The following is a list of characters appearing in comic series The Wicked + The Divine, created by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie.

Amaterasu
Japanese sun goddess
Name Meaning: The Great Divinity That Illuminates Heaven
Details: Shinto deity in Japanese mythology. Sun goddess & ruler of the heavens.

Baal
Canaanite-Phoenician god of storms
Name Meaning: owner / lord
Details: Name dropped in the bible several times as a title for a false idol. Occasionally transformed into Beelzebub in demonology.

Baphomet
Knights Templar ideology
Name Meaning: Sabbatic Goat
Details: Visually depicted as a symbolization of the equilibrium of opposites; half-human and half-animal, male and female, good and evil. Baphomet is a symbol of balance in various occult and mystical traditions, the origin of which some occultists have attempted to link with the Gnostics and Templars, although occasionally purported to be a deity or a demon.

Dionysus
Ancient Greek god of wine
Name Meaning: The Liberator
Details: Wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theater. His wine, music, and ecstatic dance free his followers from self conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful.
Weapon: Thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre. Sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey. Both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents.

Inanna
Mesopotamian goddess of love & war
Name Meaning: Lady Of Heaven
Details: Associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Like Lucifer, associated with Venus.

Lucifer
Christian devil
Name Meaning: The Morning Star / Light Bringer

Minerva
Roman goddess of wisdom
Name Meaning: intelligent, understanding
Details: Virgin goddess. Usually depicted with an owl.

Persephone
Greek goddess of the underworld
Name Meaning: Περσεφόνη
Details: Daughter of Zeus & Demeter. Abducted by her uncle Hades who later forced her into marriage.

Sakhmet
Egyptian warrior goddess
Name Meaning: 𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐
Details: Sekhmet is also a solar deity, sometimes given the epithet the eye of Ra.

Tara
tantric Hindu goddess

The Morrigan
Celtic goddess of war & destiny
Name Meaning: the three Morrígna / Phantom Queen
Details: A shape shifting goddess. Often described as a trio: the badb (a crow, foretelling doom, death, or victory in battle), Macha (sovereignty goddess of land, fertility, kingship, war and horses), and Anand, also just referred to as The Morrigan.

Urdr
Old Norse diety responsible for shaping human fate
Name Meaning: Urðr + Verðandi + Skuld (the 3 Norns)
Details: Urðr means fate, Verðandi, means happening or present, Skuld means debt or future. The three Norns spin the threads of life, cut marks in the pole figures and measure people's destinies, which shows the fate of all human beings and gods.

Woden
chief god of Germanic mythology
Name Meaning: Odin
Details: Associated with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet. Wednesday bears his name in many Germanic languages
Ananke
Orphic personification of inevitability
Name Meaning: force, constraint, necessity
Details: In Ancient Greek literature, Ananke is considered the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance.