Holnyr/Holnir - God of Laws and Beasts. Most often depicted as either a large white bull with bleeding eye sockets, or a minotaur also sans eyes. His symbol is the Sword of Horns, an upside-down sword with bullhorns for the crossbar. In Novyrian mythology the goddess Sophia snuck into the cave Holnyr was sleeping in, after massacring a Sophist town, and plucked out his eyes while rubbing a powder that caused the wounds to never heal.
Sophia/Sofia/Athene(Archaic) - Goddess of Knowledge, Healing and Death, uniquely is not a cthonic deity nor does she administer the dead. Usually depicted either as a young woman dressed in scholarly clothes, lips red like a warrior's and hands taloned, or as a flock of ravens. Her symbol is the Healing Spear, a bloody spear wrapped in sageroot. Not native to the Novyr Pantheon, Sophia is the only remaining deity of a people conquered a millenia ago. Her unique brand of natural wisdom and cunning violence, acceptance of outsiders, and fierce worshipers has allowed her to survive nearly unchanged inside an alien culture and stand her own in Novyrian mythology.
Gaalnyr/Gaalnir - Lord of False Creation, the Demiurge, the Necrodeity. Most often depicted as a gnarled tree or a corpulescence old woman. The 'antagonistic' figure in the Novyr Pantheon viewed as having created the world purposefully broken. Gaalnyr is the actual administrator of the dead, forced into Hell by Holnyr, Dres and _____
Dres/Drus - The Scaled One, the Coprophage, God of Fertility. Depicted as a massive crocodile or snake covered in the fruiting bodies of mushrooms, often with the path where he walked overgrown with greenery. The only deity to not have a human depiction, Dres is seen less as a Living God and more as a force that must be dealt with each year due to the widely oscillating climate of Novyreich.
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