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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1599637" data-attributes="member: 8461">The way that worked (as explained back in, IIRC, Powers & Pantheons) was that, after the Imaskari wizards kidnapped the Rashemi and Mulan peoples from their world, they used incredible magics to stop their gods from manifesting in Realmspace.Ordinarily, when there's a large concentration of worship of a deity in a new crystal sphere, that deity gets access to that crystal sphere...otherwise they are barred from doing anything there.However, Ao was displeased by this, and so personally made an invitation to the two pantheons (IIRC, the Mulan worshipped the Babylonian pantheon, and the Rashemi worshipped the Egyptian pantheon) to send physical manifestations of themselves to physically cross the Phlogiston to Realmspace, which they did in a magical ship called the Bright Barge.These god-kings ruled their respective peoples, though many of them were killed facing the avatars of the Orcish pantheon during the Orc-Gate Wars. Being divorced from their Outer Planar essences, this caused some changes in the deific power structure. It wasn't until the Time of Troubles ended that Ao removed the barrier the Imaskari had created, allowing the god-kings to reunite with their planar divine essence.</blockquote>