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The Gods of the Yoruba are expressive and larger-than-life, even among the Divine Community. They love, rage, and trick one and other, and are particularly terrible at large scale cooperation, even under their King, Shango. They encourage their worshipers and their Scions to search out their Fates, discover their destinies, and fulfill them, for trying to change one's Fate is something entirely alien to the passionate Orisha.
The Orisha are Gods of change, shifting genders, roles, and appearances whenever it suits them. Some took up the mantles of the Loa when their people came to the New World, enslaved, others linger only on African soil. While they may not be as wide spread as the Deva, the Orishas' worshipers span continents, from Nigeria, to the Caribbean, to some of South America, and they may be the most physically involved of all the Pantheons in the world before the Titans broke their chains.
Virtues: Conviction, Courage, Expression, Vengeance
Erinle - The God of the Earth and Elephants is also at the same time a fertile Goddess of Water. Erinle is powerful in both of his aspects, assisting his people in the world far below, beloved by the mortals. Friends with Ogun and spending time hunting through the forests, he also makes time for Oshun, as he is one of her many husbands.
Obatala - God of healing, compassion, and wisdom, Obatala created much of the world, and and crafted every human and their heads. He is the God who crafts the destinies that all, Gods and mortal, must strive to achieve. Though his works are great and ever-constant, sometimes he overindulges in palm wine and has to leave his craft until he's sobered once again.
Oko - A Fertility God who brings fertility to the land not through his sexual prowess, but his celibacy. If his potence is used for anything but the preservation of the land, famine and hunger are sure to follow. Almost all of Oko's Scions are adopted for this very reason.
Orunmila - The God of Knowledge and Divination, Orunmila knows the destinies of all mortals and divinities, and shares this information with Eshu. One of the most important Orisha due to the value of knowing one's destiny, Orunmila is also bound to Eshu himself; their life forces entangled to the point where one cannot live if the other does not.
Oshun - The sensual and seductive Goddess of Rivers, Oshun has been married to many of the Gods of her Pantheon at one point or another. She embodies all the passions of life, knowing the secret to cheat Death itself, and is known for being a loving wife and mother.
Shango - The undisputed King of the Orisha, Shango is boisterous, brave, and a little rash. Shango embodies the male energy, represented by the fact that he was born of two fathers, and exudes his energy as a storm-bringer, the heavens thundering with his great drums. Claiming to be the strongest warrior of the Orisha, Shango would happily challenge any who approach him; except for Eshu -- which no God is willing to cross.
Eshu - Powerful and mysterious, Eshu is a God of Chaos and Trickery, while at the same time playing the role of mediator between mortals and the divine, and of people and their destinies. By his will are all Scions of the Orisha able to exist, for Eshu serves as the conduit of the Divine and mortal, meaning that it is only through Eshu's good graces that any Orisha, from the lowilest Scion to Shango himself can wield power upon the earth itself.
Ogun - God of War and Iron, Ogun is one of the great warriors of his Pantheon, both leading battle charges and creating weapons for those very same battles. He is a patron of metalworkers, for it was Ogun who taught humanity how to smite the black metal so that they could prosper, and how to clear the land for farming.
Olokun - A furious Deity of the Ocean, with his appearance as mercurial as the element he lords over. He was chained at the bottom of the Atlantic for attempting to flood the world, and the decision to free him for another warrior to face the Titans is a decision the Orisha don't face lightly.
Oshosi - God of the Wilderness and Hunters, Oshosi is one of the Orisha who went with his worshippers to the western lands. An archer without peer inside his Pantheon, Oshosi is the official hunter of Heaven.
Oya - Warlike and powerful, Oya was one of Shango's wives long ago before she stole magics meant only for her husband. Furious, Shango drove her out of his house and since then relations have been strained between the two.
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