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I don't mean to assume ignorance on the subject, but for those that may need refreshed... Geomancy is an ancient form of divining the future.
There are 16 figures, literal shapes, available... like an alphabet. Each figure has a name and a gender, a planet, an element, a scale of "Goodness" [like its alignment], a scale of time that symbol's answers deal with, other $#!+...
I want to form a Pantheon of the available deities in PF1, assigning each to one of the 16 figures in Geomancy. So I need 16 PF1 gods...
8/16 female
8/16 male
7/16 bad
9/16 good
4/16 fire
4/16 earth
4/16 air
4/16 water
8/16 night
8/16 day
I always prefer fully fleshed out PF1 deities that offer multiple choices for boons via Diverse Obesience.
Any ideas which might fit?
For reference, the names of the symbols [in no particular order] are:
The Way
The People
The Conjunction
The Prison
The Head of the Dragon
The Tail of the Dragon
The Child
The Maid
The Great Fortune
The Lesser Fortune
The White
The Red
The Gain
The Loss
The Sorrow
The Joy
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OK, did a little googling and though I'd assumed this was about the I Ching or something apparently not. I can't find the exact associations you're using, but a possible set ignoring those:
Abadar is an obvious answer for the Gain. Male, LN, earth.
Norgorber for the Loss. Male, NE, poisons might be water.
Shelyn could be the Joy. Female, NG, air.
Zon-Kuthon as the Sorrow makes sense w/Shelyn. Male, LE, probably fire via torture associations.
Gozreh could be the Way. Male or female, N, air or water.
Erastil could be the People. Male, LG, earth.
Iomedae is for rulers, which sounds like the Head of the Dragon, Female, LG, sun=fire.
Pharasma is about endings which might relate to the Tail of the Dragon. Female, N, water.
Nethys is a destructive Child. Male, N, fire for destroying things.
Brigh is a Maid if any god is. Female, N, earth.
Desna covers good luck, the Greater Fortune. Female, CG, air.
Lamashtu might be said to cover bad luck, the Lesser Fortune. Female, CE, maybe earth.
Gorum's anger and blood might make him the Red. Male, CN, blood is like water.
Irori is close to his opposite and might reasonably be the White. Male, LN, ???.
Torag's fortresses might be read as a Prison (dungeon comes from donjon). Male, LG, earth.
Dunno who the Conjunction is but they're probably male and might be related to fire.
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No, of course Asmodeus would be the Prison. Male, LE, fire. So the Conjunction, whatever that means in this context, is probably a deity with an interest in earth. Torag's relationships are important to him, a conjunction is a relationship between two things, perhaps Torag is the Conjunction?
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Awesome, AVR, thank you.
I have found several different lists of the Geomancy symbols' associations... and their names do differ between some lists, as do other things between lists. At some point you just have to pick something, and run with it. Lol.
I wasn't even actually ever specifically looking for anything to do with Geomancy... I was looking up other hokus-pokus stuff, loosely related to translating Theban to Ogham, and some charts connecting ancient alchemy to astrology... Geomancy just kind of popped up, and so I wrote a bunch of it down... gave it the old college try just to get a feel for how the 16 lines of dots, and resulting symbols, are written and arranged right to left. In my country, we write left to right, so the whole system is backwards to me... pretty neat, though.
The lists I was comparing had Goodness metrics for each symbol, and these had scales from Moderately Bad to Very Good... this immediately made me think of the PF1 alignment system. The listed Elements associated with each symbol reminded me of Domains. Some of the lists even mentioned each symbols' Humor. I figured that is at least as much information provided for some of PF1's less fleshed out deities. Lol.
Anyways, thanks again. That is a great place for me to start. I will compare what you listed with my list of symbols... I already have the PF1 deities page on AoN bookmarked.