The pantheon

Every god the books have named, by tier. The full pantheon page adds the family graph, the sponsors and the mythology.

The pantheon

Grull war · first named book 1 — The god of war: child of Taranis and Apito, a trueborn heir to the Celestial Ascendency with 'an angry streak as long as a horse's cock', worshipped by donkeys and other equine creatures, and by mantaurs, who paint themselves blue. Level 250, sanctum-tier. Carl's gauntlet can summon him by accident; Prince Maestro of the Skull Empire sponsors him, and drove him in the Death Challenge on the fourth floor. His sister and arch-enemy is Pawna, the goddess of peace.
Eris chaos · first named book 1 — Goddess of Chaos, who by the Krakaren's card wants nothing to do with the collective; one of 'the big ones' the Cookbook says are always sponsored; and, in Samantha's telling, 'even Eris was pissed' at Emberus the time he destroyed a whole country over a drunk's dropped torch, waking a volcano and covering the whole world with lava.
Apito the oak; mother of all gods · first named book 2 — The Oak Mother, wife of Taranis and mother of Grull, 'the mother of all gods', worshipped by the elves and by the sixth floor's high elf queen, her Chosen Daughter. The Butcher's Masquerade is her holiest sacrament and her spell: she writes the guest list, delivers the invitations herself, sets a celestial peace seal that feeds any breaker into the Nothing, and grants a boon to a host who gets through the night without violence — which, Signet says, has never happened. At the end of book 5 a memorial crystal bears her name, which should be impossible for a living goddess.
Mana Genita lost children · first named book 3 — 'A pretty obscure one' — the goddess of Donut's Enchanted Tiara of Mana Genita, made 'in honor of all the lost children of the world', which removes the automatic hostility of her worshippers. Mordecai has never met her: 'There's thousands of them. Gods, I mean.'
Nekhebit vultures; the scavenger mother · first named book 3 — The primordial vulture goddess, jealous and terrible, who cursed the high elves' seed and holds an ancient grudge against Apito's family; re-ascended in book 6 as Odette's god, nobody's retainer and due one of her own.
Taranis thunder · first named book 3 — God of thunder and regent to the Celestial Throne; the eldest of three brothers, father of Grull by Apito. In bubble 543 he is the larger, yellow sun that strolls the sky for twenty-two hours, chased by his red brother Hellik, whom he dismisses with the sandstorm before he rests. Emberus, his youngest brother, thinks himself the better candidate for the throne.
Pawna peace · first named book 4 — The goddess of peace, Grull's sister and arch-enemy, known by her potions: Pawna's Tears, five levels to any skill, and Pawna's Cries, three, with a shelf life — both spent on the sixth floor raising Donut's stripping spell to fifteen for a god. An ursine cleric swears by her; Samantha slanders her.
Hellik sun and life · first named book 4 — Emberus's twin, god of Sun and Life, the red brother who, in a dromedarian's telling of bubble 543's sky, chases Taranis and catches him four hours before dark — 'quite obsessed with killing both Emberus and big brother Taranis' — and the obvious suspect in Geyrun's murder, who was in council when it happened; Carl's god quest is to kill him.
Algos pain · first named book 4 — The god of pain, chosen for Maggie My by a Skull Empire scroll because her race cannot worship Grull; the god her Celestial Grenade would have summoned on Carl. 'He would kill everyone in town in seconds.'
Enyo — · first named book 4 — A goddess whose nuns developed the Celestial Grenade during the first enlightenment, 'back when the gods had to compete for worshippers': a nun would drop one in a village and Enyo would arrive for sixty seconds.
Emberus sun and ash; fire · first named book 4 — God of Sun and Ash, level 250, youngest brother of Taranis and twin of Hellik: blind since he plucked out his own eyes when his favourite son Geyrun was murdered, 'one of the most unhinged of all the pantheon', a locked god no sponsor may buy this season. He walks through the Lacuna shouting for his dead son's puppy, and becomes, by Carl's choice on a falling biplane, Carl's god.
Geyrun — · first named book 4 — Emberus's favourite son, murdered by an unknown hand while Hellik sat in council; the day he died his puppy Orthrus was sucked into the Nothing. Carl's first god-quest is to find out who killed him and why; the high cleric at the Emberus shrine in Club Vanquisher has details.
Kuraokami — · first named book 4 — The goddess Crawler Sinjin worshipped — 'Worst decision ever' — sponsored by a male soother who treated the worship as his own; Sinjin's Cookbook note on missed devotions, debuffs and smiting comes from her.
Ysalte hopelessness and insanity; once dirt, then tears · first named book 4 — Goddess of Hopelessness and Insanity, level 250, once of the Dirt, then of Tears; the Semeru dwarves' only goddess, patron of outcasts and bards, half-sister and niece of her former lover Taranis, threatened with the Nothing by Apito and fled to Sheol; Amayon's ex and mother of his child. Sponsored by Pontifex Shine of the Nebular Balance and not driven, she arrives through Sister Ines's corpse as a young dwarf with a pickaxe and a flickering scream, turns every potion to vinegar, enslaves a Demon Prince — and is beheaded by her own totem. A memorial crystal waits on a future floor.
Psamathe's mother — · first named book 4 — The unnamed multi-armed god who was sleeping with the same king as her daughter, promised to kill Psamathe if she ever got out, and instead tears the demon Slit in two on the sand outside bubble 543. 'She never keeps her promises.'
Hehaka — · first named book 5 — Named once, as the god who uses the beaver god Capa as a hat. A throwaway from Samantha that sits beside the book's central mechanic — a god worn over a driver — and shows gods doing it to each other.
Diwata trees, squirrels and forest rats · first named book 5 — A minor nature goddess, 'a low-rent Apito' in Mordecai's phrase, vengeful, worshipped by the sixth floor's dryads, who changes sex and gives birth to ordinary life — a power the pantheon dislikes. Carl breaks her temple at Alucarda and becomes an Enemy of the Church; summoned by the dryads and sponsored by Circe Took, she is born from a hunter in a church, cures Vrah as a male mantis, and is held on the floor as a birthing female by her own spell until Laundry Day strips her off her driver.
Inpewt the undead; Children of Inpewt · first named book 5 — A god whose name the squished bear: mortals crushed by an arriving city become undead Children of Inpewt.
Eileithyia childbirth and female pain · first named book 5 — A name in Samantha's half-remembered account of where Diwata came from — 'Something to do with the Vinegar Bitch and Eileithyia' — after which, sniffing at Katia, Samantha tells her she has her scent.
Dodola storms · first named book 6 — A storm goddess of the prologue's tenth floor, the smaller of two raised from a summoning cube, sponsored season after season by Huanxin Jinx: forced by the Dart of Ophiotaurus into Uzzi's body inside a Circle of Containment, she shatters the exit puzzle into a key, ricochets her own lightning and dies — and Huanxin is banned from her.
Adad storms · first named book 6 — The larger of the two storm deities raised by a summoning cube on the prologue's tenth floor, AI-controlled rather than sponsored, who pours sizzling acid rain over the puzzle field until Dodola stabs something into his leg and teleports him away.
Ogun blacksmithery and armour · first named book 6 — God of Blacksmithery and Armor, level 250, an outsider from an obscure, dissipated pantheon who toils at a celestial anvil making armour for four-legged beasts, unsponsored and 'a strong contender for the celestial throne'. He answers his worshippers' failure in the Thorn Room in person: crushes Anton's head, burns Paz permanent, spares Carl for Emberus's sake. 'Now tell my sister I said' — ‘Welcome Back.’
Yemaya rivers · first named book 6 — Goddess of Rivers, once of all waters, queen of love and bringer of life, forgotten by all but her friend Eileithyia and re-ascended when Bomo assembles her obelisk in the Colón cemetery: a siren rising from her own fountain, a locked deity and 'a retainer of Eileithyia', Ogun's sister. She gives Donut The Thief and sends Bomo to Larracos with 'It is done'.
Semiramis — · first named book 6 — A name in a system message — 'the Goddess Semiramis has re-ascended. She is welcomed into the family by all' — the sixth or seventh such message, which tells Carl other squads are waking gods for the players on the twelfth floor.
Wakinyan turkeys · first named book 6 — The Great Wild Turkey, a god tossed into the Nothing who escaped only to be killed by a goat; his bereft shaman Tom and congregation, rudderless, take an ogre witch's protection for a daily sacrifice. 'The death of a god can be devastating to those who worship him.'
Áine — · first named book 6 — The goddess a Wisp in Club Vanquisher worships: 'This Wisp worships the goddess Áine.' Nothing else.
Ibeji — · first named book 6 — A temple on the grounds of the Havana church, beside Kuraokami's; 'whom I'd never heard of'.

Minor and banished deities 9

Samantha a minor deity · first named book 4 — Psamathe, a minor deity banished to the Nothing by her father for bearing a king's child, half of whom escaped into the nearest naiad vessel — a sex doll of the fictional bard Lika — and now lives as a talking, immobile, latex head with fangs, a barrette reading 'Wet for you', and one refrain: 'I'm going to kill your mother.' Hired as the personal space's trainer. Her child is a sand ooze; her mother is a god.
Yarilo lust · first named book 4 — 'The banished god of Lust': a child of Taranis who, drunk at the first Butcher's Masquerade, tried to force himself on another god's familiar and was banished to the Nothing by Apito for breaking the seal of peace — the offence that ended the party and made it a sacrament. Ghazi tried to reach him there; Psamathe answered instead.
Capa beavers · first named book 5 — 'There’s a beaver god in the Nothing […] Capa or something. He’s a fuck.' Another god, Hehaka, wears him as a hat, which he dislikes and can do nothing about, so he is always crying. The whole of what the book says about him.
Asojano disease; the orishas · first named book 6 — 'Also known as the Lord of Smallpox, Asojano is one of the most respected and feared of the Orishas, a former god made flesh upon the rise of the Ascendency' — disease incarnate, who kills and heals, wears a reed hat that makes him bump into things, and came back to a small town in Miami to look at what he once had; his presence drives the ghommids mad. Shrine five of the Thorn Room: repairing it wins the quest and nothing else, 'He's already proven he's too much of a dangerous asshole to let back into the Halls of Ascendency.' Carl flags him as he dies and he becomes a card, then, fused with Uzi Jesus, a golden one. Yemaya's brother.
Oshun charm; the orishas · first named book 6 — Shrine four of the Thorn Room: a beautiful dark-skinned woman in a dress of yellow light, whose charisma Carl feels 'like it was a physical thing' and who whispers into his ear from across a room — protection from the next five fatal blows, a charisma boost and Heal Party if repaired, and she would ascend. Anton loses half his fingers trying to repair her. Legba's sister.
Legba crossroads; the orishas · first named book 6 — Shrine two: a ghost with a pet rooster — a fifty per cent chance to avoid all future smites and the spell Confusing Fog if repaired, and he would ascend. 'Ogun don't need his shrine fixed, man. If you fix mine, I'll protect you from his wrath. I'll get you laid, too.' Paz and Anton knock his sign over trying to prop it up. Oshun's brother.
Shango lightning; the orishas · first named book 6 — Shrine three: 'He's a little shy.' A level-15 Lightning spell, trainable to 20, 'Hint, hint that spell might come in handy later', and he would ascend. Not chosen.
Inle healing, once; the orishas · first named book 6 — Shrine six: 'One of only two of the Orishas to have spent time in the Nothing, the deaf and mute Inle isn't all there' — once a healing god, immunity from health-seeping conditions and fifty per cent constitution if repaired, and he would not ascend but go back to the Nothing without knowing it. An ethereal sea serpent twists around him. He whispers in Carl's left ear about the canyon in his head.
Makara sushi; the Nothing · first named book 6 — Samantha's goddess in the Nothing 'who looks a lot like you' — crocodile head, fish body — who makes sushi rolls of her own innards, which grow back, and sells them at a little stand. 'It tastes terrible.' Samantha is unsure of the name.

Demigods outside the pantheon 1

The Night Wyrm suffering · first named book 3 — A name on a ring: the Enchanted Night Wyrm's Ring of Divine Suffering, Frank Q's revenge, 'for the discerning Crawler Killer', whose owners, Mordecai says, are the first the sixth-floor hunters track down.

The feral gods 1

The feral gods the beasts from before · first named book 4 — 'The gods from before. The immortal beasts who roamed the heavens before the pantheon banished them into the Nothing and created the world. Their banishment has driven them mad.' A closing Gate lets one through on the opening side; other gods hate them, and each has a two-in-three chance of drawing a real god after it. The party's first opening, from the ocean floor to Pandinus, let Geyrun's puppy Orthrus out of the Nothing; fifteen hundred escapes loosed more.

Demons 4

Kimaris a demon · first named book 2 — A charred glass case from Miss Quill's collection in the magistrate's office, holding a plush armoured man on a black horse, tagged Kimaris: the most valuable thing in Carl's inventory when it is sorted by value.
Slit a feral minor demon · first named book 4 — Level 200, 'one of the many demons captured and tossed into the Nothing during the original Ascendency', a harem demon who wanted no part of the royal drama and took Samantha's talk of her king to be about hers; her sister is Gash. She comes through the decoy gate in the sand and is torn in two by Psamathe's mother.
Jarmagog a demon · first named book 6 — A name over a flopping zombie sea bass during Cuba's Demon Eviction — 'Jarmagog Comes' — one of the evicted demons taking whatever body is nearest.
Amayon a prince of Sheol · first named book 6 — One of the four crown princes of Sheol — the youngest, Samantha thinks — level 250, betrayed by a brother and expelled upward into the body of a zombie sea serpent during the eighth floor's Demon Eviction: a centaur-pig body, lava skin, a deer's head with four steaming horns and a beak of fire. He wants only to go home; the tithe is a world of souls. Ysalte, his former lover and the mother of his child, enslaves him; a crab, a martyr's steps and a beheading free him. He witnessed the deal that killed Geyrun, and will tell Emberus for the price of three brothers.

Creatures of the pantheon 2

Cerberus gate guardian · first named book 2 — The three-headed dog said to guard one of the stairwell exits on the twelfth floor; Orthrus's grumpy older brother. First named in a system joke about gate guardians of history and myth.
Orthrus juvenile gate guardian · first named book 4 — Geyrun's two-headed puppy, Cerberus's kid brother, 'the universe's goodest boy', sucked into the Nothing the day his master was murdered and loosed into bubble 543 at level 10; a world quest put a million gold on him. Returned to Emberus by Carl and Donut, which is how Carl gets a god.

Figures of doctrine and stage 3

The Oak Fell Apito's antichrist · first named book 2 — The elves' tree goddess and her antichrist. Three separate stories about angels, an oakwood anklet from a dead crawler, and a cat with an award-winning derriere become, in the minds of nine city elves, the end of days. Mordecai says this is twelfth-floor stuff.
Lika a fictional bard · first named book 4 — A half-naiad trobairitz — a bard cleric under a vow of celibacy — the heroine of a series of Larracos stage plays, never real, 'very loosely based on a minor deity'. Ghazi loved her; the sex doll made in her image is where half of Psamathe now lives.
The Midnight Epicure the Caprid Who Devours the Sky · first named book 5 — A fable used to terrify children across the universe — eat your dinner, or the Midnight Epicure will come and eat it, and every child — whose symbol, a caricature of an adult caprid, became a ward against night evils; a patch on Carl's jacket.