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When I think about it, Aroden's plan was to descend from his plane to rule an empire in the Prime Material Plane directly. There's probably a reason that gods don't get to do that.

Since he died just as his return was about to occur, it seems likely that some other deity (or consortium of deities) immediately took advantage of his change in status from divine to physically incarnate, to slay him for his presumptuousness. And let's face it, "I'm going to come back and rule the world in person" is pretty presumptuous, in a game world that's otherwise constantly balanced between opposing deities fighting over it.

If a god could come rule the Prime Material Plane in person from the center of a physical/geographic empire, then they'd all try to do it. What keeps them from doing it is likely that such a step makes you potentially subject to dying (which they are not so long as they remain in their Outer Plane). The Prime Material Plane is constantly in a "Mexican standoff" situation between all of the outer deities. That's what makes the game multiverse fun.

Dale McCoy Jr wrote:
Have I mentioned lately that I'd love an AP that delves more into what exactly happened to him or deals with the remnants of his followers?

As I understand it, most of Aroden's followers went over to Iomedae, his herald at the time. That's why she's called "the Inheritor."