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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5474780" data-attributes="member: 2067">From my understanding of FR cosmology, it goes like this.The sun must rise and set each day.The thing that makes that happen is a god.The god makes it happen with their godly power.They get godly power from worship.If you don't worship the god of the sun, you are, in some small way, responsible for the chance that the sun might stop moving. Implicitly, folks in FR know this. To worship the god of something is to ensure that the thing keeps on keepin' on. Don't worship the earth goddess, the earth dies. Don't worship the death god, undead roam the earth. Don't worship the god of murder, nothing gets murdered. That's why denying the gods worship is punishable by torment. No worship, no world. Atheism is evil. Of course, the Athar, the iconic D&D gnostics, would look at the situation a little differently. They likely see Ao as setting up a system that demands worship as the height of divine wickedness, a powerful entity enslaving an entire population or condemning it to destruction. Plenty of worlds get by without needing worship just fine, so Ao must have set it up that way on purpose, when it could've been different. So, the best way to work against the gods of Faerun, is to get people frickin' off that rock. Depopulte it. Let them know that they can move to Krynn, or Oerth, or even just the Outlands (in fact, the closer to the Spire they are, the less likely any god will ever tell them what to do ever again). Set up stable portals. Toril is already something of a swiss-cheese world, riddled with planes to other realities, it should be easy enough. The gods, trapped in a cage and without being fed worship, die. The world dies. Ao, presumably, dies. And Athar members the mutliverse over rejoice at having struck a decisive victory against the corrupt forces of the divine.Oh, and as to the OP. Yeah, that's a crappy fate for core souls. Guess some heroes are going to have to go and change that, right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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