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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 7860048" data-attributes="member: 42856">I don't think PC (regular Eberron denizen) would enter a debate on the existence of the gods &quot;in general&quot;, including the (non-provable for them) existence of the multiverse. From the POV of the PC, the dragons &quot;closed&quot; Eberron and its 13 planes off. So they have no way of knowing whether the multiverse exist, let alone the potential gods there. It's simply a question that wouldn't generally arise (much like people usually don't speculate whether something happens in a parallel universe IRL, unless they are theoretical physicists... That's why I wrote scholar, as the question would only arise, IMHO, in very specific places of learning.I understand the &quot;big deal&quot; about Eberron to be &quot;Gods may or may not exist, they don't provide clues and don't interfere should they exist&quot; vs the FR &quot;gods exist, worship objectively dictates where you'll spend your afterlife for eternity, and if you don't have faith, you'll be a brick in the Wall of the Stupid People&quot;. An Eberron PC saying &quot;gods don't exist&quot; would IMHO mean &quot;gods don't exist in our world&quot; and not &quot;gods don't exist anywhere, including theoretical world totally closed off from us and about which we can't have any information.&quot;We, players, know about the multiverse, the PC don't (and nobody in Eberron either, except the progenitor dragons).Plus, FR gods probably wouldn't be recognized as gods by people from Eberron (as after all, they can be demoted at will by Ao and need worship from the people to even survive, characteristics that Eberron gods are not supposed to have from the point of view of their faithful).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 7860048, member: 42856"] I don't think PC (regular Eberron denizen) would enter a debate on the existence of the gods "in general", including the (non-provable for them) existence of the multiverse. From the POV of the PC, the dragons "closed" Eberron and its 13 planes off. So they have no way of knowing whether the multiverse exist, let alone the potential gods there. It's simply a question that wouldn't generally arise (much like people usually don't speculate whether something happens in a parallel universe IRL, unless they are theoretical physicists... That's why I wrote scholar, as the question would only arise, IMHO, in very specific places of learning. I understand the "big deal" about Eberron to be "Gods may or may not exist, they don't provide clues and don't interfere should they exist" vs the FR "gods exist, worship objectively dictates where you'll spend your afterlife for eternity, and if you don't have faith, you'll be a brick in the Wall of the Stupid People". An Eberron PC saying "gods don't exist" would IMHO mean "gods don't exist in our world" and not "gods don't exist anywhere, including theoretical world totally closed off from us and about which we can't have any information." We, players, know about the multiverse, the PC don't (and nobody in Eberron either, except the progenitor dragons). Plus, FR gods probably wouldn't be recognized as gods by people from Eberron (as after all, they can be demoted at will by Ao and need worship from the people to even survive, characteristics that Eberron gods are not supposed to have from the point of view of their faithful). [/QUOTE]

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