Various Deities

Deities we used for demons, much like the way Celtic Christianity adopted pagan deities as saints and demons.

For example, Atar - Persian god of fire and purity - is a fire demon. The GM can decide if there is a bonus for 'fire'.





Persian Gods, Goddesses and Heroes

Aesma Daeva - Demon of Lust and Anger. Personification of violence, conflict and war. Eternally opposed by Sraosa

Agas - Demoness of illness. Her name means "the evil eye"

Airyaman - God of friendship and healing

Allatum - old Iranian goddess of the underworld

Ameretat - goddess of immortality and the protector of plants

Angra Mainyu - god of darkness and destroyer of good. Bringer of death and disease

Apaosa - Demon on a black horse with a white face who brings drought to the land

Asto Vidatu - demon of death no human can escape. Tries to catch the souls of the righteous as they rise to heaven

Atar - god of fire and purity. son of Ahura Mazda

Azi Dahaka - a storm demon shaped like a monsterous snake

Bahram - god of the planets and victory

Burijas - Kassite wargod

Bushyasta - yellow demon of laziness and sloth. Causes men to oversleep and to neglect their religious obligations

Daevas (devils) - demons who bring plagues and diseases in all forms

Dahaka - ancient god of death and deceit

Dena - daughter of Ahura Mazda

Dev - a powerful demon of war

Haurvatat _ one of the Amesha Spentas . Perfection personified. Associated with Life after death

Indar - god of warfare and bravery

Indra - one of the seven daevas. Apostasy

Izha - goddess of the sacrifice

Nairyosangha - messenger of the gods and a god of fire

Nanghaithya - demon of discontentment

Neriosang - a messenger god

Rapithwin - ancient god of the noon day sun, protector of the south and summer

Rashnu - angel of justice and last judgement. Righteousness personified

Rustam - hero of the Shah Nameh, originally a hero of Parthia. Greatest warrior. Owner of Rakush, the great warhorse

Saena - a legendary bird whose nest is in the first tree in Vourukasha

Saurva - one of the seven daevas

Tawrich - demon of hunger

Vanant - one of the four leaders of the stars who will fight on the side of Ahura Mazda

Vata - god of the wind 20th day is his

Verethragna - god of victory. Aggressive triumph. He punishes the evil that man and demon does

Zarich - The demon of aging

Zurvan - father of the immortal opposites Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu. God of destiny, light and darkness

Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian

Agdistis - a hermaphrodite monster

Anunnaki - children of Antu and Anu, underworld gods.

Anzu - demon with lion and eagle features. Guards Enlil's bath

Ashur - main god of Assyria and war. Symbolized as a winged disk

Dumuzi - shepherd demigod. Husband of Inanna. Shepherd king of Uruk.

Ereshkigal - violent goddess of the underworld. Wife of Erragal

Erra - hunter god, god of war and plague

Erragal - god of underworld, husband of Ereshkigal and lover of Aruru (Mami)

Gerra - god of fire, son of Anunito

Geshtianna - goddess who rules over the fall harvest.

Hadad - Canaanite god of thunder and lightning

Irra - a plague god

Ishkur - god in charge of the winds. simmilar to Akkadian Adad.

Ishum - god of fire and weapons. Lights the way for Erra and the Sebitti

Kabta _ god of bricks, lays foundations and builds houses

Lamashtu - female demon

Mammetum - mother of fate

Namtar - god of 60 diseases, "fate" demon of death.

Nedu - guardian of the first gate of the underworld

Nergal - Assyrian god of hunting and warfare. One of the main gods of the underworld.

Neti - chief gatekeeper of the Underworld.

Ningizzia - underworld god, guardian of Heaven's gate

Sebitti - Seven warriors led by Erra. (Pleiades)

Sharru - god of submission

Sun Ra head of falcon and sun disk


Music Hathor horns of cow and sun disk


Destruction Sekhmet head of lion


Sky Nut blue with golden stars


Earth Geb colour of plants and Nile mud


Dead Osiris dressed in white with crook and flail


Desert Seth animal head with long curved snout


Pharoah Horus head of hawk and crown of Egypt


Magic Isis throne on head or holding baby


Wisdom Thoth head of ibis


Embalming Anubis head of jackal


Justice Ma'at feather in her hair


Creation Amun crowned with feathers


Cats Bastet head of