The gods do not sit on thrones above the world. They are the world — storm, root, river, and herd. Shamans do not command them. They bargain, they listen, they prove their strength.
Voice of Stone • The Sky-Father • Maker of the Wild • First Howl
Creation, Storm, Sky, War, Ancestry, Beasts
A jagged spiral like a horned mountain split by lightning.
He sang the mountains into being and howled life into the first beasts. Every storm is his song; every living orc carries an echo. His call gave the people their strength, their voice, and their bond to the open sky.
The Buried Voice • Warden of the Bonesoil • Memory Beneath
Massive moss-covered figure of stone and root, antlers of living wood. Mouth always shut — wisdom spoken through dreams and shifting stone. Guards the memories of the dead; ancestors rise through root and vine.
Rites: Burial beneath standing stones • Silent vigils on grave mounds (Stonewatch) • Binding bone tokens with vine.
Breaker of Banks • The Tusked Flood • Laughing Strength
Wild figure with river for a mane, limbs like smoothed stone. Laughter like thunder in canyons. Urges the tribe to move, adapt, break stagnation like a flood. The river never apologizes.
Rites: Stone-throwing into rivers before journeys • Wrestling by banks • Trial of Crossing (walk a river alone to be named adult).
Watcher of Calves • Giver of Herds • The Guiding Snout
Boar-tusked matron with braided hair and dire-beast hide. Staff shaped like a beast’s spine. Followed by spectral herds of elk, mammoth, and wolf. The herd feeds the tribe, but must be guided with strength. Protectress of young and sacred paths.
Rites: Marking territory stones with ochre and bone • Dedicating first kill • Herdwatch (young orc guards herd alone for a night) • Low chants to newborn orclings.
Bone fetishes, carved stone markers, animal teeth, bundles of roots and herbs. Every shaman carries the voices of their lineage.
Wind, stone, water, and beast — never raw flame. Fire is the tool of the Imperium. The true elements remember the old names.
Trance through drumming, fasting, cold mists, or sleeping on grave mounds. The strongest shamans deliberately seek Warp Zones and Apex to prove worth and deepen bonds.