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In the divine Class Act of Dragon's final issue we're going to try to bring back a lot of deities who haven't reappeared in 3rd Edition. Have any favorites you miss and want to see resurrected?


Kanchelsis the vampire god.

Squerrik, Balador, Ferrix, Daragor, and Eshebala, the lycanthrope gods.

Stalker, the enigmatic non-worshiped goblinoid god.

Sovereign Court

I don't recall the names of the three gods who liked to bet over the fate of Tenser, but it made a good tale.


Hmm, let's see...

Definitely the "Fey Pantheon" like Oberon, Titania, Queen of Air and Darkness and others.


Definitely the Fey pantheon--particularly Titania, Oberon and the Queen of Air and Darkness! :)


Andyr wrote:
Definitely the Fey pantheon--particularly Titania, Oberon and the Queen of Air and Darkness! :)

Me too!


Andyr wrote:
Definitely the Fey pantheon--particularly Titania, Oberon and the Queen of Air and Darkness! :)

I like those guys too (although I'm favoring viewing them more like unique planar creatures as opposed to dieties, like celestial paragons or arch fiends, to preserve the whole distance from the divine thing). The only problem now is that a lot of gods that were part of the Seelie Pantheon/Court are gods of beings that aren't considered fey under 3.5.


KnightErrantJR wrote:
Andyr wrote:
Definitely the Fey pantheon--particularly Titania, Oberon and the Queen of Air and Darkness! :)
I like those guys too (although I'm favoring viewing them more like unique planar creatures as opposed to dieties, like celestial paragons or arch fiends, to preserve the whole distance from the divine thing). The only problem now is that a lot of gods that were part of the Seelie Pantheon/Court are gods of beings that aren't considered fey under 3.5.

But I am sure they originated in the Fey Realms. Like treants, for example. Emmantiensen is a member of the fey pantheon even though his followers are treants, intelligent plants as opposed to fey. Treants are probably blossomed into life in the Faerie, and of course have spread out from there.

Scarab Sages

In so far as artifacts are *only* created by gods, perhaps an addition to canon describing the elusive Daoud is due.

Daoud is the creator of "Daouds Wonderous Lanthorn". I personally have him as the literal "guardian" of Tharizdun's prison. His worshipers are very few, but they seek worshipers of Tharizdun and destroy his cults. I meant to introduce this deity in a running of "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" ( I even placed his holy symbol in the moathouse as a foreshadow-A cage-like lattice over the black sun spiral of Tharizdun) but the game disbanded before they found the cleric I had intended the players to find in the Inner Fane prison. I remember toying with a prestige class modelled in "opposition" to the doomdreamers, but I gave up thinking it was a pointless to stat it out.

So there's my vote: Daoud the Incorruptible.


Gods of Lankhmar!


Destro Fett wrote:
Gods of Lankhmar!

Unfortunately, WOTC doesn't have the rights to do Lankhmar material, and I think currently Runequest is the game system of choice for Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

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Apomps the Triple Aspected - Creator/God of the demodands, himself an exiled baernaloth, and likely the creator of the first primordial incarnation of the plane of Carceri itself. He's a deity in that he grants true divine magic to demodand clerics, but in other ways he seems to have powers that radically outstrip even those of a greater god. The enmity the 'loths have for gods might actualy derive from a residual hatred of him.

Aoskar - The dead greater god of portals and planewalkers who was obliterated by the Lady of Pain. A blade-studded corpse drifting in the Astral is never a good sign for anyone thinking of trying the same stunt he did.

The Guardian of Dead Gods (formerly known as Anubis) - having voluntarily shed his divinity to become something more than just a deity, his role of watching over the dead gods of the Astral hasn't really been given much mention in 3e. His appearance in 'Dead Gods' was classic.

Stillsong - a "god in transition" thought be in the process of becoming something 'else' though precisely what it was and what it is becoming isn't known. It currently manifests as a sphere of song, endlessly wandering the lengths of the River Oceanus. An enigma if there was ever one.

Water Lion - a deity with no followers (none apparent at least), and no known realm on the planes, but whose avatars roam the prime material, searching for something.

And just because I can't resist:
The unknown god or other being whose spine the yugoloths ripped out after killing it to carve Khin-Oin the Wasting Tower out of. Of course we don't know anything more than that, and for all we know, it's the spine from the corpse of one of their creators who was betrayed and sacrificed by its fellows who then used it as a living incubator for the first 'loths who then ate their way out like the larval forms of some wasps who lay their eggs in other insects.

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YeuxAndI wrote:
Andyr wrote:
Definitely the Fey pantheon--particularly Titania, Oberon and the Queen of Air and Darkness! :)
Me too!

I, also, would like to see this.

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Dammit Todd! Thanks for making me rethink my list. ^_~

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Andrew Turner wrote:
Definitely the Fey pantheon--particularly Titania, Oberon and the Queen of Air and Darkness! :)

Doing the fey courts in the detail they deserve would definitely take up an entire article. That being said, I'll be sure to work in some fey love!


F. Wesley Schneider wrote:
Dammit Todd! Thanks for making me rethink my list. ^_~

He's good at that, very good at that. I second what's on his list actually... and I'm really rather fond of Anubis. :)


Gzemnid, beholder god of gasses.

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Sucros wrote:
Gzemnid, beholder god of gasses.

Hahaha! I was looking at him... maybe. God of Gasses. LOL! Awesome.

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Might as well add three now dead gods from the "Tenebrous with the Last Word hit parade":

Maanzecorian - Illithid god of secrets
Camaxtli - Deity of fate and fire from the Aztec pantheon
Tomeri - Obscure goddess of love and wisdom worshipped on an unnamed prime material world. Virtually nothing is known about her, and to my knowledge she's only discussed within the events of 'Dead Gods'.


Damn Todd...now you got me wanting to see those deities instead of the Fey pantheon LOL

Yes, the Fey Pantheon deserves a bigger article and this is only a Divine Class Acts, so I'd say go with what Todd said.


YeuxAndI wrote:
Andyr wrote:
Definitely the Fey pantheon--particularly Titania, Oberon and the Queen of Air and Darkness! :)
Me too!

Me Three!

Scarab Sages

Razz wrote:

Hmm, let's see...

Definitely the "Fey Pantheon" like Oberon, Titania, Queen of Air and Darkness and others.

Absofragginlutely!!!


Add another vote for Apomps and Maanzecorian.


Todd Stewart wrote:

Aoskar - The dead greater god of portals and planewalkers who was obliterated by the Lady of Pain. A blade-studded corpse drifting in the Astral is never a good sign for anyone thinking of trying the same stunt he did.

The Guardian of Dead Gods (formerly known as Anubis) - having voluntarily shed his divinity to become something more than just a deity, his role of watching over the dead gods of the Astral hasn't really been given much mention in 3e. His appearance in 'Dead Gods' was classic.

The unknown god or other being whose spine the yugoloths ripped out after killing it to carve Khin-Oin the Wasting Tower out of. Of course we don't know anything more than that, and for all we know, it's the spine from the corpse of one of their creators who was betrayed and sacrificed by its fellows who then used it as a living incubator for the first 'loths who then ate their way out like the larval forms of some wasps who lay their eggs in other insects.

My votes! (Also for the Fey court!)

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