The Dagdan pantheon is the set of gods worshipped across the continent of Dagda, and through them the ruling institution of the Dagdan Empire. Seven of their temples stand in a row in the upper levels of Dagsion, watched over by a bronze statue of the Divine Sovereign.
Temple Row
Nintendo's presentation is precise on two points: the row is watched over by a bronze statue of the Divine Sovereign, and it is home to seven temples. Volunteering at one of them earns a blessing to carry into the next battle, with effects that include a temporary stat buff and halving the damage you take. Which blessings you can call on depends on which temple you have served and how often, and the service is capped to a set number of uses each week. Temple Blessings covers the system in detail.
The seven temples on the row are named for Fortuna, Mars, Smyrnos, Aurora, Jurah, Kalla and Credna. One preview reading of the city counts more shrines than seven across the upper and lower levels, including one at the very top used by the Divine Sovereign, so the full layout is not settled. Seven is what Nintendo says, and seven is what this page follows.
Divine Services and God Requests
The retail game adds Divine Services, a weekly prayer at the temples that raises the player's standing with a god and does not cost a turn. Six gods take part, each with a day on which prayer earns a bonus; Fortuna and Yu Phas are not among them, and Blessing levels carry across all four routes. When a god's shrine icon on Temple Row lights up, the player can also hold an audience with that god for a small amount of Renown.
God | Service day | Part III request | Class unlocked | Trial reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Monday | Deliver five Angelica | War Monk | Cloth of Aurora | |
Tuesday | Deliver a Golden Helm from Nemea Cavern | Swordmaster | Mars's Kneepads | |
Smyrnos | Wednesday | Put out the flames in Iapetus Cavern | High Savant | Smyrnos's Channels and an Agnea tome |
Thursday | Deliver Dagda's Godshield, found at Dagsion Summit | Valkyrium | Jurah's Ice Mirror and the Shield of Zephyrus | |
Friday | Deliver Sandalwood from Brigadier Pass | Bow Knight | Kalla's Needle | |
Credna | Saturday | Deliver a Desert Sunstone from Dragonbone Temple | Great Knight | Credna's Mallet |
The requests belong to Part III, where each god's temple on the world map has to be repaired before the god will ask; Aurora is found in Temple Row in Dagsion instead. Every request pays 10,000 gold and 100 Renown and opens a level 60 Trial Clash for the listed reward. Credna can also upgrade Eshmel's spear, the Nameless Spear, into the Shining Spear once his temple has been repaired.
The Gods
Deity | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Divine Sovereign and god of the sun | Rules the empire as regent while the founding king sleeps. Also called the Sunbearer. Opens the Heroic Games and grants the winner's wish. | |
Goddess of fate | Keeps her own temple on the row, with the Obelisk Chamber hidden beneath it. Her power over causality underpins Fortuna's Blessing and the story's time travel. Described as capricious and idle. | |
Keeper of Death and Night | The goddess of Saramis, feared and loathed by most Dagdans elsewhere. Named as the Divine Sovereign's wife and Aurora's mother. | |
Goddess of the stars and navigation | Titled Navigator's Clarion. Confined to her temple and forbidden contact with outsiders. Her blessings are defensive in effect. | |
God of Dagda | Holds a temple on the row. His blessings are reported to strengthen physical weapons and combat. | |
Smyrnos | God of Dagda | Holds a temple on the row. His blessings are reported to strengthen magic. Credna is named as his younger half-brother. |
Goddess of hunting and the arts | Titled Patron-Huntress. Holds a temple on the row and presides over religious observances tied to the arts, among them the Rose Festival contested by Leda and Olympia, who serves as one of her priestesses. She is also described as seeking out gifted artists and performers and supporting them. | |
Credna | God of Dagda | Holds a temple on the row, in the upper levels of Dagsion, and is described as a crafter of machines. He is depicted wearing glasses, and preview footage attributes a piece of technology to him. Orchel serves at his temple. |
Goddess of Dagda | Holds a temple on the row. Her Part III request asks for Dagda's Godshield. | |
The founding king | The empire's first ruler, filed among the gods in roster material and honoured with a temple at the top of Hightown, where the fifth chapter of Part II, Divine Emperor Dagda, ends in a battle against him; he is fought again at the opening of Part III. The continent carries his name; see Dagdan Empire. |
Family ties run through the group: the Divine Sovereign is named as Yu Phas's husband and Aurora's father, which makes the goddess Saramis worships part of the ruling family the rest of the continent venerates.
Marks and Blessings
Each deity is tied to a hereditary mark carried by certain mortals. Dagdans do not call these marks crests: the collective term is Bloodmark, and an individual one is a Diadem, each associated with a member of the pantheon. The pairing that had been contested has since settled, and roster material now files seven of the gods against a named mark, five of which also carry a published Diadem name.
Deity | Mark It Is Associated With | Diadem Name |
|---|---|---|
Crest of Aubin | Diadem of the Apostle | |
Crest of Fraldarius | Diadem of Revival | |
Credna | Crest of Noa | Diadem of the Auger |
Crest of Dominic | Not published | |
Crest of Daphnel | Not published | |
Smyrnos | Crest of Macuil | Not published |
Crest of Goneril | Not published |
One further pairing sits outside the table because the god does. Balor is filed against the Crest of Gautier and the Diadem of Duality, and he belongs to the underworld rather than to this pantheon. That is the entry that makes the pattern legible: every sighting of the Gautier mark has been red and black and has appeared beside cursed equipment, and the god it answers to is the god of curses. The fifth published Diadem name, the Diadem of the Endless, belongs to the Lamine line and has no god attached to it yet.
As of September 2026, what a Diadem does is still not published for any of these lines. See Crests for the bearer listings and for why no effect figure appears anywhere on this wiki.
Outside the Pantheon
Balor, the revived demon god, belongs to the underworld and stands outside this pantheon; by the year 1454 of the Dagdan Calendar he has invaded Dagda. Sothis appears as the progenitor god who calls a single soul down to face him, and roster material files her among the divinities without giving her a place on temple row.
Related Pages
Solel, the sun god whose bronze statue watches the row, rules the empire as regent while its founding king sleeps. Dagsion places temple row within the wider capital, and Balor, who belongs to the underworld rather than to this group, is covered separately.