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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 4008369" data-attributes="member: 39593">Except that the actions you just describe contradicts your own point, in order to get the souls they have to know where to go and what to do to acquire them.  In which case they know where the souls end up otherwise they couldn't collect.Except that by definition D&D gods are neither infinite nor omniscient.  I'm not sure we could get into this much deeper here without delving into Comparitive Religious Philosophy which would be against the board rules.  But the characteristics assigned to D&D gods preclude them being transfinite in the sense used when discussing the nature of a transcendental all-encompassing deity.  Prime among them is that there are multiple gods.  There could only be a single transfinite deity because that deity would in effect be the sum of creation and thus any more than one would necessitate those deities were merely aspects of a single omni-deity.  This is even without delving into the issue of whether the deities have stats or are statless or whether they created the cosmos in question or are merely residents thereof.  At a basic level an omnipresent deity precludes the existence of any other deity as an independant being as that would require the existence of something outside its presence.</blockquote>