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After I noticed that Norgorber is also a god of greed, I checked to see if the seven sins related to the alara'hai are also related to gods. What happened to the god of sloth?
Forgive the lack of formatting:
name Weapon Sin Deity
sword of lust longsword lust Calistria
Garvok greatsword wrath Rovagug
Shin–tari short sword sloth ???
Tannaris bastard sword envy Zon-Kuthon
Chellan scimitar greed Norgorber
Baraket rapier pride Asmodeus
Ungarato falchion gluttony Urgathoa
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Although we do tie most of the sins to those six deities... they aren't really tied to the runelords themselves. The runelords are all specialist wizards, and further, don't really have time for religion. Neither did Thassilon, officially; in most regions of Thassilon religion was something you had to hide away from your evil wizardly overlords.
As for a deity associated with sloth, he/she is doubtless out there, somewhere. That deity's faith is just too lazy to spread far, and therefore isn't one of the 20 core (and most popular) deities in our world.
I would imagine a god of sloth's faithful would be quite boring. I mean, they'd be pretty much too lazy to even worship their god... At most they'd probably say a "Hail <insert god's name here>!" every time they reached for their mugs o' ale while lounging on their couches.
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Actually a church of Sloth could be re-tooled so that instead of laziness per say, they take a very long view of things. They plan and plot for events to come centuries later. They take no action now, because that action was actually taken long ago. What they do today affects events in the future and if clerics in the future act on their current events, then the work of the past will be undone. If that makes any sense at all...
Or Sloth could be a minor portfolio of an evil god, to encourage inaction among mortals so his deeds are not resisted, and he is able to lay claim to more souls. For instance a god of war and sloth (sounds unlikely doesn't it) could encourage contentedness in a kingdom so they disregard the warnings of an invasion. Meanwhile he prepares a rival kingdom to invade the lazy one. When the invasion comes, the lazy kingdom is ill prepared and quickly overrun. Our evil god gets to claim all of the dead by war and the massacred civilians who did nothing to prepare. Meanwhile the invading army was too lazy to consider the consequences of the invasion and are in turn invaded... again giving that evil god of war and sloth many more souls.
Actually when you think about it, the god of sloth might just end up with more souls than any other...