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** Their brother/sister Desire is both male/female, and inspires desire mortal and immortal alike. Desire has the powers of a LoveGoddess, but pranks other like a trickster, particularly his/her brother Dream.
** The oldest brother, Destiny, and youngest sister, Delireum, might be related to knowledge gods. Destiny knows everyone's path, but his youngest sister knows things he doesn't. Destiny and Delireum also seem like a matched set in terms of OrderVersusChaos. Destiny's realm has many paths, but he lives an orderly life. Delireum seems the most chaotic of the Endless. During the series ''Season of Mists'', Destiny acts as a mediator for the Endless, which is a BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil function.

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** Their brother/sister sibling Desire is both male/female, and inspires desire mortal and immortal alike. Desire has the powers of a LoveGoddess, but pranks other like a trickster, particularly his/her their brother Dream.
** The oldest brother, Destiny, and youngest sister, Delireum, Delirium, might be related to knowledge gods. Destiny knows everyone's path, but his youngest sister knows things he doesn't. Destiny and Delireum Delirium also seem like a matched set in terms of OrderVersusChaos. Destiny's realm has many paths, but he lives an orderly life. Delireum Delirium seems the most chaotic of the Endless. During the series ''Season of Mists'', Destiny acts as a mediator for the Endless, which is a BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil function.



*** TricksterGod: Hoki the Jokester, who was banished from Dunmanifestin for the exploding misteltoe gag, and generally appears as an oak tree, a satyr, or a bloody nuscience.

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*** TricksterGod: Hoki the Jokester, who was banished from Dunmanifestin for the exploding misteltoe gag, and generally appears as an oak tree, a satyr, or a bloody nuscience.nuisance.
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* '''A GodOfTheDead'''. May be charged with searching for the dead (as TheGrimReaper), leading them to the afterlife (as a {{Psychopomp}}, [[JudgementOfTheDead judging them]], or ruling the setting version of the afterlife if it is distinct from {{Heaven}} and {{Hell}}. If it's only the latter, expect this god to have underlings to do the former. Death being such a fearsome thing, and [[SadlyMythtaken the popular imagery]] of [[{{Satan}} this other ruler of the underwold]], it is no wonder than this god may likely be portrayed as evil (see EverybodyHatesHades), or at least not a very fun guy. But subversions exist, portraying the personification of death as a good or at least neutral figure (see DontFearTheReaper), as an unyieldingly strict arbiter of life and death, or giving it some PerkyGoth tendencies. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]] is a common inspiration, for good or ill. These figures' relationship with undeath can vary; some will be served by legions of the walking dead, while others will consider undeath an unnatural abomination and command their followers to destroy it.

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* '''A GodOfTheDead'''. May be charged with searching for the dead (as TheGrimReaper), leading them to the afterlife (as a {{Psychopomp}}, {{Psychopomp}}), [[JudgementOfTheDead judging them]], or ruling the setting version of the afterlife if it is distinct from {{Heaven}} and {{Hell}}. If it's only the latter, expect this god to have underlings to do the former. Death being such a fearsome thing, and [[SadlyMythtaken the popular imagery]] of [[{{Satan}} this other ruler of the underwold]], it is no wonder than this god may likely be portrayed as evil (see EverybodyHatesHades), or at least not a very fun guy. But subversions exist, portraying the personification of death as a good or at least neutral figure (see DontFearTheReaper), as an unyieldingly strict arbiter of life and death, or giving it some PerkyGoth tendencies. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]] is a common inspiration, for good or ill. These figures' relationship with undeath can vary; some will be served by legions of the walking dead, while others will consider undeath an unnatural abomination and command their followers to destroy it.

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** Messenger God: Hermod, messenger of the gods.

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** Messenger God: Hermod, messenger of the gods. Gna, goddess of winds, also served this role.



* The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European pantheon had a few, given that it was the source for a lot of the above.
** GodOfLight: The Sun God (who may have had a daughter, the Sun Maiden, who might have been the source for Helen of Troy) and the Dawn Goddess. Their sky god Dyeus was also considered a god of daylight, and the sun was occasionally called his lamp or his eye. He might have had a night-sky counterpart, though this is uncertain. Derivatives of the Sun God/ess include Helios (Greek), Sol (Roman), Hvare-Khshaeta (Zoroastrian), and Surya (Vedic). Derivatives of the Dawn Goddess include Eos (Greek), Aurora (Roman), and Ushas (Vedic). Dyeus's derivatives include Zeus (most famously), Jupiter, Dei-Patrous (Illyrian) and Dyeus (Vedic).
** GodOfTheMoon: One existed, paralleling the Sun Goddess. Derivatives include Mani (Norse) and Selene (Greek).
** A GodOfThunder who wielded a hammer and was associated with oak trees. His most famous derivative is Thor, but the Vedic Parjanya and the Lithuanian Perkunas also probably descend from this god.
** MotherNature: An Earth Goddess who covered both the earth and underworld, being associated with the duality of fertility/life and death/decay, with Gaia and Demeter being possible derivatives. Often portrayed as a counterpart to Dyeus. There was also a pastoral god who protected herds and roads, whose best-known derivatives are Pan (Greek- it's also thought that Hermes was originally an epithet for Pan, making Hermes an indirect derivative of the pastoral god) and Pushan (Vedic).
** Possibly a GodOfFire, with Agni (Vedic) and Enji (Albanian) as derivatives. There was also a goddess who personified hearth fires.
** UltimateBlacksmith: No name can be reconstructed, but they probably had one.
** LoveGoddess: Again, no reconstructable name.



%%** God of Evil: Zamorak, Bandos, Xau-Tak, and possibly the Queen of Ashes.

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%%** God of Evil: Zamorak, Bandos, Xau-Tak, and possibly the Queen of Ashes.Ashes (we don't know much about her, but she's a conqueror of multiple planes).
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* '''The {{Dreamweaver}}'''. Lord of dreams and sleep. They grant rest to the restless and allow them to live out their fantasies for a brief night. The good see their lost loved ones again. Offend them and prepare to experience your worst nightmares.

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* '''The {{Dreamweaver}}'''.DreamWeaver'''. Lord of dreams and sleep. They grant rest to the restless and allow them to live out their fantasies for a brief night. The good see their lost loved ones again. Offend them and prepare to experience your worst nightmares.
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* '''A GodOfTheDead'''. May be charged with searching for the dead (as TheGrimReaper), leading them to the afterlife (as a {{Psychopomp}}, judging them, or ruling the setting version of the afterlife if it is distinct from {{Heaven}} and {{Hell}}. If it's only the latter, expect this god to have underlings to do the former. Death being such a fearsome thing, and [[SadlyMythtaken the popular imagery]] of [[{{Satan}} this other ruler of the underwold]], it is no wonder than this god may likely be portrayed as evil (see EverybodyHatesHades), or at least not a very fun guy. But subversions exist, portraying the personification of death as a good or at least neutral figure (see DontFearTheReaper), as an unyieldingly strict arbiter of life and death, or giving it some PerkyGoth tendencies. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]] is a common inspiration, for good or ill. These figures' relationship with undeath can vary; some will be served by legions of the walking dead, while others will consider undeath an unnatural abomination and command their followers to destroy it.

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* '''A GodOfTheDead'''. May be charged with searching for the dead (as TheGrimReaper), leading them to the afterlife (as a {{Psychopomp}}, [[JudgementOfTheDead judging them, them]], or ruling the setting version of the afterlife if it is distinct from {{Heaven}} and {{Hell}}. If it's only the latter, expect this god to have underlings to do the former. Death being such a fearsome thing, and [[SadlyMythtaken the popular imagery]] of [[{{Satan}} this other ruler of the underwold]], it is no wonder than this god may likely be portrayed as evil (see EverybodyHatesHades), or at least not a very fun guy. But subversions exist, portraying the personification of death as a good or at least neutral figure (see DontFearTheReaper), as an unyieldingly strict arbiter of life and death, or giving it some PerkyGoth tendencies. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]] is a common inspiration, for good or ill. These figures' relationship with undeath can vary; some will be served by legions of the walking dead, while others will consider undeath an unnatural abomination and command their followers to destroy it.

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