Olman Pantheon

Olman Pantheon

See also: [ Powers of Oerth ] [ Baklunish | Flan | Oeridian | Olman | Suel | Touv ]

One of the Pantheons of Oerth

CHARACTER: The Olmans are a tribal people native to the southern fringes of the Flanaess, and have a rich and vibrant culture, with complex religious practises and hierarchy. They typically have reddish-brown skin, straight black hair, and are known for their elaborate dress and ornamentation, including feathers and beads. Olman society blends fierce tribal loyalty with the legacy of a once-great empire. Their religious practices reflect emphasise ancestral worship, connection with nature, and the balance of life and death. Rituals are performed by communities to help bind them together. The powers can be brutal, even the benevolent ones, demanding obedience and sacrifice to maintain their favour.

NAME	PORTFOLIO	REALM / NOTES	PRONOUNS	ALIGNMENT	POWER LEVEL
Camazotz	Bats; evil; vampires; underworld	Deep Ethereal / Xibalba / the Caverns of Blood ‡; Abyss / Descolada / the Killing Forests ‡	He/Him	CE	Lesser
Chitza-Atlan	Guards the gates of the underworld	Gray Waste / Niflheim / Mictlan ‡	He/Him	LE	Demipower
Coatlicue	Earth; the dead	Prime Material Plane	She/Her	N	Intermediate
Huhueteotl	Time; destructive fire	Gehenna / Chamada / Hueiuhcalli ‡; Pandemonium / Pandesmos / Xipetlan ‡	He/Him	CE	Intermediate
Hurakan	Floods; unrestrained fury	Discordia / the Mists Above the Floodwaters ‡	He/Him	CN	Demipower
Mictlantecuhtli	Death; darkness; murder; underworld	Gray Waste / Niflheim / Mictlan ‡	He/Him	LE (NE)	Greater
Mictlanchihuatl	Queen of the Dead	Gray Waste / Niflheim / Mictlan ‡	She/Her	LE (NE)	Greater
Ometeotl	Creation	Unknown	Genderfluid	N	Greater*
Quetzalcoatl	Air; wisdom; birds; snakes	Avalon / the Rainbow Span ‡	He/Him	LN (LG)	Greater
Tezcatlipoca	Sun; Moon; scheming; betrayal	Prime / Wildspace / Dark Tapestry ‡	He/Him	CE	Greater
Tlaloc	Rain; moisture; earthly abundance; thunder; death	Arcadia / Abellio / Tlālōcān; Arborea / Ossa / Tlālōcān; Nether / The Land of Eternal Rain ‡	He/Him	CG/LE	Intermediate
Tlazoteotl	Mother earth	Perdition / Zannibar ‡	She/Her	N/CE	Intermediate
Tonatiuh	Sun	Wandering between the World Above and the World Below	He/Him	NE	Intermediate

A Who’s Who of the Olman Powers of Oerth

Powers with full write-ups will appear here…

• Huhueteotl
  Being a Complex and Ancient Aztec Power of Many Aspects and Faces
• Tlaloc
  Being the Aztec Power of Rain, who is Anything but Wet Behind the Ears

Realms of the Olman Powers of Oerth

Canonical Source: On Hallowed Ground [2e] p60-63; Greyhawk wiki; Canonfire!

Sources: Jon Winter-Holt, with many thanks to Talktoh who is far more knowledgeable than me about all things Greyhawk. ‡

Culturewatch: To help cutters unfamiliar with Greyhawk lore picture these powers, you can do a rough mental translation of these folk to the Central American peoples of the real world, particularly the Aztecs. Indeed, all of the powers in the pantheon are drawn directly from real world mythology, mainly Aztec, but also some Maya myths too. It’s a bit of a mish-mash! The realms of these powers are somewhat confusing too, referring to an ‘alternate material plane’ which I suspect is meant to be Earth. I’ve decided to home these powers in the Outer Planes or Ethereal instead.