Prophecy and Fate
The House of Prophecy sits upon the highest mountain, standing above the rest of the Pantheon as if silently watching them. There are a lot of rumors about what the inside of the House looks like. The truth is that it is possibly the most spartan and austere of the Houses - very plain, very bare of comforts, a rather boring place. That has not stopped a brave few from climbing up in order to ask the inhabitants what the future holds. Most either never reached the top or were frustrated by prophetic gibberish, and the few that had the patience to listen returned... changed somehow, though none would speak of what had taken place. Occasionally, a deity from the House of Prophecy would come down from the mountain and offer to tell fortunes... for a price, of course. However, many would find their predictions frustratingly vague and nonsensical, while others would have preferred not to have known their fortunes at all.
Kamina currently stands as the House of Prophecy's number one threat, due to his alarming invisibility to prescience was well as the ability to change fate. The House of Prophecy is quick to involve itself in any issue that pertains to him.
The Five Maidens, Goddesses of Fate (Mercury, Maiden of Journeys, Venus, Maiden of Serenity, Mars, Maiden of Battles, Jupiter, Maiden of Secrets, Saturn, Maiden of Endings)
Greater Goddesses
Symbol: The astrological symbols of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, in yellow, blue, red, green, and violet, respectively
Exclusive to Mercury: Celerity, Liberation, Portal, Travel
Exclusive to Venus: Charm, Community, Family, Lust
Exclusive to Mars: Destruction, Protection, War
Exclusive to Jupiter: Knowledge, Mind, Trickery
Exclusive to Saturn: Death, Renewal, Repose
Allies: The Unconquered Sun, Luna
Followers: The Sidereal Exalted
The Five Maidens are, collectively, the undisputed head of the House of Prophecy. The other members of the House read Fate or carry it out; the Maidens are largely responsible for shaping it, and for compensating when things don't go according to plan.
Ascended after ending a war by leading the UPSF's forces to victory against the Raalgons in an epic confrontation with absolutely no casualties. On either side. The rest of the pantheon is utterly befuddled as to whether this was a feat of brilliant planning or an ungodly stroke of dumb luck.
Since ascending, there have been exactly 3,297 attempts on his life by other deities vying for his position. All of them have failed, most of which Tylor was — and probably still is— entirely oblivious to.
Is the main driving force behind why Gaunt's Ghosts are so goddamn Badass. With her sidekick bodyguard Brin Milo, she floats around the Pantheon devising plans and prophecies that put even Tzeentch to shame.
Discoverer and foremost (albeit only) expert on Karmatron Dynamics, the science of karma. On a micro scale, it allows encoding information in even seemingly random molecular motion (order in entropy) and nullification of teleportation's Alias problem. On a macro scale, it is nothing less than the methodical study and control of destiny itself.
Has many sides to his personality. The other gods tend to steer clear of him, as he can be alternately introspective, frothingly insane, and amusingly quirky, sometimes one right after the other or all at once. Most often, though, he is deviously dangerous, more so than most because so few people have any clue what he's up to.
Link, God of Diversified Weaponry (The Hero of Time, Hero of the Winds, Grasshopper)
Lesser God
Symbol: The Triforce
Alignment: Varying with each incarnation, but always good.
Does double duty, also being a member of the Weapons pantheon.
Destined to reincarnate in an endless cycle for as long as there is evil. Has to build up all of his skills and weapons every time, but, fortunately for any Hylian therapists, does not retain memory of past lives. Every time he is reborn, dies, and ends up in the Pantheon, he's surprised to find out about his godhood. Every time.
Subject to an equally endless line of prophecies, most of which only apply to one lifespan each.
The other Prophecy Gods let him in to this house to do their errands. When it comes to MacGuffin Delivery Services, particularly matched sets, you can't hire much better than Link. And he can get a bottle of milk from the cow to the god paying in two minutes flat, or it's free.
Needless to say, with all of this reincarnation going on, he is pretty much Virtuous' bitch.
She is well feared amongst the Pantheon as she is able to induce a really really horrible fate that would make other beings just want to forget that it ever happened...
Mitsuru was formerly the Student Council Goddess, but her house was destroyed during an ambush by Wilhelm von Juergen, while she was being captured by him at the same time. She was rescued by Lamia Loveless, and was told that even though she lost her house, she could restart from scratch. Mitsuru agreed and relocated here. With Juergen in the Disgraces and nothing from his assault remains scarring the Pantheon, she considers that he got his punishment properly, a Fate Worse Than Honorable Death.
Keeps in touch with the House of Life And Death, so she can gather her 'victims' death fates, and think of something worse for punishment.
Actually moved on centuries ago, but he predicted every possible event that his presence would be needed for and left a series of videotapes labeled with a date and time of when to play them, which function more or less exactly as his actual presence would.
When the final battle of Good and Evil occurs, no one is sure what these two will do. Kain has assured representatives from both sides he'll join whoever can help him achieve his goals, but that's little help since no one knows what goals he's after. Raziel meanwhile has pledged to fight for Good, but his history of helping villains without realizing it makes his pledge not worth much if he doesn't understand what's going on.
Though they parted on good terms, since the two ascended to the Trope Pantheon Kain has passed the time by occasionally opening time portals and throwing Raziel into a random point in history for kicks. He then watches Raziel stumble his way back to the present without realizing how much and how often he's changing history without knowing it. Their relationship has gone south again once this happened the second time.
Because Kain is such a Jerkass and is the one responsible for killing Raziel, the two have difficulty trusting each other. But when they do set aside their differences to cooperate, the other Trope Gods should be wary—between Kain's knowledge of history and Raziel's ability to change it, almost anyone is at risk of being Ret Gone.
