Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 Scrinoverlord Nov 27, 2008 11:56:17	Surely he must have someone higher in status than him :|
#2 serphet Nov 27, 2008 12:02:22	quite literally the higher being is the DM, this is actuality somewhat canonical
#3 Therise Nov 27, 2008 12:31:54	Surely he must have someone higher in status than him :| Yes, he answers to you the DM. That said, there was a tidbit at the end of the ToT novels where Ao was seen interacting with a "master" of sorts. Many people took that to mean the DM, others took it more literally, but it's never been explained in more detail.
#4 suin_bahhar_02 Nov 27, 2008 13:13:41	I hope its not a red robed balding beardless gnome.
#5 Stigger Nov 27, 2008 13:23:28	The fact of the matter is that he was indeed answering to me, his trandivine luminous Stiggerness... though I've instructed WotC to not acknowledge this to spare my e-mail address countless spam filled with the pleas of you insignicant specks of mortality. :P :D
#6 keveras Nov 27, 2008 13:50:43	Yeah, ya, the DM... tzz. This wasn't the answer you were looking for, was it, Scrinoverlord? There are more overdeities, not just crystal-sphere-overdeities like Ao and the High God. One overdeity might represent existence ifself, being in charge of anything that exists. So either this guy, or the Creator of the entire multiverse ifself. Note that this is just my point of view. Just have Ao answer to anyone/anything you want.
#7 Scrinoverlord Nov 27, 2008 15:09:06	...I actually didn't see this answer coming. The DM? Wha---
#8 old_sage Nov 27, 2008 17:42:11	Faiths & Avatars describes Ao's superior as "A Luminous Being." But what that being is, has not been properly defined. Nor should it.
#9 18DELTA Nov 27, 2008 22:20:36	-Chris Perkins, maybe? ;) 18DELTA (Chosen of Cyric) :P
#10 markustay_dup Nov 27, 2008 23:53:12	Some guy in accounting... I think his name is 'Bob'.
#11 Stigger Nov 28, 2008 0:24:19	...I actually didn't see this answer coming. The DM? Wha--- Look at it as Ao speaking to the Reader, more than some other off-stage entity and it makes quite a bit of sense. Not sure if you'll like that interpretation, but that is the most common one I've seen... And one I prefer you lot to ascribe to. ;) :D
#12 yakman Nov 28, 2008 9:31:38	Ao answers to the DM and the is the instrument of His/Her Authority.
#13 keveras Nov 28, 2008 14:22:40	But what that being is, has not been properly defined. Nor should it. Well, imo, everyone has to decide for himself whether or not it should be defined.
#14 old_sage Nov 28, 2008 17:44:02	I was intimating toward a possible official definition of the "Luminious Being" within the Realmslore. That's what shouldn't happen. What the individual DM decides for his/her FR campaign, is valid enough.
#15 rjfras Nov 28, 2008 22:12:13	I hope its not a red robed balding beardless gnome.
#16 sfdragon Nov 29, 2008 3:10:02	that should of been seen coming a mile away. AO's superior is the current chairman of the over-deity council. any they anwser to delta's thrice blessed cyrcian yaun-ti skin boots
#17 suin_bahhar_02 Nov 29, 2008 9:12:31	;)
#18 lord_karsus Dec 01, 2008 19:05:31	The fact of the matter is that he was indeed answering to me, his trandivine luminous Stiggerness... though I've instructed WotC to not acknowledge this to spare my e-mail address countless spam filled with the pleas of you insignicant specks of mortality. :P :D -This one.