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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6779876" data-attributes="member: 2067">No, they don't. Other settings get along just fine without 'em. It's not like the person who invented platemail first needed a God of Platemail, or else the thing couldn't exist. There was darkness before there was a Goddess of Darkness, the concept of light before there was a sun, and supernatural goings-on before there was a god of magic (unless Selune somehow physically lit the heavens on fire, I guess?)Ao didn't deliberately create any gods, really, so I can't say that there's any evidence that he considers them all that essential. This is sounding awfully tautological at this point. "Gods" in D&D-land grant spellcasting, but this doesn't mean they're somehow necessary for the continued function of the multiverse (in the default assumption, which FR shares). "Grants spells to people they like" could just be a particular magical power of particular magical entities. Certainly every powerful wizard grants spellcasting ability to people they like (apprenticeship) and every powerful fighter grants martial prowess to people they like (squires who train with them) and every powerful monk grants magical abilities to people they like (the master training the student). Sorcerer-kings in DS have the same capability, and some are called "gods," but this doesn't mean they're essential to the continued functioning of the setting.And if they ARE essential to the continued functioning of the setting, that's a criteria that Ao put in place, and so he can be made to change his mind - as represented by the other worlds that exist in FR canon where the gods are not necessary for the continued functioning of the world that do just fine.</blockquote>

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