The Twelve Gods

Most people in the Kingdom of Anosir, no matter their race, worship (and swear by) a pantheon of twelve, giving special attention to those gods or goddesses into whose patronage they fall. They acknowledge an ultimate Creator, but the Twelve are usually invoked as mediators.

The Creator - Acknowledged by all the people of Anosir, but set apart from the Twelve, who unlike the Creator had a fleshly existence before their godhood.

The Elder Gods: The Elder Gods are the Firelord, the Windlady, the Earth Mother, and the Water Father.

Story of the Elder Gods
''Firelord, help me. You were once caught in a bind concerning love--the Creator wished you to wed the Windlady, who was crafted alongside you, but you loved her as a man loves his sister, not as he loves his wife. Thus you and she were commanded to seek the infant Master of Mountains with one you loved in another fashion than brotherly, for only with that one could you find him and save his life. But you formed a tracking creature from the rock of those same mountains, and gave her life, and loved her, and so fulfilled the terms of the bargain. And when you asked it, the Creator granted her a mind and a soul to match your own, and we know her now as the Earth Mother, first your creation, now your wife. - ''Stefane Sommela, praying to the Firelord

The Younger Gods: The Younger Gods are the Mountain Master, the Dawn Maid, the Dark Friend and the Sea Dancer.

The Beloved Ones: The Beloved Ones, spouses to the Younger Gods, are the Bountiful Huntress, the Sun Hawk, the Moon Owl, and the Forest Shade.