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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/tagged/the%20secret%20history%20of%20the%20horse%20sun I've decided to get to work on a HQG/Questworlds project to rewrite Pent to not be Kind Of Racist Mongolia, retconning it so that storm god worship is around from far earlier (because the Pentan steppes is at a literal crossroads between a ton of cultures, and so it should incorporate Solar, Storm and Chen Durel stuff) and adding a few more horse peoples into the mix that became the Pentans. So far I've been writing up the gods, with the intent to make Sheng like 30% less evil and for the default time of game to be set during his rise, with chances for the players to shift how he develops to be even less evil. (Or more evil, I suppose, I can't stop you from deciding to go all in on the murderous and vengeful parts of the Conquest Buddha.)
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Mors Rattus posted:https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/tagged/the%20secret%20history%20of%20the%20horse%20sun https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/3525321-the-gods-of-pent-th Now updated with East Sting Wind! In official canon, he’s just Gagarth, but it’s unclear to me how he would occupy a position roughly equal to that of Orlanth, Urox or Humakt, the other members of the main Four Winds. He’s too antisocial, too much a problem. Therefore, I decided Pent has conflated him with Shargash, whose role as Yelm’s demonic executioner and warlord doesn’t really fit into the tribal khanate social order. Thus he is instead the split god, both bandit lord and repentant but wild ex-con, who represents the taming of violence and the last chance for people to redeem themselves. He marks the boundary of what is socially acceptable by occupying both sides.
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Mors Rattus posted:https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/tagged/the%20secret%20history%20of%20the%20horse%20sun https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/3611328-the-gods-of-pent-th Now finished writing up Lozarl, the Labor rear end, who is donkey Lodril. His priests, the rear end Men, are a very powerful and important group because they run most of the mines that fuel Pent’s booming weapon industry, one of the key reasons that the Lunars and Dara Happans have always had trouble with the horse nomads.
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Oh, I didn’t name the Hellcrack. That’s canonical.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/3777493-the-gods-of-pent-th This one took me a while because I kind of fell into a hole about blacksmithing and metaphor. Tepekos (and his horse soul, Gustbran), the master of transformation, metal and self sacrifice.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:02
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/4066860-the-gods-of-pent-th Pentan Issaries is honestly pretty orthodox, but not entirely.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/4194425-the-gods-of-pent-th Back on the horse after a bout with Covid! This post is DuTukhos and Arcos, the paired gods of the Arcos River. They are foes of winter and cold, bringers of life-giving warmth in summer, and also occasional floodbringers when there is a harsh winter because Valind wounds DuTukhos and so earns the ire of Arcos, who rampages.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/4392615-the-gods-of-pent-t West King Wind, the Orlanth of Pent! He’s less cosmic, smaller, but still big and important. He is notably missing Niskis (because the Pentans are prudish) and Barntar (because the Pentans don’t really farm as much and have Lozarl for the folks who do).
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/4769735-the-gods-of-pent-t Tholm, the Pentan god of falconry, fighting gopher Hsunchen, and assassination.
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Mar 1, 2024 15:33
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TGG posted:Mors you rock, inspired a campaign start for my group and I. Awesome! I'd love to hear about it!
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/4842289-the-gods-of-pent-t Meet Hurfor, who is neither Buserian nor Lhankor Mhy, but looks like them if you squint. He is the lord of judges, of secrecy, of knowledge, and hating wizards so loving much
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/4926767-the-gods-of-pent-t This week we have Oria, who is kind of like Ernalda but different! And also different from normal Solar Oria.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5036370-the-gods-of-pent-t Hyalor and Gamari are the greatest culture heroes of Pent, the first Rider and the first Horse. Together, they link Pent to the ancestors, because Pent acknowledges that they are not the original peoples that they once were - they are something new, brought together from disparate peoples into the true People, who understand that a human being is two bodies for one soul, a rider and a horse.
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Mar 14, 2024 22:23
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5112651-the-gods-of-pent-t Dostal is the lower class hunting god, who also rides with the herds and generally prefers to live on the outskirts with animals. He is the brother of dogs and the knower of beasts, who defined what was heard, what was prey and what was predator. He communes with the beast spirits and animal gods, and because of how Pentans classify Hsunchen as animals rather than humans, he ends up as the effective diplomat to the Hsunchen tribes of eastern Pent.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5169615-the-gods-of-pent-t This one went fast. Manurl, the god of cats, trapping, and being a god damned cryptid. Followers spend most of their time away from the rest of the tribe, living alone and appearing a few times a year to drop off a decent supply of meat.
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Mar 21, 2024 18:09
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5263773-the-gods-of-pent-t Samnal is one of the two Tricksters of Pent. The more standard Trickster figure is Whirlwind Fool, who's basically just Eurmal. Samnal, on the other hand? Samnal is Lord High Goofus, who always chooses wrong and pisses everyone off.
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Mar 25, 2024 22:59
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5279761-the-gods-of-pent-th Erissa went fast because she’s not far off standard for the Healer, there weren’t many changes that needed to be made except in terms of her cult’s organizational structure.
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Mar 28, 2024 15:08
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5373014-the-gods-of-pent-t Tarhel and Heltar are the two faces of one god, the Heler of Pent. They are gods of rain, sheep, weaving and being genderfluid or nonbinary.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5417646-the-gods-of-pent-th North War Wind is Pentan Humakt, and he is a wind in name only. He gave up his Air Rune and power over the North Wind when he severed himself from kin, and the power of his winds now belongs to the Winter Wind, Valind. He doesn’t care, for he found the Black Sword, and there is no greater power.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5489087-the-gods-of-pent-th Basko is the sole Darkness god in the Pentan pantheon, one of the two patrons of shamans and the lord of the Bad Death, the death of impurity and suffering. He is terrible - but he fights things still more terrible.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5574466-the-gods-of-pent-t Eyritha, the Pentan Eiritha, mother of all herd beasts except horses. And deer, because the Pentans don’t herd deer, and…well, you get the idea. Only a few gods left in the core pantheon, plus the Sheng draconic mysticism cults.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5605976-the-gods-of-pent-th Sirdaryo, goddess of the Sirdaryo River (and Hot Lake) is the patron of ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, danger fishing, competitive sports, and salt. She loves wrestling so much that she turned against the Sea during the Flood because she lost a wrestling match to Lozarl.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5683807-the-gods-of-pent-t The River Elyu-Ene is no friend to Pent, but is the diplomatic envoy of the Winter Gods and so must be acknowledged. She is the goddess of negotiation with enemies, of diplomacy with evil.
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https://cohost.org/MorsRattus/post/5778415-the-gods-of-pent-t Final god for the core pantheon is done - Trickster! I also did Pentan Urox but he was basically just Urox so he was kinda boring.
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