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I found the empyreal lords intriguing but I couldn't find a ton of information on many of them, which was disappointing as I thought they fit very well with the theme I am going for in my setting.

If I was going to use them though, it would be as you say...with them being servants or "saints" rather of the principal deities rather than actual objects of idolization themselves.

As for principal deities I'd like to have Abadar and Iomadae as the heads of this religion as I feel they mesh pretty well with each other. Gave some serious thought to Erastil in Abadar's place but it just doesn't seem to fit in my mind as well as the "god of civilization". Also thought about Saranrae in place of Iomadae but she seems better suited to having her own off-shoot religion which is a bit more "flexible" than this major theocracy that I have in mind.

Thoughts? Minimum for this religious grouping would be two, maximum that I think I would like to allow is 4...don't want to hog too much religious goodness into one pantheon, especially if numerous empyreal lords could serve the same function as 'minor' deities.

Apologies, I should have been more concise in what I am doing.

I have my own campaign setting but want to borrow the deities from Golarion, as I like the flavors of them and don't want to wholesale create dozens of gods with their own foibles on top of all the regional maps, cities, and rulers I already have made. I know it seems lazy after everything else but I have a fear of seriously unbalancing my worlds clerics with poorly chosen domains and such...

So yeah, I basically wanted to see what gods Golarion was using as their main religious infrastructure before I moved onto how I wanted my own campaign setting (Cedara) to be constructed. I may be lazy and unoriginal...but I do want things to work correctly when I put the wheels into motion :P

That is exactly the sort of info I've been searching for, LLoyd. Thank you!

I wonder if it would be too egregious to combine the two of them (and maybe a couple other lawful gods) into a sort of Pantheon Church that has spread across the land and embodies a number of these ideals and infrastructure?

That would make it an extremely powerful and influential organization that kind of represents the story foil I have been searching for.

Yeah I checked all of that out but I didn't really get an idea as to the religious structures of these various Gods...it was more just like "These regions worship these gods" and I was more looking for an actual breakdown of how these gods were worshipped.

IE: How their churches work, how many followers they have, do they have militaries of their own? (I know Iomedae has her Knights), are these various religious orders subservient to the various rulers of the realms or do they operate independently? Who runs their day to day affairs (pope/patriarch types)?

Deadmanwalking, has given some good info though and I will mull over some of this and decide how to integrate it into my current campaign.

For the record, I'm trying to run a campaign that resembles an old PS1 game called "Final Fantasy Tactics" in which a young protagonist is branded a heretic by the major Theocracy in the kingdom and even though he does good is considered a villain by the masses under church dominance.

Outside of Cheliax and their state enforced devil worshipping, what are the main organized (churches, military orders and the like)religions of the "civilized" regions of Golarion?

Tried doing a search for the most popular religions in the Paizo universe but it mostly seems to be a scattered hodgepodge for the most part (information-wise).