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I think now that the clarification has been made about being able to Venerate any deity and any ideas, that it might be fun to share all the Golarion-Specific veneration ideas folks have come up with.
Such as Shoanti or Mammoth Lord ancestor worship or one of the Failed or one of the philosophies in Faiths and Philosophies.
What have people come up with that isn't written in any book, but just wreaks of Golarion Lore. Like, "I know that would be something from Golarion!"
Common venerations are to invoke Pharasma for a safe birth, or safe passage into the afterlife.
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Geographical features have been mentioned, too. I could see interesting character concepts involving veneration of the Sellen River or the Sanos Forest, for example.
How about veneration of the Eye of Abendego by Shackles pirates or natives of the Sodden Lands? A Molthuni fishing village that venerates and propitiates a great dragon turtle in Lake Encarthan? Duelists who venerate the Perfect Swordswoman or even an intelligent weapon, nomads who venerate wild horses, characters of various class-specific "bloodlines" who worship examplars of that bloodline like dragons or fey?
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My -1 venerates Amara Li. Meeting her altered the course of his life, to where he learned Tian, multi-classed into Monk, and even earned the title of Brother at a monastery. All to win her favor, or at least her notice.
He even had the opportunity to rescue her.
*swoon*
Oddly, she never seems to recognize him.
You'd think she'd recall that smitten Dwarf farmboy with the bunny rabbit, what with her being so observant and all.
My duergar wizard has been trying to persuade an NPC traveling with them to start worshiping a giant dung beetle that she's misinterpreted as being another PC's deity.
Not PFS, obviously, but this thread seems like it has crossover. :P
Tammy wants to be worshipped.
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My next cleric will worship Tammy, don't worry.
That's why Tammy's doing WotR, divine source and immortality sound better than casting Gentle Repose every morning and having to restock the dungeon every time a bunch of dumb ass hicks roll through smiting everything.
Cage free Rust Monsters are surprisingly expensive.
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My Paladin worships Rowdrosh, the Divine Herdsman, but there is nothing written about him beyond rules text (Favored Weapon, Domains, etc).
I photoshopped a Holy Symbol for him and drafted up a shepherd-themed Paladin Code.
He uses Handle Animal for his Day Job checks, and every gold he earns from that goes towards Livestock trade goods.
Right now he has 3 cows, 14 goats, 50 chickens, and a rescued Combat Trained Baboon (puchased after a scenario) to guard them all.
He actually has a write up in Chronicles of the Righteous. :-)
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A Chosen One Paladin of Rowdrosh would be hilarious. "Yeah, I've been a humble goatherd all my life, until one day one of the goats started talking to me... figured I was insane at first."
Also, should I ever find the need to play another oracle, I've toyed with the idea of making one who venerates either Almaut (a nonexistent deity from one old scenario that somehow has cultists) or a pantheon consisting of the Failed.
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Menkare on hermea. (My LG Apsu worshiper is from that island. Gots around the restriction on religion by having a shrine to their glorious leader, in full view in his house)
Reinhardt de'Bonaire will often say a prayer for/to Reinhardt, who he met taking the test of the startstone.
Corvus will say a prayer for the peacock god, wich whom he has exchanged feathers.
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I created a Cult of the Fallen for a non-PFS game. Maricelli, the presumed goddess of Sunsets and Seascapes. She was a revered painter in Absalom, and her faithful (her dozen students at the time she took the test) believe she is currently serving as a helper to Shelyn, as she prepares to reveal her divinity.
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Sixty years ago, the human ranger Califax Drew, then a fisherman on the Verduran Fork, lost an arm to an enormous Sellen channel catfish who rolled up from the muddy river just east of the Isle of Arenway. The druids of the Wildwood Lodge saved Califax's life, but not his livelihood, as the childless widower was thereafter unable to manage his skiff and trot lines one-handed.
Reduced to a subsistence living pulling carp from the river with a line and pole, Califax spent long hours sitting on the bank, growing old, growing bitter.
But then, one day now a half century gone, the old man claims, the channel cat that took his arm bellied up out of the brown depths and spoke to him. "My name is Grandmother Bottom," she said, "and I was here before the druids. All these waters are mine, no matter what them or that old rat Hanspur say."
Reliable witnesses independent of both the Wildwood Lodge and Califax Drew's tiny cult have reported sightings of a preternaturally large catfish throughout the Sellen River system, and divinations indicate that some creature unaccountably old swims those waters. Cutters of lines and stovers of boats, Drew's followers are radical even by the lights of the druids of Arenway, claiming that all the fish in the rivers and streams of the Verduran Forest are the sacred get of Grandmother Bottom.
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The orcs of Belken still whisper around the fires of the creature who walked into the cinderlands and returned riding a Bullete, riding a roc, and pray that she will never again turn the savage creatures of the wilderness against them. For the Orcs know that although they are mighty, no one can stand against the land. And she is the land.
She is Flutter.
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Can I venerate myself?
Only if you have orange hair and very small hands.
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He actually has a write up in Chronicles of the Righteous. :-)I was unaware of that, and I don't own that book.
Guess I know what I'm getting myself for X-mas!
You would have known that if you kept up with my list of legal deities, it lists what books they are from for each one. ;)