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I need demigods. Gods with too narrow domains. Gods with silly domains all to themselves. Gods that most PCs wouldn't worship and that most villains would be ashamed to.
The reason I need them is that my campaign's going through a winnowing process as the world simplifies its cosmology. Minor gods either have to get more believers or fade away. So, they've each got an avatar wandering around, trying to recruit believers. So, if you have ideas for what the chief earthly representative of this god would be like, I'd love that too!
Examples thus far include: demigod of cannibals, goddess of good luck (not luck in general and certainly not bad luck or superstition), Lamashtu the demigoddess of monstrous births (not monstrous humanoid mothers; monstrous births), a god of small insects, a sphere of annihilation (god of vacuum, emptiness, lack and not), and Aroden (god of a nation, which set off a rebellion).
Any ideas? Silly or serious, I'm brainstorming.
Silly gods with narrow portfolios? Sounds like the religion of the Faen from Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved. The faen are constantly becoming spontaneously aware of small gods which they share with one another much as humans might chat about the weather, and faen players are encouraged to randomly make up gods during the game. Below is a link to a partial list of the gods which AE's fans have come up with and posted on the internet:
http://www.akashicrecord.org/Faen_Gods
Robert "Small Gods for Small Creatures" Ranting
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The God of Atheism.... yeah, he has his work cut out for him.
The god of atheism doesn't have an avatar so much as a presence. Anyone near him will find themselves questioning their faith, unfortunately this also includes anyone he is attempting to convert. Anyone who has ever shown interest due to any number of promises he has made has eventually decided that he isn't really there, or that if he is he most certainly isn't a god and therefore is not something to be worshiped.
If your PC's run into him they should make a will save against doubt at a DC you feel appropriate, failing results in a crisis of faith. Religious characters should have a circumstance bonus to their save, but should they fail suffer more then the less religious ones. (perhaps be cut off from any divine bonuses such as spells in the case of clerics or saving throw bonuses in the case of a paladin for a duration your comfortable with.)
God of the Hunted, not the hunt mind you.
The god of the hunted is a skinny looking fellow with pale skin and large eyes, he rarely stays in one place very long and becomes increasingly agitated when he is forced to.
Always on the move with eyes darting all over he has yet to successfully convert someone to his cause, the farthest he got was a brief discussion that went on for a quarter of an hour before he screamed and ran off saying that "they" would never take him alive.
God of Procrastination, course.. his avatar has yet to get going yet...
The god of procrastination is a somewhat untidy fellow who looks generally like a obese middle aged man with a receding hair line who just woke up.
While this crisis is going obn he has become determined he must take action, after all his life is on the line, however upon taking on avatar form he has stayed at the same tavern enjoying himself.
After all it isn't like he can't just build his church tomorropw after all.
God of Self Doubt
The god of self doubt isn't really sure about this whole godhood thing, fact is he doesn't think he is up to the task. Compared to the like of deities in charge of magic or war, whats the point y'know? he feels even if he did put forth his best effort he would fail anyway.
He has in the past wanted to shore up what he sees as his own faults by allying with another, unfortunately his attempts thus far have failed as the god of procrastination keeps delaying their meeting.
His appearance is a extremely well groomed man lacking any distinct style, his overall appearance looking very proper and "safe."
God of Forgetfulness.
The god of forgetfulness appears as a old man with a kindly face, short beard and bald head. Unfortunately he comes off as very absent minded and any clerics who devote themselves to him typically forget about him after a time.
Hope at the very least that may be of some small aid in coming up with some ideas.
I recommend Googling a list of patron saints. Many of those are very specific: St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron saint of basket makers, for example; St. Giles is the patron saint of breast feeding; St. Vaast of Arras is the patron saint of children who are late in learning to walk.
I just gotta say I LOVED the title of this thread.
Google "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett. Even just a skimmed perusal of the book should give a few ideas.
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Check out 'Small Gods' by Terry Pratchett.
Also Neil Gaiman's 'Anansi Boys'.
edit: semi ninja'd by Orthos.
Hey how about a god of ninjas?
Or pirates !
Ah, forgot about Gaiman. Might want to look into "American Gods" while you're at it, too.
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Also these quotes from Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's Good Omens:
-- "Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
-- "English Burger Lords managed to take any American fast food virtues (the speed with which your food was delivered, for example) and carefully remove them; your food arrived after half an hour, at room temperature, and it was only because of the strip of warm lettuce between them that you could distinguish the burger from the bun. The Burger Lord pathfinder salesmen had been shot 25 minutes after setting foot in France."
RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16, 2011 Top 32
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I once declared myself the god of Track Lighting at work one night. It was a slow night.
Here are some ideas. Note I use God to mean either male or female deities:
God of Streams
God of Fortunate Accidents
God of Trade Agreements
God of Horsemanship
God of Iron
God of Secrets
God of Shadowy Places
God of Well-Lit Alleys
God of Angles
God of Domesticated Animals
God of Well-Crafted Roofs
God of Hoofed Animals
God of Small Fires
God of Bad Thieves
God of Pointy Things
God of Haberdashers
God of Barrels
God of Waterfalls
God of Things Going Over Waterfalls in Barrels
God of Gods (Sort of a middleman deity)
God of Temple Construction
God of Latrines
God of Solid Walls
God of Gaps
God of Slippery Places
God of Sex
God of Break-Ups
God of Lost Things
God of Bar Bets
God of Fresh Fruit
God of Sex
Er... gods of passion and fertility are often among the most powerful in their pantheons. And ironically, one of the most numerous.
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Gratuitous History of the World quote;
"We have a god for everything! Well, except for premature ejaculation, but I hear he's coming quickly."
Seriously though, regional gods are a great fit for this.
The god(dess) of the river X (the river Sphinx, in Osirion, already has a pair of patron gods, but other important rivers exist, how would the patron demigods of the Tomarsulk River in Cheliax and the crocodile and piranha infested Vanji River in the Mwangi Expanse differ? Does the quiescent Tomarsulk demigod approve or disapprove of the Chelaxian turn to diabolism? In Westcrown, there are very specific exceptions to the laws regarding travel and shipping on the rivers, making the river something of a 'safe zone' from arrest, could that be the result of a pissed-off demigod who doesn't cotton to devil-spawn disrupting business on his waters?).
The god of mount such-n-such (could the mountain-lair of the 'Sixth King' red dragon overlord be the resting place of a forgotten demi-diety, who exults in the infamy his new resident inspires?).
The civic diety of the city of Y (Absalom being the first choice, but a patron diety of a city like Starfall, in Numeria, might be a literal 'ghost in the machine' speaking from the cold skymetal walls and manifesting in strange patterns in the strange fluids that sometimes seep from the ground).
The patron god (or saint) of the Order of whosimiwhatsis.
The lord of volcanos.
The goddess of salt.
The king of all mammoths (and various other 'animal kings,' like the old Cat Lord from the 1st edition MM2).
The fey queen of rainbows, clouds, butterflies and gentle spring rains (stolen from the Scarred Lands, that one).
So-and-so the stargazing Astronomer and his friendly rival / argumentative sibling-spouse, the patron of Mathematics and Sacred Geometry.
The Gray Rider, patron of horsemanship and god of horses.
Storvakon, The Lord of ashes, cinders and soot, That Which Prowls the Wastes (of northen Varisia, said to be all that remains of a much prouder old god, if only the ash could be cleared away from his burning eyes...).
The winter king (bound and forgotten, thanks to Baba Yaga's machinations?).
The lady of Lake Encartha (or Lake Ocata, or the Lake of Mist and Veils), guardian of the boat-people, taker of children.
Abendago the Imprisoned, the Voice in the Storm (propitiated by many, but secretly not a god at all, just a false face for the cult of Rovagug? Or is there a god(dess) trapped in there? A Dame of Storms? Aroden himself?).
Merciful Zauria, Protector of the Eternal Oasis (in Rahadoum) and patron of the local gynosphinxes.
The Shuddering Lord, god of trees (from the Shudderwood, served by unhealthy-looking Treants and particularly loathsome insect-loving druids).
The Golden Eagle of Andoran, symbol of freedom, god of inspiration.
Tarok the Thrice-Tortured, of the Screaming Jungles.
God of Barrels
God of Waterfalls
God of Things Going Over Waterfalls in Barrels
This bit amuses me far too much to be healthy.
My personally favorite saint is:
Saint Vivian, Patron Saint of Hangovers aching heads and cross dressers.
I picked off some from the Faen list. That was helpful. I've done some naming to go with various gods of types of rain and various waterways. I should have a report of a spate of drownings that go on as they squabble and consolidate.
I'm thinking of having an "ethos" of science, reason and technology be one of the "gods," possibly as an antagonist. They could be an antagonist, a supporter of Andoran, or both.
Having legendary animals serve as deities makes a good deal of sense.
The Seelie and Unseelie Courts are players, to be sure, although as gods of immortals, they are not part of the winnowing process. But they are threatened by ecological devastation. They've played a role thus far. (There was a "Save the Piskie" campaign in Falcon's Hollow.) They also serve as the gods of fairy tales.
Lord of Volcanoes is a good idea: likely to be worshipped, but likely runs short of followers.
"Tarok the Thrice-Tortured, of the Screaming Jungles" great name for my baboon king. Sadly, the PC seems unlikely to do jungle exploring.
Oh, we also had an avatar of kobolds, but the PC killed him off... leaving the kobolds to be stuck worshiping dragons again.
Merciful Zauria, Protector of the Eternal Oasis (in Rahadoum) and patron of the local sphinxes sounds good.
Talking about minor gods, i often use in my campaign some ascended mortals, such as heroes, champions, saints and other proxies.
Is there any plans for Paizo to introduce rules for such ascended in Pathfinder ? Like for the Epic supplement ?
Lord of Volcanoes is a good idea: likely to be worshipped, but likely runs short of followers.
Blowing up your worshipers tends to do that. :D
Lord of Volcanoes is a good idea: likely to be worshipped, but likely runs short of followers.Blowing up your worshipers tends to do that. :D
Not necessary.
Salamanders and magmen could make perfect followers for a lord of volcanoes.
Well, you could use the Gods/Orders from the Book of Divine Magic as minor gods - they have the same archetypes as major gods, but due to a cultural shift, or conquest, or whatever, these gods could find themselves in danger of being forgotten.
By the way....
Is there any kind of corelation between the number of domains available to a god and his status (greater, intermediate, lesser, demi) in Pathfinder or on Golarion ?
I surely could check myself in the books, but i don't have access to my vault at the moment...
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Is there any kind of corelation between the number of domains available to a god and his status (greater, intermediate, lesser, demi) in Pathfinder or on Golarion ?
'Full' gods (the big 20 for sure) have five Domains.
Demon Lords, Arch Devils, Daemon Horsemen and Empyreal Lords have four Domains. (Note that Asmodeus and Lamashtu are the two exceptions, each representing a Demon Lord or Archdevil who 'made the big time. Only one other Demon Lord was shown, briefly, with five Domains, and was promptly cut back down to four Domains in an updated release, to fit this theme.)
Random other gods (such as the elven gods, or local regional gods) have been shown with as few as two Domains (Kols, Drangvit and Trudd) and as many as five Domains (Zursvatar, Ketephys, Findelelara, etc).
God of SexEr... gods of passion and fertility are often among the most powerful in their pantheons. And ironically, one of the most numerous.
God of Post-Coital Cigarettes
God of Left Shoes
God of Right Shoes
God of Lefthandedness
God of Free Association Games
God of Games and Gaming
God of Elopement
God of 'Oh-Thank-God-I'm-NOT-Pregnant'
God of 'Oh-Thank-God-She's-NOT-Pregnant'
God of Mimes
God of Random Acts of Violence
God of Random Acts of Violence Against Mimes
God of the Association for the Elimination of Random Acts of Violence Against Mimes (AERAVAM)
God of Acronyms and Abbreviations
God of Signpainting
God of Housepainting
God of Starving Artists
God of Severed Left Ear Lobes
God of Useless Jewelry
God of Second Hand Goods
God of Procrastination
God of Deadlines
God of Sham Battles
God of Infidelity
God of Hen-Pecked Husbands
God of Money-that-you-get-from-your-boss-that-your-wife-doesn't-know-about
God of MILFs
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It might be fun to look at the Legion of Super-Heroes for inspiration.
Uluru - god of colors (and painting)
Gimalon - god of growth, respected by farmers and special patron of very tall people
the Dawnstar - goddess of scouts, tracking and wayfinding
Tarak - god of song, particularly song-in-battle or workchants, seachanties, etc.
Kallor - god of mass and gravity
Nural - goddess of prophecy and the future, She Who Sees All
There could also be gods related to professions;
Masque could be the demigod of entertainers, jesters and carnival performers, with a special place in his capering Joker-esque heart for 'freaks.' The 'wise fool' is appears as a comedy/tragedy masqued skeletally thin man with a tall hat, cane and fine (if bedraggled) suit, who goes barefoot with an entourage of veiled dancers, mustachioed mesmerists, acrobatic little people, two-fisted bearded ladies and taciturn and unnaturally bulky 'strong men.' Also a fairly cranky bear that sometimes can be convinced to wear a hat and skirt and balance on a ball, but mostly just flips out and eats people.
The god of Alchemy appears as a gnome, who looks a lot like Einstein, if he were wearing a stained, burned and battered leather apron over working clothes. He talks only in incomprehensible parables wrapped up in esoteric symbology (some of which he seems to make up on the spot) that must be translated and sifted (sometimes for years, and often with no success) for useful information. But great discoveries have come from ruminating on his ramblings, which only inspires others to spend even more years deciphering his mad genius, while other, more practical, alchemists correctly point out that a skilled craftsman can make his own new discoveries in the field in a tenth the time it would take to glean something useful from his babble...
He Who Walks Alone is sometimes called the 'god of survivors,' and shuns company. He will sometimes rescue lost travellers, fighting off great beasts in the process, but always leaves without a word, leaving only the memory of his haunting eyes. Anyone who has lost someone recognizes that he rescues those lost because he failed to rescue the only person that mattered to him, and his battered hide armor and worn axe and sword show the signs of a thousand battles. Veterans of battles who do not feel like 'victors' sometimes hoist a cup to the Walker, acknowledging his choice to walk away from the battlefield and it's horrors. He is scornfully called the god of losers by younger warriors, who have not yet learned that one can win a battle, and still lose everything worth fighting for in the process. Older veterans sometimes strap on their armor one last time and wander off into the wilderness, where, it is said, they finally join up with him, becoming part of a secret army that exists one foot in this world and one foot in another. (That their bodies are sometimes found later does nothing to discourage the belief that they have joined The Walker's Band.) In different nations, he is seen as a member of that nations military. In Cheliax, he was a Paladin of Aroden, who lost his faith when Aroden fell silent, and walked away. The Mwangi see him as a Ranger scout who braved a dozen skirmishes, only to come home and find his family dead of plague, causing him to set fire to his home and wander back into the jungle. Domains Travel and War. He'd have his work cut out for him attracting followers, since those who respect him most are rarely long for this world, and he's not terribly personable...
God of Random Acts of Violence would end up the cherished patron of adventurers everywhere. In that vein, I would like to suggest some others:
God of Tomb Robbing
His sister, the Goddess of Corpse Plundering ("Looting")
God of spending unhealthy amounts of time reading
Goddess of Damsels in Distress, always ending up in trouble
The cloaked God of Untrustworthy Employers, usually found in taverns
God of the Unnamed Companion, a whiny guy going on and on about how familiars and animal companions need attention from their masters
Goddess of the Endless Watch Shift - for those cities where the same two guys keep the gates at all times
God of the Humanoid Children - he REALLY hates paladins
Goddess of Intractable Treasure - for everyone who's ever found 200.000 copper pieces and didn't have a bag of holding
God of Extradimensional Spaces, sworn enemy of the above Goddess
God of Lordly Might. When you push the right buttons...
God of Wonder. You never know what you're gonna get.
God of Toilets. Frequently followed by creatures of various dungeons.
God of Robes. He has been quite successful in getting men to use dresses.
Goddess of Extraneous Jewelry - for adventurers who have more magical items than fashion sense, men in particular
Goddess of Enchanted Studded Leather Armour
God of Personal Hygiene, he has made several attempts at gaining a following in the druidic sphere, without much success
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Goddess of Damsels in Distress, always ending up in trouble
She must be a red-head in a purple gown with green trim, named Daphne!
God of the Unnamed Companion, a whiny guy going on and on about how familiars and animal companions need attention from their masters
Ooh, or a god of redshirts, arrow-fodder and hirelings that get left with the mule and end up being eaten. His name will be Guy, and he'll utterly flip out if anyone forgets his name, considering it proof that he's about to die.
Related to your god of hygiene;
The goddess of hair. Particularly fond of furry animals, and believed to 'bless' especially hirsute men (and curse unbelievers with early baldness). She wears furs of various animals, which are all but obscured by her own fantastical flowing mane, which extends to her ankles and flows behind her like a cape, moving and manipulating things like an extra limb (or, many extra limbs, as she can make up to six tentacles from hair braids, each with 10 ft. reach). Her followers, if not naturally hirsute, tend to cover up with fur, and prefer leather armor that has not had the fur scraped off (or similar hide armor). Her priestesses are said to know unique spells to animate rope on braids of their own hair, which they fling at people to entangle them. Her high priestess is said to have cursed a wizard so that his own magnificent beard came to life and strangled him to death!
The Goddess of Hair would of course be called something like Punzala, and have a fondness for towers of all sorts.
The God of Watered-Down Ale.
The Goddess of Well-Endowed Tavern Wenches.
The God of Indigestion - sometimes prayed to as a response to the Swallow Whole action.
His Brother, the God of Internal Organ Showers, invoked after particularly massive critical hits.
The Elven Goddess of Secret Door Detection, an obsessive-compulsive little girl who knows everything there is to know about architectural deception and who won't stay still for more than a moment
The Dwarven Goddess of Beards - a previous goddess of love
The God of Overwhelmingly Powerful Monsters without Flight or Ranged Attacks
The Goddess of Magic Item Creation - she's always looking for ways to gain some XP
God of chamberpots
God of lost left socks
God of 40-year-old virgins
God of sporks
God of ugly-crafted garden gnomes
God of spooky clown dolls
God of unreleased vaporware
God of retarded children
God of imaginary friends
God of awkward first-time sex
God of frigidity and erectile disfunctions
God of one-sided bowling matches
God of f@ggots (the musical instrument, and despairing over keeping getting worshipped by the wrong target audience... also j/k, don't you dare taking this seriously)
God of hermits
God of mythological creatures (as in, they don't exist, not even in this fantasy world)
God of that b@st@rd who steals the last parking spot right before your eyes
God of running out of ink right about finishing your masterpiece
God of interrupted moments
God of mama boys
God of spinsters
God of hopeless characters
God of pre-emptive GMs
God of railroading
God of natural '1's
The Goddess of Well-Endowed Tavern Wenches.
I might not follow her, but I'd certainly enjoy the religious art that celebrated her.
What about the goddes of things stuck in drawers, from the novels of Terry Pratchett?
I like this subject. I have a plotline in my campaign where new small gods constantly appear because of an excess of chaotic energy caused by an epic chaotic ritual some years in the past. Some of the gods I have come up with:
Dubia, goddess of doubt: priests are neutral, since then they do not have to choose sides. They never decide anything.
Chochocan the god of chocolate. Most people think he is a Central American god, but he is not. He is just an invention of the chocolate traders, who use him as a kind of commercial.
The hand of the gods: this is a cult which worships a magical hand. If you ever find the hand and replace your own hand with it, you can become a god.
The Voice, the god of freedom of speech. This god is named after the first newspaper in my campaign world.
The veiled god(dess): nobody knows whether this is a god or a goddess, and the cult is turning mysteriousness into an art form.
The holy seven: the cult worships the number 7 in everything they do. (Get up at 7 o'clock, etc.)
The egg: this cult worships the egg of the tarrasque. They believe that as long as the cult members have a lot of bad luck, they can prevent the egg from hatching. So what the cult members mostly do, is go on dangerous adventures in order to get themselves killed.
The knowledge cult: they seek and hoard knowledge.
Cult of the prophet: the cultists are using drugs in order to get visions of the future, and that is basically all they do.
The god of the microcosm. This is a god of insects, bacteria, viruses and other small things.
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The Goddess of Well-Endowed Tavern Wenches.
Considering Priapus, I'm surprised there isn't a goddess of boobies.
The Dwarven Goddess of Beards - a previous goddess of love
No relation to the Scientology goddess of beards, Katie Holmes.
The holy seven: the cult worships the number 7 in everything they do. (Get up at 7 o'clock, etc.)
Ooh, a god of the sacred trinity, the four seasons / four quarters of the earth or the 13th sign (symbol of bad luck, which the priests 'take upon themselves' acting as symbolic Judas goat by taking ill luck upon themselves by always doing everything in increments of 13).
Combining or 'heresying' other faiths, such as making a composite maiden/mother/crone diety out of Shelyn, Lamashtu and Pharasma, could be another way to come up with new dieties (just as Angharradh, in the Realms, was a triune goddess made up of Aerdrie, Hanali and some newcomer goddess).
Golarion lacks specific seasonal gods, or a thunder and lightning god, or a god specifically devoted to fire or earth and stone (several gods with fire or earth in their portfolios, but Asmodeus is a god of tyranny who happens to come from a hot place, not a specific fire god, and Abadar is a god of money and fortification, not so much an 'earth mother' or god of earthquakes and mountains).
Moon gods are another common trope that's been skipped. If Golarion has multiple moons, which, frankly, I don't remember, it could have multiple moon-gods/goddesses.
The Starstone itself could be revered as a god, by some, as it is the 'creator' of Norgorber, Iomedae, Cayden Cailean and perhaps Arazni.
There's a throw away line in Finder's Bane frol Illisane about how it's expecting 'A god of salt and pepper shakers' from the Realms to appear next.
... Is it bad that I can't read that without the quoted section coming out in Weird Al's voice?
I need demigods. Gods with too narrow domains. Gods with silly domains all to themselves. Gods that most PCs wouldn't worship and that most villains would be ashamed to.
The reason I need them is that my campaign's going through a winnowing process as the world simplifies its cosmology. Minor gods either have to get more believers or fade away. So, they've each got an avatar wandering around, trying to recruit believers. So, if you have ideas for what the chief earthly representative of this god would be like, I'd love that too!
Examples thus far include: demigod of cannibals, goddess of good luck (not luck in general and certainly not bad luck or superstition), Lamashtu the demigoddess of monstrous births (not monstrous humanoid mothers; monstrous births), a god of small insects, a sphere of annihilation (god of vacuum, emptiness, lack and not), and Aroden (god of a nation, which set off a rebellion).
Any ideas? Silly or serious, I'm brainstorming.
You might want to go back to Greyhawk. The Gazeteer that Mona and others wrote a while back could be a good start, and there was a huge pantheon. One thing that really turned off many of us long-timer gamers to 4E was the designers' attitude toward Greyhawk and its gods. They felt that many weren't good. There was a deity called Dalt, god of portals, doors, enclosures, locks and keys who the 4E designers decided wasn't cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greyhawk_deities#D
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Urban Gods
The Watchman(LN) - The god of guards, watchmen, and other nameless law & order types who get completely outshined by adventurers, heroes and legends. Often depicted as a man in a rumpled watchman's uniform, holding a dog end in one hand and a truncheon in the other. He is also the unofficial god of cartchases, landing fortuitously on your opponent when falling off a rooftop, cigarettes, sweet pastries, bacon sandwiches and falling asleep with an oversized keyring hanging from your belt.
Candi (CN)- The goddess of exotic dancers, strippers and men in long trenchcoats. She is often depicted as a tall busty human woman with peroxide blonde hair and sparkly skin. She is usually dressed in very little (but that very little invariably has sequins). Her temples are often found in red-light districts of the city and her priests are often gentlemen who yell things like: "Come on in, come on in sir, and see the loveliest ladies this side of the [exotic location]. Rest assured all of our ladies are pox free since [insert date 5 years previous]." There is a strict "worship but don't touch" policy in the temple of candi. Patrons are also expected to buy the priestesses drinks, or make donations into their... ceremonial garb. She is also the unofficial goddess of repaying tuition fees, self-love, broken dreams and parental neglect.
Fusspot (LN)- The god of beuracracy and red tape. He is usually depicted as a short human (just over dwarf height), with a fussy moustache and a pair of glasses which he looks disapprovingly over. His clerics usually find jobs as middle-managers or civil servants and receptionists. To become a worshipper of Fusspot one needs to fill out form 137-A: "Application for Supplication", unless they are merely adding Fusspot to a list of deities they worship in which case form 144-R is the appropriate form "Application to Add Fusspot to Existing Worship Regime". Your boss is probably a worshipper of Fusspot.
God of the Lab! An associate of a necromanceress and a vampire-with-a-soul, the God of the Lab is worshiped by those who discover minutae first.
God of those who can hear pudding. DOH!
God of the Hives.
Goddess of Diaphanous Gowns.
Goddess of Disapproving Frowns.
God of Winning During Overtime.
Goddess of Butter.
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I'm surprised -- and I'm not -- that nobody has mentioned the Shrine of the Failed yet in this thread. Guide to Absalom, page 16, a "temple" dedicated to those who have attempted the Test of the Starstone and failed.
I'm surprised, because it seems to fit the overall tone of what's being discussed here. I'm not, because I thought there was a longer list of examples in the book, but it's not that extensive. Still, there are a few that could be useful to the OP.
On the other hand, this thread would be a good place to find inspiration for expanding the list. 8^)
My personally favorite saint is:
Saint Vivian, Patron Saint of Hangovers aching heads and cross dressers.
She must have smiled on this night.
Yeah...
Added to the list:
Aud, demigoddess of rabbits and hutches
Einedrin, Mistress of Chivalry in duels and feuds
Mjilnr, dwarven God of fighting with hammers
Torichir, god of lost causes
Hod, god of blind beggars
Stragana, goddess of cows
Bopar, god of bubbling brooks
Gerdnalik, god of measurement, certitude and turtles
Jacina, goddess of wild flowers
God of the Lab! An associate of a necromanceress and a vampire-with-a-soul, the God of the Lab is worshiped by those who discover minutae first.
Ah, like being the master of plot exposition and temporary knockouts?
The egg: this cult worships the egg of the tarrasque. They believe that as long as the cult members have a lot of bad luck, they can prevent the egg from hatching. So what the cult members mostly do, is go on dangerous adventures in order to get themselves killed.
We did a demigod of bad luck. His avatar was a commoner whose life the god of bad luck ruined. He radiated bad luck: workplace accidents, marriage-destroying affairs and inexplicable events followed in his wake. But the avatar didn't worship him. He was an object lesson as to why you had to placate this god, so he always survived, despite a horrific life full of unhappiness and vengeful beatings. The worst time was when he got crucified in Freeport as part of a ritual to open a portal to Dagon's realm. Of course, when he hooked up with the PC, the avatar of the goddess of good fortune, that protection got cancelled out... so he ended up picking up a certain spiked chain in Droscar's crag and failing his save.
The knowledge cult: they seek and hoard knowledge.The god of the microcosm. This is a god of insects, bacteria, viruses and other small things.
We've got both of these: the former is Lydia and is a major goddess of knowledge, education, light and libraries, while the latter is Tamumu, a god of insects and buzzing, whom the demigoddess of good luck had to date briefly to get her avatar out of trouble one time.
Punzala, the muses and the Dawnstar are a go.