The most popularly honoured gods in Valdraeth tend to be the Jester, the Celebrant, the Traveler, and the Shadow. Though people also hold their own personal choices close depending on their lifestyles, for instance a Lorekeep may honour the Scholar, a healer the Hearth, a mage the Muse, etc.
The Gods are not seen as a thing to be kept separate, but part of the everyday. You thank the Traveller for getting you back home safe from a long journey, you toast the Jester to drown your sorrows when something goes hilariously wrong, you give a crumb of your bread to the fire for the Hearth. They are not seen as towering unknowable beings separate from the world, but part of the familiar essence of life that makes things colourful.
Of all the professions in Valdraeth the closest to the gods tend to be Lorekeeps and Bards, both from very different perspectives.
A Lorekeep’s priestly devotion tends to be either non denominational, or devoted to their own chosen god, but they fulfill their roles of service in the community regardless of other people’s stance on religion. They do not go out to preach, but invite people in to listen. A Lorekeep will advise you, record your story, see your vows written or broken or fulfilled, and guide your soul to the other side. If you want to make them happy, gift them knowledge for their deep tomes.
Bards are a strange sort of priest that works primarily with the Jester and or Celebrant, but haven been known to work in a third or fourth deity for personal flavour. Whilst a lorekeep will record your story, bards will spread it with flair. They prepare people for festivals and kick off merriment, as well as help people work through laments.
Bards are not limited to drumming up cheer in feast halls and taverns, for instance those who are found on the front lines earn the name battle-callers, as they fiercely weave song and inspirations over those about to fight to prepare them for the violence ahead.
