Question: Which of the Bogovi are related to which? Specifically, is Veles related in any way to Perun, and are they children or brothers of Svarog?
Man, this is why I love to make family trees, because gods' familial relations are always important to the game, but they can be a real pain to try to remember on the fly. Also, trying to trace a family tree without a visual is really difficult. Stay with me while I try to make this work.
...nope. On further reflection, trying to explain geneaology verbally is a royal mess, so instead, here's a quick and dirty family tree for the Slavic gods. It's ugly, but it'll get the job done until that beautiful day that we can put the Slavs up on the site in all their glory (they're an option on the poll to the right, by the way, for those interested in seeing that happen sooner rather than later).
As with any mythological tree, some choices are being made here between different versions of geneaologies that are out there. Clicking on names that have dotted lines to or from them will open up other parts of the tree that are hidden. The tree's software is limiting - you can't marry siblings, so be aware that Vesna, Chors et. al. are also children of Svarozhich - but it gets you the general picture.
So, to answer your question, Perun and Veles are brothers, both children/creations of Svarozhich (who is kind of the massive pater familius of the Slavic gods); they're also connected through Mokosh, who is Perun's wife but Veles' lover, and through Jarilo, who is Perun's son but Veles' foster-son. Svarog's only children are Svarozhich and Dazhbog, and he has no brothers, being the first thing that existed and hogging all the spotlight as creation Titans tend to do.
Whew. John, I promise I did not spend more than an hour on this.
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