What is the name of that moon deity? I can't find anything about that one. I probably spell it wrong.

quick question: does Eberron have an Astral Plane or is all their teleportation done through another plane?

Question: If dead gods are made of 'stone', can you earthglide through them?

Bhaal The False Deity Murder, Killing or molestation of any sort causes the effect that is the primordial energy that consists of this insane rendition of reality, Bhaal. The Executioner, The Wailing & The Gnashing, The Filthy One, The Wretched, The Desperate One....having quite literally nearly invaded the multiverse as a whole due to the corrupting of the flesh even as it committed suicide as entity multiple facets of the whole that is Bhaal manifested in the mortal coil. A union of Pantheon discreetly intervening on the matter Bhaal & it's spawn are no more & by their own choice. No God, Goddess or it's child or children nor Deity of any measure would speak of Bhaal. Spoken of in terms of correction if at all. Enter, The Band of Rogues! A troupe of artiste seeking to further education in the arts be they dark or not. Paying quite well for the knowledge it is said. Beyond treasure in so doing. Traversing the planes as their shameless self promotion The Band of Rogues will set the stage in any circumstance. Many have come & gone yet a proverbial military of personnel has by default found their way into the deck of cards as it were. Those no longer among the living being the motivation for this grand task of knowledge attained pursued. The Tears of Bhaal A moment of lucidity resulting in the very tears of the spirit that Bhaal call his own corrupted or not. A child of nature perverse. Dammed. Redeemed or no, DAMMED.

What happens to the souls of the ones that use to worship a dead God?

Do not temp it... Even the kindest god remembers the most cruel feats of mortals

@@Voldrim359 "can I speak to your manager?"

And it's all a ruse to gather followers to revive the god

Maybe you can even catch Anubis having himself a drink.

@@alfredzanini eldritch wailing

Sounds like Lovecraft.

It is.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn i hope i wrote it right

@@davidecascapera987 Did you just summon a shoggoth?

K'DATH WILL RISE

"Haha hah ha. Oh! That's rich. Another, if you may!" Anubis: "SET! Are you playing with mortals again!" ". . . I gotta go." "SET!"

Party: "My friends.....I'm scared...." **Errbody Get Dusty** Warforged: **Gets a little Rusty** "I am alone now..."

Ah yes, the simple joy of peeing into the ocean

How? I thought biological functions stopped in the Astral realm.

Slowed but not stopped completely, but the player character could have just went to the astral sea while needing to pee​@@ckmishn3664

He always was the coolest character of all stories

U might like browsing the forgotten realms fandom, theres some nice info there!

Deities & demigods

Sharess/Bastet is a fucking chadette

On Hollowed Grounds. Some irl pantheon are surprisingly active on multiversal level (like Greek, or the Finnish) and it was even stated that those powers looks down of the gods of Forgotten Realms as some kind of hillybills because they are only present at one plane.

@@catch.22 Yes, yes she is. My previously-Valor-Bard and now Bard-Paladin of Sharess *highly* approves.

Anubis watching it play out:foolish mortals.

I want to see what would happen if Tu'narath woke up, the terror the Gith would feel as the very rocks they live on crush them to death while returning to their old form. Fun.

Wait, so why doesn't Anubis destroy the Githyanki and their city on that dead god?

@@BarbarianGod *shrugs*

@@BarbarianGod Probably because they not chipping it and just like build something on it

Good call.

You've seen heelys, now get ready for Horseys.

But what about the horse with Knights for feet?

@@poopcanothegreat9947 Four feet? They're probably jockeys, not knights...

"Are those horses wearing rollerblades? The foot horses have rollerblades. It was fun adventuring with you guys. Except you, Wizard, thanks for getting us killed... again..."

The God of Swole

It's only fitting that if he's a more mortal god that he can make up for it by being Swole Goals.

The egyptian pantheon is cannon in the Bible, they just weren't as good as the god the bible was written by so they got banished. I choose to worship them over the guy who killed his own son to make himself feel better any day.

@@atashgallagher1631 That's not true. They are referenced as characters but not equal gods, purely to prove the point that they aren't real and thus cannot do anything to actually protect Egypt from the plagues. It's like walking into England and stating "King Arthur will save you from this bag of rats I'm going to open", then opening it and obviously Arthur does nothing cause he isn't a real thing. The Bible is very clear that there isn't any captial G Gods beyond the OG. As for Jesus sacrifice, it wasn't to "make him feel better about himself". If you're interested in the details I'd be glad to explain, but the broad strokes is that God in the Bible cares alot about order and follows his own laws and the consequences of such. Unfortunately the humans he trusted to be his chosen broke just about every law in the book, and the penalty for that is pretty obvious. Instead of turning Israel into a crater he sent his _willing_ son to take that blow instead, a creature that wasn't ever supposed to be able to die. That level of legal leverage goes beyond Israel's sins though, and gives all humans the chance to escape sin. Not just through death.

@@clayxros576 That's one interpretation, however, given archaeological and scholarly evidence that the Old Testament god evolved out of the Canaanite pantheon - which was polytheistic in nature - it's not unreasonable to consider that the Jews of the time would have seen the Egyptian gods as being real, but not as powerful as their own god. Of course, such attitudes would have shifted significantly by the time of the New Testament, but the statement isn't without merit concerning the historical period when the exile took place.

sounds like a setup for litchdom.

@@sethkeown5965 lichdom is mostly for the arcane, clerics become mummies

@@sethkeown5965 Could be yeah. ;)

My pg is a cleric of undeath, and the deity of undeath is long forgotten and dead... Now I just tap his divine power since Noone claimed his realm. At lvl 20 I will eventually attempt to become the new God of undeath to obtain my victory over death

God Miner: Man this stuff should make a perfect battery! Anubis: So you have chosen death.

This may just be coincidence, but it makes for a really great story, so I’m gonna say that was a bit of brilliant stealth-trolling by your DM. ‘Alm Sivi’ is a more sensible rendering of ‘ALMXIVI’ (I think? Something like that. It’s ‘ALMSIVI’ with a random ‘X’.), which refers to a Tribunal of (formerly) ‘living gods’- Almalexia, Sotha Sil, and Vivec- in the deep lore of... The Elder Scrolls. As in ‘Skyrim’. So, your DM introduced you to the nuanced world of DND, showing it to be far more than just an analog MMRPG... using an obscure reference to the most mainstream RPG video game of all time... Or it was just a coincidence, but I like that explanation better. Awesome. Wait... reviving the life of the god ‘Alm Sivi’... ‘ALMSIVI’, the... ‘living gods’... Bruh. That’s a hell of a coincidence, or your DM is a genius. Damn. Someone give that man a medal. 👍

@@KyleJordanGaming Well at the time he lived & breathed ES III: Morrowind so yeah that seems highly likely! 😅

I know right? Anubis, the coolbro god. Pour some out for the fallen. ✊

I was going to eat that mummy!

Ha. Nice. 👍

That would be defilinv the dead... Anubis probably wants to have a word with you.

​@@shishoka Anubis: just purely evil monsters? Cleric: yes Anubis:...I'll allow it.

I remember seeing that he has clerics but that might have been 3.5 which in my opinion had a much better divinity system

I mean, one of my D&D 5e characters certainly reveres him (Paladin), but that's within a Curse of Strahd campaign and I'm not sure my DM knows nor cares about the 'Protector of Dead Gods' part of Anubite lore. Actually, I might bring this to his attention and see what happens.

@@DarkVeghetta Personally, i would love to know what happens

Well I can’t speak for others, but I have a spelljammer-inspired campaign that as a matter of lore includes many different pantheons, and my thing with gods of death goes that there seems to almost be a curse around being a god of death or the dead, in that no god of death has ever kept the position for long (long by god terms). Nera became someone I won’t name, though if you know the lore you know. Jergal became seneschal to later gods. Anubis became the protector of dead gods. Myrkul is half-dead on the astral plane with few followers. Cyric chained to the Supreme Throne. As for Kelemvor, he was the most recent before the current god but that spoilers campaign stuff that I won’t talk about publicly lest one of my players finds this comment and notes the similarities. And these are just to name a few. There is a reason why all gods of death and the dead are destined to lose their position, but again, campaign spoilers.

@@huntercraft5674 I have now brought this up. I'd have done so sooner, but we just reset CoS after several party members came and left, as it started stretching suspension of disbelief and the flow of the game itself after the 6th time or so. It's now a solo campaign and will continue after I've left the Death House (we'll restart play probably this or next week). I won't know what comes of mentioning this until we play several sessions or more, so don't expect an update anytime soon - but I do intend to post one, if I remember this thread exists. *A bit about my PC and the campaign as a whole, for context:* My PC is a former king, killed by a rival alliance of nations, but resurrected by the Fey Lord Titania and sent off to kill Strahd, for her own reasons. Technically he's also a dhampir, but that's mostly due to his particular strain of vampirism developing very slowly over decades, as his progenitor was cursed by Titania herself after he killed her husband, Oberon. Given she also resurrected him, my character's actually on quite good terms with Titania (even though he loved his sire as a father-figure, it was eye for an eye, and thus a just killing) and has taken to calling her 'auntie' (as far as he's concerned, she's family by way of his vampiric line and he's rather proud to be two steps removed from divinity). Once in Barovia, my party and I proceeded to clear the Death House (the other members are no longer in the campaign, but that's ok - it made sense how two of them left and the third will just proceed to murderhobo his way through the undead countryside; it's fine) and then I adopted both Rose and Thorn, along with now having the loyalty of the previously-banshee maid, Amelia. Titania did what Fey Lords seem to sometimes do when they feel like it and resurrected the lot of them (that and I think my DM enjoys giving my characters bonds to protect - in fairness, so do I). My PC now has a family to look after and is a landed noble of Barovia (Rose & Thorn signed the deed of the manor and windmill over to me, with a stipulation of me now being their official guardian as a result). With the manor as my foothold within the lands, I aim to start gathering power for my eventual goal of usurping Strahd and trying to ascend to the rank of Fey Lord myself, with Barovia as my own fey realm, and then proceed to turn back time and crush the alliance that killed me and invaded my original kingdom - but this time with an army of fey at my back and hopefully Titania assisting me. Mind you, that's the *very* long-term plan. Likely more than the CoS campaign can encompass, so it may actually lead to a second campaign down the road, eventually (or a few extra sessions to wrap things up). We'll see if I succeed or even survive my goal of kicking Strahd in the shins. The entire endeavor may implode upon itself... it may even *likely* implode, but if it does, at least I hope it will do so in an entertaining and pleasing manner.

she was never dead tho.

@@redacted144 Mystral committed suicide. Mystra took her place

Probably. It would be tricky to find, though, since location means nothing on the Astral Plane. In places like that, you pretty much have to already know where you're going to get there.

​@@BetaGunslinger Mystral didnt die die , her divine body or counciousness was spended/destroyed to fix the weave but her soul was reborn/transfer to Mystra I dont think any of the goddesses of magic could ever die since they are so fundamental to the universe so they are just reborn Bane , Baal and Myrkul are almost forgotten i think , they are the lowest rank of gods so they will very likely become dead gods eventually Maybe Mask is floating in the astral sea , he is truly death in both power and body , Azuth could be too or maybe just trapped inside Asmodeus ? Leira is definetly death death

@@ramondelgado4927 so it’s like a Phoenix like situation then

Don’t know the reference (if any), but that does sound pretty dope...

@@KyleJordanGaming It's from Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

Gods have, well, god like powers. Anubis doesn't need to personally patrol them, the moment someone attempts to dig into one he'll immediately know, then he can just teleport a bunch of minions to deal with the situation. In terms of harming the remains, those are just remains now, no longer actual gods with godly powers, I'm sure a +3 pickaxe can do the job.

I haven't read much of the story yet, but you do speak to Anubis about the corpse of Orcus in the Planescape 2e adventure Dead Gods

The fact that he's actually included at all means that he succeeded, at least in part, in what he's up to. And yeah that's not a good sign.

@@clayxros576 again, not entirely sure about that, I think he might be included under the alias of Zehir though which still puts the world in 'oh no why is Set in the faerun pantheon what is he doing'

He did trap the yuan-ti god Sseth and is now manipulating the worshippers. So definitely something is going on.

That's right. I've always liked them, myself. 5e changed a lot. They pretty much went from a people (albeit a savage one) to nothing more than a fiendish plague.

Day what of asking?

Well demigods in DnD are just lesser gods

They would be fine. Probably angry, but otherwise fine

@@thefreshestman9438 demigod is it's own rank under lesser god. Bottom to Top it goes: demi, lesser, intermediate, and then Greater.

@@CharlesPrime91 Technically, there is (and isn't) one more level above Greater; Overgod (like Ao in the forgotten realms). And at the end of the Avatar saga books, it is infered that there is atleast one above that.

@@johntheherbalistg8756 do you think so? i mean, they lose their power as a demi god and become mortal or something close to a mortal?

Gwent sometimes.

Wouldn't that just strip them of their power? Honestly curious

@@alexanderbanggren6071 God=Thought Though=Power Powerless God=Dead God

@@alexanderbanggren6071 I mean, if you kill off all of a gods followers, the god could still have people pray to them. Like how, even if you don't worship them, you might still pray to a Sea God for calm seas when you go out on a boat. You'd basically have to make everyone in the multi-verse forget that that god ever existed in the first place to kill them. That's not something that a singular mortal could do. That's only something that happens with time or with other gods with similar portfolios becoming more popular.

@@Tsignotchka87 Eh or you can just condemm their worship and commit genocide.Followed by dieacide.

@@alexanderbanggren6071 did you even watch the video?

I mean probally not,though they might instead channel remaining power from his charges to do normal god stuff.

I see no reason why not. 2 reasons... 1. You are the GM and your word is law. 2. I think Anubis is listed in one of the 5e books as a god.

In this instance getting power from Anubis would be a Warlock pact I would imagine, as he is something far beyond what anyone has witnessed before and exists as a power totally separate. Just like those who occupy the Far Realms, where the eldrich ancients persist.

@@clayxros576 Literally Great Old One Pact at that point.

Personally, I'd have Anubis be both a god in the traditional sense and a 'power' able to grant Warlock pacts - at the same time. The god would be an aspect of the greater power, but still a god in that he'd be able to grant abilities/spells and accrue belief. At least that's how I'd adjudicate it as a GM.

He is not a god he simply the manifestation of lawful evil

@@jacobsheehan9715 I am talk about power And he has deitidum in different editions aside from Lawful Evil itself

@@jacobsheehan9715 Dude I know That giant 🐍 But he got Goddooh as well itself like Goku having Super Syain Blue and Ultra instinct plus going full Kayokan 20 On top of That bullshit

Presumably because they aren't mining the corpse itself, merely building upon them.

Maybe the god is cool with it and they dont actively chip down on the corpse, but rather build something on it, that maybe will lead to people believing in that god again in some point in the future. If someone invades the fortress and starts chipping on the gods corpse, Anubis would annihilate them ... so thats quite some defensive power to have.

@@ThisNameIsBanned Invader: Why can't we just bomb the city? Anubis: _appearing in the war room_ Because I would erase you for harming that dead god. Invader: ...understood no bombs....

Look up the Spirit Eater Curse

@@Mirthrall the thing I ended up with was more of an over grown Nightshade combined with an Obyrith. Though that would be a good "gift" it could give to people dum enough to worship it.

Read the blood wars trilogy. Book 2 I think.

Can Anubis be bribed?

@@yellafella2718 No, no he can not.

@@Krishnath.Dragon Damn, now I'm *really* intrigued what the psychic elves are up to

@@yellafella2718 Githyanki can be anyway shape or form be compared to elves.Anubis probs got scared off the godlike lich.

Might I suggest checking out the forgotten realms wiki and the planscape book DEAD GODS.

IIRC, basically after the Time of Troubles, Ao the super duper god got pissed and told them all to chill TF out, because gods dying left and right was a pain in the ass and kept ruining everything. So now they’re not allowed to fight and mostly just hang out.. Rhexx covered it somewhere... I think it was in his “The Most Powerful God in DnD” video... or “What can the strongest gods in DND do?”- something like that...

I would imagine that would be enough. That memory aura would likely pick up the belief and relay back the concept that god represented, letting those followers more accurately worship them and thus give them enough power to reawaken.

They explained pretty much everything you can do,channel some divine power through fancy machinces and make cool shit from it.Of course you better not try either.

@@ryanford63 But that +5 sword though.😍Being a grave robber never sounded so sweet.

You are my new hero. I've been bringing Planescape to 5e with my campaign.

I saw homebrew for a construct called a Godflesh golem once..it was pretty awesome

It's definitely a paradox for the "race specific" gods. Like- if gods have power from belief, and they are only really a deity of a race they themselves need to create, where did that initial "spark" come from? Or were they merely a god of another, now forgotten domain, their power moving from that to their specific race over the millenia. Perhaps someone else could explain better, but these gods seem like examples of Bootstrap Paradoxes

With Correlon I don't know but I do know that Moradin is worshipped in many worlds by non dwarfs.

It is implied from the lore that the first generation of gods were not reliant on worship. The progenitor gods of each Pantheon are described as naturally coming out of nature. For instance Corellon is said to be an aspect of chaos, able to change his appearance and being angry at elves for taking a definitive form which lowered his power. Annam All-Father of the Giant pantheon has a similar backstory of being something akin to a primordial power that came to be at the beginning of time with all its powers. There is also a slight discrepancy here between FR lore and Planescape lore: in FR godly power didn’t rely on worship until the Times of Trouble. Before that the power of a god was simply reliant on his portfolio. But in Planescape all gods have always been reliant on worship.

Nah. A few dead gods have been brought back already, like Orcus who was resurrected by a ritual performed by one of his high priests (but lost his divinity). For a god whose name was forgotten, igniting worship of him could be enough to bring him back. And Ao has brought back a few dead gods but, well, Ao is pretty much plot armor at this point.

@@TheLokiel Ao's domain is the greatest of all, which is why he's on top. The god of the Plot.

Well If their names are forgotten then you need to find their names somewhere. The guardian is one of the sure few that could give information on them.

@@bethanysmith5856 I don’t see why going through the trouble. There are hundreds of way of finding that kind of information, beginning with other gods and powerful outsiders. Someone like Asmodeus for instance has been around for untold eons and likely knows a good chunk of the dead gods on a first name basis.