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!!Hyaloring Pantheon
[[folder: Hyalor]]
[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hyalor.png]]
[[caption-width-right:234: Hyalor Change-Maker]]
->''When Hyalor gave us the blank gold tablets, he said, “Let this be your only emperor.”''
A human who became a god, partly because he invented riding.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Started out human.
* DivineParentage: His father was Yamsur, a minor member of the solar pantheon. And he in turn is the ancestor of the Riders.
* EthnicGod: He's the namesake god of the Hyaloring people, and the origin of their basic philosophy: "There is no rule that can't be changed, when survival is at stake."
* HeroicBastard: It is, at least, strongly implied that he was the product of a one-night stand.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Hyalor realizes that Nivorah is doomed and sets an organized retreat while his rival Samnal is still trying to fight to save it.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: He lived a ''very'' long life, and outlived eight wives (sequentially) as well as many of their children together. By the end, the knowledge that he would outlive everyone he loved had caused him to keep other humans at a distance.
* ParentalNeglect: He was a bastard son of the minor sun god Yamsur, but Yamsur figured into his life so little that this is completely unknown to the modern Hyalorings.
* SemiDivine: These days he's all divine, but before his death and ascension Hyalor was "merely" an immortal hero with secret divine heritage.
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[[folder: Gamari]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gamari.png]]
[[caption-width-right:306:Gamari Horse Mother]][[quoteright:306:[[labelnote:Click to see her as Hippogriff.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hippogrif.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''When Gamari lost her wings, Hyalor adopted her into his clan.''
The first horse, and the goddess of horses. Originally called Hippogriff.
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* CompositeCharacter: She combines aspects of the deities known to later Gloranthans as Gamara, Hippoi, and King Hippogriff.
* CoolHorse: She fought demons, trolls, and a goddess of earthquakes. She can also supply your clan with kumis- a type of booze.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Invokes this trope. She was initially distraught by her mutilation, but came to see it as a "necessity", a shedding of the the unnecessary parts of her body. After all, who needs wings when you can ride like the wind?
* FantasticRacism: In a non-canonical variant of Busenari's myth, Gamari will scoff that if cows were meant to be brave they would've been born horses.
* FlamingHair: Her mane and tail are flames, appropriately so for the steed of sun gods.
* ThatManIsDead: She started calling herself "Gamari" when she became a horse.
* UndyingLoyalty: Hippogriff was often hurt because she was loyal to a friend who didn't deserve it and often abandoned her in the midst of battle. Gamari's later partnership with Hyalor formed many legends and became the Rider ideal of friendship.
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[[folder: Elmal]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:The Guardian Sun]]
->''When Yelm fell from the sky, Elmal took his place on the Sunpath.''
A god of the sun. After his father, Emperor Yelm, died at Orlanth's hands, he reluctantly took on his divine role. \\\
For tropes related to his depiction in ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass'', see [[Characters/KingOfDragonPass here]].
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* BrutalHonesty: When Verlaro complained that his herd animals were following Osara instead, Elmal replied that "You should shine brighter." Which is cruel, but given how lazy and thoughtless Verlaro was, not untrue.
* CargoShip: Invoked. He was apparently married to Nivorah, [[GeniusLoci as in, the city]]. That was when she was still alive.
* ClosestThingWeGot: The empire is vastly and irreparably reduced, Elmal couldn't stop that, but it's only because of him there is still an empire at all. All of his brothers were too cowardly, evil or hidebound to care about protecting the people.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: He becomes the (not "a") sun not when the previous sun died, or even when he fought to protect his inheritance, but when he sacrificed some of it to save his people.
* TheCreon: He started calling himself a king only when he realized that the Riders needed one to be safe from Yonesh.
-->''[Elmal] said what needed to be said to power his strike.''
* DramaticIrony: He was the only "small sun" to remain loyal to the empire after Yelm's death (the others tried to destroy it so they could get power), and he vowed to every one of them that he would somehow rescue Yelm from the underworld. [[spoiler:In the end, however, Elmal's role was not to save Yelm, but to hold down the fort for the Lightbringers who did, and to sustain humanity while they quested.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Orlanth, whose basic story is him going out and starting fights for/over something. Elmal's story is him just staying at home, doing his duty, and repeatedly getting threatened by asshole outsiders...but invariably surviving every calamity they throw at him.
* HopeBringer: He couldn't maintain all of his father's sunpath, but he could preserve enough of it that the Riders wouldn't freeze to death as they migrated to the mortal world.
* HumbleHero: Much of Elmal's refusal to bend before false suns comes from his humility: as a loyal servant of Yelm, he sees just how fake his would-be usurpers are, and won't recognize anyone lesser as having the right to rule.
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: Elmal's sunlight is contrasted by the rain of Shella, a goddess.
* PapaWolf: He was not happy when he found that a Wheel clan had bullied the son he'd left them with. So he gave them two years of drought. [[note]]For clarification, your clan can be utterly ruined by ''one season'' of the same.[[/note]]
* ReluctantRuler: Elmal is reluctant to lay claim to his father's authority, but in the end he must.
* ShutUpHannibal: To Shargash as he destroyed the sunpath.
-->"I am not the sun, and neither are you."
* StartXToStopX: He hates change as much as anybody, but he also acknowledges that it's suicidal to pretend the empire hasn't fallen and the old ways will still work. For this reason he took charge of the empire's remnants; since Yelm wasn't coming back no matter ''how'' they acted, it was better to be slightly disobedient (and manage to preserve some lives) than [[ToBeLawfulOrGood totally obedient]] (and watch passively as his subordinates were killed or corrupted into being ''really'' disobedient).
* SuddenlySuitableSuitor: An example unrelated to bloodline. Elmal came last of all Nyalda's suitors to court her. When Nyalda asked why, Elmal replied that he had been unworthy of her until he [[EpiphanyComeback became the sun]]. This is in contrast with the other suitors, who were arrogant, sexist assholes that Nyalda summarily rejected.
* SurvivorsGuilt: In Elmal's myth, the plot pauses briefly so the narrator can emphasize that ''if'' Elmal had been with his dad when Orlanth struck the fatal blow, he would've been able to shield Yelm with his body. Once this period of wishful thinking is over, the story resumes its natural flow.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Most of the thieving "small suns" Elmal had to fight off...but when he found Little Yelm stealing, he simply looked into his eyes and said "This is unworthy of you." Little Yelm fled.
* TopGod: In Yelm's absence, he is the king of the gods.
* WarGod: More so than in ''King of Dragon Pass''. Here, all Elmal's blessings are related to war.
* YouAreInCommandNow: He was given sovereignty after Yelm's death, and he gave it to Hyalor and to every Rider clan since the Exodus.
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[[folder: Nyalda]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:Nyalda Earth Mother]]
->''When Hyalor asked Nyalda to join us in the exodus, she told him, “We must no longer be below you, but rather beside you.”''
The earth mother of the Hyaloring pantheon, and Elmal's wife.
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* BatmanGambit: She never told Elmal that she wanted him to court her because there was never any need to; he decided to court her on his own, just as Nyalda had anticipated (although she didn't predict how ''slow'' he would be in doing so, so she had to fend off several unwanted suitors while waiting).
* DivineDelegation: While not the TopGod, Nyalda is the top earth goddess and delegates most of the physically earthy stuff to her daughters, a bevy of crop, animal, and food-related goddesses.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Unusually for a Rider god, she's depicted barefoot.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: Narrowly averted. She was so interested in Elmal's proposal that she almost broke protocol to talk to him directly, instead of through intermediaries as proper Hyaloring women do.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She likes Elmal because he didn't try to force her into marrying him and he offered a thoughtfully-chosen marriage gift.
* SummonBiggerFish: She doesn't fight, but she has no shortage of followers, kin, suitors, etc, who ''do'', and are more than willing to help her fend off unwanted attention.
* SoapboxSadie: Her myths indirectly but noticeably teach listeners how women should be treated.
-->"A wife is not a slave."
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She bears a ''very'' strong resemblance to the Orlanthi goddess Ernalda (see below under the Vingkotling pantheon). They have similar personalities, blessings (although Ernalda is more involved with farming), and daughters—they even share the same holy objects. A circle member can even comment that they might be the same goddess under different names...
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[[folder: Busenari]]
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[[caption-width-right:306:Busenari Cow Mother]]
->''When the exodus came, Busenari followed the sunpath to Elmal's side.''
Goddess of cattle.
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* ActionSurvivor: She's no fighter (except in non-canon heroquest routes), but she was calm enough to escape and endure the darkening, monster-filled ruins of Yelm's court. And to help her daughters do the same.
* FoodGod: As the goddess of cows, she provides milk, cheese, and meat. (One origin story variant indicates that long ago, she blessed the Riders with lactose tolerance after a brave priestess quested to her.)
* TheHeart: She convinced her daughters- all the cows in the world- to venture out and find a new pasture as predators and frost were devouring the heavens. And when they were tired or scared or grieving, she convinced them again.
* StayInTheKitchen: An example specific to species, not gender. When Busenari's daughters were worrying uselessly about [[SuccessionCrisis the state of the world]], she told them, "Let Elmal worry about what lies beyond the fields". This was wise because cows- being ''cows''- couldn't do anything to help even if they tried. All that mattered then was surviving.
* YouAreInCommandNow: She and her herd used to be led between meadows by the Emperor, but when he died, she had to do the leading. She turned out to be pretty good at it.
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[[folder: Ekarna]]
[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ekarna.png]]
[[caption-width-right:234:Ekarna Four Trader]]
->''Busenari said, "All the cows are my daughters." Ekarna replied, "And the gold they fetch will arm our sons."''
Goddess of trade and diplomacy.
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* TheAlmightyDollar: As the goddess of trade, she's also strongly associated with wealth and prosperity.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: A downplayed example: she's clearly good, but like all deities her nature is limited. For example, she ''can't'' "reward" heroquesters, because trade is incompatible with giving people something for nothing. So she works around this limitation by offering them extremely generous deals that are lopsided in their favour.
* BoyishShortHair: To fit her 'fearless adventurer' aesthetic.
* ChainOfDeals: The Ekarna-centric myth is about her making trades with various foreigners, all to eventually get the stuff her clan actually needs. She has to walk pretty far.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She did business with geese, Orlanthi and even ghosts.
* GuileHero: She succeeds by bringing people together, but also by using a rival god's sexism against him.
* HopeBringer: When the refugee Riders ran low on supplies, she showed them how to procure more goods from the Sky (mortal) World's inhabitants.
* IAmWho: She did not know at first she was the goddess of trade, because the perfect city Nivorah had never needed trade. It was only during the exodus that she realized her identity.
* PragmaticHero: According to your advisors, "Busenari said, 'All cows are my daughters.' Ekarna said, 'And the gold they fetch will arm our sons.'"
* TheStoryteller: She is so good at telling stories that she can trade them for actual tangible items.
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[[folder: Relandar]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/relandar1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:306:Relandar Role Sorter]]
->''Relandar said, "The law is clear. People are not."''
God of wisdom.
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* GoodOldWays: While Relandar is willing to accept change if need be, he and his worshippers still stand for tradition and continuity.
* MesACrowd: In his myth, he divides himself into many Relandars in order to teach the Riders an object lesson about the value of hierarchy.
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[[folder: Erissa]]
[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erissa.png]]
[[caption-width-right:234:The gentle goddess of healing.]]
->''Erissa embodies mercy.''
Goddess of healing.
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* ActualPacifist: Erissa will never hurt anyone, period. Of course, [[ReviveKillsZombie healing Death]] is such a contradiction that it throws him halfway across the world.
* AllLovingHero: Erissa loves and heals all people. In Rider stories, she favors them, of course.
* CelibateHero: In Rider myths, Erissa abstains from romance to make herself value all lives equally. (This is not the case in Wheel myths, in which she has a son.)
* ColorMotif: Erissa (and her followers) wear white with green accents, indicating purity and life. It also contrasts with her suitor Death, who wears solid black aside from a belt of white skulls.
* CulturalRebel: Erissa defies a male god, which is notable because she used to belong to Yelm's court- a ''very'' patriarchal pantheon.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Her enemy is death itself- not a race, or a clan, or a species. Battles that involve killing may be necessary, but they're [[PyrrhicVictory Pyrrhic Victories]] at best, not something to be celebrated.
* DontYouLikeIt: [[LoveInterest Death]] spread himself through the world partly so he could show everyone how wonderful Erissa was. Erissa knew he was well-intentioned, but was still horrified by the misery and fear he'd caused. Death didn't listen.
-->''When the Rebel killed the Emperor and darkened the sky, Death sought her again. "See what I put into motion? Now all the mortals will wish to worship you. [[{{Yandere}} Because much more of my gift is coming]]."
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has golden hair and is the kindest and gentlest of the gods.
* HealerGod: Her role in the pantheon. Her blessings cure your sick and heal your wounded.
* HopeBringer: As first Pain and then Death came into the world, Erissa helped people deal with them.
* StarCrossedLovers: She and Death strengthen each other just by existing, but their nature as opposites means they will always be working against each other.
* TechnicalPacifist: Erissa's devotees do not kill, but they are just as capable of becoming clan chiefs as anyone else- thereby tacitly permitting its soldiers and tricksters to do things the devotees personally would never do.
* MagicMusic: She sang the first Bone-Mending Ballad.
* OppositesAttract: Death has been in love with her since before he properly existed, and while Erissa will never accept his offer, she does return the attraction.
* TookALevelInBadass: Once, Erissa was just a cupbearer for higher gods. She didn't even know what she was the goddess of! Then physical injuries came into existence, and she knew all too well.
* ToughLeaderFacade: Being anything less than totally unbiased and totally committed to duty would endanger the thousands of people who depend on Erissa to survive.
* UndyingLoyalty: She will ''never'' betray life, no matter what Death offers her.
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[[folder: Osara]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/osara.png]]
[[caption-width-right:306:Flame Sister]]
->''"Freedom is not about pleasure. It requires more discipline, not less."''
Goddess of archery and female warriors and leaders. Formerly the Nivorah goddess of daughters, but she took on a more assertive role after the Hyalorings left the city.
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* ActionGirl: She became one after leaving Nivorah. Her worshippers also qualify.
* ArcherArchetype: Osara is a self-possessed archer. She's pictured firing an arrow, and her blessing is Firearrow.
* DecompositeCharacter: Osara and her brother Zarlen split the role that Vinga, goddess of female warriors and exploration, played in ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass''. Osara shares Vinga's association with warrior women and her close relationship with her father, the head of the pantheon (Osara's worshippers can perform Elmal's ritual as though they were Elmali, just as Vingans could perform Orlanth's heroquests just like Orlanth worshippers).
* FamilyHonor: One reason she saves Verlaro's bacon so much if that she doesn't, people will think less of the Fire Tribe as a whole.
* FieryRedhead: Red-haired, a fighter, and associated with fire and the sun.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Osara is responsible, and her brother Verlaro is foolish. The myth about them (and many stories advisors can tell in the game) boil down to "Verlaro gets in trouble; Osara gets him out of it."
* HorseArcher: She's depicted shooting a bow while riding a horse.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She bears a very strong resemblance to [[Characters/KingOfDragonPass Vinga]], the red-haired Orlanthi goddess of female warriors. Her worshippers can even perform Elmal's rituals, just as Vingans could perform Orlanth's heroquests.
* WarGod: The goddess of female warriors.
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[[folder: Pela]]
->''The next emblem [...] depicts when the grain goddess Pela showed how to plant and harvest her golden barley. Our ancestor Sarsadiga was there in the celestial fields, and brought back the seeds and sickle.''
Goddess of barley and the local land. She is Nyalda's daughter.
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* CompositeCharacter: In most versions of Glorantha, Pela the barley goddess and Peloria the land goddess are different characters. (Peloria is, however, the goddess of wheat.)
* FoodGod: Responsible for your harvests.
* SatelliteCharacter: You can build a shrine to her, and she's mentioned whenever you prepare new fields. But Pela appears in no myths and is rarely mentioned during the game. Her worshippers don't appear among the nobles you can appoint to the circle that governs the clan. Despite being connected to one of the possible backstory events for your clan, she's the least-mentioned of your gods.
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[[folder: Uryarda]]
->''Uryarda Goat Mother and Yanade the Spirit Father bet each other they could make goats more fruitful. The winner was the clan that owned those goats.''
Goddess of goats.
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* FoodGod: One of several, responsible for your herds along with Busenari.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: She's the principal goddess of the Ergeshites, a people who keep no livestock other than goats.
* SatelliteCharacter: She plays very little role in the myths and is only occasionally mentioned in dialogue, although you ''can'' have her worshippers on the circle or build a temple to her.
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[[folder: Zarlen]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zarlen2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:306:Bright-Tailed Wanderer]]
->''Zarlen was born from a mixed marriage, which is why he is a wandering star.''
God of exploration, son of Elmal with the Wheel Witch.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He left the clan because he had no place there. While wandering, though, he discovered an attack planned by the Rams. He warned the clan of this attack, thereby saving many lives and being accepted as a legitimate son.
* BoldExplorer: As the god of exploration, he almost has to be this. Zarlen braves many dangers with only his horse for company, learning secrets of the land and secrets about the gods' foes.
* DecompositeCharacter: Zarlen and his sister Osara split the role played by Vinga, goddess of explorers and female warriors, in ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass.'' Zarlen gets exploration, Vinga's Pathfinder blessing, and shares Vinga's association with the Motion rune (which marks both of their worshippers among your nobles).
* OnlyFriend: His horse, Wandering Star. She was the first one who realized Zarlen's potential as a god.
* SolidClouds: He and [[CoolHorse Wandering Star]] discovered many secrets unknown to the Riders, including how to walk on clouds.
* TheUnfavorite: Being a bastard son of Elmal. He was grudgingly accepted into Nyalda's clan, but disrespected by almost everyone.
-->''Busenari made sure he was the last to drink from her bowl. Pela gave him only crusts. When Inilla dropped berries into his hand, she left the stems and worms in.''
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[[folder: Inilla]]
[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inilla.png]]
[[caption-width-right:234:Inilla Forage Finder]]
->''It was during the exodus that Inilla proved her worth.''
Goddess of foraging, and a daughter of Elmal and Nyalda.
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* FoodGod: Goddess of foraging, or finding food in the wild.
* GuileHero: Inilla's foe, Yatelo, is one that cannot be bested with weapons. So she defeats him with trickery and cleverness, all the while pointing out that if he tries to kill her out of frustration, he will become the kind of enemy her father Elmal knows how to fight.
* HiddenDepths: Although Inilla is emphatically not a fighter, her worshippers tend to have high Combat skill, perhaps reflecting her role as a goddess of survival.
* HopeBringer: See a pattern? After leaving the Golden City, the gods suffered from hunger for the first time. Inilla showed them how to survive in the wilderness.
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[[folder: Dostal]]
[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dostal.png]]
[[caption-width-right:234:Dostal Elk Hunter]]
->''On our journey into the wildlands, no god taught us more than Dostal.''
God of hunting, and husband to Inilla.
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* ClassicalHunter: As the god of hunting (primarily for survival), Dostal qualifies as this.
* FoodGod: Yet another of the Riders' many gods of not starving to death.
* TheMentor: Back when the gods lived among their mortal worshippers, Dostal would often take small groups of young men into the wilderness to teach them to hunt. In his in-game ritual and the corresponding myth, he teaches the future leaders of the first four Rider clans, including your ancestor Basikan.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: He's presumably the same deity of Dastal, who the much later Pure Horse people of the Grazelands worship as god of the hunt and patron of young men entering adulthood.
* TheQuietOne: Throughout "Dostal and the Snow Elk", he never speaks.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Buseryan, Narva, Nocheli, Perondeto and Tepekos]]
When your clan left Nivorah, they took with them one and only one of these five minor gods. Buseryan, as one of Elmal's brothers, is mentioned a couple of times even if you don't choose him.
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* FoodGod: Narva is a beverage goddess.
* OddJobGod: Each of them has a very specific domain:
** Buseryan is the god of writing.
** Narva is the goddess of beer.
** Nocheli is the goddess of the red dye insect ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal cochineal]]).
** Perondeto is the god of glassmaking.
** Tepekos is the god of bronzesmiths.
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: You can only preserve the secrets of one of these gods.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Buseryan is usually spelled Buser'''i'''an. It was changed to make it less similar to Busenari.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Raven]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raven3.png]]
[[caption-width-right:306:Sharp-Beaked Spirit]]
->''Hyalor said, "Contain your droppings." Raven said, "I know what you want, and cannot admit to."''
The greatest of the spirits you can bargain with, Raven is still not a god.
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* BrutalHonesty: Sometimes a Raven shaman will embarrass clan elders by listing their guilty secrets out loud.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Raven sometimes asks his people to kidnap and torture foreigners. Eye gouging is involved.
* HorrorHunger: Dialogue implies that he drinks the blood of living people.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Raven keeps the Riders honest. A clan that tacitly enables slavery may wake up to find their own children have been sold off.
* LiminalBeing: Raven seems to exist on the boundary between spirit and god, although the Riders firmly place him among the former. Raven is too unreliable for a proper god, but more powerful than any other spirit you can encounter--and Raven shamans are considered a different religion than regular ones.
* MoreThanMindControl: Raven shamans don't ''want'' to hurt the clan as in the LaserGuidedKarma example, but Raven doesn't give them a choice.
* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous:: As one Raven shaman points out, you can never be sure whether Raven is male or female at any given time.
* PetTheDog: Raven shamans often make ice slides or scavenger hunts, so the clan's children can have fun.
* ShadowArchetype: Raven is called Elmal's shadow, and represents the darkness that--because it is Elmal's opposite--Elmal cannot see.
* TokenEvilTeammate: At his worst, Raven can be this. One advisor says that his role is to do the things that Hyalor should not, while another quotes Raven as saying "I know what you want, and cannot admit to."
* TheTrickster: Raven and her shamans serve this role, similar to the Eurmali of ''King of Dragon Pass.''
* TricksterGod: Played with. The Hyalorings are very firm in their belief that Raven is a spirit rather than a god... but your tricksters identify the Vingkotling TricksterGod Eurmal as the same being as their patron spirit.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Hyalor]]
[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hyalor.png]]
[[caption-width-right:234: Hyalor Change-Maker]]
->''When Hyalor gave us the blank gold tablets, he said, “Let this be your only emperor.”''
A human who became a god, partly because he invented riding.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Started out human.
* DivineParentage: His father was Yamsur, a minor member of the solar pantheon. And he in turn is the ancestor of the Riders.
* EthnicGod: He's the namesake god of the Hyaloring people, and the origin of their basic philosophy: "There is no rule that can't be changed, when survival is at stake."
* HeroicBastard: It is, at least, strongly implied that he was the product of a one-night stand.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Hyalor realizes that Nivorah is doomed and sets an organized retreat while his rival Samnal is still trying to fight to save it.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: He lived a ''very'' long life, and outlived eight wives (sequentially) as well as many of their children together. By the end, the knowledge that he would outlive everyone he loved had caused him to keep other humans at a distance.
* ParentalNeglect: He was a bastard son of the minor sun god Yamsur, but Yamsur figured into his life so little that this is completely unknown to the modern Hyalorings.
* SemiDivine: These days he's all divine, but before his death and ascension Hyalor was "merely" an immortal hero with secret divine heritage.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Gamari]]
[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gamari.png]]
[[caption-width-right:306:Gamari Horse Mother]][[quoteright:306:[[labelnote:Click to see her as Hippogriff.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hippogrif.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->''When Gamari lost her wings, Hyalor adopted her into his clan.''
The first horse, and the goddess of horses. Originally called Hippogriff.
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* CompositeCharacter: She combines aspects of the deities known to later Gloranthans as Gamara, Hippoi, and King Hippogriff.
* CoolHorse: She fought demons, trolls, and a goddess of earthquakes. She can also supply your clan with kumis- a type of booze.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Invokes this trope. She was initially distraught by her mutilation, but came to see it as a "necessity", a shedding of the the unnecessary parts of her body. After all, who needs wings when you can ride like the wind?
* FantasticRacism: In a non-canonical variant of Busenari's myth, Gamari will scoff that if cows were meant to be brave they would've been born horses.
* FlamingHair: Her mane and tail are flames, appropriately so for the steed of sun gods.
* ThatManIsDead: She started calling herself "Gamari" when she became a horse.
* UndyingLoyalty: Hippogriff was often hurt because she was loyal to a friend who didn't deserve it and often abandoned her in the midst of battle. Gamari's later partnership with Hyalor formed many legends and became the Rider ideal of friendship.
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[[folder: Elmal]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:The Guardian Sun]]
->''When Yelm fell from the sky, Elmal took his place on the Sunpath.''
A god of the sun. After his father, Emperor Yelm, died at Orlanth's hands, he reluctantly took on his divine role. \\\
For tropes related to his depiction in ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass'', see [[Characters/KingOfDragonPass here]].
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* BrutalHonesty: When Verlaro complained that his herd animals were following Osara instead, Elmal replied that "You should shine brighter." Which is cruel, but given how lazy and thoughtless Verlaro was, not untrue.
* CargoShip: Invoked. He was apparently married to Nivorah, [[GeniusLoci as in, the city]]. That was when she was still alive.
* ClosestThingWeGot: The empire is vastly and irreparably reduced, Elmal couldn't stop that, but it's only because of him there is still an empire at all. All of his brothers were too cowardly, evil or hidebound to care about protecting the people.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: He becomes the (not "a") sun not when the previous sun died, or even when he fought to protect his inheritance, but when he sacrificed some of it to save his people.
* TheCreon: He started calling himself a king only when he realized that the Riders needed one to be safe from Yonesh.
-->''[Elmal] said what needed to be said to power his strike.''
* DramaticIrony: He was the only "small sun" to remain loyal to the empire after Yelm's death (the others tried to destroy it so they could get power), and he vowed to every one of them that he would somehow rescue Yelm from the underworld. [[spoiler:In the end, however, Elmal's role was not to save Yelm, but to hold down the fort for the Lightbringers who did, and to sustain humanity while they quested.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Orlanth, whose basic story is him going out and starting fights for/over something. Elmal's story is him just staying at home, doing his duty, and repeatedly getting threatened by asshole outsiders...but invariably surviving every calamity they throw at him.
* HopeBringer: He couldn't maintain all of his father's sunpath, but he could preserve enough of it that the Riders wouldn't freeze to death as they migrated to the mortal world.
* HumbleHero: Much of Elmal's refusal to bend before false suns comes from his humility: as a loyal servant of Yelm, he sees just how fake his would-be usurpers are, and won't recognize anyone lesser as having the right to rule.
* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: Elmal's sunlight is contrasted by the rain of Shella, a goddess.
* PapaWolf: He was not happy when he found that a Wheel clan had bullied the son he'd left them with. So he gave them two years of drought. [[note]]For clarification, your clan can be utterly ruined by ''one season'' of the same.[[/note]]
* ReluctantRuler: Elmal is reluctant to lay claim to his father's authority, but in the end he must.
* ShutUpHannibal: To Shargash as he destroyed the sunpath.
-->"I am not the sun, and neither are you."
* StartXToStopX: He hates change as much as anybody, but he also acknowledges that it's suicidal to pretend the empire hasn't fallen and the old ways will still work. For this reason he took charge of the empire's remnants; since Yelm wasn't coming back no matter ''how'' they acted, it was better to be slightly disobedient (and manage to preserve some lives) than [[ToBeLawfulOrGood totally obedient]] (and watch passively as his subordinates were killed or corrupted into being ''really'' disobedient).
* SuddenlySuitableSuitor: An example unrelated to bloodline. Elmal came last of all Nyalda's suitors to court her. When Nyalda asked why, Elmal replied that he had been unworthy of her until he [[EpiphanyComeback became the sun]]. This is in contrast with the other suitors, who were arrogant, sexist assholes that Nyalda summarily rejected.
* SurvivorsGuilt: In Elmal's myth, the plot pauses briefly so the narrator can emphasize that ''if'' Elmal had been with his dad when Orlanth struck the fatal blow, he would've been able to shield Yelm with his body. Once this period of wishful thinking is over, the story resumes its natural flow.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Most of the thieving "small suns" Elmal had to fight off...but when he found Little Yelm stealing, he simply looked into his eyes and said "This is unworthy of you." Little Yelm fled.
* TopGod: In Yelm's absence, he is the king of the gods.
* WarGod: More so than in ''King of Dragon Pass''. Here, all Elmal's blessings are related to war.
* YouAreInCommandNow: He was given sovereignty after Yelm's death, and he gave it to Hyalor and to every Rider clan since the Exodus.
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[[folder: Nyalda]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:Nyalda Earth Mother]]
->''When Hyalor asked Nyalda to join us in the exodus, she told him, “We must no longer be below you, but rather beside you.”''
The earth mother of the Hyaloring pantheon, and Elmal's wife.
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* BatmanGambit: She never told Elmal that she wanted him to court her because there was never any need to; he decided to court her on his own, just as Nyalda had anticipated (although she didn't predict how ''slow'' he would be in doing so, so she had to fend off several unwanted suitors while waiting).
* DivineDelegation: While not the TopGod, Nyalda is the top earth goddess and delegates most of the physically earthy stuff to her daughters, a bevy of crop, animal, and food-related goddesses.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Unusually for a Rider god, she's depicted barefoot.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: Narrowly averted. She was so interested in Elmal's proposal that she almost broke protocol to talk to him directly, instead of through intermediaries as proper Hyaloring women do.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She likes Elmal because he didn't try to force her into marrying him and he offered a thoughtfully-chosen marriage gift.
* SummonBiggerFish: She doesn't fight, but she has no shortage of followers, kin, suitors, etc, who ''do'', and are more than willing to help her fend off unwanted attention.
* SoapboxSadie: Her myths indirectly but noticeably teach listeners how women should be treated.
-->"A wife is not a slave."
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She bears a ''very'' strong resemblance to the Orlanthi goddess Ernalda (see below under the Vingkotling pantheon). They have similar personalities, blessings (although Ernalda is more involved with farming), and daughters—they even share the same holy objects. A circle member can even comment that they might be the same goddess under different names...
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[[folder: Busenari]]
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[[caption-width-right:306:Busenari Cow Mother]]
->''When the exodus came, Busenari followed the sunpath to Elmal's side.''
Goddess of cattle.
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* ActionSurvivor: She's no fighter (except in non-canon heroquest routes), but she was calm enough to escape and endure the darkening, monster-filled ruins of Yelm's court. And to help her daughters do the same.
* FoodGod: As the goddess of cows, she provides milk, cheese, and meat. (One origin story variant indicates that long ago, she blessed the Riders with lactose tolerance after a brave priestess quested to her.)
* TheHeart: She convinced her daughters- all the cows in the world- to venture out and find a new pasture as predators and frost were devouring the heavens. And when they were tired or scared or grieving, she convinced them again.
* StayInTheKitchen: An example specific to species, not gender. When Busenari's daughters were worrying uselessly about [[SuccessionCrisis the state of the world]], she told them, "Let Elmal worry about what lies beyond the fields". This was wise because cows- being ''cows''- couldn't do anything to help even if they tried. All that mattered then was surviving.
* YouAreInCommandNow: She and her herd used to be led between meadows by the Emperor, but when he died, she had to do the leading. She turned out to be pretty good at it.
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[[folder: Ekarna]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:Ekarna Four Trader]]
->''Busenari said, "All the cows are my daughters." Ekarna replied, "And the gold they fetch will arm our sons."''
Goddess of trade and diplomacy.
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* TheAlmightyDollar: As the goddess of trade, she's also strongly associated with wealth and prosperity.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: A downplayed example: she's clearly good, but like all deities her nature is limited. For example, she ''can't'' "reward" heroquesters, because trade is incompatible with giving people something for nothing. So she works around this limitation by offering them extremely generous deals that are lopsided in their favour.
* BoyishShortHair: To fit her 'fearless adventurer' aesthetic.
* ChainOfDeals: The Ekarna-centric myth is about her making trades with various foreigners, all to eventually get the stuff her clan actually needs. She has to walk pretty far.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She did business with geese, Orlanthi and even ghosts.
* GuileHero: She succeeds by bringing people together, but also by using a rival god's sexism against him.
* HopeBringer: When the refugee Riders ran low on supplies, she showed them how to procure more goods from the Sky (mortal) World's inhabitants.
* IAmWho: She did not know at first she was the goddess of trade, because the perfect city Nivorah had never needed trade. It was only during the exodus that she realized her identity.
* PragmaticHero: According to your advisors, "Busenari said, 'All cows are my daughters.' Ekarna said, 'And the gold they fetch will arm our sons.'"
* TheStoryteller: She is so good at telling stories that she can trade them for actual tangible items.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Relandar]]
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[[caption-width-right:306:Relandar Role Sorter]]
->''Relandar said, "The law is clear. People are not."''
God of wisdom.
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* GoodOldWays: While Relandar is willing to accept change if need be, he and his worshippers still stand for tradition and continuity.
* MesACrowd: In his myth, he divides himself into many Relandars in order to teach the Riders an object lesson about the value of hierarchy.
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[[folder: Erissa]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:The gentle goddess of healing.]]
->''Erissa embodies mercy.''
Goddess of healing.
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* ActualPacifist: Erissa will never hurt anyone, period. Of course, [[ReviveKillsZombie healing Death]] is such a contradiction that it throws him halfway across the world.
* AllLovingHero: Erissa loves and heals all people. In Rider stories, she favors them, of course.
* CelibateHero: In Rider myths, Erissa abstains from romance to make herself value all lives equally. (This is not the case in Wheel myths, in which she has a son.)
* ColorMotif: Erissa (and her followers) wear white with green accents, indicating purity and life. It also contrasts with her suitor Death, who wears solid black aside from a belt of white skulls.
* CulturalRebel: Erissa defies a male god, which is notable because she used to belong to Yelm's court- a ''very'' patriarchal pantheon.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Her enemy is death itself- not a race, or a clan, or a species. Battles that involve killing may be necessary, but they're [[PyrrhicVictory Pyrrhic Victories]] at best, not something to be celebrated.
* DontYouLikeIt: [[LoveInterest Death]] spread himself through the world partly so he could show everyone how wonderful Erissa was. Erissa knew he was well-intentioned, but was still horrified by the misery and fear he'd caused. Death didn't listen.
-->''When the Rebel killed the Emperor and darkened the sky, Death sought her again. "See what I put into motion? Now all the mortals will wish to worship you. [[{{Yandere}} Because much more of my gift is coming]]."
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has golden hair and is the kindest and gentlest of the gods.
* HealerGod: Her role in the pantheon. Her blessings cure your sick and heal your wounded.
* HopeBringer: As first Pain and then Death came into the world, Erissa helped people deal with them.
* StarCrossedLovers: She and Death strengthen each other just by existing, but their nature as opposites means they will always be working against each other.
* TechnicalPacifist: Erissa's devotees do not kill, but they are just as capable of becoming clan chiefs as anyone else- thereby tacitly permitting its soldiers and tricksters to do things the devotees personally would never do.
* MagicMusic: She sang the first Bone-Mending Ballad.
* OppositesAttract: Death has been in love with her since before he properly existed, and while Erissa will never accept his offer, she does return the attraction.
* TookALevelInBadass: Once, Erissa was just a cupbearer for higher gods. She didn't even know what she was the goddess of! Then physical injuries came into existence, and she knew all too well.
* ToughLeaderFacade: Being anything less than totally unbiased and totally committed to duty would endanger the thousands of people who depend on Erissa to survive.
* UndyingLoyalty: She will ''never'' betray life, no matter what Death offers her.
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[[folder: Osara]]
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[[caption-width-right:306:Flame Sister]]
->''"Freedom is not about pleasure. It requires more discipline, not less."''
Goddess of archery and female warriors and leaders. Formerly the Nivorah goddess of daughters, but she took on a more assertive role after the Hyalorings left the city.
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* ActionGirl: She became one after leaving Nivorah. Her worshippers also qualify.
* ArcherArchetype: Osara is a self-possessed archer. She's pictured firing an arrow, and her blessing is Firearrow.
* DecompositeCharacter: Osara and her brother Zarlen split the role that Vinga, goddess of female warriors and exploration, played in ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass''. Osara shares Vinga's association with warrior women and her close relationship with her father, the head of the pantheon (Osara's worshippers can perform Elmal's ritual as though they were Elmali, just as Vingans could perform Orlanth's heroquests just like Orlanth worshippers).
* FamilyHonor: One reason she saves Verlaro's bacon so much if that she doesn't, people will think less of the Fire Tribe as a whole.
* FieryRedhead: Red-haired, a fighter, and associated with fire and the sun.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Osara is responsible, and her brother Verlaro is foolish. The myth about them (and many stories advisors can tell in the game) boil down to "Verlaro gets in trouble; Osara gets him out of it."
* HorseArcher: She's depicted shooting a bow while riding a horse.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She bears a very strong resemblance to [[Characters/KingOfDragonPass Vinga]], the red-haired Orlanthi goddess of female warriors. Her worshippers can even perform Elmal's rituals, just as Vingans could perform Orlanth's heroquests.
* WarGod: The goddess of female warriors.
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[[folder: Pela]]
->''The next emblem [...] depicts when the grain goddess Pela showed how to plant and harvest her golden barley. Our ancestor Sarsadiga was there in the celestial fields, and brought back the seeds and sickle.''
Goddess of barley and the local land. She is Nyalda's daughter.
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* CompositeCharacter: In most versions of Glorantha, Pela the barley goddess and Peloria the land goddess are different characters. (Peloria is, however, the goddess of wheat.)
* FoodGod: Responsible for your harvests.
* SatelliteCharacter: You can build a shrine to her, and she's mentioned whenever you prepare new fields. But Pela appears in no myths and is rarely mentioned during the game. Her worshippers don't appear among the nobles you can appoint to the circle that governs the clan. Despite being connected to one of the possible backstory events for your clan, she's the least-mentioned of your gods.
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[[folder: Uryarda]]
->''Uryarda Goat Mother and Yanade the Spirit Father bet each other they could make goats more fruitful. The winner was the clan that owned those goats.''
Goddess of goats.
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* FoodGod: One of several, responsible for your herds along with Busenari.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: She's the principal goddess of the Ergeshites, a people who keep no livestock other than goats.
* SatelliteCharacter: She plays very little role in the myths and is only occasionally mentioned in dialogue, although you ''can'' have her worshippers on the circle or build a temple to her.
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[[folder: Zarlen]]
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[[caption-width-right:306:Bright-Tailed Wanderer]]
->''Zarlen was born from a mixed marriage, which is why he is a wandering star.''
God of exploration, son of Elmal with the Wheel Witch.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He left the clan because he had no place there. While wandering, though, he discovered an attack planned by the Rams. He warned the clan of this attack, thereby saving many lives and being accepted as a legitimate son.
* BoldExplorer: As the god of exploration, he almost has to be this. Zarlen braves many dangers with only his horse for company, learning secrets of the land and secrets about the gods' foes.
* DecompositeCharacter: Zarlen and his sister Osara split the role played by Vinga, goddess of explorers and female warriors, in ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass.'' Zarlen gets exploration, Vinga's Pathfinder blessing, and shares Vinga's association with the Motion rune (which marks both of their worshippers among your nobles).
* OnlyFriend: His horse, Wandering Star. She was the first one who realized Zarlen's potential as a god.
* SolidClouds: He and [[CoolHorse Wandering Star]] discovered many secrets unknown to the Riders, including how to walk on clouds.
* TheUnfavorite: Being a bastard son of Elmal. He was grudgingly accepted into Nyalda's clan, but disrespected by almost everyone.
-->''Busenari made sure he was the last to drink from her bowl. Pela gave him only crusts. When Inilla dropped berries into his hand, she left the stems and worms in.''
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Inilla]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:Inilla Forage Finder]]
->''It was during the exodus that Inilla proved her worth.''
Goddess of foraging, and a daughter of Elmal and Nyalda.
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* FoodGod: Goddess of foraging, or finding food in the wild.
* GuileHero: Inilla's foe, Yatelo, is one that cannot be bested with weapons. So she defeats him with trickery and cleverness, all the while pointing out that if he tries to kill her out of frustration, he will become the kind of enemy her father Elmal knows how to fight.
* HiddenDepths: Although Inilla is emphatically not a fighter, her worshippers tend to have high Combat skill, perhaps reflecting her role as a goddess of survival.
* HopeBringer: See a pattern? After leaving the Golden City, the gods suffered from hunger for the first time. Inilla showed them how to survive in the wilderness.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Dostal]]
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[[caption-width-right:234:Dostal Elk Hunter]]
->''On our journey into the wildlands, no god taught us more than Dostal.''
God of hunting, and husband to Inilla.
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* ClassicalHunter: As the god of hunting (primarily for survival), Dostal qualifies as this.
* FoodGod: Yet another of the Riders' many gods of not starving to death.
* TheMentor: Back when the gods lived among their mortal worshippers, Dostal would often take small groups of young men into the wilderness to teach them to hunt. In his in-game ritual and the corresponding myth, he teaches the future leaders of the first four Rider clans, including your ancestor Basikan.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: He's presumably the same deity of Dastal, who the much later Pure Horse people of the Grazelands worship as god of the hunt and patron of young men entering adulthood.
* TheQuietOne: Throughout "Dostal and the Snow Elk", he never speaks.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Buseryan, Narva, Nocheli, Perondeto and Tepekos]]
When your clan left Nivorah, they took with them one and only one of these five minor gods. Buseryan, as one of Elmal's brothers, is mentioned a couple of times even if you don't choose him.
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* FoodGod: Narva is a beverage goddess.
* OddJobGod: Each of them has a very specific domain:
** Buseryan is the god of writing.
** Narva is the goddess of beer.
** Nocheli is the goddess of the red dye insect ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal cochineal]]).
** Perondeto is the god of glassmaking.
** Tepekos is the god of bronzesmiths.
* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: You can only preserve the secrets of one of these gods.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Buseryan is usually spelled Buser'''i'''an. It was changed to make it less similar to Busenari.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Raven]]
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[[caption-width-right:306:Sharp-Beaked Spirit]]
->''Hyalor said, "Contain your droppings." Raven said, "I know what you want, and cannot admit to."''
The greatest of the spirits you can bargain with, Raven is still not a god.
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* BrutalHonesty: Sometimes a Raven shaman will embarrass clan elders by listing their guilty secrets out loud.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Raven sometimes asks his people to kidnap and torture foreigners. Eye gouging is involved.
* HorrorHunger: Dialogue implies that he drinks the blood of living people.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Raven keeps the Riders honest. A clan that tacitly enables slavery may wake up to find their own children have been sold off.
* LiminalBeing: Raven seems to exist on the boundary between spirit and god, although the Riders firmly place him among the former. Raven is too unreliable for a proper god, but more powerful than any other spirit you can encounter--and Raven shamans are considered a different religion than regular ones.
* MoreThanMindControl: Raven shamans don't ''want'' to hurt the clan as in the LaserGuidedKarma example, but Raven doesn't give them a choice.
* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous:: As one Raven shaman points out, you can never be sure whether Raven is male or female at any given time.
* PetTheDog: Raven shamans often make ice slides or scavenger hunts, so the clan's children can have fun.
* ShadowArchetype: Raven is called Elmal's shadow, and represents the darkness that--because it is Elmal's opposite--Elmal cannot see.
* TokenEvilTeammate: At his worst, Raven can be this. One advisor says that his role is to do the things that Hyalor should not, while another quotes Raven as saying "I know what you want, and cannot admit to."
* TheTrickster: Raven and her shamans serve this role, similar to the Eurmali of ''King of Dragon Pass.''
* TricksterGod: Played with. The Hyalorings are very firm in their belief that Raven is a spirit rather than a god... but your tricksters identify the Vingkotling TricksterGod Eurmal as the same being as their patron spirit.
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