First excuse my potentially bad English (I'm french)
So, i was wondering, where live the other gods, such as the Osirians gods and the Shoal from Androffa ? And if they have their domains in the externals planes, are they in contact with Golarion gods?
But this last question raises another one. If all gods of the universe lives in exterior planes, why the gods of Golarion are gathered in Golarion mainly (if that is the case), when nothing seems to brings them together, such as Abadar with Lamashtu ?
For example, in Androffa, peoples have abandoned their gods, the Shoal, and later theses gods have punished the Androffans. Then, other gods practicing the non-intervention, like Golarion gods, in turn punished the Shoal for interfering in the lives of mortals imprisoning them. Now Androffa look like Golarion, and even some of the Golarion gods are revered in Androffa.
Where lived these Shoal ? And the gods who have punished them ? Did they know the gods of Golarion ?
I'm aware that the externals planes are infinite, but the fact that several gods living on the same planes do not know each other (unless it's just not mentioned), because they do not have followers in the same places, and that several gods living on different planes are "bounded" together by the Golarians who prays to them, questions me.
The is also two planes are ruled by two gods: Asmodeus rule the Hell, and Pharasma the boneyard. Are there therefore known everywhere, especially Pharasma, because of her important task of souls judge ?
I hope my questions were understandable, because I forgot some arguments that I thought last night, and that I should have noted.
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Yes, all Gods live in the Outer Planes and interact with each other.
And any God can interact with any other god, but they usually only do so if they have a reason, and given that there are, in all likelihood, thousands of Gods that mostly means that the ones who interact are the ones that have worshipers that interact. They certainly know about the other Gods, but have little reason to hang out with them or fight them most of the time.
So, the Gods of Golarion (which is a big group), know each other because their worshipers run into each other fairly regularly, giving them a reason to interact. They also know about the Gods of other worlds entirely, but have little to do with them because they have no reason to.
Also, even if they did wind up hanging out with or fighting with a God from somewhere else, we the readers probably would't hear about it unless it related to a specific plot point in an adventure. I mean...if Cayden Cailean and Thor regularly get together for drinks, that's cool, but basically irrelevant to anything Cayden Cailean is doing in regards to Golarion and thus not something the writers are gonna spend word count on.
And yes, Asmodeus and Pharasma (especially Pharasma, as the one who judges souls) are more widely known than most other deities due to running planes, though they may go be other names in other places and aren't always super prominent.
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And yes, Asmodeus and Pharasma (especially Pharasma, as the one who judges souls) are more widely known than most other deities due to running planes, though they may go be other names in other places and aren't always super prominent.
I think that's an important facet in two respects.
1) Even on Golarion, gods are occasionally known by different names to different cultures. It is entirely feasible (and really pretty likely) that people from different worlds might have a different name for a god than those on Golarion do.
2) It's also important to note that some gods are more universally well known than others. As noted, Pharasma and Asmodeus are probably known throughout the entire multiverse, whereas a god like Casandalee or Arazni probably isn't well known, if at all, outside of Golarion.
I've often wished that a deities statblock included a scale of how widely known they were on the multiversal level.
And yes, Asmodeus and Pharasma (especially Pharasma, as the one who judges souls) are more widely known than most other deities due to running planes, though they may go be other names in other places and aren't always super prominent.I think that's an important facet in two respects.
1) Even on Golarion, gods are occasionally known by different names to different cultures. It is entirely feasible (and really pretty likely) that people from different worlds might have a different name for a god than those on Golarion do.
2) It's also important to note that some gods are more universally well known than others. As noted, Pharasma and Asmodeus are probably known throughout the entire multiverse, whereas a god like Casandalee or Arazni probably isn't well known, if at all, outside of Golarion.
I've often wished that a deities statblock included a scale of how widely known they were on the multiversal level.
How wide spread a Diety's existence is isn't really an issue unless you are playing a game like Starfinder. But yeah, Gods like Pharasma and Asmodeus ARE known to multiple alien species because there is ONLY one Bone Yard and only one Hell. Although they WOULD have different names due to different languages. But a god like Cayden isn't going to have much of, if ANY presence, outside of Golarion.
This is a pathfinder thread specifically about this issue...