Pantheons (5E)

The table below details a number of pantheons, including those of established D&D worlds, various non-human racial pantheons, and fantasy adapted historical pantheons. The DM can adopt one of these pantheons for their campaign, or pick and choose deities and ideas from them as they please. As far as the game’s rules are concerned, it doesn’t matter if the world has hundreds of deities or a church devoted to a single god. In rules terms, clerics choose domains, not deities, so the world can associate domains with deities in any way the DM chooses.

Forgotten Realms	Faerûnian and racial pantheons
Greyhawk	Oerthian and racial pantheons
Silvesti	Faerûnian and racial pantheons with exceptions: Pyre – evil god of death and illusion; replacing Bhaal, Cyric, Kelemvor, Leira, and Myrkul. Telcanara – good god of the frontier between domesticated and wild regions; replacing Gwaeron Windstrom, Eledrin Liothiel, and Khalreshaar.

Pantheons table

Deity	A	Pantheon	⚤	Province	Domains	Common Symbols
Moradin	LG	Dwarven	♂	Mordinsamman, creation	Forge, Knowledge, War, City	Hammer and anvil
Abbathor	NE	Dwarven	♂	greed	Trickery	Jeweled dagger, point down
Berronar Truesilver	LG	Dwarven	♀	hearth, home, truth	Life, Light, City	Intertwined silver rings
Clangeddin Silverbeard	LG	Dwarven	♂	war, strategy	War	Crossed silver battleaxes
Dugmaren Brightmantle	CG	Dwarven	♂	discovery	Knowledge	Open book
Dumathoin	N	Dwarven	♂	buried secrets	Grave, Knowledge	Gemstone in a mountain
Gorm Gulthyn	LG	Dwarven	♂	vigilance	War	Bronze half-mask
Haela Brightaxe	CG	Dwarven	♀	combat prowess, luck in battle	War	Upright sword with blade sheathed in flame
Hanseath	CN	Dwarven	♂	festivity, brewing, song	Trickery, War	Beer stein
Marthammor Duin	NG	Dwarven	♂	explorers, wanderers, the lost	Nature, Trickery	Upright mace in front of a tall boot
Muamman Duathal	NG	Dwarven	♂	storms, travel	Tempest	Mace held in gauntlets
Mya	NG	Dwarven	♀	clan, family, wisdom	Knowledge, Life	A faceless mother figure
Roknar	NE	Dwarven	♂	lies, intrigue	Trickery	Hands filled with coins
Sharindlar	CG	Dwarven	♀	healing, love	Life	Burning needle
Thard Harr	CG	Dwarf, wild	♂	wilderness, hunting	Nature	Two clawed gauntlets
Tharmekhûl	N	Dwarven	♂	fire, forges, molten rock	Forge, Light	Fiery axe
Thautam	N	Dwarven	♂	mysteries, darkness, lost treasures	Knowledge, Trickery	Blindfold
Ulaa	LG	Dwarven	♀	mining, quarrying	Forge	A miner's pick
Valkauna	LN	Dwarven	♀	oaths, birth, aging, death	Grave, Life	A silver ewer
Vergadain	N	Dwarven	♂	luck, wealth	Trickery	Gold coin bearing a dwarf's face
Deep Duerra	LE	Duergar	♀	conquest, psionics	Arcana, War	Mind flayer skull
Laduguer	LE	Duergar	♂	magic, slavery	Arcana, Death	Broken arrow
Corellon Larethian	CG	Elven	♂	Seldarine, art, magic	Arcana, Life, Light, War	Quarter moon or eight-pointed starburst
Aerdrie Faenya	CG	Elf, avariel	♀	air, rain, fertility, birth	Life, Tempest, Trickery	Bird silhouetted against a cloud
Angharradh	CG	Elf, moon	♀	wisdom, growth, protection	Knowledge, Life, Protection, War	Three interlocking circles within a triangle
Alathrien Druanna	N	Elven	♀	runes, writing, spellcasting	Arcana, Knowledge	A quill or glyph
Alobal Lorfiril	CG	Elven	♂	revelry, mirth	Life, Trickery	Wine glass
Araleth Letheranil	CG	Elven	♂	light stars, revelations	Knowledge, Light	Shaft of light
Darahl Tilvenar	LN	Elven	♂	fire, earth, metalwork	Forge, Light	Flame between hands
Ehlenestra	NG	Elven	♀	forests, woodland flora & fauna, and fertility	Nature, Life	Unicorn horn
Elebrin Liothiel	CG	Elven	♂	abundance, gardens, the harvest	Life, Nature	Acorn
Erevan Ilesere	CN	Elven	♂	mischief, change	Trickery	Asymmetrical [eight-armed] starburst
Fenmarel Mestarine	CN	Elf, wild	♂	solitude, outcasts	Nature, Trickery	Two peering elven eyes
Gadhelyn	CN	Elf, wild	♂	archery, independence, outlawry	Nature, Trickery	Leaf-shaped arrowhead
Hanali Celanil	CG	Elven	♀	love, beauty, the arts	Life	Golden heart
Khalreshaar	NG	Elf, half	♀	forests, woodland flora & fauna, and fertility	Nature, Life	Unicorn horn
Kirith Sotheril	NG	Elven	♀	divination, illusion	Knowledge, Trickery	Rainbow sphere
Labelas Enoreth	CG	Elven	♂	time, history, memory, philosophy	Arcana, Knowledge, Life	Setting sun
Melira Taralen	CG	Elven	♀	poetry, songs	Knowledge, Life, Trickery	Lute
Mythrien Sarath	CG	Elven	♂	abjuration, mythals	Arcana, Forge, Knowledge, City	Row of three intertwined rings
Naralis Analor	NG	Elven	♂	healing, suffering, death	Life, Grave	White dove
Rellavar Danuvien	NG	Elf, snow	♂	winter, harsh weather	Tempest	Spear between two circles
Rillifane Rallathil	CG	Elven	♂	nature, beasts, the seasons	Nature	Oak
Sarula Iliene	CG	Elven	♀	lakes, streams, nixies	Tempest, Trickery	Three lines symbolizing waves
Deep Sashelas	CG	Elf, aquatic	♂	aquatic elves, creativity, knowledge, sea	Knowledge, Nature, Tempest	Dolphin
Sehanine Moonbow	CG	Elf, moon	♀	divination, dreams, death, travel	Grave, Knowledge, Light, Trickery	Full moon under a moonbow or a crescent moon
Shevarash	CN	Elven	♂	vengeance, loss, hatred	War	Broken arrow over a tear
Solonor Thelandira	CG	Elven	♂	archery, hunting, survival	Nature, War	Silver arrow with green fletching
Tarsellis Meunniduin	CN	Elven	♂	mountains, rivers, wild places	Nature, Tempest	Mountain with a river
Tethrin Veraldé	NG	Elven	♂	battle, sword fighting	War	Crossed swords beneath a quarter moon and above a full moon
Vandria Gilmadrith	LN	Elven	♀	war, grief, justice, vigilance	Grave, War	Weeping eye
Ye’Cind	CG	Elven	♂	music, enchantment	Life, Trickery	Recorder
Zandilar	CN	Elven	♀	romance, lust, dance	Life	Lips
Eilistraee	CG	Elf, dark	♀	freedom, moonlight, song	Nature, Light, Life	Sword-wielding dancing female dark elf silhouetted against the full moon
Lolth	CE	Drow	♀	Dark Seldarine, spiders	Trickery, War	Spider or eight-pointed web
Ghaunadaur	CE	Drow	♂	oozes, slimes, outcasts	War	Purple eye with black sclera
Keptolo	CE	Drow	♂	beauty, hedonism, fertility	Nature, Trickery	Mushroom
Kiaransalee	CE	Drow	♀	necromancy	Arcana, Death	Drow hand wearing many silver rings
Malyk	CE	Drow	♂	chaos, rebellion, wild magic	Tempest, Trickery	A flame in a tear or a multihued vortex
Selvetarm	CE	Drow	♂	warriors, slaughter	War	Spider over crossed sword and mace
Vhaeraun	CE	Drow	♂	arrogance, thieves	Trickery, War	Black mask with blue glass lenses inset over eyes
Zinzerena	CN	Drow	♀	assassination, illusion, lies	Trickery	Shortsword draped with cloth
Yondalla	LG	Halfling	♀	Yondalla’s Children, fertility, protection	Life, Protection	Cornucopia [on a shield]
Arvoreen	LG	Halfling	♂	vigilance, war	War	Crossed short swords
Brandobaris	N	Halfling	♂	adventure, thievery	Trickery	Halfling footprint
Charmalaine	N	Halfling	♀	keen senses, luck	Trickery	Burning boot print
Cyrrollalee	LG	Halfling	♀	hearth, home	Life, City	Open door
Sheela Peryroyl	N	Halfling	♀	agriculture, nature, weather	Nature, Tempest	Flower
Urogalan	LN	Halfling	♂	earth, death	Knowledge, Death, Grave	Silhouette of a dog's head
Tymora	CG	Halfling	♀	good fortune	Trickery	Face-up coin
Garl Glittergold	LG	Gnomish	♂	Lords of the Golden Hills, gems, trickery	Trickery	Gold nugget
Baervan Wildwanderer	NG	Gnomish	♂	woodlands	Nature	Face of a raccoon
Baravar Cloakshadow	NG	Gnomish	♂	illusion, deception	Arcana, Trickery	Dagger against a hooded cloak
Bleredd	N	Gnomish	♂	labor, craft	Forge, Light, City	Iron mule
Callarduran Smoothhands	N	Gnomish	♂	mining, stone carving	Knowledge, Nature	Golden signet ring with six-pointed star
Flandal Steelskin	NG	Gnomish	♂	metalwork	Forge, Knowledge, City	Flaming hammer
Gaerdal Ironhand	LG	Gnomish	♂	protection	Protection, War	Iron band
Gelf Darkhearth	CN	Gnomish	♂	frustration, destruction	War	Broken anvil
Nebelun	CG	Gnomish	♂	invention, luck	Forge, Knowledge, Trickery, City	Bellows and a lizard tail
Rill Cleverthrush	LN	Gnomish	♂	law, thought	Knowledge	Interlocking gears
Segojan Earthcaller	NG	Gnomish	♂	earth, the dead	Grave, Light	Glowing gemstone
Sheyanna Flaxenstrand	CG	Gnomish	♀	love, beauty, passion	Light	Two silver goblets
Urdlen	CE	Gnomish	♂	greed, murder	War, Death	White clawed mole emerging from ground
Gruumsh	CE	Orcish	♂	Orcs, storms, war	Tempest, War	Unblinking eye
llneval	LE	Orcish	♂	strategy, hordes	War	Upright blood-spattered sword
Bahgtru	LE	Orcish	♂	strength	Strength, War	Broken thigh bone
Luthic (mother)	LE	Orcish	♀	fertility, healing	Nature, Life	Orcish rune meaning "cave entrance"
Shargaas	NE	Orcish	♂	stealth, darkness	Trickery	Red crescent moon with a skull between the moon's horns
Yurtrus	NE	Orcish	♂	death, disease	Death	White hand, palm outward
Bahamut	LG	Draconic	♂	Good, metallic dragons	Protection, War, Life, War	Dragon’s head in profile
Tiamat	LE	Draconic	♀	Evil, chromatic dragons	Trickery, War	Dragon head with five claw marks or five-pointed star with curved points
Surtur	LE	Giants	♂	Fire giants, craft	Knowledge, War, City	Flaming sword
Thrym	CE	Giants	♂	Frost giants, strength	Strength, War	White double-bladed axe
Skoraeus Stonebones	N	Giants	♂	Stone giant, art	Knowledge	Stalactite
Grolantor	CE	Giants	♂	Hill giants, war	War	Wooden club
Skerrit	N	Centaur	♂	Centaurs, satyrs, nature	Nature	Oak growing from acorn
Hruggek	CE	Goblinoid	♂	Bugbears, violence	War	Morningstar
Maglubiyet	LE	Goblinoid	♂	Goblins, war	Order, War	Bloody axe
Kurtulmak	LE	Reptilian	♂	Kobolds, war, mining	War	Gnome skull
Sekolah	LE	Reptilian	♂	Sahuagin, hunting	Nature, Tempest	Shark
Semuanya	N	Reptilian	♂	Lizardfolk, survival	Life	Egg
Laogzed	CE	Reptilian	♂	Troglodytes, hunger	Death	Image of the lizard/toad god
Blibdoolpoolp	NE	Reptilian	♀	Kuo-toa, underdark water	Death	Lobster head or black pearl
Eadro	N	Reptilian	♂	Merfolk, sea	Nature, Tempest	Spiral design
Akadi	N	Faerûnian	♀	air	Tempest	Cloud
Amaunator	LN	Faerûnian	♂	the sun	Life, Light	Golden sun
Asmodeus	LE	Faerûnian	♂	indulgence	Knowledge, Order, Trickery	Three inverted triangles arranged in a long triangle
Auril	NE	Faerûnian	♀	winter	Nature, Tempest	Six-pointed snowflake
Azuth	LN	Faerûnian	♂	wizards	Arcana, Knowledge	Left hand pointing upward, outlined in fire
Bane	LE	Faerûnian	♂	tyranny	Order, War	Upright black right hand, thumb and fingers together
Beshaba	CE	Faerûnian	♀	misfortune	Trickery	Black antlers
Bhaal	NE	Faerûnian	♂	murder	Death	Skull surrounded by a ring of blood droplets
Chauntea	NG	Faerûnian	♀	agriculture	Life	Sheaf of grain or a blooming rose over grain
Cyric	CE	Faerûnian	♂	lies	Trickery	White jawless skull on black or purple sunburst
Deneir	NG	Faerûnian	♂	writing	Knowledge	Lit candle above an open eye
Eldath	NG	Faerûnian	♀	peace, waterfalls, springs, pools, stillness, quiet glades, nixies	Nature, Life	Waterfall plunging into a still pool
Gond	N	Faerûnian	♂	craft	Forge, Knowledge, City	Toothed cog with four spokes
Grumbar	N	Faerûnian	♂	earth	Knowledge	Mountain
Gwaeron Windstrom	NG	Faerûnian	♂	tracking	Knowledge, Nature	Paw print with a five-pointed star in its center
Helm	LN	Faerûnian	♂	protection	Protection, Life, Light	Staring eye on upright left gauntlet
Hoar	LN	Faerûnian	♂	revenge, retribution	War	A coin with a two-faced head
Ilmater	LG	Faerûnian	♂	endurance	Protection, Life	Hands bound at the wrist with red cord
lstishia	N	Faerûnian	♂	water	Tempest	Wave
Jergal	LN	Faerûnian	♂	scribe of the dead	Knowledge, Death	A skull biting a sc roll
Kelemvor	LN	Faerûnian	♂	the dead	Grave, Death	Upright skeletal arm holding balanced scales
Kossuth	N	Faerûnian	♂	fire	Light	Flame
Lathander	NG	Faerûnian	♂	birth, renewal	Life, Light	Road traveling into a sunrise
Leira	CN	Faerûnian	♀	illusion	Trickery	Point-down triangle containing a swirl of mist
Lliira	CG	Faerûnian	♀	joy	Life	Triangle of three six-pointed stars
Loviatar	LE	Faerûnian	♀	pain	Death	Nine-tailed barbed scourge
Malar	CE	Faerûnian	♂	the hunt	Nature	Clawed paw
Mask	CN	Faerûnian	♂	thieves	Trickery	Black mask
Mielikki	NG	Faerûnian	♀	forests, woodland flora & fauna, dryads, and autumn	Nature, Life	Unicorn’s head
Milil	NG	Faerûnian	♂	poetry, song	Light	Five-stringed harp made of leaves
Myrkul	NE	Faerûnian	♂	death	Death	White human skull
Mystra	NG	Faerûnian	♀	magic	Arcana, Knowledge	Circle of seven stars, or nine stars encircling a flowing red mist, or a single star
Oghma	N	Faerûnian	♂	knowledge	Knowledge	Blank scroll
The Red Knight	LN	Faerûnian	♀	strategy	War	Red knight lance board piece with stars for eyes
Savras	LN	Faerûnian	♂	divination, fate	Knowledge	Crystal ball containing many kinds of eyes
Selûne	CG	Faerûnian	♀	the moon	Knowledge, Life	Pair of eyes surrounded by seven stars
Shar	NE	Faerûnian	♀	darkness, loss	Trickery, Death	Black disk encircled with a border
Silvanus	N	Faerûnian	♂	wild nature	Nature	Oak leaf
Sune	CG	Faerûnian	♀	love, beauty	Life, Light	Face of a beautiful red-haired woman
Talona	CE	Faerûnian	♀	disease, poison	Death	Three teardrops on a triangle
Talos	CE	Faerûnian	♂	storms	Tempest	Three lightning bolts radiating from a central point
Tempus	N	Faerûnian	♂	war	War	Upright flaming sword
Torm	LG	Faerûnian	♂	courage, self-sacrifice	Protection, War	White right gauntlet
Tymora	CG	Faerûnian	♀	good fortune	Trickery	Face-up coin
Tyr	LG	Faerûnian	♂	justice	Order, Protection, War	Balanced scales resting on a warhammer
Umberlee	CE	Faerûnian	♀	the sea	Tempest	Wave curling left and right
Valkur	CG	Faerûnian	♂	sailors (northlander)	War, Tempest	A cloud and three lightning bolts
Waukeen	N	Faerûnian	♀	trade	Knowledge, Trickery	Upright coin with Waukeen’s profile facing left
Raven Queen (MTF)	LN	Dawn War	♀	death	Life, Death	Raven’s head, in profile, facing left
Asmodeus	LE	Dawn War	♂	tyranny	Order, Trickery	Three triangles in tight formation
Avandra	CG	Dawn War	♀	change, luck	Trickery	Three stacked wavy lines
Bahamut	LG	Dawn War	♂	justice, nobility	Life, War	Dragon’s head in profile, facing left
Bane	LE	Dawn War	♂	war, conquest	Order, War	Claw with three talons pointing down
Corellon	CG	Dawn War	♂	magic, the arts, (elves)	Arcana, Light	Eight-pointed star
Erathis	LN	Dawn War	♀	civilization, invention	Knowledge, City, Order, Protection	Upper half of a clockwork gear
Gruumsh	CE	Dawn War	♂	destruction, (orcs)	Tempest, War	Triangular eye with bony protrusions
Ioun	N	Dawn War	♀	knowledge	Knowledge	Crook shaped like a stylized eye
Kord	CG	Dawn War	♂	strength, storms	Strength, Tempest	Sword with a lightning bolt cross guard
Lolth	CE	Dawn War	♀	spiders, lies, (drow)	Trickery	Eight-pointed star with a web motif
Melora	N	Dawn War	♀	wilderness, the sea	Nature, Tempest	Wavelike swirl
Moradin	LG	Dawn War	♂	creation, (dwarves)	Forge, Knowledge, War, City	Flaming anvil
Pelor	NG	Dawn War	♂	sun, agriculture	Life, Light	Circle with six outwardly radiating points
Sehanine	CG	Dawn War	♀	moon	Grave, Trickery	Crescent moon
Tharizdun	CE	Dawn War	♂	madness	Trickery	Jagged counter-clockwise spiral
Tiamat	LE	Dawn War	♀	wealth, greed, vengeance	Trickery, War	Five-pointed star with curved points
Torog	NE	Dawn War	♂	the Underdark	Death	T attached to a circular shackle
Vecna	NE	Dawn War	♂	evil secrets	Death, Knowledge	Partially shattered one-eyed skull
Zehir	CE	Dawn War	♂	darkness, poison	Trickery, Death	Snake in the shape of a dagger
Al’Akbar	LG	Oerthian	♂	guardianship, faithfulness, dignity, duty	Protection, Solidarity, Life	Eight-pointed star, or an image of the Cup and Talisman
Beory	N	Oerthian	♀	nature	Nature	Green disk
Boccob	N	Oerthian	♂	magic	Arcana, Knowledge	Eye within a pentagram
Celestian	N	Oerthian	♂	stars, wanderers	Knowledge	Arc of seven stars inside a circle
Ehlonna	NG	Oerthian	♀	forests, woodland flora & fauna, and fertility	Nature, Life	Unicorn horn
Erythnul	CE	Oerthian	♂	envy, slaughter	War	Blood drop
Fharlanghn	NG	Oerthian	♂	horizons, travel	Knowledge, Trickery	Circle crossed by a curved horizon line
Heironeous	LG	Oerthian	♂	chivalry, valor	Protection, War	Lightning bolt
Hextor	LE	Oerthian	♂	war, discord	War	Six arrows facing downward in a fan
Incabulos	NE	Oerthian	♂	plague, famine	Death	Reptilian eye with a horizontal diamond
Istus	N	Oerthian	♀	fate, destiny	Knowledge	Weaver’s spindle with three strands
Iuz	CE	Oerthian	♂	pain, oppression	Death	Grinning human skull
Kord	CG	Oerthian	♂	athletics, sport	Tempest, War	Four spears and four maces radiating out from a central point
Nerull	NE	Oerthian	♂	death	Death	Skull with either a sickle or a scythe
Obad-Hai	N	Oerthian	♂	nature	Nature	Oak leaf and acorn
Olidammara	CN	Oerthian	♂	revelry	Trickery	Laughing mask
Pelor	NG	Oerthian	♂	sun, healing	Life, Light	Sun (circle with six radiating points)
Pholtus	LG	Oerthian	♂	light, law	Light, Order	Silver sun or full moon partially eclipsed by a smaller crescent moon
Ralishaz	CN	Oerthian	♂	ill luck, insanity	Trickery	Three bone fate-casting sticks
Rao	LG	Oerthian	♂	peace, reason	Knowledge	White heart
St. Cuthbert	LN	Oerthian	♂	common sense, zeal	Protection, Knowledge, Zeal	Circle at the center of a starburst of lines
Tharizdun	CE	Oerthian	♂	eternal darkness	Trickery	Dark counter-clockwise spiral or inverted ziggurat
Trithereon	CG	Oerthian	♂	liberty, retribution	War	Triskelion
Ulaa	LG	Oerthian	♀	hills, mountains	Life, War	Mountain with a circle at its heart
Vecna	NE	Oerthian	♂	evil secrets	Arcana, Knowledge, Death	Hand with eye in the palm or partially shattered one-eyed skull
Wee Jas	LN	Oerthian	♀	magic, death	Arcana, Knowledge, Grave, Death, Order	Red skull in front of fireball
Paladine	LG	Krynn	♂	rulers, guardians	Protection, War	Silver triangle
Branchala	NG	Krynn	♂	music	Light	Bard’s harp
Habbakuk	NG	Krynn	♂	animal life, the sea	Nature, Tempest	Blue bird
Kiri-Jolith	LG	Krynn	♂	honor, war	War	Bison’s horns
Majere	LG	Krynn	♂	meditation, order	Knowledge, Order	Copper spider
Mishakal	LG	Krynn	♀	healing	Knowledge, Life	Blue infinity sign
Solinari	LG	Krynn	♂	magic (good)	Arcana†	White circle or sphere
Gilean	N	Krynn	♂	knowledge	Knowledge	Open book
Chislev	N	Krynn	♀	nature	Nature	Feather
Reorx	N	Krynn	♂	craft	Forge, Knowledge, City	Forging hammer
Shinare	N	Krynn	♀	wealth, trade	Knowledge, Trickery	Griffon’s wing
Sirrion	N	Krynn	♂	fire, change	Nature	Multi-colored fire
Zivilyn	N	Krynn	♂	wisdom	Knowledge	Great green or gold tree
Lunitari	N	Krynn	♀	magic (neutral)	Arcana†	Red circle or sphere
Takhisis	LE	Krynn	♀	night, hatred	Death	Black crescent
Chemosh	LE	Krynn	♂	undead	Death	Yellow skull
Hiddukel	CE	Krynn	♂	lies, greed	Trickery	Broken merchant’s scales
Morgion	NE	Krynn	♂	disease, secrecy	Death	Hood with two red eyes
Sargonnas	LE	Krynn	♂	vengeance, fire	War	Stylized red condor
Zeboim	CE	Krynn	♀	sea, storms	Tempest	Turtle shell
Nuitari	LE	Krynn	♂	magic (evil)	Arcana†	Black circle or sphere
Arawai	NG	Eberron SH	♀	fertility	Life, Nature	Sheaf of wheat tied with green ribbon
Aureon	LN	Eberron SH	♂	law, knowledge	Order, Knowledge	Open tome
Balinor	N	Eberron SH	♂	beasts, the hunt	Nature, Life	Pair of antlers
Boldrei	LG	Eberron SH	♀	community, home	Life, City	Fire in a stone hearth
Dol Arrah	LG	Eberron SH	♀	sunlight, honor	Light, War	Rising sun
Dol Dorn	CG	Eberron SH	♂	strength at arms	Protection, War	Longsword crossed over a shield
Kol Korran	N	Eberron SH	♂	trade, wealth	Trickery	Nine-sided gold coin
Olladra	NG	Eberron SH	♀	good fortune	Life, Trickery	Domino
Onatar	NG	Eberron SH	♂	craft	Forge, Knowledge, City	Crossed hammer and tongs
The Devourer	NE	Eberron DS	♂	nature’s wrath	Tempest	Bundle of five sharpened bones
The Fury	NE	Eberron DS	♀	wrath, madness	War	Winged wyrm with woman’s head and upper body
The Keeper	NE	Eberron DS	♂	greed, death	Death	Dragonshard stone in the shape of a fang
The Mockery	NE	Eberron DS	♂	violence, treachery	War	Five blood-spattered tools
The Shadow	CE	Eberron DS	♂	dark magic	Knowledge	Obsidian tower
The Traveler	CN	Eberron DS	–	chaos, change	Knowledge, Trickery	Four crossed, rune-inscribed bones
The Silver Flame	LG	Eberron —	–	protection, good	Protection, War, Life, Light	Flame drawn on silver or molded from silver
The Blood of Vol	LN	Eberron —	–	immortality, undeath	Death, Life	Stylized dragon skull on red teardrop gem
Cults of the Dragon Below	NE	Eberron —	–	madness	Trickery	Varies
The Path of Light	LN	Eberron —	–	light, self-improvement	Life, Light	Brilliant crystal
The Undying Court	NG	Eberron —	–	elven ancestors	Grave, Knowledge, Life	Varies
The Spirits of the Past	CG	Eberron —	–	elven ancestors	War	Varies
The Daghdha	CG	Celtic	♂	weather, crops	Nature, Trickery	Bubbling cauldron or shield
Arawn	NE	Celtic	♂	life, death	Life, Death	Black star on gray background
Belenus	NG	Celtic	♂	sun, light, warmth	Light	Solar disk and standing stones
Brigantia	NG	Celtic	♀	rivers, livestock	Life	Footbridge
Diancecht	LG	Celtic	♂	medicine, healing	Life	Crossed oak and mistletoe branches
Dunatis	N	Celtic	♂	mountains, peaks	Nature	Red sun-capped mountain peak
Goibhniu	NG	Celtic	♂	smiths, healing	Forge, Knowledge, Life, City	Giant mallet over sword
Lugh	CN	Celtic	♂	arts, travel, commerce	Knowledge, Life	Pair of long hands
Manannan mac Lir	LN	Celtic	♂	oceans, sea creatures	Nature, Tempest	Wave of white water on green
Math Mathonwy	NE	Celtic	♂	magic	Arcana, Knowledge	Staff
Morrigan	CE	Celtic	♀	battle	War	Two crossed spears
Nuada	N	Celtic	♂	war, warriors	War, Order	Silver hand on black background
Oghma	NG	Celtic	♂	speech, writing	Knowledge	Unfurled scroll
Silvanus	N	Celtic	♂	nature, forests	Nature	Summer oak tree
Zeus   (Jupiter) 🗻	N	Greek	♂	the sky, ruler of the gods	Tempest	Fist full of lightning bolts
Apate   (Fraus) †	•	Greek	♀	treachery, fraud	•	•
Aphrodite   (Venus) 🗻	CG	Greek	♀	love, beauty	Light	Sea shell
Apollo   (Apollo) 🗻	CG	Greek	♂	light, music, healing	Knowledge, Life, Light	Lyre
Ares   (Mars) 🗻	CE	Greek	♂	war, strife	War	Spear
Artemis   (Diana) 🗻	NG	Greek	♀	hunting, the moon, chastity & childbirth	Nature, Life	Bow and arrow on lunar disk
Athena   (Minerva) 🗻	LG	Greek	♀	wisdom, civilization	Order, Protection, War, Knowledge, City	Owl
Cronus   (Saturn) †	N	Greek	♂	the harvest, time	Life, Nature	Harpe (a scythe/sickle sword)
Demeter   (Ceres) 🗻	NG	Greek	♀	agriculture	Life	Mare’s head
Dionysus   (Bacchus) ‡‡	CN	Greek	♂	mirth, wine	Life	Thyrsus (staff tipped with pine cone)
Dolos   (Mendacius) †	•	Greek	♂	trickery, guile	•	• (WW84)
Eros   (Cupid) †	CG	Greek	♂	lust & sex	Life, Order	Bow and arrow
Hades   (Pluto)	LE	Greek	♂	the underworld	Grave, Death	Black ram
Hecate   (Janus) ‡‡	CE	Greek	♀	magic, the moon	Arcana, Knowledge, Trickery	Setting moon
Hephaestus   (Vulcan) 🗻	NG	Greek	♂	smithing, craft	Forge, Knowledge, City	Hammer and anvil
Hera   (Juno) 🗻	CN	Greek	♀	marriage, intrigue	Trickery	Fan of peacock feathers
Heracles   (Hercules)	CG	Greek	♂	strength, adventure	Strength, War, Tempest	Lion’s head
Hermes   (Mercury) 🗻	CG	Greek	♂	travel, commerce	Trickery	Caduceus (winged staff and serpents)
Hestia   (Vesta) 🗻	NG	Greek	♀	home, family	Life, City	Hearth
Nike   (Victoria)	LN	Greek	♀	victory	War	Winged woman
Pan   (Faunus)	CN	Greek	♂	nature	Nature	Syrinx (pan pipes)
Poseidon   (Neptune) 🗻	CN	Greek	♂	the sea, earthquakes	Tempest	Trident
Selene   (Luna) †‡‡	CG	Greek	♀	the moon	Knowledge, Life	Crescent moon
Tyche   (Fortuna)	N	Greek	♀	good fortune	Trickery	Red pentagram
Re-Horakhty	LG	Egyptian	♂	the sun, ruler of the gods	Life, Light	Solar disk encircled by serpent
Anubis	LN	Egyptian	♂	judgment, death	Grave, Death, Order	Black jackal
Apep	NE	Egyptian	♂	evil, fire, serpents	Trickery	Flaming snake
Bast	CG	Egyptian	♀	cats, vengeance	War	Cat
Bes	CN	Egyptian	♂	luck, music	Trickery	Image of the misshapen deity
Hathor	NG	Egyptian	♀	love, music, motherhood	Life, Light	Horned cow’s head with lunar disk
Imhotep	NG	Egyptian	♂	crafts, medicine	Knowledge, City	Step pyramid
Isis	NG	Egyptian	♀	fertility, magic	Arcana, Knowledge, Life	Ankh and star
Nephthys	CG	Egyptian	♀	death, grief	Death	Horns around a lunar disk
Osiris	LG	Egyptian	♂	nature, the underworld	Grave, Nature, Life	Crook and flail
Ptah	LN	Egyptian	♂	crafts, knowledge, secrets	Knowledge, City	Bull
Set	CE	Egyptian	♂	darkness, desert storms	Tempest, Trickery, Death	Coiled cobra
Sobek	LE	Egyptian	♂	water, crocodiles	Nature, Tempest	Crocodile head with horns and plumes
Thoth	N	Egyptian	♂	knowledge, wisdom	Knowledge	Ibis
Oketra	NG	Amonkhet	♀	solidarity	Solidarity	cat-head
Kefnet	N	Amonkhet	♂	knowledge, wisdom	Knowledge	ibis-head
Rhonas	NE	Amonkhet	♂	strength	Strength	cobra-head
Bontu	LN	Amonkhet	♀	ambition	Ambition	crocodile-head
Hazoret	CN	Amonkhet	♀	zeal	Zeal	jackal-head
Odin	NG	Norse	♂	knowledge, war	Protection, War, Knowledge	Watching blue eye
Aegir	NE	Norse	♂	the sea, storms	Tempest	Rough ocean waves
Balder	NG	Norse	♂	beauty, poetry	Life, Light	Gem-encrusted silver chalice
Forseti	N	Norse	♂	justice, law	Order, Light	Head of a bearded man
Frey	NG	Norse	♂	fertility, the sun	Life, Light	Ice-blue greatsword
Freya	NG	Norse	♀	fertility, love	Life	Falcon
Frigga	N	Norse	♀	birth, fertility	Life, Light	Cat
Heimdall	LG	Norse	♂	watchfulness, loyalty	Light, War	Curling musical horn
Hel	NE	Norse	♀	the underworld	Death, Life	Woman’s face, rotting on one side
Hermod	CN	Norse	♂	luck	Trickery	Winged scroll
Loki	CE	Norse	♂	thieves, trickery	Trickery	Flame
Njord	NG	Norse	♂	sea, wind	Nature, Tempest	Gold coin
Odur	CG	Norse	♂	light, the sun	Light	Solar disk
Sif	CG	Norse	♀	war	War	Upraised sword
Skadi	N	Norse	♂	earth, mountains	Nature	Mountain peak
Surtur	LE	Norse	♂	fire giants, war	War	Flaming sword
Thor	CG	Norse	♂	storms, thunder	Tempest, War	Hammer
Thrym	CE	Norse	♂	frost giants, cold	War	White double-bladed axe
Tyr	LN	Norse	♂	courage, strategy	Order, War, Knowledge	Sword
Uller	CN	Norse	♂	hunting, winter	Nature	Longbow

Dawn War

^{Dungeon Master’s Guide (5th Ed.), pp.10–11}

The pantheon of the Dawn War is an example of a pantheon assembled from mostly preexisting elements to suit the needs of a particular campaign. This is the default pantheon in the fourth edition Player’s Handbook (2008).

This pantheon draws in several nonhuman deities and establishes them as universal gods. These gods include Bahamut, Corellon, Gruumsh, Lolth, Moradin, Sehanine, and Tiamat. Humans worship Moradin and Corellon as gods of their respective portfolios, rather than as racial deities. The pantheon also includes the archdevil Asmodeus as god of domination and tyranny.

Several of the gods are drawn from other pantheons, sometimes with new names for the gods. Bane comes from Faerûn. From Oerth come Kord, Pelor, Tharizdun, and Vecna. From the Greek pantheon come Athena (renamed Erathis) and Tyche (renamed Avandra), though both are altered. Set (renamed Zehir) comes from the Egyptian pantheon. The Raven Queen is akin to the Norse pantheon’s Hel and Oerth’s Wee Jas. That leaves three gods created from scratch: Ioun, Melora, and Torog.

Forces and philosophies

Not all divine power derives from deities. In some cases, believers hold enough conviction in their philosophy that they gain magical power from that conviction. In other cases, impersonal forces of nature or magic may replace gods by granting power to mortals attuned to them. Just as druids and rangers can gain their spell ability from the force of nature rather than from a specific nature deity, some clerics devote themselves to ideals rather than to a god. Paladins might serve a philosophy of justice and chivalry rather than a specific deity.

Forces and philosophies aren’t worshiped; they aren’t beings that can hear and respond to prayers or accept sacrifices. Devotion to a philosophy or a force isn’t necessarily exclusive of service to a deity. A person can be devoted to the philosophy of good and offer worship to various good deities, or revere the force of nature and also pay homage to the gods of nature, who might be seen as personal manifestations of an impersonal force. In a world that includes deities with demonstrable power (through their clerics), it’s unusual for a philosophy to deny the existence of deities, although a common philosophical belief states that the deities are more like mortals than they would have mortals believe. According to such philosophies, the gods aren’t truly immortal (just very long-lived), and mortals can attain divinity. In fact, ascending to godhood is the ultimate goal of some philosophies.

The power of a philosophy stems from the belief that mortals invest in it. A philosophy that only one person believes in isn’t strong enough to bestow magical power on that person.

Humanoids and the gods

When it comes to the gods, humans exhibit a far wider range of beliefs and institutions than other races do. In many D&D settings, orcs, elves, dwarves, goblins, and other humanoids have tight pantheons. It is expected that an orc will worship Gruumsh or one of a handful of subordinate deities. In comparison, humanity embraces a staggering variety of deities. Each human culture might have its own array of gods.

In most D&D settings, there is no single god that can claim to have created humanity. Thus, the human proclivity for building institutions extends to religion. A single charismatic prophet can convert an entire kingdom to the worship of a new god. With that prophet’s death, the religion might wax or wane, or the prophet’s followers might turn against one another and found several competing religions.

In comparison, religion in dwarven society is set in stone. The dwarves of the Forgotten Realms identify Moradin as their creator. While individual dwarves might follow other gods, as a culture the dwarves are pledged to Moradin and the pantheon he leads. His teachings and magic are so thoroughly ingrained in dwarven culture that it would take a cataclysmic shift to replace him.

With that in mind, consider the role of the gods in your world and their ties to different humanoid races. Does each race have a creator god? How does that god shape that race’s culture? Are other folk free of such divine ties and free to worship as they wish? Has a race turned against the god that created it? Has a new race appeared, created by a god within the past few years?

A deity might also have ties to a kingdom, noble line, or other cultural institution. With the death of the emperor, a new ruler might be selected by divine portents sent by the deity who protected the empire in its earliest days. In such a land, the worship of other gods might be outlawed or tightly controlled.

Finally, consider the difference between gods who are tied to specific humanoid races and gods with more diverse followers. Do the races with their own pantheons enjoy a place of privilege in your world, with their gods taking an active role in their affairs? Are the other races ignored by the gods, or are those races the deciding factor that can tilt the balance of power in favor of one god or another?