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I'd like to say a massive thank you to everyone who's contributed knowledge and advice to this thread, I'm really grateful for it! I feel a lot more informed and I'm enjoying seeing deeper into the lore :) I'm pretty confident I can work up a decent plot outline, and all this information has...

Would Ao not be upset at the lack of balance in powers? I thought part of what he does as overseer was make sure that no one god became all powerful and try to keep at least some relative balance?

Sounds legit! Though I figured it might be difficult for him to convince all the other Gods to read a book. Does a God reading the Cyrinishad have the same effect as a mortal reading it, or does it just take a chunk of their power and make them a bit mad?

Not sure about how to deal with Ao, that is gonna be a big problem. But tricking all the Gods into reading the book would probably be difficult, and I'm pretty sure the one god that did canonically read it didn't become Cyric's follower according to the lore I read, it just said he lost a lot of...

True, but I figured the only problem with that is that the distribution of a book as a method of turning followers would take time, and during that time the other Gods might notice their influence dropping and possibly figure out something fishy was happening. The trapping would pretty much just...

This Zagyg fellow is very interesting x) Thanks for the extra reading - I think I might put him in the campaign, or at least let him have a spot in the history of the world :)

The majority of the events would have to have happened a long time ago, maybe a few thousand years I think. Also there would have to have been massive amounts of book burning, with the church of Cyric destroying any and all evidence of other Gods they could find. I'm thinking that maybe the...

Hi all, I was hoping I could get some advice regarding a campaign idea I had and how it might be possible using in-game mechanics. So I was reading up on various Gods a while ago when I came across Cyric. When I read the section about the book he created, the Cyrinishad, I was intrigued...