World Building for FGS pt.5 Gods

All spirits are recognised as gods depending on what continent you’re in. For example, Veganon recognises Irides and Messis as deities whilst Laman doesn’t.
There are two gods that are universally recognised as gods. They are Light and Darkness. It is generally accepted that Darkness birthed the world and Light breathed life into it. They are known as either the “universal gods” or the “primordial deities”.
Saguaro is, quite possibly, the only place where aside from Light and Darkness, no other spirit is viewed as a god.
People often hold festivals dedicated to their gods. In Veganon, there’s an entire week dedicated to the “Irides’ Messis”. As the name suggests, it is dedicated to the rainbow and the harvest spirit, specifically it is dedicated to the legend that they married on Veganon.
A few of Laman’s gods are Glacies, the goddess/spirit of ice and snow, Pruinae, the god/spirit of aquatic animals like fish, and Venandi, god/spirit of hunting and fishing.

World Building for FGS pt.4 Laman

Coldest place tbh. Also the 2nd most remote continent after Saguaro. Both of them are pretty far from the others but Saguaro is more difficult to actually find.
Known for being the biggest producer of ice crystals which keep everything nice and cool. Like cats. Or meat.
Is also the biggest source of fish because they eat a lot of it and there isn’t really a lot of edible plant life because of the cold.
Laman itself isn’t actually icy despite being freezing. Most attribute it to the inactive volcano in the centre of the continent and leave it at that. The sea around it is another story entirely.
Beneath the surface there is a lot of frozen monsters and otherwise mystical creatures. There’s also a lot of runes hidden by the Rune users ages ago.

Saguaro doesn’t really have a government or royal family, at least not a set one. Several different parties, one lead by a descendant of the last royal family, vie for control but usually their conflicts dont leave the main cities.
Saguaro is based on ancient Egypt which means there’s a lot of tombs and ruined statues of rulers long gone lying around.
Every known spirit, which is basically equivalent to a god/goddess, including Darkness and Light has a temple located somewhere in Saguaro. Most of them are located in the Valley of the Gods but some of the major cities have them as well. Port towns generally have temples dedicated to the spirits related to the sea.
Saguaro was famous in the old days for their Rune users, a type of magic user native to Saguaro who could call creatures of legends to their side. Fear of them soon lead to many of them either leaving or going into hiding by masquerading as a normal human. Nowadays there is only one known family to consistently produce Rune users and even then, only one was born in this generation.
Every legend known to mankind is believed to a certain degree in Saguaro. Every tale has a smidgen of truth, after all.

Erica is known as the place lost things and people go to be found. Sometimes that can be in unexpected ways but everyone eventually ends up where they’re supposed to.
The port towns are known for the artists that make a living there. People say that you can practically smell the salt in the pictures depicting the sea.
Calluna, the capital of Erica, is known throughout for the temple dedicated to Light. Erica is unique in the fact that nowhere in the land is there a place specifically dedicated to Darkness and that is intentional.
The demonym for people from Erica is Erican.
Erica is largely seen as the most powerful continent and there’s ambassadors from every other continent there intent on keeping the peace. The only continent that refuses is Saguaro and there’s a reason for that.

Veganon has a type of wheat which comes in every colour under the sun. It isn’t fully understood why but most people think it’s because the rainbow spirit, Irides, and the harvest spirit, Messis, got married there, at least according to legend. The wheat is seen as a symbol of wealth to those outside of Veganon and a symbol of family to those who live in Veganon.
In the city of Rosa, also known as the city of lovers, there’s a small festival with a focus on a particular cake. The ingredients include pink flour and crystallised rose petals. Supposedly, if a couple bite into a piece at the exact same time, their relationship will be a happy and prosperous one.
The demonym for people from Veganon is Veganoan. (I didn’t actually know that was what the thing was called but there ya go)
The spirits most worshipped on Veganon, alongside Darkness and Light, are Irides and Messis. Irides is female and often depicted in a white dress that seems to contain every colour in the rainbow. Messis is male and often depicted as more monstrous than you would expect a harvest god to be.
It is tradition that, at least for their first married dance, a newly wed couple will dance barefoot. It’s supposed to bless their new united life together.