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There are many deities who are not given names, but their natures are talked about or anecdotes are given about their interactions with people.

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Unnamed Gods In Order Of Appearance[]

Gods worshipped along the White Gull[]

Fisher-gods, Money-gods, Fryer-gods, Lanterns-in-darkness: these are the gods that the people along the river worship since the Trawler-man has been eradicated.[1]

Stray God of Thunder[]

Hayward gives an anecdote about a god of thunder called by a little boy. The boy talked to the thunder by clapping his hands and imitating its noises, saying "it's okay, you can come in, I'm not afraid." The house was blown to bits, leaving the boy deaf and an orphan. Hayward's point with the story is that everyone wants a personal relationship with the divine and they aren't ready to handle the consequences or commitment.[2]

Old Gods of the Harvest[]

Hayward brings up the gods of the old harvest- grinning scarecrows, leafy green-men and faceless corn-dolls- that were given up in favour of Sweet Jolly Crunchtooth and Old Jack of the Thousand Ears. It is implied a good number of the calls they get are for these kinds of deities. These gods are not sanctioned.[2]

Gods of Healing[]

Carpenter talks about a deity in your wounds, of healing, that reminds you that it's there with pain. This may have been an allegory, and not a literal deity.[3]

God of Pipes[]

The South Glottage Central Pumping Station is looking for someone to tend to the pumps.[4]

God of Irony[]

A God of Irony made in the Linger Straits.[4]

Thing in the Branches[]

A god that Mason stumbles across in his child, that sings like a bird. It could not be killed, but it lamented every time one of its disciples was killed.[4]

Unnamed Luxury Brand Of Coffee[]

Sid Wright mentions it while recounting a conversation he had with his brother-in-law.[5]

Unnamed Corporate God[]

All the information about it is given in Vaughan's brief[5], "Key brand values are Boldness, Connectivity, Future-Looking - that one’s an adjective, great job from the in-house team there - and Integrity."[6]

Personal Gods of the Glottage Police Force[]

These gods are largely out-of-fashion now, especially since Devlin's Edicts formalized a licensing system for gods, so personal gods either became illegal or have fallen out of favor. Historically, officers would acquire relics and worship them until their own small gods were formed[7]:

"It’s unreliable, but it can be done; you buy a fragment of some old broken-down shrine on the black market, a chipped finger or tendril from the reliquaries of a forgotten or outlawed god. And you worship it, hanging from your neck or stitched into your chest, day after day, in the hope that you can tease something out of it generate some kind of grace for yourself. A god of bullets so you’ll never miss. A bureaucratic god to help get you through the paperwork. And - formed from the smashed-up statuary and scriptures of the great propaganda deities that helped to turn the tide of the last war - a Rhetorical God to help your truth find sympathetic ears. Just in case that witness turns against you, or your evidence might not hold up to the closest of scrutiny." - Hayward[8]

The Wind Deities Of The Lower Delta[]

Volume four of a series of books on these deities is found by Daggler at Peterson's bookshop, and it is marked as contraband. They are illegal faiths.[7]

Redundant Deities[]

Forgotten and redundant gods are found at Fisherman's Rest Waste Disposal.[9]

The Chemical Gods[]

Paige mentions them and the Propaganda Gods as the new gods of the previous war.[10]

Proposed Work Programme Deity[]

Hayward tells Carpenter that if she cooperates then he will assign her to a work programme[11], "one of the marginal deities that’s in need of more followers, some minor sacred hedge or mound or an intensely dull fringe concept that hasn’t yet had a chance to truly blossom”.[12]

Gods of Fugitives[]

Hayward tells Carpenter to find a god of fugitives to pray to if she wants to stop him from hunting her down.[11]

Gods of Sickness[]

Theoretical gods proposed by Carpenter.[13]

Gods of Health[]

Theoretical gods proposed by Carpenter.[13]

Gods for A Lonely Death[]

Theoretical gods proposed by Carpenter.[13]

God of Solitude[]

The god that haunts Eliza.[14]

God of Winter[]

One of the gods used to create a Saint at Sub-Station Perigloss.[14]

Love God[]

The god that creates the Love-Saint that attacks Shrue.[15]

Journalism Gods[]

Gods that reporters question Shrue for during their interview after the Love-Saint attack.[15]

The God Of The Angel In The Echoes[]

This god's angel attacks and kills the Endless Drear and The Ever-Living Sun's disciples and attacks Faulkner and his acolytes.[16]

New Tower God[]

In Nesh, there is a tower god.[17] According to Dennis Duplass, "The closer you live to the top, the more the god loves you, the happier you’ll be."[18]

Unnamed Wild God That Invades The Hatchery[]

The god that gets into the Hatchery and creates the Chicken-Angel.[19]

Unnamed Sky God[]

There is a sky-saint that attacks The Grace.[20]

The High Adjudicator's Pleasure God[]

According to Julius Brand, The High Adjudicator worships an illegal pleasure god.[21]

Unnamed God of Reporters[]

In the CLS, TV and radio reporters worship a God of Reporters. Sacrifices are hallowed into Camera-Saints for this god.[22]

Part of the prayer for this god:[23]

Though I may stand in the hurricane’s heart,

Blimp, boom mic, and broadcast preserve me.

Though I may march into the depths of the low-income housing estate,

May terror and revulsion flee from my face.

Though I may -

The God Upon The Wind[]

Whilst Paige returns to the Grace after helping Moss and his companions out of difficulty in the Polluted Lands, a dying and hungry god calls out to her.[24]

The Gods In Glottage[]

The gods that run wild in Glottage after the Wither Mark is set off.[25]

Sparks fly. Pylons walk. Vast lumbering beasts of concrete; howling wind-saints driving their parade-balloons furiously onward through the streets, swallowing their victims whole.[26]

Carson refers to them as Glottage's "homegrown" gods.[25]

Unnamed Militarised Wind-Gods[]

According to Captain Patrick Marshall, The Peninsula has been strategically overfeeding wind-gods for over a year and a half to use them as a form of air defence, supposedly against the Linger Straits in the war.[25]

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