![]() By 5 th Edition, Faerun’s deities settled into a stable homeostasis old deaths have been forgotten, with Tyr and Helm returning to the pantheon of active deities. Mystra’s two deaths precipitated the Time of Troubles and the Spellplague. The entire Untheric and Mulhorandi pantheon came from ancient Babylon and Egypt, so clerics of Isis and Horus fight side by side with paladins of Lathander and Torm.Įvery new edition introduced some tremendous cataclysm that shuffled the various deific portfolios old gods made their quiet exit, and new gods took their place. Eldath, Helm, Gond, and most of Faerun’s familiar deities first appeared in the October 1981 edition of Dragon magazine. Nobanion, God of Lions, first appeared in Forgotten Realms by way of Narnia, as Aslan. The deities of Forgotten Realms developed over time, with new authors and new editions introducing new Gods to an ever-diversifying pantheon. ![]() Its heterogeneous, mismatched appearance is part of its style. This week we have a guest post from Nitai Poddar that looks at religion in the Forgotten Realms and offers a variation where faiths coalesced and organized into a system of religions, each with its own dogma, values and philosophy.įorgotten Realms is the original homebrew setting, a patchwork quilt of concepts and ideas sewn together over decades.
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