D&D General Forgotten Realms: Real World Gods Still Present in the Old Empires

[Amphytrion]

Is there a list of all the reallife gods that 2024 Forgotten Realms mentions? From what I understand so far:

Horus-Re
Anhur
Set

Enlil

Oghma
Silvanus
Mielikki
Loviatar
Tyr
Asmodeus

Then there were those that were simply Greco-Roman Gods, but got renamed early on, like Sune (Venus).

I’m sure I’m missing some.

 

[Gradine]

I don't really understand the issue with this. I mean, they're called the Forgotten Realms because the idea was they were once connected to our world, allowing people to move back and forth, but those connections have been lost and the realms of Toril have now been forgotten by Earthlings. It makes sense there would be groups of ancient human civilizations (Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, etc) in Toril from the time when those connections were still known about, and thus it makes sense that their gods would be present too.

I mean, in some instances it makes about as much sense as the current historical consensus for where some our lost civilizations ended up.

"Oh them? Yeah, they were all murdered by the sea people."
"Really? Wait... then who the heck were the sea people?"
""

 

[Demetrios1453]

Is there a list of all the reallife gods that 2024 Forgotten Realms mentions? From what I understand so far:

Horus-Re
Anhur
Set

Enlil

Nephthys
Hathor
Thoth

 

[Parmandur]

Nephthys
Hathor
Thoth

This is turning into that on musical number from Prince of Egypt by Martin Short and Steve Martin now.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Thisnis turning into that on musical number from Prince of Egypt by Martin Short and Steve Martin now.

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No Isis or Osiris though, at least as far as I've found. But I'm guessing they're still around, just unmentioned.

 

[Voadam]

Then there were those that were simply Greco-Roman Gods, but got renamed early on, like Sune (Venus).

According to Greenwood in Dragon 54:

Chauntea - Demeter
Gond - Hephaestus
Lathander - Apollo
Mask - Hermes
Sune - Aphrodite
Tyche - Tyche and a little Bes

Talona is Kipputytto

Bane is considered "roughly the equivalent of Druaga"

Under Cults of the Beast he also has Camazotz.

Repra the King of Serpents is Apep.

 

[Zeromaru X]

Enlil

Is Enlil mentioned in the book?

 

[cbwjm]

Oghma
Silvanus
Mielikki
Loviatar
Tyr
Asmodeus

Then there were those that were simply Greco-Roman Gods, but got renamed early on, like Sune (Venus).

I’m sure I’m missing some.

I was recently following up on some of the real world gods in the FR and I think they misplaced Silvanus as Celtic but, as far as I can tell, he was actually a Roman god of nature.

One you missed but probably because she's "dead" and not really talked about much any more was Tyche, who became Beshaba and Tymora.

 

[Amphytrion]

I was recently following up on some of the real world gods in the FR and I think they misplaced Silvanus as Celtic but, as far as I can tell, he was actually a Roman god of nature.

There’s a historical reason for that: much of our knowledge of the Gauls came from Caesar’s writings (or did, ~50 years ago). The Romans, like the Greek before them, generally didn’t think of foreign gods as truly foreign—they thought of them as the same gods with different names.

Therefore, when describing the religious practices of the Gauls, Caesar uses Roman names; among them, Silvanus, who reappears multiple times in Caesar’s descriptions. Ed Greenwood probably got him from there, since his father was a librarian.

A pity we didn’t get Toutatis! (May the sky fall upon our heads!)

One you missed but probably because she's "dead" and not really talked about much any more was Tyche, who became Beshaba and Tymora.

I remembered Tyche, but on my brief exposure to the new books, I didn’t see her mentioned. She was mentioned in the SCAG.

 

[pukunui]

I remembered Tyche, but on my brief exposure to the new books, I didn’t see her mentioned. She was mentioned in the SCAG.

She doesn't have her own entry, but she is mentioned in both Beshaba's and Tymora's entries:

Beshaba: "The ancient empire of Netheril revered a single god of luck, Tyche, whose influence extended over both good luck and bad. According to myth, Tyche became corrupted and died, but her essence then manifested in Beshaba and Tymora, two sisters who share influence over Tyche’s divine portfolio."

Tymora: "Tymora is Beshaba’s sister. Long ago, the Netherese revered Tyche, the god of luck, whose influence extended over both good luck and bad. Tyche perished, but Beshaba and Tymora manifested soon after, each commanding half of Tyche’s portfolio."

Is Enlil mentioned in the book?

It doesn't look like it. (A DDB search provides 0 hits.)