Vaalingrade
Legend
I keep getting the feeling that FR is anti-religious despite wanting to the be opposite.On the other side you have the dwarves, so good that when their brothers were kidnapped by aberrations from the depths, instead of saving them, they just forget about them, and when said brothers came back, those good dwarves AND their gods found that the lawful good answer was to boot them back into the hands of their oppressor because they lost faith in those gods.
NO ONE benefits from having any gods around except Magic Lady #8 or whoever is stapled to the Weave this week, especially because of their service to Ao and their own addiction to worship, but at the same time you have to have a patron deity of some kind because FR demands it for whatever nebulous theme it's trying to feed.
The gods are all petty children at best, corporate scumbags at worst, desperately trying to keep their position in the face of Daddy/CEO Ao while visiting their demands and eccentricities upon the populace.