Gods & Goddesses in D&D

Deities across the settings of D&D

Religion for the inhabitants of the D&D universe is important. For the common folk, in a world of boundless dangers, the ability to petition to a deity gives hope and sometimes the blessings of some boon or another for their devotion. For those that dedicate themselves to the worship of some god or another is the potential for great power granted upon their followers as is the case for clerics and paladins. In much rarer instances, some individuals may pit themselves against the gods themselves. While the gods are immortal, they are not infallible and can be killed or defeated in rare circumstances as happened during the Time of Troubles in Faerun when gods walked the Toril as mortal avatars.

Some mortals even aspire to godhood and some have achieved this phenomenal achievement like Vecna and Kelemvor. Such individuals have been included below, but this does allow huge scope for DMs to create their own deities or even offer players the opportunity to achieve godhood themselves. There may even be gods lurking in the universe that most people haven’t even heard of.

Gods of the Forgotten Realms

Toril was originally created by the twin goddesses Shar and Selune. Each goddess complemented one another and worked together to create the worlds of the Forgotten Realms. Selune provided the light and Shar provided the shadowy places. They also created Chauntea who imbued their worlds with life but requested that warmth be given to her living things that they might survive. It was at this point that a great rift arose between the 2 goddesses and a conflict formed. From this original creation point, the pantheon of the Forgotten Realms has expanded with each of the deities of the Forgotten Realms listed below:

Name	Gender	Alignment	Domain	Symbol
Auril	Female	Neutral Evil	Winter	6 pointed snowflake
Azuth	Male	Lawful Neutral	Wizards	Left hand, pointing upwards, outlined in fire
Bane	Male	Lawful Evil	Tyranny	Black right fist
Beshaba	Female	Chaotic Evil	Misfortune	Pair of black antlers
Bhaal	Male	Neutral Evil	Murder	Skull surrounded by drops of blood
Chauntea	Female	Neutral Good	Agriculture	Sheaf of grain
Cyric	Male	Chaotic Evil	Lies	Jawless white skull on purple
Deneir	Male	Neutral Good	Writing	Lit candle above an open eye
Eldath	Female	Neutral Good	Peace	Waterfall plunging into a still pool
Gond	Male	True Neutral	Craft	Cog with 4 spokes
Helm	Male	Lawful Neutral	Protection	Eye in a gauntlet
Ilmater	Male	Lawful Good	Endurance	2 hands bound by a red cord
Kelemvor	Male	Lawful Neutral	The Dead	Skeletal arm holding balanced scales
Lathander	Male	Neutral good	Birth and Renewal	Road travelling into the sunset
Liera	Female	Chaotic Neutral	Illusion	Triangle pointing down containing swirling mist
Lliira	Female	Chaotic Good	Joy	3 six-pointed stars
Loviatar	Female	Lawful Evil	Pain	9 tailed, barbed scourge
Malar	Male	Chaotic Evil	The Hunt	Clawed paw
Mask	Male	Chaotic Neutral	Thieves	Black Mask
Mielikki	Female	Neutral Good	Forests	Unicorn’s head
Myrkul	Male	Neutral Evil	Death	White human skull
Mystra	Female	Neutral Good	Magic	7 stars around a flowing red mist
Oghma	Male	True Neutral	Knowledge	Blank scroll
Savras	Male	Lawful Neutral	Divination and Fate	Crystal ball containing many eyes
Selune	Female	Chaotic Good	Moon	Pair of eyes surrounded by 7 stars
Shar	Female	Neutral Evil	Darkness and Loss	Black disc with purple border
Silvanus	Male	True Neutral	Wild Nature	Oak leaf
Sune	Female	Chaotic Good	Love and Beauty	Face of a beautiful, red-haired woman
Talona	Female	Chaotic Evil	Disease and Poison	3 tear drops on a triangle
Talos	Male	Chaotic Evil	Storms	3 lightning bolts
Tempus	Male	True Neutral	War	Upright flaming sword
Torm	Male	Lawful Good	Courage and Self-Sacrifice	White right gauntlet
Tymora	Female	Chaotic Good	Good Fortune and Adventure	Face up coin
Tyr	Male	Lawful Good	Justice and Heroism	Balanced scales on a warhammer
Umberlee	Female	Chaotic Evil	Sea	Ocean wave
Waukeen	Female	True Neutral	Trade	Upright coin with Waukeen’s profile

Gods of Dragonlance

In Dragonlance, there are 3 primary deities known as the High Gods, each representing a particular alignment; Paladine for good, Gilean for neutrality and Takhisi for evil. Each of these deities has aligned themselves with other, like-minded gods. Within each group is a god of magic that grants magical powers appropriate to that alignment; Solinari providing good magic, Lunitari providing neutral magic and Nuitari providing evil magic. All of these gods are opposed by Chaos, a god that would see all of Krynn destroyed.

All the gods of the Dragonlance setting can be found below:

Name	Gender	Alignment	Domain	Symbol
Paladine	Male	Lawful Good	Rulers and Guardians	Silver triangle
Branchala	Male	Neutral Good	Music	Harp
Habbakuk	Male	Neutral Good	Animal Life and the Sea	Blue bird
Kiri-Jolith	Male	Lawful Good	Honour and War	Pair of bison’s horns
Majere	Male	Lawful Good	Meditation and Order	Copper spider
Mishakal	Female	Lawful Good	Healing	Blue infinity symbol
Solinari	Female	Lawful Good	Good Magic	White circle
Gilean	Male	True Neutral	Knowledge	Open Book
Chislev	Female	True Neutral	Nature	Feather
Reorx	Male	True Neutral	Craft	Forging hammer
Shinare	Female	True Neutral	Wealth and Trade	Griffon’s wing
Sirrion	Male	True Neutral	Fire and Change	Multi-coloured fire
Zivilyn	Male	True Neutral	Wisdom	Green or gold tree
Lunitari	Female	True Neutral	Neutral Magic	Red circle
Takhisis	Female	Lawful Evil	Night and Hatred	Black crescent
Chemosh	Male	Lawful Evil	Undead	Yellow skull
Hiddukel	Male	Chaotic Evil	Lies and Greed	Pair of broken merchant’s scales
Morgion	Male	Neutral Evil	Disease and Secrecy	Hood with 2 red eyes
Sargonnas	Male	Lawful Evil	Vengeance and Fire	Stylised red condor
Zeboim	Female	Chaotic Evil	Sea and Storms	Turtle shell
Nuitari	Male	Lawful Evil	Evil Magic	Black circle

Gods of Eberron

The gods of Eberron are primarily formed from 2 groups; The Sovereign Host and The Dark Six. The Sovereign Host is the primary religion of Eberron and involved the worship of 9 deities rather than a restriction of worship to a single deity. Worshippers (or Vassals) of the Sovereign Host, will tend to worship the deity most appropriate to their needs at the time.

The Dark Six were once part of the Sovereign Host, but the Vassals believe that they were once kicked out of the pantheon for certain transgressions in an event known as the schism. These gods did not lose their divinity but rather, were removed from the pantheon of generally worshipped gods. Some do still pay to The Dark Six, but generally, this is done out of fear more than in supplication for a boon of some kind.

Some other deities do exist that are worshipped by several lesser religions and are also represented below:

Name	Gender	Alignment	Domain	Symbol
Arawai	Female	Neutral Good	Fertility	Sheaf of wheat
Aureon	Male	Lawful Neutral	Law and Knowledge	An open tome
Balinor	Male	True Neutral	Beasts and the hunt	A pair of antlers
Boldrei	Female	Lawful Good	Communication and Home	Fire in a stone hearth
Dol Arrah	Female	Lawful Good	Sunlight and Honour	A rising sun
Dol Dorn	Male	Chaotic Good	Strength at Arms	Longsword crossed on a shield
Kol Korran	Male	True Neutral	Trade and Wealth	Nine-sided gold coin
Olladra	Female	Neutral Good	Good fortune	A domino
Onatar	Male	Neutral Good	Craft	Crossed hammer and tongs
The Devourer	Male	Neutral Evil	Nature’s Wrath	A bundle of 5 sharpened bones
The Fury	Female	Neutral Evil	Wrath and Madness	Winged worm with a woman’s head and body
The Keeper	Male	Neutral Evil	Greed and Death	Dragonshard stone in the shape of a fang
The Mockery	Male	Neutral Evil	Violence and Treachery	5 blood-spattered tools
The Shadow	Male	Chaotic Evil	Dark Magic	An obsidian tower
The Traveller		Chaotic Neutral	Chaos and Change	4 crossed bones with runes
The Silver Flame		Lawful Good	Protection and Good	A flame drawn on silver
The Blood of Vol		Lawful Neutral	Immortality and Undeath	Dragon skull on red teardrop gem
Cults of the Dragon Below		Neutral Evil	Madness	Dragon skull
The Path of Light		Lawful Neutral	Light and Self-Improvement	A brilliant crystal
The Undying Court		Neutral Good		Stylised skull
The Spirits of the Past		Chaotic Good		Symbols vary

Gods of Greyhawk

Over a hundred deities are worshipped by the people of Oerth (the primary planet for the setting of Greyhawk). Many of these vary across different races but most can be split into several sub-pantheons based on the types of people that worship them:

• Baklunish
• Oeridian
• Flan
• Suel
• Touv
• Olman
• Non-Human Deities
• Monstrous Deities

The main, human deities of Greyhawk are listed below:

Name	Gender	Alignment	Domain	Symbol
Beory	Female	True Neutral	Nature	Green disc
Boccob	Male	True Neutral	Magic	Eye within a pentagram
Celestian	Male	True Neutral	Stars and Wanderers	Arc of 7 stars in a circle
Ehlonna	Female	Neutral Good	Woodlands	Unicorn’s Horn
Erythnul	Male	Chaotic Evil	Envy and Slaughter	Drop of blood
Fharlanghn	Male	Neutral Good	Horizons and Exploration	Curved horizontal line over a circle
Heironeous	Male	Lawful Good	Chivalry and War	Lightning bolt
Hextor	Male	Lawful Good	War and Discord	6 arrows facing down
Kord	Male	Chaotic Good	Athletics and Sport	4 spears and 4 maces
Incabulos	Male	Neutral Evil	Plague and Famine	Reptilian eye with a diamond
Istus	Female	True Neutral	Fate and Destiny	Spindle with 3 strands
Luz	Male	Chaotic Evil	Pain and Oppression	Grinning human skull
Nerull	Male	Neutral Evil	Death	Skull with sickle or scythe
Obad-Hai	Male	True Neutral	Nature	Oak leaf or acorn
Olidammara	Male	Chaotic Neutral	Revalry	Laughing mask
Pelor	Male	Neutral Good	Sun and Healing	The Sun
Pholtus	Male	Lawful Good	Light and Law	Silver sun or full moon eclipsed by a smaller, crescent moon
Ralishaz	Male	Chaotic Neutral	Poor Luck and Insanity	3, bone fate casting sticks
Rao	Male	Lawful Good	Peace and Reason	White heart
Saint Cuthbert	Male	Lawful Neutral	Common Sense and Zeal	Starburst lines around a circle
Tharizdun	Male	Chaotic Evil	Eternal Darkness	Dark spiral or inverted ziggurat
Trithereon	Male	Lawful Good	Liberty and Retribution	Triskelion
Ulaa	Female	Lawful Good	Hills and Mountains	Mountain with a circle inside
Vecna	Male	Neutral Evil	Evil Secrets	Hand with an eye in it’s palm
Wee jas	Female	Lawful Neutral	Magic and Death	Red skull in front of a fireball

Gods of Dark Sun

Dark Sun is unique in the settings of D&D as no deities are currently known to operate within this setting. Some believe that the gods were simply unable to pass into the material plane like other beings from the outer planes of Dark Sun. Others believe that the primordials defeated the gods preventing their return to Athas or causing them to flee. Either way, there are no currently operating gods within the Dark Sun setting meaning that there are no clerics, paladins or other faiths other than those that receive no power from their gods.

Gods of Ravenloft

Strictly speaking, there are no gods of Ravenloft though there are god-like beings that rule over Ravenloft and its Domains of Dread known only as the Dark powers. They are mysterious and incomprehensible beings of darkness and evil. It is they that formed the Domains of Dread, transforming them into living nightmares for the inhabitants and it is they that drag people from the mortal realms into Ravenloft, trapped within the misty borders of whatever domain they choose to place them.