Deity Domains Index
If you're creating a pantheon for your fantasy world, these lists may provide you with some inspiration for brainstorming their domains. Do people worship the goddess of luck? Does a specific people group, like thieves, tend to worship a certain deity? Is there a pantheon for each type of magic in your world?
Attributes
Ambition, Arrogance, Charisma, Consistency, Constitution, Cooperativeness, Cowardice, Curiosity, Devotion, Dexterity, Flexibility, Focus, Generosity, Grace, Gullibility, Helpfulness, Honesty, Humour, Initiative, Integrity, Intelligence, Intolerance, Inventiveness, Jealousy, Laziness, Modesty, Nervousness, Perception, Pessimism, Positivity, Resolve, Strength, Vanity, Wisdom
Positive Domains
Beauty, Birth, Community, Cooperation, Creation, Discovery, Fertility, Freedom, Glory, Growth, Healing, Home, Joy, Leadership, Life, Love, Luck, Order, Peace, Protection, Redemption, Renewal, Restoration, Resurrection, Truth, Victory, Virtues (Prudence, Justice, Temperance, Courage, Faith, Hope, Charity), Vigilance
Negative Domains
Blood, Captivity, Chaos, Corruption, Curses, Death, Decay, Despair, Destruction, Discord, Disease, Failure, Fear, Graves, Hate, Hunger, Judgement, Lies, Loss, Misfortune, Murder, Nightmares, Pain, Poison, Rage, Sins (Envy, Sloth, Gluttony, Pride, Greed, Lust, Wrath), Suffering, Thirst, Toil, Torture, Trickery, Tyranny, Venom, War
Neutral Domains
Balance, Competition, Contracts, Dreams, Family, Fate, Fitness, Food, History, Immortality, Knowledge, Language, Law, Magic (Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Illusion, Necromancy, Transmutation, Elemental, Alchemy, Witchcraft, Light, Dark, Nature), Medicine, Memory, Music, Mystery, Persuasion, Science, Secrets, Silence, Sleep, Stealth, Strategy, Sustenance, Thought, Time, Trade, Travel, Wealth
Elements
Air, Cold, Darkness, Earth, Fire, Heat, Light, Lightning, Metal, Shadow, Water, Wood
Nature
Amphibians, Animals, Ash, Birds, Desert, Earth, Fall, Fish, Flowers, Forest, Harvest, Herbs, Hills, Insects, Jungle, Lakes, Mammals, Moon, Mountains, Plains, Plants, Rain, Reptiles, Rivers, Rodents, Sea, Smoke, Snow, Spring, Stars, Storms, Summer, Sun, Swamps, Trees, Wind, Winter
People Groups
Alchemists, Artisans, Bakers, Bards, Builders, Children, Cooks, Demons, Doctors, Druids, Dwarves, Elderly, Elves, Family, Farmers, Fishers, Gnomes, Halflings, Healers, Heroes, Hunters, Labourers, Mages, Merchants, Monks, Musicians, Nobility, Orphans, Paladins, Peasants, Physicians, Pilgrims, Playwrights, Rangers, Sailors, Scholars, Smiths, Soldiers, Tailors, Teachers, the Lost, the Mistreated, the Poor, the Wealthy, Thieves, Tinkerers, Travellers, Wanderers