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The Thuata Dé Danann - Children of Danu in old gaelic - are among the youngest pantheons but hides a tremendous amount of potential and mystery. Descending from the lost Goddess Danu, they are now led by younger deities Niamh and The Dagda. They may be young, but in a shorter amount of time, they suffered as many losses as the major pantheons and implicated themselves in the World more than anyone else.
Almost all of them are powerful druids, and they are warriors before anything else. Warrior-poets, warrior-diplomats or warrior-druids. Their feasts are sophisticated, their songs and poems are symphonies and their swords are deadly. After they conquered it from the fomorians during the First Battle of Mag Tuired, the Tuatha Dé lived in Ireland, among humans, to rule them. Through the Eye of the Earth, Danu managed to thin the physical barrier between the World and the Overworld to the extent Ireland and Tir na nÓg were almost merged together. After the Tuatha Dé's withdrawal, the barrier thickened back to normal, but on Samhain Day - October 31st - it thins back the way it was during the days when Gods were walking among men and all of Ireland and Britannia become an Axis Mundi to Tir na nOg.
The Tuatha Dé are also very close to Nature and thus, to mythborns. Exception being of the now-Titanspawn fomorians, they are welcomed and even allied with most of the mythborn species. After they suffered terrible losses during the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, and the Milesian invasion followed by the Concordat of Stonehenge, they had no choice but to accept the Aesir's proposal to become their vassals. However, with the rise of the Council of Babylon, the Tuatha Dé's loyalty towards the Aesir is in flux.
Members of the Tuatha Dé Danann
First Generation (~1800 BC to ~1000 BC)
- The Dagda: God of Masculinity and Magic, High King of Ireland
- Dian Cécht: God of Crafting and Healing
- Fand: Goddess of Mist
- Lugh: God of Sky and Oaths, inventor of the Enech magic
- The Morrigan: Goddess of Strife, War and Prophecy, new Overseer of Tech Duinn
- Ogma: God of Strength and Eloquence
Second Generation (~1000 BC to ~300 AD)
- Aengus: God of Love and Youth
- Aine: Goddess of Summer, Agriculture and Wealth
- Brigid: Goddess of Spring, Fertility and Dawn
- Manannán mac Lir: God of the Sea and Psychopomp
Third generation (300 AD to Today)
Gods from the Legends Timeline
- Niemh Mairbh: God of Retribution (Apotheosis in 1993)
- Zerris: Machine-God of Technology (Apotheosis in 1993)
Lost Gods of the Tuatha Dé Danann
- Cian: God of Exploration (Killed by Fomorians)
- Danu: Creator Goddess (Killed by Crom Cruach)
- Donn: Former ruler of Tech Duinn (Exiled, allied with The Grim Reaper)
- Lir: Former God of the Sea (Turned Titan)
- Nuada: First High King of Ireland (Killed by Balor)
- Second Titanomachy. Second Battle of Mag Tuired, Balor kills Nuada. Lugh defeats Balor and invents the magic of Enech. Lir turns Titan. Danu is killed by Crom Cruach.
- Concordat of Stonehenge. The Milesian take Ireland over the Tuatha Dé and makes them retreat to the Overworld.
- The pantheon becomes vassal of the Aesir
- Black Death. Donn makes an alliance with the Grim Reaper and is exiled.
- The Morrigan replaces Donn at the head of Tech Duinn
- Aeron Rhod, Godborn of Ogma
- Bronn, Godborn of The Dagda
- Cúchulainn, Godborn of Lugh (Deceased)
- Valeska Gert, Godborn of Manannán mac Lir