Other Deities

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OTHER DEITIES

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Soon after Vecna’s conquest, he proclaimed that he had single-handedly slain all the deities of the Forgotten Realms pantheon. Worship of these false, dead gods was immediately criminalized. Churches were torn down. Holy scriptures were burned.

Inconsistencies have been explained away. It is common knowledge that Auril, The Frostmaiden, lives in the arctic north under her blanket of eternal winter. Vecnan orthodoxy claims that she is a powerful elemental spirit, rather than an actual deity. The Whispered One’s bioengineers worship Gelf Darkhearth, the brother and divine antithesis of the primary god of gnomes, Garl Glittergold. The Vecnan stance is that Gelf is an infernal patron, similar to those of warlocks, and not an actual god. Finally, although there have been recent instances of clerics and paladins demonstrating divine power, it is claimed that they are merely tapping into their dead gods’ fading, vestigial energies.