| Pamalt | Paslac | Phargon | Plant Brothers | Pocharngo the Mutator |
| Polaris | Primal Chaos |
In sand paintings, he always sits atop his royal seat and holds a staff topped by a chieftain's insignia.
Western manuscripts reveal him as a monstrous being, perhaps a half-troll. Ralian manuscripts remember him as a handsome, stern ruler with curly blond hair. His arms consist of a gold lion on a checkered red and black background.
As usual among the mer-tribes, no imagery is provided.
When illustrated, each plant brother is shown as a person covered with leaves of the appropriate plant.
In Zorak Zoran rituals, the sacrifice who takes the part of Pocharngo is stripped and painted with a special, foul-tasting slime.
Polaris is noted for his courage and unswerving loyalty, and is worshiped as the General of Heaven. Commanding officers of many large civilized armies sacrifice to him for aid in battle.
He is usually shown standing stiffly upright, armored, crowned, and holding a rolled scroll in his left hand.
In the cult rituals of chaos beings, any convenient lump of swamp ooze is used to represent Primal Chaos. At the conclusion of the worship ceremony, half the lump is crumbled into bits and the rest left behind on the altar.
Phargon [FAHR-gon]
Merman pantheon -- the Founder
Phargon was the child of Mirintha and Grandfather Mortal, and his children are the ancestors of the mer-tribes.Plant Brothers
Elf and Pamalt pantheons -- children of the earth
These beings are the personification of an entire region. They can be a forest, a grassland, or a swamp. They appear when times are either especially bad or especially good, and they can be contacted by shamans.Pocharngo the Mutator [poh-CHARN-go]
Chaos pantheon -- the cosmic cancer
This god possesses a power which changes all that is good into that which is bad. Pocharngo corrupts from without -- nothing which it touches is safe from degeneration. Like a growing, slogging swamp, it even turned the old world into a sickening tumultuous slough of cancer. Portions of things which Pocharngo touched ran before it and outside it, and some of these cancerous parts even now run free. In ancient times it was stopped only by Zorak Zoran, courageous fighter for the world, who shattered its whole body and turned it upon itself, changing the evil into impotency.Polaris [POH-lehr-ihs]
Yelm pantheon -- god of war, armies, and dance
Polaris led the armies of the Upper World in the Gods War. When the Spike exploded a hole appeared in the sky dome. Around that hole Polaris built a fortress to keep bad influences out of heaven. Other star captains created similar strongholds from whence the forces of light sallied to aid the dark world below. Polaris also calculated the rock and tilt of the broken sky-dome to coordinate the movements of his forces in the heavens. He sheltered the goddess of dance and thus was born the harmony of the heavens, which reflects both the beauty of dance and the precision of military drill.Primal Chaos
Chaos pantheon -- the chaos ooze
Chaos itself is impersonal, less than mindless, naught but a primal force even to its own worshipers. Human philosophers perceive it as separated into six progressively more complex Planes or forms. The first is the Void, less than nothingness; the last is Gbaji, the seductive god who makes chaos appealing to outsiders.
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