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#1 ArkPanda Jul 29, 2014 17:13:56	In the paladin preview on Facebook, it says "Appendix B lists many deities worshipped by paladins across the multiverse, such as" and then rattles off gods from the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, Eberron, Greece, Egypt, and the Norse.  So I think we'll have plenty of examples of gods and their domains to work with.
#2 NathanIW Jul 29, 2014 19:19:40	I plan on having every god be an elevated mortal hero, with the identity of the actual creators of the world being unknown.  Though the followers of various gods and various cultures will all have their creation myths, which will say more about them than the facts of the matter.
(Reply to #2) Cennedi	NathanIW wrote:
#4 NathanIW Jul 30, 2014 19:57:18	Yeah, there's definitely some aspects of it in FR.  I remember reading the original time of troubles novels back in the day.   My approach is that before mortals ascended to godhood, there were no gods.  There might have been other powers like demons and nature spirits and ancestor spirits and the like, but until some mortals figured out how to ascend, there was no divinities.  No Ao.  No Master.  Just a mystery as to where the world came from or why it is here and everyone having their own theory or truth claim about the matter.  The followers of the Archfey might say the world is a reflection of the fey realm which is the true world and the Fiend might say there was a tyrant god and the Fiend killed him to set the world free and nature and ancestor spirits might say the world has always been, with no beginning.  Some monks who think themselves enlightened might say the world is all one and is itself both everything and nothing.  Who's telling the truth?  Who's got it right?   The way this effects play is that there's only factions and no obvious "correct" religion.  There's your team and their team and what matters to each person.  The gods and other immortals aren't going to be organized on alignment terms either.  Maybe the god "of life" will be a selfish jerk who wants to deny people final rest because he can power magic by collecting their souls in heaven and keeping them alive, forever chanting his name.   The afterlife will be what each faction can do for its followers.  The gods may have worked great magic to allow the souls or spirits to live on in a different plane.  Or souls might remerge with the source and have some sort of distributed reincarnation thing going on.  Each faction will have done what makes sense for its leader in terms of the afterlife of the followers.