A Pantheon By Sharrukin-of-Akkad Watch

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This is a very quick-and-dirty piece, put together almost by accident while I worked to develop and document a pantheon of deities for a culture in the novel I'm working on (working title The Curse of Steel).



The Tremára revere a pantheon called the Tívai Atesdan, the “Twelve Gods," and I drew this chart in an effort to visualize the relationships among those deities as I was writing them up. A quick look will probably tell you that this is the Standard Indo-European Pantheon, variant #3-b . . . a family of sibling deities descends out of primordial chaos, after which they get busy and start producing a whole horde of younger deities, half-deities, and heroes.



Technical notes: nothing fancy here. Underlying image is a quick-and-easy parchment texture, hand-made in Photoshop. The various text items were created and arranged by hand, after which I drew the lines to indicate marriage and parentage relationships. Probably the most technically challenging thing I did this time was remember how to draw straight lines and right angles with the pencil tool. Total work time maybe a whole two hours.



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