Reimu Endou: The Ghost Goddess

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Reimu Endou is one of the more obscure and wrongfully feared gods of the Ninisani pantheon. Often overlooked by most because of her ghostly nature and isolated presence, she wrongfully gets neglected by many in the Ninisani Pantheon. Reimu is the Goddess of the Dead, Ghosts, Families, and Households but is also known by her followers as the Goddess of Love for her kind and gentle nature. According to legend, the more she thinks of her long dead beloved, the sadder she becomes as she walks across the underworld and is only made happy by those that love her in the mortal realm.

The Followers of Reimu are known as Phantomos and live mostly on the border regions of the Ethyrian Confederacy in the Kingdom of Phantomia. These people are some of the most loving and welcoming people in all of Ninisani but their love can be turned into an extremely warlike state when enemies attack them due to their extreme passion. It is even said that Reimu herself personally comes down for their defense in some form, or another, ready to fight for her children. The love Reimu gives them is given back greatly by her children, who throw many festivals in her honor. It is said that when a Phantomo dies, their spirit goes to be loved every more by their underworld mother in a close embrace.

The most holy grounds for Phantomos are their graveyards. At these graveyards, Phantomos regularly pray for their dead to grow closer to their Goddess in the afterlife and that their ancestors may experience the same. Graverobbing or desecration of graves is the worst of all crimes in the Kingdom, punished by the worst of brutality. Those who do this are tortured for 3 days straight with all kinds of tools to inflict as much pain and possible before their skin is flayed off of them and they are buried alive.

Reimu herself interferes in the affairs of mortals frequently, often to defend her children but unlike other deities like Pomu, she doesn't use her power to cause chaos and destruction, but rather love and peace. She assumes many forms, including ghostly forms to visit her children when they need some love or just as a normal person, in anonymity, lurking around. She is known to hate homosexuals, which is reflected in the nature of her society condemning them. She has close relationships several other gods, including Millie Parfait, Nina Kosaka, Enna Alouette, Petra Gurin, Vox Akuma and Selen Tatsuki.

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Pub: 02 Jul 2022 15:04 UTC

Edit: 02 Jul 2022 15:16 UTC

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