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Hello! I've been looking through a lot of information on deities for a PF Infinite book I'm writing and something that I've noticed is missing for a lot of new gods is an established extraplanar domain for them.
Now, I can understand why this sort of thing might not be the most relevant when a writer only has a page or two to dedicate to a deity, but I would appreciate some clarification on whether certain gods have extraplanar locales they call home (or, alternatively, if they have instead placed their divine domains on Golarion).
In particular, the gods I am curious about are
-Lubaiko
-Kalekot
-Adanye
-Balumbdar
-Chohar and the Old Sun Gods (Luhar, Tlehar, Dajermube)
-Uvoko
-Aakriti
-Arundhat
-Chamidu
-Diomazul
-Ragdya
-Vineshvakhi
-Genzaeri
Thanks in advance!
I am interested in some of those gods myself because they are relevant in the Strength of Thousands adventure path. In yesterday's game session, the party met Kolnoku, described as "a middle-aged dwarf who leans on a stone cane and wears a religious symbol of Uvuko, the Mwangi deity of metamorphosis and growth." That was the first time I heard of Uvuko (The Diamond Ring), and the imagery of that god fits into the current subplot of Hurricane's Howl concerning cloud dragons. And Chohar and the Old Sun Gods will be relevant in the next module.
As for the extraplanar domain of gods, I ran into that issue myself at the end of my Ironfang Invasion campaign when we added two new gods to my campaign world: The Fangwood Pantheon. That campaign ended in August 2023, when we knew that Pathfinder was going to drop alignments but before Lost Omens Divine Mysteries was published, so I guessed the changes to the dieties' entries. I dropped the alignments of the god and their followers and added an Afterlife entry. Then I had to figure out which Outer Planar Realm would serve as that god's afterlife.
The nine alignments corresponded to the nine Outer Planes. Abaddon was neutral evil, Abyss was chaotic evil, Axis was lawful neutral, Boneyard was double neutral, Elysium was chaotic good, Heaven was lawful good, Hell was lawful evil, Maelstrom was chaotic neutral, and Nirvana was neutral good. Thus, before the Remaster, the default home plane of a god was the one corresponding to the god's alignment.
When I set up the Fangwood Pantheon, Gendowyn, Lady of Fangwood, was an existing god with CN alignment, representing the caprice of the fey. But she is also a nature god and the wild forests of Elysium seemed more appropriate for her woodland fey followers than the seething liquid void of the Maelstrom. Gendowyn herself dwells in the Fangwood Forest on Golarion rather than on an Outer Plane.
The goddess Argwyn was set up as an adversary of Gendowyn, but my player characters made peace with her. Maelstrom fit her as a goddess of darkness and decay. She used to have a pocket realm that was an extension of the transitional Plane of Shadow (renamed The Netherworld in the Remaster), but that pocket collapsed when she left. Argwyn as written in Vault of the Onyx Citadel had lived on the First World, but I had rewritten her origin as being a Reflection formed from Gendowyn's shadow. Now, like Gendowyn, she stays in the Fangwood, preferring the shadowy parts.
The goddess Honey was a player character, a leshy sorceress of fey bloodline and a bloodthirsty streak in combat, who ascended to godhood as the goddess of familiars. My campaigns get weird, and worshiping Honey has been popular among leshy characters in my following campaigns. I let the player chose Honey's afterlife and she chose that her worshipers may accompany a leader or follower to any afterlife. As a very young god, Honey is traveling the world rather than setting up a home in the Outer Planes.
The only mention of Uvuko in Hurricane's Howl is Kolnoku's holy symbol. Nevertheless, Uvuko might relate to the nearby ruins of Bloodsalt.
Pathfinderwiki's entry on Uvuko has their alignment as CG. It references a Paizo Blog article Gods of the Expanse that says, "Apsu, god of good dragons, saw how his son Dahak once tried to burn down the entirety of the Mwangi Expanse and took it upon himself to defend the skies that rest over those that put a stop to Dahak’s destruction. Uvoko, the diamond ring, is a living embodiment of the Mwangi skies and valued Apsu’s aid." That article also has a few words on the Old Sun Gods. The article also points to the full page on Uvuko on page 142 of Lost Omens The Mwangi Expanse.
I see three possibilities for the home plane of Uvuko. As a chaotic good god, their default plane would be Elysium. As a god of the sky, Uvuko would be most comfortable on the Plane of Air. And the dragon god Apsu created a demiplane Immortal Ambulatory as a home for dragon gods.