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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3949849" data-attributes="member: 22424">The problem is, if you kill off a whole bunch of gods (especially major gods) and don't advance the timeline, then you have to deal with the sizeable remnants of the churches of those gods. Give it 100 years, and you can argue that the god is largely forgotten, that most of his clergy have converted, the churches have been rededicated, and so on.Although, here's a scenario...It is likely that there are several powers with a vested interest in infiltrating other priesthoods. Mask (or whoever his successor was) is one, and various Demons/Devils may also have such an agenda. It's difficult, but careful use of Undetectable Alignment and similar spells, plus significant ranks in Bluff, and it can be done.Now, immediately after Helm died, all of his clerics would have lost spellcasting abilities... except for the 'false' clerics. I can easily see a Devil-led inquisition rising in the church of Helm, declaring that the faithful have fallen away from the 'true faith', and so incurred the wrath of the deity.Even better, given the shameful circumstances leading to the death of Helm, the priests of (whoever it was) might be slow to speak up.There's got to be at least one adventure in there, if not a whole campaign.</blockquote>