Casual Gamers Hell

An infinite variety of experiences cause a man to pray.  In a polytheistic world, like that of D&D, it’s important to know which god to pray to for what reason.  This can be an easy decision (you want your heist to go well – pray to the god of theives) or a complicated one (your intelligent, magic using mule has acquired a rare disease the night before your big heist – Umm, god of animals?  god of medicine?  god of magic users?  god of theives?).  What happens if you pray to the wrong one?  Does the right one get annoyed and make things worse?

In this campaign world it is not uncommon to hear somebody tell the story of how they saw a particular god appear in such and such a place; or for them to explain some event through an act of the gods.

The gods worshipped here are all the same ones detailed in the core books, with a couple of slight additions to their areas of command.  For the time being I’m going to only detail the Good or Unaligned gods, as these are the ones that you will have the most opportunity to interact with.  You will learn more about the other gods, but that will come through the game itself.

*EDIT* added the gods up to Melora.  I’ll update the remaining 4 when I can.

Avandra

Avandra is pegged as being the god of Change, Luck, Trade and Travel – In this world many tradesman, especially smiths and potters, see him as their patron.  Although he has a human appearance, he is the brother of Bahamut.

It is said that he crafted Erathis’ armour out of the body of an older god.  A clerics armour is almost always blessed by Avandra before being donned.

Bahamut

Bahamut is seen as the ruler of the gods, and when there is a disagreement between them, he is the adjudicator.   Justice, honour, nobility (especially Kingship), protection and fate are all under his purvey.  Stories are sometimes contradictory as to whether he can alter fate, or whether he simply knows all of it.

He is known to appear in many forms, human, ox, dragon and even a serpent, but the dragon is his most well known form.

Corellon

Corellon is the god of Magic, Spring, Beauty, the Arts, Virgins and all things related.  Allegedly Corellon was born from the spleen of an older god who died when the current gods came into power.

One interesting feature of Corellon is that she’s sometimes considered a bit promiscuous, but can make her self a virgin again by bathing in a particular pool, allegedly in the Apricot Mountains.

Erathis

Erathis, in this world at least, is a woman.  She stands for justice, law, civilization and invention.  She is also the patron of Boetia’s capital city, Erath.  Perhaps this is why the people of Boetia see themselves as the one true law of the land…

Ioun

The god of knowledge, prophecy, skill, music and healing.  Specialized workers such as ‘doctors’ or musicians sometimes claim Ioun as their patron.

Note that many areas covered by one of the gods overlap with those of others.  This is not uncommon, and does not present a problem for the believers – it’s simply the nature of the gods.  Can’t two people be interested in the same thing?  So why not the gods?

Kord

The god of Strength, Battle and powerful forces of nature on the land.  What else do I have to say?  He likes to kick ass!

It is believed that a great nation will be good at politics, trade and war.  Kord sees to his third of that, and leaves the rest to those who might be more interested.

Melora

Melora is mostly known as the god of the ocean and what dwells within it.  Travellers crossing the ocean are expected to make the appropriate sacrifices to Melora, or face the consequences! He (he is a he in this world) is also the god of horses, which puts him in charge of a lot of forms of non-magical travel.

Melora and Bahamut often have ‘disagreements,’ but Bahamut always gets his way.

[I'm going to edit in the rest of the gods soon, I'm just posting this so that there's SOMETHING up there]