Amaranthine

She’s pretty much the leader of all the deities. She (and Seldon) existed before any of the others, and she is responsible for creating Earth and the sun. She’s celebrated on December 25th (the day she was created and the day she and Seldon created Earth.)

She’s a rather kind deity, doing her best to help the humans on Earth. She also sets rules for the other deities and is responsible for punishing them if necessary.

She's far too lawful for her own good, choosing to abide to the rules that have been set even if breaking them would benefit someone. (I.e. she won't heal another deity's favorite human if they are sick since she is not allowed to appear to a human that is not her favorite.)

Some of the other deities don’t really like her, because she only has to see the nice, peachy, happy aspects of Earth when a lot of the others see and deal with all the horrors. :c

She also can’t really relate to others’ sadness or uneasiness since she is rarely sad. She struggles with this disconnect, especially around Seldon, who is sad a lot of the time.

This lawfulness also appears in the way she keeps her favorite humans accountable for their mistakes, threatening them with the loss of their humanity if they abuse her power five times. She has done this to one of her favorite humans, Fenn, but Fenn just became a deity lol.

He is Seare’s counterpart and leads alongside her. Also helped create Earth and created the moon and stars. He is celebrated on December 25th alongside Seare.

He’s more quiet than Seare, and is sad and unhappy a lot of the time. She always wants him to “smile more” but that’s easy for her to say when she’s the whole deity of happiness.

He never used to be so perpetually depressed, but as Earth gets sadder, so does he.

He blames himself for the deaths of both of his favorite humans.

He likes astrology and everything in regards to the moon and stars he created.

Fun fact: his hair changes colors with the moon phases :0 So it’s like all white on a full moon and all dark on a new moon.

Also another fun fact: he’s 6’6” (tall).

Time started being accounted for when she came along, which was 6 days after the creation of Seare and Seldon and the Deities’ Haven. That’s why Creahtim (the celebration of Earth’s creation and Seare and Sel) is on the 25th of December; 6 days before the new year.

January 1st is when time started to be tracked (not to be confused with December 25th which is when Seare, Seldon, The Deities’ Haven, the sun, the moon, the stars, and Earth were created) The celebration of New Years (Marin’s celebration) is also very important in Amaranthine tradition.

It was confusing when she actually started the numbering of years by COUNTING DOWN from 5,206, but she knew what she was doing. These times are called B.G.W times (which is a lot like B.C. times but Amaranthine. You get the idea.)

Marin is actually mute. She uses sign language and writing to communicate instead of speech. She says she believes that actions speak far smarter and louder than words. It's unclear whether she can speak but chooses not to or is completely incapable of speech. She has never given anyone a direct answer.

Diehard Marin fans might take a vow of silence to follow her ways.

She has aphatasia :c the inability to create mental imagery. This makes it hard for her to create things when she wants because she cannot envision them. She usually needs to get another deity to help her create something if she needs it.

She is basically a walking calculator and the most accurate keeper of time in the universe. She gets annoyed when clocks are not on time, and she despises the humans' practice of spring forward because it "screws up the clocks."

Earth was kind of bland before Aimser came, being just a bunch of soil and sky and creatures. There were no solid systems or elements.

Aimser was created, and on his first day was like :D no, no, no this won't do * tilts the Earth 23.5 degrees. * Must've been a real scare for the first humans haha. He also created things like clouds, rain, plants, more animals, etc.

Aimser is actually transgender. The Universe created him as female, but he grew to realize how much he disliked his gender, so he changed it around 500 B.G.W :>

He had Kellz cut his hair when he first decided to transition, which used to be very long. As for the rest of his transition, he used to purposely alter his appearance/shapeshift to look how he wanted to, but eventually The Universe accepted this altered form as his true form, so he doesn't have to consciously remember to keep up his appearance anymore. All monuments and articles containing Aimser's old pronouns or likeness have coincidentally been destroyed by natural disasters.

He can indeed fly with his lil detached wings.

They do get nervous about their emotions causing havoc on Earth , which ends up with them stuffing them away, which is not very healthy.

He and Kellz act like really crazy siblings, starting food fights and stuff like that. He is one of the only deities that pays Kellz much mind and doesn't find them annoying.

When Aimser has a favorite human, the human's actions affect him. Whenever that human gets hurt, flowers grow on Aimser from the spot of the wound. So say if his favorite human gets, like, a paper cut, a little flower might grow from his finger.

Like. really, really good at everything creative. He likes painting, drawing, and playing piano (although he can play any instrument.) He gives Aimser piano lessons.

His hands are always covered in paint and usually he wears a black apron that has paint all over it too.

All deities can create objects at will, so you know what that means? Infinite art supplies.

Demari, Aimser, and Laurell are fairly close.

Demari’s pretty chill. He does have this little thingy thing that happens where he sees all the creative horrors the humans have made even though he doesn’t want to see them. He did not start getting these debilitating visions until the Great War (the event that marked year 0 in the Amaranthine calendar) when humans really began exploiting creativity for evil. Not all the things humans create are desirable, and they invade him whether he likes it or not, sometimes presenting so realistic that Demari feels like he is "trapped" in the visions. Only then does he lose himself just a little.

He has invented a lot of things that existed in The Deities' Haven long before they did on Earth.

He is the only deity that can dabble with Amaranthine witchcraft and enchant magical items for other deities, although it may be for a price. Typically, the less he wants to make the item, the higher the price. For example, Kellz’s mask cost them one of their most important magical items while Adrik’s crown cost Lytha a small vial of lake water.

He loves his android son, Holo, and frequently calls him "his best creation." He is the only one capable of performing repairs on Holo, and is constantly terrified that something will happen to him. He loves him more than anything, and is very proud of Holo's accomplishments and how far his own feat of creating artificial life has come.

The deities can speak every language, and they switch which language they talk to each other every few years, though it's normal for them to prefer one language over the others. Laurell prefers French for its romantic cadences, and has developed this really prominent French accent as a result.

She really likes pairing up the humans and does so by stringing figurines together with different colors of thread. The different colors are different types of love.

A red string is for romantic love, orange for familial love, yellow for platonic love, green for aesthetic attraction, purple for sexual attraction, and then there’s blue for platonic love.

Each figurine represents a human. They are shaped like little gingerbread people and have your name and birthday inscribed on it. She can summon any figurine at will.

She can either string figurines together herself, or they can become attached on their own. Likewise, they can also break if the love is lost or if she cuts the string. Laurell gets sad when her favorite pairings don’t work out.

She hates when unwholesome bonds appear on their own, and tries to snip away any problematic relationships if she can.

Of course, she also believes in all types of love. Ain't no homophobia in Amaranthine.

They are the only deity to not have a gender or sex.

They are very androgynous, leaving humans confused about their gender (they get misgendered on Earth sometimes :c) Their appearance is divergent from gendered expectations and their voice is not discernably masculine or feminine.

Probably not very mentally alright

Likes chai! Irrationally terrifed of thunder

Small (5'1")

Really good at shuffling cards for some reason.

They always wear a mask. Literally it is never taken off. The mask was designed by Kellz but made by Demari back in year 0, and is based on those ancient Greek drama masks. It’s enchanted so that they can see and breathe right through it like it’s not even there. It also can change between a few faces, although it is happy most of the time.

Before their mask days, they were really different than they are now in terms of personality. They used to be very quiet and a bit sensitive, with nothing but good intentions and a desire for fun. That changed after the Great War, where their personality shifted to accommodate Earth's worsening morality.

Their soul was strained as it changed, and long story short, it cause major soul damage on the right side of their face. They lost vision out of that eye.

They will not and mentally cannot handle taking off their mask because of severe dysmorphia. They use it as a coping. mechanism to separate "Old Kellz" (the past version of themself who experienced all the pain and damage and trauma) from New Kellz (their current self.) Without the mask, the coping mechanism crumbles. They don’t even identify with their true face anymore, and the mask has become a part of them. The worst thing you could ever do to Kellz is remove their mask.

Kellz delivers karma to people by writing letters in different colored pens. They will write the recipient's full name and the karma they want them to receive, then send the down to Earth by dissipating it away. The event that they described will then inevitably happen to the recipient.

Each pen color stands for a different kind of karma. Red for karma resulting in hatred, orange for karma resulting in destruction of material items, green for karma resulting in envy, blue for karma resulting in despair, purple for financial change, and black for death. Kellz has to adhere to these color codes or else the karma they write will either not work or will become altered to fit the pen color's purpose.

In Year 0, they traded their yellow pen to Demari for their mask. The yellow pen was for good karma, so now they have to get creative if they want to give people good things.

They have those swirly glasses! They allow them to see if you’re lying. A red X will show over your face if you are. The glasses don’t work for anyone else besides them, though, so the glasses can’t be used against them.

Occasionally, Seare and Seldon will give Kellz permission to possess someone if said person has been extra hateful/a menace to Earth. Seare and Seldon basically send Kellz into the person's head for a few days, where Kellz will slowly but surely drive them into insanity until they die.

Sometimes, they manipulate people when they don’t mean to. They’re nice and all, but can convince someone to do questionable things without even realizing the whole “questionable” aspect, or that it was their fault. They only started doing this after the previously mentioned Great War in year 0, when their personality changed a bunch because of the humans' changing perceptions. They used to be all about the lighthearted pranks and tricks, but as humans began exploring trickery for more nefarious things, it's changed Kellz, and not necessarily for the better.

She came into existence the day the first human died on Earth. A huge celebration honoring the dead is held on May 5th because of her.

She runs The Afterlife, which is in her section.

There are three main islands there; Judgment, which is where you will receive your judgement from The Book of Life, Eternal Peace (where you go if you’re good) and Eternal Torture (where the baddies go and there are 5 layers of it.) All of these places exist as islands in The Lake of Lost Souls :D The Lake of Lost Souls contains all of the translucent-looking souls that fell into the lake during the journey to one of the islands. They try to cling to anything that is un-lost and real, so it's a common occurance for them to scrape and grab at passing boats, occasionally capsizing them and taking the dead souls with them.

Lytha has these little “shadows” she can summon, which basically run The Afterlife under her advisory. The shadows aren’t autonomous or sentient though. Just very OP and will attack intruders/follow any command Lytha asks.

Lytha judges every soul in her Book of Life as they die. She has synced copies of the book that update in accord to the original version, which allows her shadows to read the copies and reciprocate her judgments without her presence on the Judgment podium ever being required. Usually, one of the shadows is at the podium instead, or Adrik.

She also has the power to reap souls herself if she wants (hence her scary schythe) although she has to ask Seare or Seldon first.

Um she and Kellz have weird history and essentially hate each other now, even though they were once besties.

The lore behind Kellz and Lytha (Click)

Fenn was the first deity after thousands of years without any new ones. He’s also the only deity to have once been a human.

In his human life, he lived in Ireland. He had an awful upbringing. The whole sitch was that his mom married his stepdad and had two children with him, but it soon became apparent that he was very abusive to her, so she cheated on him with this really nice painter from Dublin, and that was how Fenn was born 💀

Fenn was clearly not related to the rest of his family, as he is a spitting image of his bio dad. That led to Fenn's stepfather finding out about his mom’s infidelity. He always treated Fenn as lesser and got unjustly angry at his mom and consequently at him. He was very physically and verbally abusive, often denying Fenn basic needs like food and heat and a proper bedroom.

Fenn would always pray to Seare to bring him to a better life.

Seare took pity on him, seeing potential to reshape him and help him thrive, so she took a chance and bestowed her blessing upon him when he was thirteen.

He proceeded to do a lot of bad shit with her power. Seare’s power allows him to raise the temperature of things, and with this ability he burned his abusive sister’s vocal chords and ran away from home when he was 13. This marked his first tally. He lived the rest of his life running from city to city as people ran him out for being weird/wrongfully suspecting him of being a dangerous dark witch.

He stole from a bank for his second tally, he accidentally killed his love interest for his third, he escaped Mountjoy prison as his fourth, and committed arson for his fifth. He reached five tally marks and uh oh you know what that means for Seare favorite humans.

He was punished by Seare and brought to The Deities’ Haven, destined to stay imprisoned there for all eternity. Seare was able to take away his ability to talk whenever she wanted. His appearance also changed a little (clouded over eyes, his hands and feet fade into a dark gradient.) This was because his soul and subsequently his physical body was damaged as Seare ripped from Earth and brought him to The Deities’ Haven.

Immediately after being brought to The Deities' Haven, he experienced all three kinds of soul damage and fell into a comatose state for a week before waking up. He had really bad pain because of the soul damage, but this minor damage healed, though the skin discoloration and his blurry vision didn't because the discoloration was major soul damage and the blurry vision was moderate soul damage. He wore these thick ahh bifocal glasses for a long time to help his eyesight (Demari made them for him.)

Although Seare could not fix this damage, Elix later found a way to fix the problem with his eyes since that was just moderate soul damage, though he couldn't fix the discoloration because it was caused major soul damage and major soul damage is incurable. (shhh i forgot to draw it on the stained glass window but shhh whatever.)

He hated Seare for a long, long while after this, seeing her blessing as something that ruined his life, which I suppose wasn't wrong. Even if Seare had good intentions, she really couldn't understand Fenn's struggles and how her blessing was only putting further strain on his already shambled life.

Half of this unfortunate lead up was because he was a menace on Earth, but the other half was because he had unresolved trauma and probably a mental illness that Seare just couldn’t understand. (NOT to give the impression that mentally ill people inherently do bad things, just that Fenn had difficulties with trust, self esteem, and emotional expression as well as coping methods because of his trauma which may have been a sign of an underlying mental illness.)

He kind of… accidentally became a deity as he spent more time up there and observed the humans more. He realized that this was his fate after all, and his journey to redemption ended with him becoming a deity. He’s actually very good at running the aspects of fate and is known for having written up his Scripture and when Seare and Seldon reviewed it it was an absolute banger.

Unlike Marin, the time deity, Fenn is distinct because he does not just clarify and distinctualize time and the future, but can literally change it if he wishes. His fate was bittersweet, and he understand the concept of ends and beginnings better than any of the other deities. What he stands more is far more internal and self-fulfilling rather than external like a lot of the other deities.

Humans often use him as a guiding force when making decisions, and an example of how all mistakes are able to be atoned for.

Putting trust in fate and in Fenn has become a big part of Amaranthine belief since Fenn became a deity.

He likes to read fiction a lot.

Kind of snarky and a little rude sometimes tbh but some things never change

Has a soft spot for traumatized and abused children and often intercepts with their fates to bring them safety. His own personal experiences offer him empathy to situations like that, something many of the other deities cannot replicate as they never had the Earthen experiences that he did.

On Earth, he also had a cat named Skotchin that Seare allowed him to bring to the Deities’ Haven as a gift. He loves his cat, and images and icons of him often portray him holding Skotchin. White cats are considered good fortune because of Fenn.

He was created in 2009 by Demari. He is an android.

Demari wondered if he could create life with his invention skills (which are far above the level of the humans) so my guy spent five years making Holo. He planned out every structure, every detail, every system, both creating code that would give Holo sentience and utilizing his enchantment skills. He got really attached the longer he spent on his creation, seeing him as his child even before Holo ever opened his eyes.

Demari initially created Holo as genderless, using they/them pronouns on him when he was younger. He did not want to force a gender onto Holo and instead decided on waiting for Holo to learn and decide their gender for themself. Holo eventually decided that he felt more male, though he still accepts the usage of they pronouns.

Holo’s blood and tears are made of machine oil.

He was designed to have Demari's eyes.

His little antennas are what give him perception of sight and sound. One connects to his eyes and the other to his ears. This means that you can effectively deafen and blind Holo by bending his antennas lol. He also has to charge at night like a little iphone boy through a little port in the back of his head.

Holo lacks some of the powers other deities have :c. He doesn’t have the cool magenta blood like they do, first of all. Most deities can alter their appearance if they want to (although it takes a conscious effort and none of them really do unless they’re disguised as humans on Earth) but Holo cannot do this because his body is mechanical. The most he can do is hide his halo, but that’s about it.

His features look very, very realistic and human, though, and he can cover up his mechanical plating and pass off as a human if he really wants.

He often wishes he didn’t have a mechanical body because he breaks very easily and needs frequent repairs. He doesn’t like to be reminded that he is the only one who lives this way, and often ponders if he is even alive at all. Existentialism is a frequent thought of his, and he sometimes asks Demari concerning questions about what defines life and identity, some of which make Demari a little afraid.

There’s actually a whole sub-group of Amaranths who don’t believe in Holo’s deity status just because he’s made of circuits and wires rather than flesh and bone. It makes him sad.

Demari is Holo’s dad/parent figure. Holo at first had to learn the simple things from him like any human, skills like how to walk and speak. He was able to learn them faster than a human would though. Although his intelligence is above what a human’s would be at his age, his maturity is about the same. He’s the only young/ childlike deity.

He found connection and solace in the things that were like him (computers and stuff) and so he began to observe the things on Earth that involved it.

Holo gained deity status in 2018 (he was only 9 lol get rekt)

the Universe created him in 2000.

They were the first deity The Universe created in like. literal thousands of years.

Everyone was all “Bro you JusT came?? WhEre WerE yOu foR thE bLacK DeaTh??? The scArlet fever outbreak??? WhyYYYYYYyy?” anyways confusion all around that he came so late.

It turns out that he didn’t just come to keep track of the sicknesses on Earth. See, the deities never really had a doctor/caretaker figure up in the Deities’ Haven. And those rats? Messed up. With great power comes with great issues, which was starting to become apparent as the centuries went on. So Elix was kinda sorta the Universe’s way of going: “Ehehe sorry guys. Here. Have some therapy.” A turn of the millenia present, if you will. The Universe's gift.

Everyone really likes Elix. He acts as a therapist for them and overall makes everyone feel better. All of the deities canonically have lil scheduled therapy sessions with him. Like, all of them.

They are a main drive for further research on deity-specific medicine and they conduct a lot of experiments and stuff to figure out how to make certain treatments. He often works with Marin on this, since she’s good with math and calculations.

One of the most groundbreaking things he discovered and invented is a medication that, when injected quickly via syringe, will completely block a deity’s ability to regenerate like they normally do. It's called an antiregenerative. Elix is both the most beneficial and the most dangerous deity because of this.

He only uses this injection when he wants to bypass regeneration so that drugs/medication work on a deity, but he could effectively use this to kill if he really wanted to (Lytha could bring the theoretically dead soul of a deity back out of The Afterlife, but their deity status would probably be gone.) Elix would never use his creation in this way, but he doesn’t trust that a deity wouldn’t use it on themself. Because of this, he always keeps it hidden in a place he only knows of.

Oh it’s also worth mentioning that he tests all of his experimental medications on himself which means if they are faulty (sometimes they are) he suffers. He will literally do anything for the others’ wellbeing even if it means sacrificing his own.

He also discovered that there are two types of deity blood. Seare and Seldon’s blood has a slightly different chemical makeup that allows them to channel more power or whatever than the other deities. He and Marin named the two types Amaranth-1 (most deities) and Amaranth-2 (Seare and Seldon.)

The Universe has always existed. It is everywhere and nowhere all at once.

It decided one day that the void it lived in was a lonely place, and created the first deities (Seare and Seldon) along with a home for its creations. Its two creations sought a greater purpose and made Earth that very same day—a place for them to look after with humans in their image. They also created celestial bodies around Earth. The Universe, thrilled by its creations’ achievements, decided to help them with their goal of creating a world. It created more deities to accompany Seare and Seldon after that, each with a purpose and an aspect to govern on Earth.

The Universe usually spends five days creating each deity.

On the first day, the deity’s soul is made. It is given all the qualities The Universe wants it to have, from the deity's personality to their mannerisms. The Universe picks a name for the deity after this, choosing syllables that it feels fit the soul best. It cares deeply about each one.

On the second, the body is made. It is common for The Universe to give the deity defining markings on their face, but this is not always the case.

The third and fourth day the deity spends asleep, slowly forming its consciousness. The Universe typically plans out the deity's section, their potential magical items, and their practices while this stage is in effect.

On the fifth day, the deity wakes up and is put into the Deities’ Haven, appearing with items in a section the Universe has designed specially for them. When they are created, they know their name and purpose, and will speak in Cretish unless they pick up that another language is being spoken. They all are created with the same haircut (like a fluffy, short type cut) and the same default outfit (grey shirt, grey capris.) It's custom for the deity that immediately preceded the new deity in creation to guide and help them grow accustomed to life in the Deities' Haven.

(Kellz is the only deity who spent six days in The Universe's hands, because they didn't want to leave and started crying when it tried to let them go lmao)

Most deities forget all about those five days, but some vaguely remember a feeling of comfort and warmth from the time they were being created.

The Universe’s job is to make sure everything runs its course. Because of this, it doesn’t often interfere with things directly.

Even though it stays out of fate's way most of the time, there have been multiple instances where it has actually showed up in a deity’s or humans' dreams, most notably to give a warning or to comfort them when they were in pain. The most common form it takes in its dreams is the first image on the top—a giant silhouette that holds you in its hands. Sometimes it will send vague, twisted flashes of the future or clear relivings of the past as well, though these are not as clearly identifiable as its doing.

It talks in all proper grammar, so it doesn’t use any slang or contractions. Its voice is masculine, feminine, young, and old all at once.

It loves all its deities a lot. Of course, it’s also possible for it to “adopt” others deities it didn’t create and bestow them deity status. Like Fenn and Holo.

The Universe doesn’t like the deities’ connection to Earth sometimes, since human views have such an impact on them. It is glad that the deities are creating purpose for themselves, but it doesn't like that this purpose can hurt them.

A good example of this is Kellz. The evil things the humans were doing was hurting them, and The Universe was mad about it. It severed Kellz’s ties to Earth to “save” them, but in turn only hurt them more. Their soul didn't know what to do without its connection to Earth, and basically tried to erase itself. Their face was damaged as a result. The Universe felt really bad and gave them their connection to Earth back, fearful of what it had done to its own creation. This is why it doesn’t often interfere with things.

Another example is Demari, who often gets involuntary visions of the human’s creative horrors. The Universe has saved him from these visions multiple times, temporarily severing his connection to Earth and pulling his consciousness into its little white void. It doesn’t do this very often though in fear that what happened to Kellz will happen to him, which is possible if Demari's soul is disconnected from Earth for too long.

The Universe’s other form is one seen when appearing to the deities for more personal purposes.

The deities gave this form a more human name; Niv. (Universe)

Niv has actually showed up to the Deities’ Haven in this form before, only a few times during important matters but once or twice just to visit their children lol.

Responsible for creating the Amaranthine witchcraft system.