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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6508605" data-attributes="member: 2067">Planescape, by and large. Various godly domains include many of the more interesting places to visit on the planes. For instance, if you want to get into Hell but don't want Asmodeus to see you, you could do worse than going through Tiamat's realm. The pantheons interacted, too, so Thor and Zeus might exchange weather information. But the planes are big places, so two deities who had very similar interests might never interact. Or they might be nearly (and weirdly) identical. A lot of folks wonder, for instance, if FR's Tyr and the Asgardian Tyr are the same guy, or two different guys, or what. As for race creation...the 2e theory on that was basically "it was so long ago that nobody really knows, and all the gods tell contradictory stories about it." One of the groups in Planescape, the Athar, might say that the gods all have their own propaganda, about how they created X  Y or Z because they are the best, and thus X Y and Z must all worship this god, because it created them. But gods are known to exist only if creatures believe in them and pay them homage, so the idea that, say, Corellon existed before elves could worship him seems entirely backwards. But, because it was so long ago and no one really knows, there's not really a better story for why the elves exist. The reason for elves being the same (and having very similar myths) on multiple worlds is sort of a bit "I don't know." 2e sort of implied there might be some deity-influenced evolution or something going on, but was never really explicit about it. Some say they originated on one world (a "homeworld" in Spelljammer parlance) and moved on from there (not unlike the Warcraft mythos in a lot of ways). Maybe there were multiple instances of incarnation. Who is to say? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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