# Divine Classification in Mercury's Republic The gods of Mercury’s Republic are categorized by their **origin**, **ontological stability**, and the **Gravitas** they accumulate through belief and emotion. This Gravitas allows them to manifest physically in the material world. Titans, by contrast, are pre-human beings of pure harmonic resonance. --- ## Hierarchy of Divinity ### I. **Dei Caelestes** – *The Celestial or Form-Origin Gods* These are the eternal, fourth-dimensional beings directly derived from Ideal Forms. They are not born from belief, but made visible by it. - **Examples**: Apollo, Minerva, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter - Mercury rose in power after the **Divinium Convenitio**, secretly striking worship contracts with other gods and cults. - They require Gravitas to anchor their presence, but their Forms are stable and universal. > These gods are timeless. Worship doesn’t create them—it reveals them. --- ### II. **Dei Novae** – *The New Gods (Apotheotic)* Mortal individuals elevated to divine status through apotheosis—sustained narrative, belief, and ritual. - **Examples**: Julius Caesar (first apotheosis, orchestrated by Augustus) - Their Forms are not eternal, but derived—crafted through resonance. - Their Gravitas is potent but more volatile and political. > These gods are made—crafted from legacy and memory. --- ### III. **Dei Mythici** – *The Mythic or Heroic Gods* Heroes or demigods who gained resonance immortality through myth rather than formal deification. - **Examples**: Achilles, Aeneas, Hercules, Romulus - Semi-manifest; summoned by story or local worship. - Gravitas is limited and culturally bound. > These are resonant echoes, animated by legend. --- ### IV. **Dei Domestici** – *The Ancestral and Household Gods* Local gods of home, family, and legacy. Their power is drawn from bloodline memory and ritual repetition. - **Examples**: Lares, Penates - Highly stable within their local domains (household, estate, town) - Essential to civic and domestic religious practice. > These are gods of place, kinship, and protection. --- ## Divine Politics and Worship After the Divinium Convenitio, Mercury and his allied gods (Minerva, Vulcan, Venus, Neptune) amassed disproportionate Gravitas by monopolizing mortal worship. Jupiter attempted to intervene, but was overthrown by a divine council led by Mercury. This event coincided with the assassination of Julius Caesar and marked the rise of the cult-driven magical-industrial age. Each god's cult produces enchanted technologies and services, competing for worship in a divine economy of Gravitas. Only **Mars** remained loyal to Jupiter and abstained from the new divine order. --- ##### Jupiter Former king of the gods; ousted at the Divine Convention. Fragmentary [[Cults]] persist but lack central power. ##### Mars  God of war, now reduced to subcontracted aspects under [[Vulcan]] and [[Sol Invictus]]. Includes gods of kinetic [[Magic]], violence algorithms, and tactical enforcement. Is having an affair with [[Vulcan]]’s wife Venus. ##### Minerva  Lost her seat and cult to [[Sol Invictus]]. Her remanning loyal cultists survive as rogue archives, hackers, or forbidden libraries resisting centralization.