Trope Pantheons/Prophecy

Prophecy and Fate

The House of Prophecy sits upon the highest mountain, standing above the rest of the Pantheon as if silently watching them. There are a lot of rumors about what the inside of the House looks like. The truth is that it is possibly the most spartan and austere of the Houses - very plain, very bare of comforts, a rather boring place. That has not stopped a brave few from climbing up in order to ask the inhabitants what the future holds. Most either never reached the top or were frustrated by prophetic gibberish, and the few that had the patience to listen returned... changed somehow, though none would speak of what had taken place. Occasionally, a deity from the House of Prophecy would come down from the mountain and offer to tell fortunes... for a price, of course. However, many would find their predictions frustratingly vague and nonsensical, while others would have preferred not to have known their fortunes at all.

Kamina currently stands as the House of Prophecy's number one threat, due to his alarming invisibility to prescience was well as the ability to change fate. The House of Prophecy is quick to involve itself in any issue that pertains to him.

== The Five Maidens, Goddesses of Fate  (Mercury, Maiden of Journeys, Venus, Maiden of Serenity, Mars, Maiden of Battles, Jupiter, Maiden of Secrets, Saturn, Maiden of Endings) ==
 * Greater Goddesses
 * Symbol: The astrological symbols of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, in yellow, blue, red, green, and violet, respectively
 * Alignment: Neutral Good
 * Shared Portfolio: The Three Five Faces Of Eve, Fate, Stars, Necessity, Inscrutable Plans, Koans
 * Exclusive to Mercury: Walking the Earth, Vehicles Cool And Otherwise, Teleportation
 * Exclusive to Venus: The Power of Love, The Power of Friendship, Marital Bliss, Sex, Happiness
 * Exclusive to Mars: War, The Thousand Correct Actions of the Upright Soldier, Intelligent Strategy, the Many Shades of Conflict
 * Exclusive to Jupiter: Secrets, Truth and Lies, Revealed Truths, Conspiracies, Planning and Manipulation
 * Exclusive to Saturn: Endings Happy and Otherwise, Supernatural Martial Arts, Death, New Beginnings
 * Shared Domains: Balance, Destiny, Fate, Good, Oracle, Patience, Planning
 * Exclusive to Mercury: Celerity, Liberation, Portal, Travel
 * Exclusive to Venus: Charm, Community, Family, Lust
 * Exclusive to Mars: Destruction, Protection, War
 * Exclusive to Jupiter: Knowledge, Mind, Trickery
 * Exclusive to Saturn: Death, Renewal, Repose
 * Allies: The Unconquered Sun, Luna
 * Followers: The Sidereal Exalted
 * The Five Maidens are, collectively, the undisputed head of the House of Prophecy. The other members of the House read Fate or carry it out; the Maidens are largely responsible for shaping it, and for compensating when things don't go according to plan.

Doctor Manhattan, God of Fatalism (Jon Osterman)
"Huu:Pants are an illusion, and so is death."
 * Greater God
 * Symbol: A hydrogen atom
 * Alignment: True Neutral (can tend towards Neutral Good)
 * Portfolio: Fatalism, Destiny, Fortuitous Lab Accidents, Psychic Powers
 * Domains: Science, War, Precognition, Pantslessness
 * Followers: ...All right, he does have several, but the one an observer sees first is always that weird stumpy hermit guy with a big hat, a loincloth, and nothing else.

Dominic Deegan, God of Oracles (Lord Dominus)

 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A crystal ball
 * Alignment: True Neutral (or Lawful Evil)
 * Portfolio: Omniscient Morality License Holders, Chessmasters, Gambit Roulettes, Get Out of Jail Free Cards, Destiny, Power Creep, a mastery of puns to the point where its usage is unconscious and often unintended.
 * Domains: Trickery, Magic, Oracle, Smugness... Law?
 * He is currently making a complex bid for both Light Yagami's and Kyon's positions. This will probably involve really stupid outfits and talking heads.
 * Prophesies that The End of the World as We Know It scenario will be as follows: There shall be a great battle between Pantheons, but one scream shall cause the end of all beings by disrupting the Master plan to preserve the universe... LEEROOOOOYYY!!! JEEEEEENKIIIINS!! "Oh well. At least he's got chicken", Dominic sighed and pressed his hand against his forehead.

Justy Ueki Tylor, God of Luck (Captain Tylor, The Lucky Idiot, The Heratic Monkey)

 * Male Demigod
 * Symbol: A smiley-face button
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: Fools, Brilliant Morons, Those Who Are Born Lucky, Reassignments and the Backfiring Thereof, Users of Obfuscating Stupidity
 * Domains: Chaos, Trickery, Luck
 * Followers: Milfeulle Sakuraba (Galaxy Angel), Rachel and Nell (Advance Wars), Fortune (Metal Gear Solid)
 * Ascended after ending a war by leading the UPSF's forces to victory against the Raalgons in an epic confrontation with absolutely no casualties. On either side. The rest of the pantheon is utterly befuddled as to whether this was a feat of brilliant planning or an ungodly stroke of dumb luck.
 * Since ascending, there have been exactly 3,297 attempts on his life by other deities vying for his position. All of them have failed, most of which Tylor was -- and probably still is-- entirely oblivious to.

Saiou Takuma, God of Dark Messiahs (Sartorius)

 * Symbol: Three pillars of light
 * Alignment: Neutral Evil
 * Portfolio: Cults, Fate, Hannibal Lectures, Masters Of Mind Control, Orbital Laser Cannons, Symbolism, Well Intentioned Villainy, Villains with Light Motifs
 * Domains: Corruption, Evil, Fate, Tyranny

Cesare, God of Self Fulfilling Prophecies (The Somnambulist)

 * Intermediate God
 * Symbol: A squiggly-bladed knife, The Cabinet
 * Alignment: True Neutral
 * Portfolio: Insuring The Accuracy of His Own Prophecies, Raven Hair, Ivory Skin, Lookalikes, Brainwashed and Crazy, Sleepwalking
 * Domains: Sleep, Night, Darkness

Saint Sabbat, God of Predetermined Fate (The Saint, The Beati)

 * Intermediate Goddess
 * Symbol: The flower Islumbine
 * Alignment: Chaotic Good
 * Portfolio: A God Am I, First-Episode Resurrection, The Plan Gambit Roulette, Battle Aura, You Can't Fight Fate, Prophecies Are Always Right
 * Domains: Beauty, Loyalty, Good, Sacrifice
 * Allies: Ibram Gaunt, Ciaphas Cain, Gunner Jurgen, Lion El'Jonson, The Immortal God-Emperor
 * Is the main driving force behind why Gaunt's Ghosts are so goddamn Badass. With her sidekick bodyguard Brin Milo, she floats around the Pantheon devising plans and prophecies that put even Tzeentch to shame.

Desty Nova, God of Karma

 * Demigod
 * Symbol: A plate of flan
 * Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
 * Portfolio: Nanomachines, Uncannily Admirable Villainy, KYA HA HA HA HA HA, Mad Scientists, Technical Immortality
 * Domains: Madness, Freedom, Mentalism
 * Followers: Eelai
 * Discoverer and foremost (albeit only) expert on Karmatron Dynamics, the science of karma. On a micro scale, it allows encoding information in even seemingly random molecular motion (order in entropy) and nullification of teleportation's Alias problem. On a macro scale, it is nothing less than the methodical study and control of destiny itself.
 * Technically has not ascended, but through his advanced nanomachines and grasp of Karmatron Dynamics, has become the closest thing to immortal that a human can attain.
 * Has many sides to his personality. The other gods tend to steer clear of him, as he can be alternately introspective, frothingly insane, and amusingly quirky, sometimes one right after the other or all at once. Most often, though, he is deviously dangerous, more so than most because so few people have any clue what he's up to.

Link, God of Diversified Weaponry (The Hero of Time, Hero of the Winds, Grasshopper)

 * Lesser God
 * Symbol: The Triforce
 * Alignment: Varying with each incarnation, but always good.
 * Portfolio: Ancestral Weapons, Arrows on Fire, Chain of Deals, Cosmic Keystones, Fetch Quests, Reincarnation, Wordlessness
 * Domains: Courage, Strength, Time, War
 * Does double duty, also being a member of the Weapons pantheon.
 * Destined to reincarnate in an endless cycle for as long as there is evil. Has to build up all of his skills and weapons every time, but, fortunately for any Hylian therapists, does not retain memory of past lives. Every time he is reborn, dies, and ends up in the Pantheon, he's surprised to find out about his godhood. Every time.
 * Subject to an equally endless line of prophecies, most of which only apply to one lifespan each.
 * The other Prophecy Gods let him in to this house to do their errands. When it comes to MacGuffin Delivery Services, particularly matched sets, you can't hire much better than Link. And he can get a bottle of milk from the cow to the god paying in two minutes flat, or it's free.
 * Needless to say, with all of this reincarnation going on, he is pretty much Virtuous' bitch.

Mitsuru Kirijo, Goddess of Fate Worse Than Death (Mitsuru-senpai)

 * Lesser Goddess
 * Symbol: The Kirijo group badge
 * Alignment: Lawful Good
 * Portfolio: Execution, Absurdly Powerful Student Council President, Ojou-sama, C'est Magnifique Fighting Style, Badass Bookworm, Ice Magic
 * Domain: Fate, Rules, 'Death'
 * Allies: Sanger Zonvolt (in punishing Disgraces)
 * She is well feared amongst the Pantheon as she is able to induce a really really horrible fate that would make other beings just want to forget that it ever happened...
 * Keeps in touch with the House of Life And Death, so she can gather her 'victims' death fates, and think of something worse for punishment.

Hari Seldon, God of Mathematics

 * Greater God
 * Alignment: Omniscient Morality License
 * Symbol: Scientific Calculator, Time Vault
 * Portfolio: Ancient Conspiracy, The Chessmaster, Omniscient Morality License
 * Domain: Science, Math, Prediction
 * Followers: the Foundations, Aeolia Schenberg
 * Allies: Samantha Carter
 * Actually moved on centuries ago, but he predicted every possible event that his presence would be needed for and left a series of videotapes labeled with a date and time of when to play them, which function more or less exactly as his actual presence would.

Kain and Raziel, Gods of Changing Destiny

 * Lesser Gods
 * Alignment: Lawful Selfish (Kain), Chaotic Neutral (Raziel)
 * Symbol: The material and spectral Soul Reavers crossed over each other.
 * Shared Portfolio: Changing fate, failing to change fate, Prophecy Twists, Resurrection (multiple times), Moral Ambiguity
 * Exclusive to Kain: Xanatos Speed Chess, Gambit Roulette, Sadistic Choices, Taking A Third Option, Coin Metaphors.
 * Exclusive to Raziel: Plan-disrupting heroes, Immunity To Fate, accidentally assisting villains, Cosmic Playthings.
 * Domain: Destiny, Prophecy, Time Travel, Morality
 * When the final battle of Good and Evil occurs, no one is sure what these two will do. Kain has assured representatives from both sides he'll join whoever can help him achieve his goals, but that's little help since no one knows what goals he's after. Raziel meanwhile has pledged to fight for Good, but his history of helping villains without realizing it makes his pledge not worth much if he doesn't understand what's going on.
 * Though they parted on good terms, since the two ascended to the Trope Pantheon Kain has passed the time by occasionally opening time portals and throwing Raziel into a random point in history for kicks. He then watches Raziel stumble his way back to the present without realizing how much and how often he's changing history without knowing it. Their relationship has gone south again once this happened the second time.
 * Because Kain is such a Jerkass and is the one responsible for killing Raziel, the two have difficulty trusting each other. But when they do set aside their differences to cooperate, the other Trope Gods should be wary--between Kain's knowledge of history and Raziel's ability to change it, almost anyone is at risk of being Ret-Gone.