Deities

Deities, also known as gods, are forces of an incomprehensible scale. They are the weavers of reality, the architects of worlds. Their divine powers seem to be the primordial form of all magic.

Divine domains
Gods aren't truly material, the core of their essence is rather metaphysical. They embody concepts and wield influence over specific aspects of reality; their so called domains. One domain isn't always unique and several deities often share a domain, but their combination of domains is unique.

Feeding on devotion
Only when they don't have any worshippers left or when they excessively overuse their powers will their lifetime become limited. It is the devotion and spiritual energy of mortal souls that sustains gods. As long as they are worshipped, they are immortal. This is the key to divinity.

A deity is stronger if they have more followers, but one with a small cult can also be powerful if their followers are fanatics with lots of fervor. Moreover, a deity is also shaped and influenced by the believes their worshippers hold. For example, if worshippers associate a god with a certain aspect, it can become a new domain of theirs.

Types of deities
While gods were originally all celestial beings, existing since the birth of time and tending their own creations, some have developed significantly differently from others since the creation of the Prime Plane.


 * Great Curators. Members of the most influential pantheon. These celestials watch and rule over the Prime Plane.
 * Outsider Gods. Other celestial deities that did not partake in the creation of the world and that have no real bond to the Prime Plane.
 * Chrysalis. Their souls lost parts of their divinity, so they put them in material avatars and descended upon the Prime Plane until they could rise again.
 * Fallen Deities. Gods that have been stripped of portions of their power got imprisoned inside Hell.
 * New Gods/False Gods. Entities which possess godlike powers or potential to rival divinity, but which were created at a later point in history instead of being there from the beginning of time. The Wyld is an example.