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@hearthkore.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 4:28 PM

#Portrait #NewbieDM #Deity #GodofKnowledge
The second Portrait in my collection for my three god pantheon. Li-U is a god of Merchants, Travelers, and Knowledge. I designed him off a Cuttlefish despite him being a Genie. I think making him less human was an important part of his design.

This is the second part of my two part post of three gods I made for my DnD campaign. With it being set in a world of my making I decided I'd give myself a few set gods of my own creation. Gods that will be simple enough in concept that I can make them work in any form and need. I also wanted to keep my pantheon small. Three to five tops. I made three base gods with space for two more if my players felt the need for something outside of the bounds of these three.

Li-U is a Water Genie, I decided to give them the head of a cuttlefish because they are able to camofloge much like water genie's can change their colors. They are also known as very intelligent creatures and that felt important for a God of Knowlegde, Travel, and Trade. Yes Li-U is quite the fountain of knowledge and quite the unique appearanced as at least the Celestial God Grunak and the Fae Goddess Veshlan are much more humanoid in their appearance. I felt having a more unique outlier would be fun and suitable. Especially since I plan of Demons, Genasi , and Tieflings also having these more odd quialities of being more animal hybridish.

Not everyone needs to be a sexy guy or hot woman. Most people are gonna be normal or weird and I want that as a world built from creatures of other plains of existance coming together to find a peaceful life.

I am starting to doubt there will be much happening with these gods but that's why I'm not gonna put too much energy into them. The point of the game is to have fun and I can only hope I make a table where my friends can have as much fun saving the world as they want.

If you want a portrait like this for your own character please go check out my portrait commissions on Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/c/c2b7372733

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