Art by Sidney Herbert Sime Writing based on The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany

There be Islands in the Central Sea, whose waters are bounded by no shore and where no ships come—this is the faith of their people.

The Creator and Drummer

Mana-Yood-Sushai

The creator of the small gods and Skarl, who sleeps for all creation, his waking will be the end. None may pray to him but the small gods.

Skarl the Drummer

The Drummer of Mana-Yood-Sushai whose drumming keeps his creator asleep until his arms tire.

The Little Gods

Kib,

the Sender of Life in All the Worlds

The god of life who made beasts and people.

Sish,

the Destroyer of Hours

The god of hours who’s hound is Time.

Mung,

Lord of all Deaths Detween Pegana and the Rim

The god of death who comes to all as a blessing or a curse.

Slid,

Whose Soul is by the Sea.

The god of all waters on earth, rivers, seas, and pools.

Limpang-Tung,

the God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels

The god who makes pleasant things but does not hear the prayers of the old or sorrowful.

Yoharneth-Lahai,

the God of Little Dreams and Fancies

The god who sails in a dream-built ship and sends dreams to all but forgets who is who.

Roon,

the God of Going

The god who is the reason the worlds are never still, whose spirit makes us wander.

Dorozhand,

Whose Eyes Regard the End.

The god who sets fates of people to make his unknown designs manifest.

Hoodrazai,

the Eye in the Waste.

The god of mirth and joy, now mirthless from the secret he learned from the creators murmurs.

Sirami,

the Lord of All Forgetting

The god who stands where Imrana the River of Silence flows through Pegana's gates.

Grimbol, Zeebol and Trehagobol,

the three goddesses of the tallest mountains on pegana

Mothers of the three rebellious Home Gods, Trehagobol makes the mists the creator rests in.

Zodrak

A shepherd who became a god through, arrogance, ignorance, and luck, he regrets it or he may just be a parable.

Things That are not Gods

Mosahn,

the Bird of Doom

The bird who shall fly from Pegana’s vales its trumpeting voice heralding the end.

Trogool,

The Thing That is Neither God Nor Beast

It turns the black and white pages of the book of the Scheme of Things, it never answers prayer.