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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8254321" data-attributes="member: 2209">I meant to specifically say Ao, I am unfamiliar with Luxon.Ao in the Avatar trilogy is just a more powerful being than the gods who gets instructions from corporate above him and tells all the gods "you've been doing it wrong" changes the rules on them, blinds Tyr for objecting, and sends them onto the mortal plane to run amok in a lord of the flies environment that turns into deific avatar hunger games. He's something of an abusive manager, not a moral exemplar. He ties their power to mortal worship which might seem like a win for mortals once things shake out. The end result though is gods are highly driven to seek out means to acquire worship, providing an incentive for them to demand or extort or otherwise force it out of mortals and a build up of churches and structures to maximize worship, with lots of them being from evil gods.Later you find out about his creation of the Wall of the Faithless partway through Realms history altering the afterlife punishment scheme horrifically for those not henotheistic enough.On the neutral end in 3e there is some talk of him starting up the Realms cosmologically and creating Shar and Sune to get things going.Those who try to worship Ao (at least in 2e) are specifically left out in the cold by him, exactly what he condemned the gods for doing.If someone has some lore on him that shows him doing some active good of moral worth I would be interested in hearing it.</blockquote>

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