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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phantarch" data-source="post: 6761881" data-attributes="member: 6801685">I also wanted to address the "why do you have to choose a patron deity?" topic from a few pages back. I personally don't think the Forgotten Realms works with general pantheon worshipers getting swept up by their closest match. Even though it is standard practice to pray to the right god for the right situation, I think most people in the Forgotten Realms would actively strive to choose a Patron deity.First of all, the afterlife in Forgotten Realms is deity specific. So, when you choose a Patron, you are really choosing what you want your afterlife to be. I imagine that the clergy actively advertise what rewards await faithful worshipers of a specific deity, and you literally get to choose what sounds like your personal paradise.Secondly, I think that patron deities tend to be chosen more often by social groups, not randomly by individual. If you want the hope of joining your family and friends in the afterlife, you'll all have to have the same patron deity (which, really, is preferable to being sent to your alignment plane if you are hoping to join up with loved ones).Finally, I think having a patron helps you skip a step. I may be wrong here, but I think if you have a patron deity and have been faithful, they can just come down and pluck you off of the Fugue Plane. Without a patron, or even with a patron that you haven't been particularly dedicated to, you have to stand around for 200 years waiting to receive judgement by Kelemvor. I think that Kelemvor has the option to say, "Yeah, you worshiped the Pantheon as a whole, and it seems to me that your lifestyle most honored Chauntea, so you get to go to her realm." However, you had to stand in line for a couple of centuries to get that determination.</blockquote>

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