Deities & Demi-Gods

Taking a page from Ed Greenwood's playbook (and Robert E. Howard's, for that matter) in coming up with the deities worshiped in Wyddrit and the Kinlands. (None of this is intended to be accurate to historical mythology.) A divine accounting:

• Fenris (the Maimed King, god of war and destruction)
• Midir (the Minstrel, god of poetry and song, patron of bards)
• Hyrne (the Headless Horseman, god of dooms and omens, psychopomp)
• Perkune (the Mighty, god of strength, integrity and duty)
• Hecatë (the Hag, goddess of magic and the night)
• Cob (the Spider, god of secrets)
• Bel (the Trickster, god of treachery and thieves)
• Moon Woman (the Bride of Perkune, goddess of the pattern, sister of Hecatë)

The children of Hecatë, each fathered by a different mortal man, all sisters varying in ancientness, are the Morganes ["MOR-gah-nees"], the eternal 'saints' of witchkind. Most of these dwell on Cloke Isle in the Myddle Sea, where they cavort with creatures from Subheim and work their malignant hexes upon the world.

Numerous men have claimed to be descendants of Fenris throughout history.

According to myth, the original line of Wyddish royalty descends from Perkune.

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WYDDRIT 

[wi- (as in will) + drit (rhymes with spit)]

A petty kingdom now among the possessions of the immortal King-of-Kings who dwelleth in far Kar Kashal, conquered by his phantom army during the War of the Long Dream nearly four-hundred years ago.

The homeland of the Wyddmen, hill-dwelling clans who build villages and stone walls and hunt their sprawling wood-realm for food and sport. They are fond of music and poetry. The last Wyddish king of the true line fell in the midst of the Long Dream, hight Aartan the Chanter. He is entombed in the capital of Wyddrit, the Town of Arke, where King Magnus IV and Queen Calix, both of foreign bloodlines, now hold court.

Wyddrit rests at the southern verge of Troll Country, a cold region of mountainous salt-barrens littered with the bones of giants and the remnants of their ancient keeps. It is said the trolls' territory extends far beneath the world, to the very gates of Subheim where the Chaos-Lords are chained.

Wyddrit is bordered by the equally petty kingdoms of Ystyria (to the east) and Braath (to the west and south-west). Its principle waterway and commercial route is the Rankwater, which flows lazily from a lake found in the highlands of Troll Country. Midway the Rankwater widens into Lake Lixir, the heart of Wyddrit. The Rankwater continues south beyond Wyddrit's borders to eventually empty into the emerald shallows of the Myddle Sea.

Along with Ystyria and Braath, Wyddrit is part of the Kinlands, seven realms who share a common culture (more or less) and speak a common language called Toric. The other Kinlands are Dainsparth, Hustrune, Mologg, North Ardagg and South Ardagg. All are nominally ruled by the King-of-Kings, though he has become a very distant monarch in modern times.

Image: John-Bauer (1910)