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LittleCarp04 09-09-07, 02:48 PM	Do regular dieties (if they are evil of course) take undead as worshipers? Just need to make sure.
Hellsbells 09-09-07, 03:06 PM	Most evil dieties treat undead no diferently then mortals unless they are specifically dieties of death, undeath, etc.
RealSorceror 09-09-07, 07:48 PM	Sure, a good portion of my worshipers are intelligent undead. I'm especially fond of vampires and liches. I also have a diety of technology who is worshiped by sentient constructs (such as Warforged). So long as a being has free will and is smart enough to worship, a deity will likely take it as a follower so long as they have similiar values.
Shemeska the Marauder 09-10-07, 12:28 PM	Probably depends on the deity in question really, because while mortals are a source of both worship/belief and eventually a soul, undead are immortal unless destroyed. Some gods might treat such worshippers mildly differently, and some might not accept them at all (or urge them to eventually embrance mortality again, or destroy themselves in the name of faith, or perhaps directly service the deity, etc). Of course, a deity doesn't need to be evil to accept undead worshippers by any means. Wee-Jas isn't evil, and has undead worshippers, likewise Nephthys, Osiris, and formerly Anubis (before he cast away his divinity to transcend to become the Guardian of Dead Gods).
Triyu 09-10-07, 05:07 PM	Sure, a good portion of my worshipers are intelligent undead. I'm especially fond of vampires and liches. Did you like the sacrificial goats master? :bigeyes:
RealSorceror 09-10-07, 05:22 PM	Did you like the sacrificial goats master? :bigeyes: Mmmmm, goats.....the Taint Beast is satisfied. You may now continue living out your pathetic mockery of half-life......until next month. :D
Mula 09-11-07, 12:52 AM	-- and formerly Anubis (before he cast away his divinity to transcend to become the Guardian of Dead Gods). When did this happen and why? And what does it mean exactly?
Shemeska the Marauder 09-11-07, 06:03 AM	When did this happen and why? And what does it mean exactly? In-game, a long time ago. Out of game, sometime during 2e. Essentially Anubis of the Egyptian pantheon voluntarily relinquished his divinity in order to keep vigil over and study the dead gods of the Astral plane, and in the process became something considerably -different- for lack of a better term (more powerful? hard to say). Now known as the Guardian of the Dead Gods, he's responsible (apparently) for the Astral Dreadnaughts attacking anyone who violates the sanctity of the Astral godisles (like mining them, etc). He shows up in the 2e module Dead Gods that detailed the death and return of Orcus, the 2e Astral Plane sourcebook, On Hallowed Ground that detailed dead gods and the various real life pantheons within the D&D multiverse, and some other spots. This is also why for instance you conspicuously don't see Anubis as part of the Egyptian/Mulhorandi pantheon in FR (because he'd already transcended divinity when his former pantheon established a presence on that world), etc. Obviously the 3e Deities and Demigods, which didn't present any of its various "real" pantheons within the context of their previous (and subsequent) appearances within the D&D multiverse, didn't address this. It presented a standalone egyptian pantheon without link to any of this, or anything else really in D&D lore on the topic (or arguably Egyptian mythology given the bizarre handling of Apep and Set that it had...). Also, this gets touched upon in the final issue of Dragon magazine by an article Wes Schneider wrote about lost and forgotten gods.