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====== The Old Lords ======

**NOTE:**  This is a single pantheon and a priest represents all of these quasi-deities at the same time.  As a set of Quasi-Deities they grant spells from the Pathfinder Adepts spell list.  Note that this only goes up to L5 spells, and include a mixture of spells from different traditions.

It is said that The Old Lords were leaders of the tribes that survived the God Wars.  They banded together in the early years to give their tribes a better chance to survive.  However, over time, worship of the  Old Lords, with their 'country' perspective, has drifted towards the periphery.  It still exists, however, as a minor faith in many regions of Hann, and the church still teaches the 'old way' - that  towns and villages are better than cities, that compromise is good, that the land should be treated with respect, and that trade between self-sufficient towns is the way to retain both peace and dignity.  Followers of the Old Lords tend to be very traditional and keep many of the old traditions, festivities and holidays.

Ironically, many of those old celebrations and traditions are still practised (although, perhaps, on a more secular level) by all Hann, no matter where in the Empire they live, or how sophisticated they are.

This is a homebrew pantheon.

  * Lord Crow – The Protector. Patron of Chieftains and warriors. (NG) (M)
  * Mawida – Mistress of the Woods. Patron of Hunters, Trappers and Woodsmen.  (TN) (F)
  * Rusina - Mistress of the Fields, patron of farmers. (TN)  (F)
  * Maria - Mistress of the Mountains, patron herders.   (TN) (F)
  * Conn  – Patron of Crafters and Merchants.  (LN) (M)

**History**

Long ago, just after the world was reborn, five different groups lived in the mountains – each with their own patron deity.   There were the people of the woods who lived by hunting game and foraging for the fruits of the forest, the people of the mountains, who kept flocks of sheep and goats for their meat and wool and the people of the valleys, who planted and grew the cereals that were needed for bread and beer.  Between the villages of those rural communities, larger settlements sprung up -  mainly populated by followers of Lord Crow and Conn  - there was always a market in town, crafts people to make those specialized items, and soldiers patrolling the roads and local communities.    

Under Lord Crow’s guidance the people of the tribes intermarried, interbred and mixed their cultures - the Hann People were born.  Early Hann culture stayed true to their patron-philosophies  - and were a rural people, with villages and market towns connected by a network of roads that enabled trade and the sharing of both cultural and innovation.

Their descendants follow the Old Lords as a single church/pantheon.  Priests of the Old Lords represent all of these deities, and say prayers to them communally.  While a follower (or a priest) //might// invoke one of the deities individually, it is a bit like praying for a saint to intervene on the petitioner's behalf.

[[consolidated:religion:homebrewpantheons:oldlordschurch|The Church]] - a slightly more detailed look at the deities and church.