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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BigFreekinGoblinoid" data-source="post: 1948745" data-attributes="member: 5988">I very much like the concept of integrating the varied cosmologies from different campaign settings. And there is no reason why you cant! For example, the great wheel or the orbiting cosmology of Eberron are presented to the reader in a way that explains the multiverse based on a majority understanding of it's inhabitants ( or current physical conditions on that world ). While not "wrong", their knowledge might just be incomplete, limited by various factors.  You can still travel from point A to point B as the cosmology describes, there just might be other hidden pathways and planes. Maybe they will never be discovered on prime world #458,112,415. I like the idea of the dieties portifolio manifistations being the fuel that powers that dieties continuance. So - love, violence, trees, whatever the case may be - they power the divine. Faith is just a condiut to communicate and share power with worshippers, not the only sustenance for the god. A god may indeed be thought of as "dead", but that only means that no one that used to remember a god by a specific name knows of it's influence currently. Many gods by different names ( or even slightly different portfolio's ) are actually the same being. Anubis, Hades and Hel may actually be the same entity at the core, but hold different names and appearances based on the needs and dictates of worshippers. Even mutiple  afterlifes on different ( or the same ) planes could coexist based on meeting the worshipers expectations. Avatars have different strengths and weaknesses, wield different weapons - why not? There are surely multiple purposes for a god's machinations!  Mythology may either have been just fiction created to explain the existance of the gods, or be based on real stories unique to the early days of that prime world or region. Ascension and single sphere dities may be explained any number of ways. Perhaps a diety is created when another decides to share the power of it's portfolio, fragmenting it in some way ( love - lust for example ).  There is no idea on this topic that can't be integrated and rationalized any way a DM wishes.</blockquote>

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