Are there any fantasy settings that have anything like a god of dungeons? Or anything like a god of caves, or even some eldritch being associated with dungeons? Nearest thing I can think of is Kurtulmak and some other DnD/PF gods associated with mining. I'm making a setting with a living dungeon, and one of the NPCs is a cleric preaching that the dungeon must be given offerings, so I need inspiration for what crazy religion is making him tell the PCs this shit
Idk about specific gods of dungeons, but animism is the belief that gods and spirits exist in all things everywhere, and when stuff happens, it's the god(s) doing those things. So something like a dungeon could be a genius loci with its own individual spirit, and staying on that spirit's good side is highly desirable for as long as you're within it.
Alternatively you can just make up something like Gygarne, Lord of Dung and just go from there.
>>95834328 (OP)>living dungeongay, every time it's done
but anyway I'll second using animism as inspiration as the other anon suggested.
>>95834328 (OP)Just google or type "Dungeon of Fear and Hunger" in youtube, anon.
>>95834390The Dungeon of Fear and Hunger just belongs to the God of Fear and Hunger. It's a primal God whose portfolio (fear, hunger, and the things that would make someone afraid or hungry) are only tangentially related to entering a scary dungeon with its own terrifying ecosystem
>>95834425>so I need inspiration for what crazy religion is making him tell the PCs this shitKeyword: Inspiration.
OP will get plenty of that reading on the wackery of Fear and Hunger, anon.
>>95834328 (OP)I want to swear that earlier fantasy stories would explain away unearthly beasts and malevolent magic users being the final bosses at bottom of dungeons as the result of evil deities and demons being sealed away by gods, which the inhabitants would occasionally pray to in the same manner for extra power to overwhelm intruders, but for the life of me I can't remember when or where I got this from
>>95834465Greek Myth with Tartarus?
Book of Enoch with fallen Watchers?
>>95834566You're probably onto something, anon. It does seem pretty recurrent for people to mythologize the dark caverns of the world to be filled with unmentionable horrors and areas to not be trod upon.
>>95834328 (OP)I know Pathfinder makes Baphomet the lord of labyrinths and mazes. I'd count that.
In folklore, it would be difficult because getting lost is associated more with the wilderness than civilization. However, you could maybe point to a figure like Satan who leads civilized folks astray by tempting their pride.
>>95834425The God of the Depths that the GoFaH supplanted was both the god of deep dark secret places and was in physical form a huge and madness-inducing dungeon though.
>>95834632That's definitely a starting point, with details like how the ability to easily resurrect people killed inside the dungeon was a side effect of the demon honoring some previous wish
>>95834328 (OP)You're not gonna believe this..
>>95834328 (OP)Look up what a Genius Loci is.
>>95834650That's not the same as the dungeon literally being alive.
>>95834328 (OP)>any fantasy settingThere's a mediocre Litrpg book series I've come across that's a god of dungeons. It's called the wraiths haunt. The gods name is Murmur.
>>95834328 (OP)Earthdawn has the Architect
