Editing Saint Cuthbert (section)

==Real-Life Connections==
In real life, Saint Cuthbert is the patron saint of Northumbria (northern England) in the Anglican and [[Imperium|Catholic]] faiths. In older fluff, it was implied that he really ''was'' Saint Cuthbert, and that he somehow ended up in Greyhawk and was worshiped there. Strangely, this completely escaped TSR when the moral panics made them scrub D&D of all references to real-world Christianity in Second Edition. Probably because no one who isn't a devout Catholic or Anglican from Northumbria (or, apparently, Gary Gygax) has ever heard of Saint Cuthbert.

Funnily enough, this makes the Oerthian St. Cuthbert's henotheistic ("acknowledge the other gods, but worship me above all others") attitude a lot more understandable.

The connection is actually lampshaded; an adventure in [[Dragon Magazine]] #100 has the players go to London to recover the Mace of Cuthbert, and a story in that same issue subtly hints that that Saint Cuthbert of Greyhawk and Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne are intended to be one and the same, or at least that the former has knowledge of the latter.