My campaign has a very strict pantheon, and as such new deities are rare. However, in the ancient past before the rise of man or elf, eight creatures set off from their home and set out to create a haven for those who feared the gods. Using the still fresh magic used to create the world, these beasts made a place for beings like themselves.
Eventually man discovered the isle, and made their own civilization there. However, without the healing of the old gods, they where at a severe disadvantage. And so, in desperation, they began worshiping the monsters of the forest. And it worked.
Seven of the beasts swelled in power and such, save one. One stayed hidden and weak, biding its time and waiting to strike.
I don't like the idea of using actual south american gods, nor do I like the idea of them simply being variations of the base deities. So I created this.
Zotzilaha or Camazotz, god of bats
Pellatin: The Mother of all. She is the goddess of the sky, animals, sea, and fertility, and is the leader of the Olman pantheon. She loots like a huge scaled woman with the lower half of a snake and huge wings protruding from her back, with a face without eyes. Whenever Pellatin is displeased her face opens, and within is a giant eye. Anything the eye's gaze touches melts away from reality. It is said that she gave birth to everything on the isle, the insects, the dinosaurs, everything. Whatever the truth of this, she is constantly followed by an entorage of animals. She is represented statistically by an old green dragon.
Tzamoth god of rain and crops. Tzamoth is represented by a Kracken with the earth glide ability, and tentacles made of stone.
Sojamir, god of the moon and war. Sojamir has the statistics of a Dragon eel. It has a segmented body which glows with moonlight, and when it sleeps its shape represents the phase of the moon. Instead of a bite attack, it has a long spearlike protrusion. Instead of fins it has get propusion like a squid.
Tolijas. god of the sun. Tolijas is represented by a Dragon turtle who's shell burns like fire.
Zantellios, or the Snake Father, god of dreams, death and undeath. To sleep near the lair of Zantellios is to be plagued by nightmares. Zantellios is statistically represented by an intellegent, half farspawn scorpion
Gothamos: King of the Fire mountains. He is represented by a two headed pyroclastic T-rex. Instead of skin he has magma flowing beneath cracked volcanic rock.
The eighth god is known as Kulas. It was he who showed the other gods how to create an the isle, and they where thankful at the time.
Interesting--so are you saying that the Infamous Seven are actually incarnations of these gods?
Not incarnations... They ARE the gods. They are not true gods, of course, they are just beings that have used excess divine power for their own gain.
Is kulas equivalent to Quetzalcoatl?
No, Pellas is the equivalent of Quetzecoatl. Kulas is the eighth of the Seven, from the city of broken idols.
I changed the Olmans viewpoint on the ocean, and decided that they believe that the sea is like the sky, but closer.