her favored weapon. Seriously, who needs a gun when you have cold hard cash?
Take note of her immediate neighbors in this list and know that this is strangely fitting. May be taking pointers from them in order to build her way up to Greater Godhood (It's totally platonic, she's taken).
Domains: Music, Theater, Love, Shape, Magic, Time and Space, Otherness
Allies: In this pantheon alone he is allied with John Lennon (of the Beatles) and Freddie Mercury, and thinks well of Prince. Other allies include Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Trent Reznor, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger...
Enemies: Johnny (of the song "I'm Afraid of Americans").
Followers: David Byrne and Madonna are just two of many. Another, Lady Gaga, exists elsewhere in this Pantheon.
Not unlike The Doctor (which makes deities wonder...), each of his personas has a secondary holy symbol; examples of these include a dead circuit, a painted-on lightning bolt, a pack of Gitanes cigarettes, and a crystal sphere.
His ascent to godhood was the result of his transformations, which first gave him a mastery of Sound and Vision. While already handsome, the abilities he gained in his more exotic forms eventually rendered him an alarmingly sexy entity unique to the cosmos.
His gift for ch-ch-ch-ch-changes has earned him the (apparently very tender) affections of Luna in the Main House.
Has been seen conversing with Lord Chaos on more than one occasion... though apparently it was a case of mistakenidentity on Chaos' part. Also, in another identity related mishap, Naoki Fushima once thought he opposed YHVH.
Symbols: The rose and a crystal piano for Yoshiki, pink hair and a yellow guitar with red hearts for hide
Alignment: Chaotic Evil AND Chaotic Good for both. Depending on who you ask, sometimes both at the same time, and sometimes changing at different points in the day depending on everything from alcohol consumption to temper.
The top drummer alive, and a now-dead guitarist who, had he lived and been recognized more widely, would have been right along with Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. And who, ironically, in death is.
Almost singlehandedly created a new genre of their own.
Internet band and patron saints of the Uncanny Valley, the Gorillaz bassist, Murdoc Niccals, bought their position on the Tvtropes pantheon with organs and cold hard cash.
Briefly went to Valhalla following drummer John Bonham's ascension in 1980, but returned to earth for one last show in London in 2007.
Basically invented metal by playing Blues really really loudly.
The high priests of Zeppelin are still trying to figure out what "Stairway to Heaven" was actually about. They doubt it has anything to do with Satan, however.
Allies: The Beatles (distant as it seems), Yoko Kanno, Super Robot pilots (plus a few Real Robot pilots too)
Rivals: none at the moment
A lot of gods don't want them to make contact with the conclave of ZUN, Yuki Kajiura, Yoko Kanno, and Nobuo Uematsu. They have fears that such a music will make reality implode.
They have been doing support work for Super Robot Pilots; whenever their music show up, EPICwill ensue.
Regular visitors at house of war, where they gather stories about greatest and most tragic battles, heroic deeds and similiar, which they can dedicate a song to.
Well regarded by Nico Robin, Godess of History, for encouraging their listeners to do a lot of research.
He accended to the Pantheon's House of Music when he made a couple of good deeds to redeem himself from the JerkAss behaviour that he had kept up for a while. He currently spends most of his time in the music studio, trying to help the other Gods to make music.
His last day amongst the Disgraces ended with him interrupting a speech made by Eragon, claiming that the House of Music had one of the best music studios of all time.
Accended after their mortal coils were shed. Despite living in the House of Music, they tend to keep a distance from eachothers.
When either of these gods have a concert, many guards are at place. To say that their followers are known to be troublesome in eachothers precense would be an understatement.
