The Kingdoms discussion

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Predators rule over Prey animals within society. Predators have big gods of culture and civilization (see Indo-European's Olympians, Aesir, Tuatha Dé Dannan). Prey have many small gods (i.e. Discworld or Gods of Pegāna or daimons/minor gods) of various small, specific things, including personified abstractions, as well as spirits of place, such as goddesses of individual rivers and lakes, forests having their own tutelary deity, and divines associated with independent mountains, rather than a broad 'god of mountains' or 'forest god' (Sylvanus or Cernunnos in the plural, like nymphs or naiads, but 'bigger,' such as Boann of her river or Cailleach's handful of associated mountains). Prey pantheon is a Vanic fertility cult centered heavily around goddess worship with strong ties to the seasonal cycle. The Prey are typically rustic agrarian societies, historically nomadic gatherers, whereas Predators were hunters, now expansionist and very much urbanized.

Reptiles and Amphibians worship a series of Dragon gods syncretized with their own pantheon, the religions of the reptiles is in opposition to that of the Avians, each demonizing the other's gods and ideals. Amphibians are a mix of Reptilian and Fish mythology culminating in its own individual mythos, with mythemes borrowed and mingled from the two sources.

Humans practice ancestral and saint veneration, along with the tending of the sacred fire within the holy hearth, the heart of the home. Humans dismiss the gods of the animals as silly superstitions or as savage and feral influences leading men astray from the safety of cities and civilization and into the wilderness and dangerous, inhospitable unknown of uncultivated, untamed, and undomesticated lands. Humans don't pray to gods of the mountains or forests, but to saints of miners or lumberjacks.