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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 1383764" data-attributes="member: 8863">Sort of.  Here's the section from my campaign history that applies:Anyway, I never defined how many Elder Gods there were originally, or really what their purposes (if any) were.  this gives me the opportunity to create whatever I want.  There are only 3 of them that are actually named: the Ouroboris, the Lady, and Arropis (the creator of the campaign world).  The Ouroboris was the most powerful of them all, but its power was fragmented among five different beings.  I don't know exactly what role the Lady has in my cosmology.  I really included her because I started out with using the Wheel cosmology, and I decided her power to shut gods and other very powerful being out of Sigil comes from the fact that she is greater than and predates the gods.Basically, the Elder Gods is sort of an excuse to cram Cthulhu like stuff in my campaign, or stuff like the Elder Elemental god, or whatever else like that I care to put in.  The "darkness below" is the Underdark, the reference is specifially meant to be races like the illithids and kuo-toa which are the among the eldest races on my world.  The "darkness above" probably refers to something like the Far Realm.</blockquote>