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The Beyond Heroes Roleplaying Game Book I: the Player's Guide 1 The Beyond Heroes Roleplaying Game Book XXI: The Book of Pantheons Writing and Design: Marco Ferraro The Book of Pantheons Copyright © 2019 Marco Ferraro. All Rights Reserved This is meant as an amateur free fan production. Absolutely no money is generated from it. Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the United States and other countries. © 2019 Wizards. All Rights Reserved. Beyond Heroes is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or specifically approved by Wizards of the Coast LLC. Contents Foreword 4 Timeline 4 Earth Pantheons 6 Afghani 7 Afrikana 9 Arabian 16 Armenian 23 Australian Aboriginal 24 Aztec 28 Babylonian 34 Baltic 41 Basque 48 British 49 Burmese 50 Cambodian 53 Canaanite 56 Celtic 58 Chinese 68 Egyptian 76 Eskimo 80 Estonian 82 Etruscan 85 Filipino 93 Finnish 105 Gaulish 108 Greek 111 Hindu 116 Hittite 123 Hungarian 125 2 Hurrian 128 Inca 133 Indonesian 135 Irish 139 Islander 144 Japanese 155 Korean 162 Lusitanian 165 Malaysian 174 Maori 178 Mayan 179 Mesopotamian and Sumerian 186 Mongolian 192 Native American 194 Norse 201 Ossetian 207 Phoenician 208 Pop Culture 212 Primordial 215 Roman 221 Sami 233 Scottish 234 Semitic 236 Slavic 237 Syrian 240 Thai 241 Thracian 244 Tibetan 245 Voodun 256 Welsh 265 DC Comics Entities 269 Marvel Comics Entities 275 Dungeons and Dragons 279 Eternal Champion 297 Middle Earth 299 Palladium Fantasy 301 Pathfinder 302 Warhammer Fantasy 302 The Pantheon Creation Guide 304 Spheres for Gods 317 Mana and Deities 320 Creating Cosmic Beings 325 Characters who Ascend 327 Characters who Ascend II 328 List of Cosmic Powers 331 Organizations 338 3 Foreword while countless points of light flare and The Beyond Heroes Role Playing Game die in the interior. is based on a heavily revised derivative version of the rules system from As life begins to form and die, Aelif and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Mortis are born. edition. It also makes extensive use of the optional point buying system as 10,000,000,000 BC - The first race of presented in the AD&D Player’s Option beings to arise in this universe known as Skills and Powers book. My primary 'the First Ones' finally begin to explore goal was to make this system usable in beyond their galaxy. They experiment any setting, from fantasy to pulp to with altruism and begin seeding their superhero to science fiction. 'humanoid' gene codes onto thousands of worlds. A pantheon (from Greek pantheion, literally "a temple of all gods") is a set of 9,900,000,000 BC - The First Ones all the gods of a particular polytheistic evolve to a point where they exist as religion or mythology. pure energy, beyond any hunger or physical need. They decide to continue The following is not meant to be a their seeding but in their new forms are complete list of all the gods of the now able to reach billions of worlds. pantheons but rather the ones which Ive modified for my universe. In some cases 5,000,000,000 BC - A star system that it was too difficult to find much would one day be called 'Sol' forms from information on a given pantheon and condensed nebulous gases. thus only the names of the gods are listed. 3,900,000,000 BC - The planet Earth is formed from solidified molten matter in the Solar system. 1. Timeline 3,800,000,000 BC - Formation of Earth's 20,000,000,000 BC - The Big Bang oceans. creates the currently existing universe. From the massive explosion mass and 2,000,000,000 BC - Life begins to arise energy condense to form the universe. on Earth. The primordial gods arise on This is repeated an infinite amount of earth. The most powerful are Gaea and times over the multiverse. Time Kali. Angels and Demons in their early travellers appearing here will find forms are also created. themselves at the edge of an expanding universe. The Elder God Gaea assigns herself as protector of the emerging life in Earth's In this total vacuum, where no matter seas. Kali takes the opposite role, that of has yet reached, the early cosmos death and decay. Pangea breaks up. appears as a boiling mass in the distance. Elsewhere there is nothing but black 410,000,000 BC - Devonian period. space. Plumes of fantastic light and gas Insects, Amphibians. sweep around and across the outer edges 4 400,000,000 BC - The main groups of 100,000,000 BC - Africa separates from fish are differentiated. Europe/Valusia and Asia. Reptiles dominate the Earth. 355,000,000 BC - Carboniferous period. Forests appear along with reptiles and 70,000,000 BC - First Primates appear. giant insects. Horned and armoured Dinosaurs. 320,000,000 BC - Antarctica, Australia, 65,000,000 BC - The moon forms in India, South America and Africa form orbit out of the remaining debris not the continent of Gondwana. used by the earth. Around the same time a large meteor hits the earth killing most 290,000,000 BC - Permian period. Seed living creatures, including the dinosaurs. breeding plants appear. Trilobites die out. 55,000,000 BC - Eocene epoch. Horses and Camels. The First Ones visit earth 250,000,000 BC - Mesozoic era. The depositing artifacts at Antarctica, Earth's Age of Reptiles, comprising the Triassic, moon and Neptune. Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. 45,000,000 BC - Antarctica separates 205,000,000 BC - Triassic period. First from Australia. dinosaurs, turtles and crocodiles. 38,000,000 BC - Oligocene epoch. First 200,000,000 BC - The (now) India, Apes. North America is largely dry. Australia, Antarctica, and the southern Archaic mammals begin to disappear. parts of South America and Africa lie Modern animals (horses, pigs, from 10 to 30 degrees from the South rhinoceroses, elephants, etc.) begin to Pole, covered by ice. Dinosaurs arise as appear. the dominant species on Earth. Mammals exist as a lower-order animal. 30,000,000 BC - Development of CircumAntarctic current, essentially 160,000,000 BC - South America, isolating Antarctica from the rest of the Africa and India separate. continents, and beginning the establishment of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. 138,000,000 BC - Cretaceous period begins. Snakes and lizards appear. 4,000,000 BC - Earliest findings of humanoid skeletons. 135,000,000 BC - Jurassic period. Largest Dinosaurs. Birds appear on 2,500,000 BC - The Celestial Alliance Earth. Gondwana begins to break, set up a weapons outpost on the planet separating South America, Africa and Uranus, leaving behind a robot as a India in the North, from Antarctica and guard. The crew of the 'Last Hope' arrive Australia in the South. in this year via a chronal wormhole. 120,000,000 BC - First mammals appear They land on Uranus and discover the on Earth. outpost. Its guardian attacks them and is 5 destroyed, but not before it triggers an the huge mana cost only one Astaroth is alarm. able to follow. This also has the result of awakening the powerful mana forces in The Last Hope's crew attempt to escape, Atlantis. but are intercepted by the Alliance who detected the Sentry's alarm. After a 124, 456 BC - Earth's latent magic force battle stretching months the Hope's crew is tapped for the first time as the is victorious but forced to crash on Earth sorcerers establish themselves as gods in the Paleolithic continent, its leaking spawning various religions. They engines mutating the ecology. overthrow and either kill or banish the previous primordial gods and take their The surviving crew members resign place. themselves to settling on this new world and would eventually become known as These new Gods include; Chinese, Elves. African, Odgon, Babylonian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Phoenician, Canaanite, 1,500,000 BC - The Celestial Alliance Hurrian, Mesopotamian, Ugraatic, begin to have setbacks in their various Semitic, and the Greek Titans. wars across the galaxy. They return to the Sol system and land on Earth in an 6, 543 BC – The next wave of young attempt to create a race of super beings Gods, killing or banishing the previous to fight as slaves. Their experimentation order and supplanting them. These Gods leads to the creation of Dwarves and include; Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Gnomes. The Elves long having lost the Hindu, Korean, Cambodian, Japanese, technology from their ship are ignored as Norse, Nepalese, Burmese, Syrian, insignificant. Aztec, Native American, Inca, Voodun, Mayan, Mongolian, Malayan, Thai, 500,000 BC - The Harmonic land on Tibetan, Armenian, Irish, Baltic, earth and establish various refugee bases Lusitanian, Basque, British, Ossetian, around the world for those fleeing from Celtic, Estonian, Sami, Etruscan, the tyranny of the Celestial Alliance. Scottish, Finnish, Slavic, Gaulish, They are careful not to interfere with the Thracian, Welsh, Hungarian, Afghani, native developing races of the world. Hurrian, Afrikan, Arabian, Phoenician, Among these bases are Atlantis and Semitic, Syrian, Aboriginal, Maori, Lemuria. Unbeknownst to them Atlantis Eskimo, Melenesian, Filipino, is built on top of the largest ley line in Micronesian, Hawaiian, Polynesian, and the world. Indonesian. 125,000 BC - Sorcerers escaping the Astaroth takeover of their dimension cross over from Darkworld to Earth. They establish themselves at Egypt, the Bermuda, Ayer's Rock and Mt Olympus. They are also followed by demonic minions of the Astaroth. However due to 6 Dagun - A Kafir god. Sometimes 2. Earth Pantheons identified as Dagun. Afghani Pantheon Al - A monster. This version of the Disani - Supreme goddess of the Kafir, Persian Al takes the form of a young fertility. Goddess and goddess of death. woman with long nails and teeth and Mother of Bagisht.
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