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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8020854" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>I do not think that is the general cosmology of the Forgotten Realms. Mystryl was the Weave of magic which fits that style but that was a specific case that seems to be an exception. Azuth is the god of spellcasters but he was mortal before that and there were spellcasters before him. When the gods were reduced to avatars during the Time of Troubles there were wild magic and dead magic zones which can be attributed to Mystra not being there to smooth out the Weave, and Bhaal did something with the life forces of assassins (its been a couple decades and I do not remember the specifics), but I don't remember a lot more happening in-world to the fundamentals of the world for the deific portfolio areas with the change in gods other than the change in AD&D editions from the out of world perception. </p><p></p><p>There are tons of ascended FR deities who became gods of things that existed beforehand. They seem to be champions of their domains, not determinants of them. There are interloper gods who come in and overlap with existing domains. I am not aware of descriptions of the fundamentals of the world changing when the Untheric and Mulhorandi pantheons entered the world. What I remember is the descriptions of their politics and their wars with orc pantheons.</p><p></p><p>It seems more like there are divine domains that individual gods can nonexclusively access and take from each other and lose or give to a disciple.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8020854, member: 2209"] I do not think that is the general cosmology of the Forgotten Realms. Mystryl was the Weave of magic which fits that style but that was a specific case that seems to be an exception. Azuth is the god of spellcasters but he was mortal before that and there were spellcasters before him. When the gods were reduced to avatars during the Time of Troubles there were wild magic and dead magic zones which can be attributed to Mystra not being there to smooth out the Weave, and Bhaal did something with the life forces of assassins (its been a couple decades and I do not remember the specifics), but I don't remember a lot more happening in-world to the fundamentals of the world for the deific portfolio areas with the change in gods other than the change in AD&D editions from the out of world perception. There are tons of ascended FR deities who became gods of things that existed beforehand. They seem to be champions of their domains, not determinants of them. There are interloper gods who come in and overlap with existing domains. I am not aware of descriptions of the fundamentals of the world changing when the Untheric and Mulhorandi pantheons entered the world. What I remember is the descriptions of their politics and their wars with orc pantheons. It seems more like there are divine domains that individual gods can nonexclusively access and take from each other and lose or give to a disciple. [/QUOTE]
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