Determining Divine Rank?
- Thread starter Valicor
- Start date
the Jester
Legend
I think that sort of depends on how gods work in your cosmology. Some people prefer that deities gain power from worship, others prefer that their power is independent of worship, and others fall somewhere in between.
In other words, I think you'll have to make it up.
In other words, I think you'll have to make it up.
I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
There is no *exact* numbering...
From the DDG, under Ranks of Divine Power:
*Quasideities "may have some worshipers"
*Demideities "have a few hundred to a few thousand worshipers, and may receive veneration or respect from many more."
*Lesser deities "have anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousand worshipers."
*Intermidiate Deities "have hundreds of thousands of mortal worshipers"
*Greater deities "may have millions of mortal worshipers."
*Overdeities "if they are known at all, it is to a handful of scholars...(they) care nothing for worshipers"
That's the schtick!
From the DDG, under Ranks of Divine Power:
*Quasideities "may have some worshipers"
*Demideities "have a few hundred to a few thousand worshipers, and may receive veneration or respect from many more."
*Lesser deities "have anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousand worshipers."
*Intermidiate Deities "have hundreds of thousands of mortal worshipers"
*Greater deities "may have millions of mortal worshipers."
*Overdeities "if they are known at all, it is to a handful of scholars...(they) care nothing for worshipers"
That's the schtick!
JacktheRabbit
Explorer
Of course those numbers dont have to mean a thing. A God depending on the model you are using could draw Gods from dozens of worlds and thus have a very minor number of worshippers on a world and still be a Greater Deity.
Emiricol
Registered User
I hadn't even considered that, Doc! Nice.
Also, that model doesn't easily accommodate the "sleeping ancient evil" menace so common in literature and game worlds, unless they exist outside the normal divinity structure for a plane.
So, the short version is that I view those numbers to mean that, if the god is known, a deity of X power level is likely to draw that number of worshipers, roughly. The numbers are the effect, not the cause, in other words.
But that's just my interpretation.
Also, that model doesn't easily accommodate the "sleeping ancient evil" menace so common in literature and game worlds, unless they exist outside the normal divinity structure for a plane.
So, the short version is that I view those numbers to mean that, if the god is known, a deity of X power level is likely to draw that number of worshipers, roughly. The numbers are the effect, not the cause, in other words.
But that's just my interpretation.
Similar Threads
