I bought this product yesterday and have already read it cover to cover. Such a great resource and such a breath of new, exciting deities one can use in any adventure writing. Very thorough, with all the perfect little details that cover the whole story of the deity. A must have for adventure writers! Even included is a great catalog of deific artifacts that can be used also. The product's layout is great with amazing art all throughout the product. Definitely worth every penny in my opinion. Jack never disappoints on anything he writes.

Angela’s Deific Dictionary by Jack Weighill (@diceaveragejack) Content Warning: Spiders (Cornelia: The Court of Webs)

“Across the multiverse, one can find many that call themselves a god; most speak truth, but not all are known.

This book explores the mind of Angela, a powerful immortal and interplanar traveller who has spent much of her life moving across the multiverse, interacting with many a figure, some far higher than others.

Whilst the true number of deities across the realms is nigh impossible to determine, those of great import or intrigue have been well-documented by travellers; their tenets, dogma, faiths, cultural impact, and more. Such knowledge is stored within for your gain.”

This is a tome of gods and their artifacts staggeringly packed with lore and information, describing 20 gods in such detail and quality as to truly bring them to life with a layout and formula that makes this weight of knowledge accessible.

From Cornelia, The Blamed Lady, who “strikes her followers with brilliant ideas and bountiful luck, allowing them to climb from the lowest of depths to the highest of mountains” and counts fallen aristocrats who devote their lives and property to cultivating and feeding progressively larger spiders, to Wysra, Ink of Dreams, “a writhing creature, slithering in the darkness, drinking upon the failures and untruths of man”, through Deivial, Lord of Mercy and demon become god with a disparate set of sects and cults who are truly divided, Ethios, a former archangel turned “writhing mass of unknowable, twisting, screaming, horror” after a ritual to wipe out the lower planes went wrong, who did manage the impossible – an alliance of gods, devils and demons, united against the common cause of binding the Heart of Limbo before they could destroy EVERYTHING, and Pellaias & Luone, the lover-goddesses, kept apart for so long and now living out there beautiful, queer existence on the mountain, marvelling at the masterwork of earth and sky they created together, there are gods, sects for every possible setting, scenario or situation.

The Holy Formula “Each god holds a variety of truths, all of which up for interpretation for the mortals that worship them. These are represented in the following ways” Each of the 20 gods follows this same layout, which makes referencing them and getting to the pertinent information, so much easier, while also allowing for an incredible wealth data and flavour to be included without drowning the reader in walls of impenetrable text.

This formula is broken down in great detail with examples in the beginning, but I didn’t think it was fair to copy great swathes out, so I have paired it back with some smaller quotes.

• Name and Title/s: Some have multiple with titles often revealing “what those worshippers truly see in their deity.” • Symbol: A pictographic representation of the deity/ icon of faith. • Domains: The main domains the god represents, which influence the bulk of their Clerics. • Alignment: The oft-ignored aspect in 5e with this insight on trying to get your head around it; “Much alike to mortals, alignment is not concrete in the gods, and is more of an ever-shifting spectrum than a concrete categorisation.” • Description & History: The nature and story of the deity, “[describing] the most important aspects of the known nature and history of each god contained within.” • Dogma: The general vibe of the faith or “mantra of aspects that the god in question embodies.” • Tenets: The holy word and law, “direct commands” from on high. • Allies & Enemies: Many find themselves in accord and discord, with “certain ideologies of gods and mortals” presented as aligned or against the deity in question. • Sects & Cults: The deity’s faithful. This is broken down further into: o Aliases: What the faithful call themselves, often with “one or more colloquial names spoken in passing by the general public.” o Alignment: “Organisations, unlike a single person, are very rarely bound to a single alignment, even tenuously.” o Prominence: The five point scale of “how well-known a faith is within a given area” or how actively secretive and hidden they are, from Common to Cabal. • Holy Days: The significant days of worship with the approximated Date, Décor and symbolism prominent on those days, the Purpose of the Holy Day, and the Traditions observed. • Champions: “What the god looks for in their champions,” along with an example of a significant champion of the deity. • Artifacts: The Holy toys and magic items most likely to be granted by the god or significant to their faith. In Part II there is a major artifact for each of the 20 gods included.

The fabulous helicopter views of deities and their faithful are accompanied by the insightful, inane and blind-sidingly foul-mouthed interjections of the eponymous Angela, which provide anecdotes and asides from the seer’s unique perspective. Additionally, a number of Sidenotes grant greater insight and explanation of elements mentioned in the main text.

Part II: Artifacts of the Gods Deific Artifacts “Artifacts shown below are powerful relics of an ancient past when the gods walked the earth. Each deity has an item of their own example artifact listed.” This is a staggering list of unbelievably powerful items, one for each of the 20 deities, from Stridas’ Aegis of Algidity, a “massive shield appears to be little more than a rough hunk of ice chiselled into the rough shape of a shield, yet it hides a grand power bestowed upon it by the frostwarden himself” with a sad history of Sacrifice to Whites and, created by a forgotten follower of Jirus, a “gorgeous silken shawl is embroidered with golden threads and pearl beads, speckled as if laden with sand” and my favourite being, Tome of a Thousand Lies, “A corrupted book of fate and knowledge, the tome of a thousand lies is Wysara’s greatest poison upon the world, a book that has altered the very fabric of reality with merely the words upon its page.”

Part III: Pronunciation Guide A full phonetic pronunciation guide for all the gods and their elements, which is an absolute mercy for DMs.

Absolutely heaving with incredible elements to inspire your own games or to insert in full, including such epic seeds for adventures, arcs and whole campaigns, such as visiting Efina in the Abyss to earn her favour by easing her loneliness even for a moment, a pirate captain wishing to slay the behemoth that leads their Bloody Coalition dedicated the Shark tooth, Makone, for their lack of faith and disregard for the faithful, Pellaias & Luone the lover-goddesses of the earth and sky, kept apart for a millennia and now living in each other’s loving embrace atop the tallest mountain, who could have all manner of chaos happening in their faith from inquisitions into assumed forces that kept them apart to those foretelling the goddesses have abandoned to their home above the clouds. There is just so much here to work with!

Weighill clearly has a wonderful understanding of the tropes and semiotics of deities, weaving the elements we see in gods of our own plane and history, as well as throughout fiction, with a deft hand to create both the new and familiar with fresh originality.

This is such a phenomenally well thought-out, fascinating and arrestingly written supplement that I simply could not put down. I’m positively buzzing with inspiration and know that I will be keeping this close to hand, whether I’m prepping or want to reference deities, mythology, factions or artifacts.

Without a shadow of a doubt, Angela’s Deific Dictionary goes straight into my pantheon of the highest quality, most enjoyable and infinitely usable TTRPG supplements of all time.

Credits Writer Jack Weighill (@diceaveragejack) Illustrator Artificial Jealousy Format Jack Weighill Additional Contributors Artificial Jealousy, Caitlin Smith, Ellie Tate, Joe Wilson
Testreaders Artificial Jealousy, Olivia Flett, Sean F. Smith Special Thanks Artificial Jealousy, Brandon Spence, Caitlin Smith, Diarmait Finch, Ellie Tate, Ethan Crooks, Finn Crooks, Fiona Lally, Jade Westaway, Joe Wilson, Lauren Smith, Matt Smith, Megan Freeman, Olivia Flett, Reuben Denton-Beasley, Rosemary Butler, Sam Potter, Tom Calcluth, and all Testreaders.

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