Editing Gods of Dungeons & Dragons

Within all roleplaying games (outside of Warhammer 40k's Dark Heresy, where thinking outside the box is [[Heresy]]) there are deities. Whether they are good or bad, they exist.

This list will more or less contain the versions of the deities from 3.5 to the latest edition, and how they can be used to portray characters in your settings.

==Infobox==
{{Infobox Deity
|Name = What the god is called.
|Symbol = What special marking worshippers use to signal their faith.
|Aliases = Other names and titles the god is known by.
|Alignment = Does this need explaining?
|Divine Rank = How the god ranks amongst its own kind.
|Pantheon = What group(s) of gods this god belongs to.
|Portfolio = What this god is responsible for.
|Domains = What [[Cleric Domain]]s it bestows.
|Home Plane = Place of residence in the multiverse.
|Worshippers = Who actually worships this god.
|Favoured Weapon = What faithful worshippers consider best to protect themselves with.
}}
The information box that should eventually grace each god's page, summing up their information in a nutshell.
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==Types of Religions==
These are how religions are categorized in D&D.

===Loose & Tight Pantheons===
Loose pantheons are the default for D&D. A bunch of gods with their own portfolio exist, have varying relationships with other deities, their own myths and doctrines, and each deity tries to advance their own portfolio and doctrine in the world.

Tight pantheons differ in that the gods usually have either a ruler among them, or some other body of myths, doctrine, or rituals common with them, with an aberrant deity or two whose worship is frowned upon. Most people in either of them are either polytheistic or henotheistic, acknowledge the other gods but only worship one or some of them.

===Mystery Cults===
Cults of a single deity, or at most a handful of deities, where the personal relationship with the deity is emphasized. Largely based on a ritual of initiation where the person is mystically identified with the deity in question, and are taught their own unique myths. Often associated with gods of nature, and a part of other religious systems. [[Dennari]]'s faith is an example of deity with a mystery cult.

===Monotheism===
You probably know what monotheism means, and if you don't look it up ya dingus! In D&D, monotheistic deities have aspects who the regular people worship. [[Taiia]] is an example of a monotheistic D&D deity.

===Dualism===
Here, you two opposing forces (Law vs. Chaos, Good Vs. Evil, etc.) fighting each other, and the whole world is the stage for their conflict. Most believe that one is good and the other is evil, but some say that the two must remain at balance for the best result. [[Elishar]] and [[Toldoth]] are examples of a dualistic religion and its deities.

===Animism===
Spirits are everywhere here, and I mean literally everywhere, a tree has its spirit, as does everyone of its leaves, and so does the mountain, the sun and moon, the river, your computer, and that pebble over there. Most people here tend give praise and sacrifices to a specific spirit depending on the occasion and situation, whiles a [[cleric]] worships a handful of them as his or her patrons.

An undetermined/unexplored form of Animism is the presumed default religion of the [[Druid]]s, which is literally why that class exists as a separate thing to the Nature God Clerics. In [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], this desire to give druids a deeper meaning led to the creation of the [[Primal Spirits]] as ''the'' animistic religion of the [[World Axis]] cosmology.

===Forces & Philosophies===
Of course, some gain their powers from their devotion and beliefs of some ideal or philosophy (honor, freedom, wealth, power, etc.) or simply worship forces of either nature or magic, with deities being just personal manifestations of impersonal forces and philosophies. They don't deny the existance of deities, they just think them as too much like the mortals who worship them.

==Historical Deities==
Whilst D&D has never shied away from creating gods of its own division for its various campaign settings, [[Gygax]] and his buddies were big mythology and history fans, so they eagerly explored the idea of using various "Pagan" religions as being real things in the D&D multiverse. This led to the [[Deities & Demigods]] [[splatbook]]. Whether or not people actually ''like'' this idea of "defictionalizing" real-world mythologies, which people can get rather touchy about... well...

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==[[Dragonlance]]==
The gods of Dragonlance each have a constellation in the night sky or one of the three moons. When a god walks in the world among mortals, that constellation is absent from the sky, which is a dead giveaway to the other gods.

;Gods of Good
* Branchala (the harp), music, inspiration, bards
* Habbakuk (the phoenix), persistence, animals, rangers
* Kiri-Jolith (the bison's head), unity, strength, fighters
* Majere (the rose), discipline, dreams, monks
* Mishakal (the figure-eight), restoration, motherhood, healers
* Paladine (the platinum dragon), majesty, aspirations, leaders
* Solinari (the silver moon), magic used for good, wizards

;Gods of Neutrality
* Chislev (a wandering star (planet)), instinct, natural world
* Gilean (the book), knowledge, librarians, scholars
* Lunitari (the red moon), magic used for neutrality, wizards
* Reorx (a red star), creation, craftsmen, dwarves and gnomes
* Shinare (a wandering star (planet)), interaction, agreements, merchants
* Sirrion (a wandering star (planet)), transformation, fire, artists and alchemists
* Zivilyn (a wandering star (planet)), wisdom, awareness, completely impartial

;Gods of Evil
* Chemosh (the goat skull), fatalism, despair, undead
* Hiddukel (the broken scale), exploitation, selfishness, thieves
* Morgion (the diseased hood), decay, disease, suffering
* Nuitari (the black (invisible) moon), magic used for evil, wizards
* Sargonnas (the condor), wrath, revenge, minotaurs
* Takhisis (the five-headed dragon), control, conquest, tyrants
* Zeboim (the dragon-turtle), strife, mood-swings, bane of sailors

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==[[Eberron]]==
Religion here is more like actual religion than normal ''D&D''. There's evidence for and against the gods existing, and divine magic is fueled by faith, rather than the actual god. Some atheist/agnostic clerics or fanatical believers in a state or charismatic individual can also access spells for this reason, and there are no alignment restrictions on priesthood. The Silver Flame has the worst kind of evil hypocrites, deluded into thinking they're doing the right thing, the Blood of Vol has decent, innocent people taken in by its cultish lies, and everything on a spectrum in between, and so long as their faith holds, their spells come out right.

*The Sovereign Host: Traditional "good" gods.
*The Dark Six: Traditional "evil" gods.
*The Silver Flame: Similar to Medival Catholicism 
*The Dragon Below: Demon worship.
*The Lord of Blades: A [[warforged]]-supremacist preaching the death or enslavement of all the fleshies.  Not ''actually'' a god, but his followers are such mad fanatics that they can manifest divine magic anyway.
*The Blood of Vol: Humanism with some Undeath mixed in. Most members don’t know about the evil cult running things from behind the scenes..
*The Path of Light: Kalashtar religion opposing the Quori.
*The Path of Inspiration: Quori-founded religion that ''looks'' like a peaceful religion but is actually helping them come into the world.
*The Becoming God: A bunch of warforged trying to build their own god. Probably not actually the Lord of Blades, though he certainly wants to be, and there's some overlap with his followers.

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==[[Forgotten Realms]]==
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==[[Ghostwalk]]==
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==[[Greyhawk]]==
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To make things more complicated, the gods that appear in the Flanaess originated from a number of ethnic groups appearing in the setting. The Oerdian, Baklunish, Flan and Suloise peoples all have their own gods, some of them overlapping. Some gods are revered by multiple groups and have no direct origin, while others are worshipped in only one region. Below are listed a number of these deities.

;Greater Deities
*[[Beory]], the Earth mother 
*[[Boccob]], god of magic, arcane knowledge, balance and foresight.
*[[Incabulos]], god of plague, famine, disease and disaster.
*[[Istus]], goddess of of fate, destiny and the future.
*[[Nerull]], god of death, darkness, murder and the underworld.
*[[Pelor]], god of sun, light, strength and healing. More humans worship Pelor than any other deity.
*[[Rao]], god of peace and reason.

;Intermediate Deities
*[[Celestian]], god of the stars, wanderers and space.
*[[Ehlonna]], goddess of forests, woodlands, flora & fauna, and fertility.
*[[Erythnul]], god of hate, envy, malice, panic, ugliness, and slaughter.
*[[Fharlanghn]], god of horizons, distance, travel, and roads.
*[[Heironeous]], god of chivalry, justice, honor, war, daring, and valor.
*[[Hextor]], god of war, discord, massacres, conflict, fitness, and tyranny.
*[[Kord]], god of athletics, sports, brawling, strength, and courage.
*[[Lendor]], god of time, patience and study.
*[[Obad-Hai]], god of nature, freedom, hunting, and beasts.
*[[Olidammara]], god of music, revels, wine, rogues, humor, and tricks. Tends to fuck with the other gods for the hell of it.
*[[Pholtus]], god of law, order, light, the sun and the moons.
*[[Procan]], god of the seas, sea life and navigation.
*[[Ralishaz]], god of chance, misfortune and insanity.
*[[Saint Cuthbert]], god of common sense, wisdom, zeal, honesty, truth, and discipline. Needless to say, he's all but dead in the [[Warhammer 40k|future]].
*[[Tharizdun]], god of entropy, insanity and darkness.
*[[Ulaa]], goddess of mountains, mining and gemstones.
*[[Wee Jas]], goddess of magic, death, vanity, and law.
*[[Zilchus]], god of trade and money.

;Lesser Deities
*[[Vecna]] god of secrets.
*[[Xan Yae]]

;Demi-Gods
*[[Wastri]]
*[[Ye'Cind]], [[Alignment#Chaotic_Good|Chaotic]] [[Seldarine|elven deity]] of music, enchantment, and magick.
*[[Zagyg]], deification of [[Gygax]] himself.
*[[Zuoken]]

==[[Mystara]]==
In Mystara, instead of Gods you have the Immortals, mortal beings who reached divinity through their actions in life and sponsorship by other Immortals. The Immortals are ranked by power (Initiates being the recently ascended and the weakest, with Hierarchs being the oldest and strongest), and divided based on which of the five Spheres they belong to.
*Sphere of Matter is mainly Lawful, concerned with stability and order.
*Sphere of Energy is mainly Chaotic, concerned with change and transformation.
*Sphere of Time is mainly Neutral, concerned with balance, growth, and rebirth.
*Sphere of Thought is mainly Good, concerned with understanding and enlightnement.
*Sphere of Entrophy is mainly Evil, concerned with destruction and opposing all of the above Spheres and itself.

Above the Immortals are the [[Old Ones]] ([[Old Ones (Warhammer)|No, not those ones]]), who are to Immortals, what Immortals are to mortals.

It's also possible for [[PC]]s to become Immortals (of any Sphere except Entropy), and even Old Ones (provided they can reach the highest level in their Sphere, level 40, twice).
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==Nentir Vale (Dawn War Pantheon)==
The default setting for D&D 4E.
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==[[Planescape]]==
Too many gods to count, some less potent than a 20th level player character. You can use gods from any of the other campaign settings, even multiple settings. Planescape adventures are usually based in the city of [[Planescape#Sigil|Sigil]] which no god may enter, not even when [[Orcus]] was acting as the [[BBEG]] of the entire AD&D 2nd edition.

Pantheons that have been mentioned in Planescape include:

;D&D
*[[Birthright]]
*[[Dragonlance]]
*[[Forgotten Realms]]
*[[Greyhawk]]

;Real life
*Babylonian
*Celtic
*Chinese
*Egyptian
*Finnish
*Greek
*Indian
*Japanese
*Native American
*Norse
*Sumerian

The [[Lady of Pain]] isn't here because she is not a god.

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==Racial==
{{D&D-Nonhuman-Deities}}

These deities appear in several campaign settings (including [[Forgotten Realms]] and [[Greyhawk]]) as part of their racial pantheons. Except when they're dead.
*[[Annam]], god of giants.
*[[Bahamut]], god of good dragons.
*[[Blibdoolpoolp]], god of kuo-toas.
*[[Corellon Larethian]], god of [[elves]], magic, music, and arts.
*[[Garl Glittergold]], god of [[gnomes]], humor, and gemcutting.
*[[Gruumsh]], god of [[orcs]].
*[[Kurtulmak]] god of [[kobold]]s.
*[[Lolth]], goddess of [[Drow]] and spiders.
*[[Moradin]], god of [[dwarves]].
*[[Tiamat]], goddess of evil dragons.
*[[Yondalla]], goddess of [[halflings]].

==[[Ravenloft]]==
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==Third Party Settings==

===[[Dragonmech]]===
Most people stopped believing in the gods after the moon got closer and clerics stopped getting spells properly. They do exist but are under siege from the lunar gods, who are also trying to steal their followers, which limits their capabilities. Along with that, some old and forgotten gods are coming back, a new god, [[Dotrak]], is being born from peoples faith in machines, and some people are gaining divine spells from their faith in ideas and philosophies.

===[[Dragonstar]]===
The Unification Church maintains that there are 12 "deitypes", or true gods, who created everything and from which all the other deities are derived, with some being combinations of two or more deitypes. Along with that you also have the Dualist Heresy who say that there are only two true gods.

===[[Ptolus]]===
In Ptolus, most people follow [[Lothian]], who is Jesus and whose church is the Roman Catholic Church. The said church went about oppressing all the other faiths until just 200 years ago when they lost enough power, and became a bit more tolerant, to allow other faiths to gain momentum again. You also have things like the Temple of Excellence, whose halfling cleric has divine spells simply because he believes in himself hard enough, and the cults of chaos who worship [[The Galchutt|various gribbly things]].

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===[[Scarred Lands]]===
The world underwent a fantasy Titanomachy, i.e. mortal-friendly gods took over things from the less-friendly titans. There's the eight main gods, and a host of minor demigods, and titan-worshippers are hiding in the shadows, well except for the followers of [[Denev]]. In other places you have the [[Ushada]], the animistic spirits of everything, and the [[Agency of the Emperor]] in the Dragon Lands.

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==Gallery==
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File:Greyhawk1.gif|Priests of [[Pholtus]], [[Al'Akbar]], [[Saint Cuthbert]], [[Heironeous]], and [[Hextor]]
File:Greyhawk2.gif|Priests of [[Lendor]], [[Istus]], [[Boccob]], [[Celestian]], and [[Fharlaghn]]
File:Greyhawk3.gif|Priests of [[Iuz]], [[Nerull]], [[Tharizdun]], [[Vecna]], and [[Wastri]]
File:Greyhawk4.gif|Priests of [[Sehanine Moonbow]], [[Mouqol]], [[Rao]], [[Zuoken]], and [[Xan Yae]]
File:Greyhawk5.gif|Priests of [[Kurell]], [[Trithereon]], [[Wenta]], [[Ralishaz]], and [[Kord]]
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