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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8606540" data-attributes="member: 6775477"><p>The Forgotten Realms is specifically henotheistic, which is where one accepts that many deities exist, but they choose to only worship one. Old Testament Judaism is a real world example, although I've never seen the term applied to them. The rest of D&D seems to have fallen into that model as well, but I don't know when the concept was introduced (or if was just assumed from the beginning).</p><p></p><p>In my Greyhawk campaign, I've decided to break things down by race and culture. Dwarves are purely polytheistic, worshiping all of the gods more or less equally (Moradin gets the lion's share though). Elves are generally henotheistic, but due to their long lifespan, often change deities. Orcs are henotheistic, forced to worship whatever god their tribal priest does. Humans are an even mix of henotheistic and polytheistic, with the Baklunish being polytheistic. There's the Church of All Season, who worships 4 nature deities, with the focus on the one who matches the current season. There's also the Church of Pholtus, who has many monotheistic members that believe the other "gods" are either trickster fiends or servants of Pholtus (depending on the alignment of the god). Finally, there's the Old Faith, which has an odd relationship with the gods, generally ignoring the existence of non-nature deities. There are a few atheists, found only among the most scholarly that postulate that the gods are nothing more than powerful beings that have simply claimed divinity.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Absolutely agree. Clerics are special, in that they can actually channel the power of a god, but they are not even necessarily accepted as priests of a church (they could be considered a heretic).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 8606540, member: 6775477"] The Forgotten Realms is specifically henotheistic, which is where one accepts that many deities exist, but they choose to only worship one. Old Testament Judaism is a real world example, although I've never seen the term applied to them. The rest of D&D seems to have fallen into that model as well, but I don't know when the concept was introduced (or if was just assumed from the beginning). In my Greyhawk campaign, I've decided to break things down by race and culture. Dwarves are purely polytheistic, worshiping all of the gods more or less equally (Moradin gets the lion's share though). Elves are generally henotheistic, but due to their long lifespan, often change deities. Orcs are henotheistic, forced to worship whatever god their tribal priest does. Humans are an even mix of henotheistic and polytheistic, with the Baklunish being polytheistic. There's the Church of All Season, who worships 4 nature deities, with the focus on the one who matches the current season. There's also the Church of Pholtus, who has many monotheistic members that believe the other "gods" are either trickster fiends or servants of Pholtus (depending on the alignment of the god). Finally, there's the Old Faith, which has an odd relationship with the gods, generally ignoring the existence of non-nature deities. There are a few atheists, found only among the most scholarly that postulate that the gods are nothing more than powerful beings that have simply claimed divinity. Absolutely agree. Clerics are special, in that they can actually channel the power of a god, but they are not even necessarily accepted as priests of a church (they could be considered a heretic). [/QUOTE]
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