List of Tortallan Gods

The Realms

• Divine Realms: home of the gods, immortals, Dragonlands
• Mortal Realms: mortal earth
• Peaceful Realms: kingdom of the dead
• Chaos Realms: home of Uusoae, Queen of Chaos

The Gods

First Powers

These beings are parents to the Great Gods.

• Father Universe - created the realms
• Mother Flame - created light, stars, death

Three Sorrows

Housed in Divine Realm, These powers are not gods in themselves, but rather forces brought into the Mortal Realms by human excess

• Malady
• Starvation
• Slaughter

The Great Gods

• Great Mother Goddess - Three aspects: Maiden, Mother, Hag Titles: Mother of Mountains, Mother of Waters, Mother of Mares goddess of crops, weaving, spinning, women, childbirth, offenses against women, children with Mithros, chief goddess of pantheon
• Mithros - sun-god, brother-consort to Goddess god of mage-craft, war, law, fire with the Goddess, chief god of pantheon
• Black God - the god of death, ruler of Peaceful Realms
• Crooked God - god of thieves in Eastern Lands (another name for Kyprioth the Trickster)
• Smith's God - god of all smiths, coopers, wainwrights
• Gainel - also called the Master of Dream, the Dream King, Dreamer he has one foot in Chaos, one foot in Divine Realms he is the only *Great God who cannot leave divine realms or chaos, can only send his messengers (dreams)
• Kyprioth the Trickster - chief of the trickster gods and patron god of the Copper Isles

Wind god of all the winds in the Emerald Ocean (including Copper Isles and Yamani Islands)

Regional Gods

In addition to the widely-recognized Great Gods, many peoples and regions worship their own set of local gods.

Carthak (in addition to the Great Gods)

• Mynoss - the judge of the underworld and the dead
• Shakith - blind goddess of seers
• Graveyard Hag - patron goddess of Carthak, rules over graveyards, gambling, practical jokes sacred animals: hyena, rat silver dice cup (she cheats)
• Jihuk - master of deep desert winds and demons, central Carthak

Banjiku gods (southeastern Carthak)

• Lushagui - goddess who bore them and gave them three gifts: to bind men to beast-people, to know gods, and to be slaves (this last is open to interpretation)
• Kidunka - male, the world-snake (wraps around the world), all-wise, Lushagui's brother

K'mir tribes of northern Sarain

• Father Storm and Mother Fire -gave birth to the world and the stars, parents of
• Grandmother Stone - goddess of age and time

The Four Horse-Lords

• Bian North-wind - goddess of trade, sleep, horses (she gave birth to horses), fertility
• Chavi West-wind - goddess of cleansing, belief or religion, music, marriage
• Vau East-wind - god of creation (helped Bian to give birth to horses), travel, strength, truth
• Shai South-wind - god of magic, volcanoes, sex, healing

Yamani Islands

• Yama - patron goddess, created the Yamani Islands, goddess of childbirth and rice
• Wave-Walker - sea goddess, goddess of mercy, can banish storms and keep ships safe (also another name for the Goddess in northwestern Tortall)
• Sakuyo - benevolent Yamani trickster god, god of jokes and pranks

Galla/Scanra/northeastern Tortall

• Weiryn - minor god of the hunt and the forest in northeastern Tortall and in Galla and Scanra; a god who's one with mountain forests (Daine's father)
• Green Lady - northwestern Galla, a goddess of healing, childbirth, and wells (Daine's mother)
• Yahzed - minor god of righteousness and repentance

Copper Isles

• Gunapi the Sunrose - raka goddess of war and molten rock

Chaos

• Uusoae - Queen of Chaos, disrule, uncertainty, imagination, destruction that leads to change and new growth, new opportunities

Gatekeepers - Discord, Violence

Animal Gods

• Badger - badger god, doesn't particularly care to have a name
• Mother Brock - badger goddess
• Old White - wolf god
• Night Black - wolf goddess
• Queenclaw - cat goddess
• Bitebone - cat god
• Chrrik - marmoset male god
• Preet - marmoset female god
• Broad Foot - male duckmole god
• Paddlebill - female duckmole god
• Ghostwing - goddess of the great horned owls
• Nighteyes - god of the great horned owls
• Dawn Crow - crow god
• Sky - crow goddess
• Ssitak - striped skink goddess
• Shhess - striped skink god
• Lord Mauler - crocodile god
• Crunchbone - crocodile goddess

Other Gods

• Apetekus - minor god in the third-century Tortall; guardian of slaves

Notes and references

• "This is taken directly from a list on Tamora Pirce's website, with addition information added by me."

-Piercings: Gods in Tortall