Dire Bare
Legend
To be fair . . . mortals ascending to godhood is somewhat of a thing in some real-world mythologies as well . . . the holiday of Easter comes to mind . . .So, a mortal can become a god, of the gods allow it.
Or if they kill the god in the vein of Cyric or Finder wyvernspur
Or by kiling enough demons like Gargauth
Or by winning a challenge against a god like Valkur
And of course we have Savras who we don't know why they ascended, same with Torm, and Kiaransalee, and Deep Duerra and Elikarashae
You know for beings that mortals are supposed to worship without question, it is kind of strange how there are between 20 and 30 gods who were once mortals themselves. Makes you wonder how many of them were mortal at one point.
To me, the origin of a deity as a mortal or not has no impact on whether it is "right" to worship deities . . .
And believing in the existence of these powerful beings also does not require their worship . . . one can believe they are gods, but not worthy of veneration . . . or one can believe the idea of "gods" is silly, these beings are just on a higher level of power than your average archmage . . . one could even believe these gods don't exist at all, after all "I haven't seen one!"
The idea that my Realmsian character can't be an atheist or "faithless" without somehow breaking the theme of a Realms campaign, or by ignoring Realms canon is supremely silly to me.