The Monsoon Ghats are my stab at an Indian setting, which I pitched to a friend as "post-deluge Ancient India coming to power after a brutal war with a dinotopia of multi-headed naga." Because if you go 1-to-1 with trying to recreate an actual gigantic set of cultural groups you can easily screw things up; but blatantly going fantastical with it can prevent such issues. Nobody expects the Empire to properly capture 1600s Germanic Politics. It exists south of the Hundred Kingdoms in my Yoon-Suin game.
Anyway I've been working on a holy-man class for some of the various religions present (not-Hinduism, not-Aghori sect, not-Jainism, not-Sikhism, and not-Buddhism). The not-Hinduism form, the Jagganathi, hail the Lord of the Universe and acknowledge the daeva as the avatars of this divine being. All such beings are worthy of veneration, but those who stand in the way of a holy-man's work are clearly destined to fall and learn humility at the hands who assist said holy-man. Its more respectful and complex than that, but that's too big for a blog post.
So, I needed to make some charts for generating daeva on the fly. Here's a rough draft (it's become a d50 since last night).
Daeva Generator |
d30 | Name Part 1... | Name Part 2... | Title... | Head/Face... |
1 | Chyy | lun | The River's Mouth | Elephant |
2 | Pemm | ankam | The Great Mountain King | Naga |
3 | Samg | uyang | The Voice on the Wind | Eel |
4 | Para | weitsiya | The One Who Follows | Pelican |
5 | Kiki | antsiya | The Remover of Kings | Horse |
6 | Tang | jyo | The Caller of Storms | Cyclopean |
7 | Bauk | tala | The Darkener | Shrieking Demon |
8 | Tamp | uma | The Everborn | Serpent Nose |
9 | Lep | arna | The Supreme Lawgiver | Faceless |
10 | Ond | iva | The Hunter of the Gods | Face of Gold |
11 | Hewik | bantsik | The Protector of Man | Tusked Demon |
12 | Vatt | riyanj | The Wild Beast | Seagull |
13 | Opp | yazan | The Unending One | Eagle |
14 | N'yat | yama | The Merchant God | Rhino |
15 | Pokwa | gyun | The Queen of Blood | Weeping Demon |
16 | Banag | kuppa | The Noose of Man | Circle of Eyes |
17 | Gan | bavanti | The Blade of Creation | Disjointed Jaws |
18 | Tat | antsu | The Song of the Deep | Circle of Fangs |
19 | Dula | dunai | The Warbringer | Monkey |
20 | Raas | abir | The Firstborn | Tortoise |
21 | Charu | ra | The Thunderbringer | Spider |
22 | Apaj | li | The Jungle's Whisper | Lotus |
23 | Kamp | man | The Drowned God | Regal Human |
24 | Bool | ni | The Unyielding | Slug |
25 | Ind | iti | The Endless | Third-Eyed |
26 | Ag | banqa | The Finite | Skull |
27 | Koto | odai | The Hungering Ghost | Hideous Demon |
28 | Vish | yudan | The Lash of the Divine | Many-Faced Being |
29 | Laksh | raja | The Unspeaker | Fruiting Tree |
30 | Saras | jat | The Herald | Sun & Moon |
d30 | Body of... | Flesh Color | Detail... |
1 | Pregnant Mother | Black | Four Arms |
2 | Athletic Youth | White | Six Arms |
3 | Scarred Martyr | Jade | Eight Arms |
4 | Tattooed Voyager | Blue | Encircled By Sunlight |
5 | Corpulent Noble | Gold | Encircled by Stars |
6 | Warty Leper | Red | Crowned with Fire |
7 | Vile Serpent | Pink | Crowned with Gems |
8 | Emaciated Corpse | Green | Crowned with Bones |
9 | Ferocious Tiger | Brown | Accompanied by Shrieking Spirits |
10 | Hungering Mantis | Clay Red | Accompanied by a Beautiful Harem |
11 | Young Girl | Marbled | Accompanied by an Immortal Guru |
12 | Old Guru | Violet | Accompanied by two enslaved Demons |
13 | Great Spider | Copper | Accompanied by a Consort Daeva |
14 | Whorled Snail | Brass | Plays a lute of starlight |
15 | Crucified Man | Pink Flesh | Plays a lute of screaming mortal flesh |
16 | Burnt Skeleton | Tawny Flesh | Carries a pot of blessed waters |
17 | Vicious Shark | Raw Flesh | Carries a pot of blessed blood |
18 | Gigantic Turtle | Burnt Flesh | Carries urns of sanctified ash |
19 | Ravenous Frog | Iron | Carries urns filled with bound demons |
20 | Powerful King | Lapis Lazuli | Rides upon a palanquin of gold |
21 | Fearless Soldier | Inky Black | Rides upon a palanquin of bone |
22 | Simple Farmer | Moonlight | Rides upon a majestic steed |
23 | Bountiful Cow | Blackened Skin | Rides upon ten thousand struggling slaves |
24 | Gigantic Flames | Peach | Rides upon a blessed cow |
25 | Boundless Smoke | River Blue | Rides upon an elephant |
26 | River Dolphin | Ivory Bone | In unending conflict with a phoenix |
27 | Mischievous Monkey | Yellow | In unending conflict with their progeny |
28 | Scarab Beetle | Pearl | Destined to eat the Sun |
29 | Capricious Crab | Night Black | Destined to eat the Moon |
30 | Clouds of Starlight | Briny Green | Destined to Die and be Reborn Mortal |
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