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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9475853" data-attributes="member: 42582">Which lore in which books?To begin with AD&D: DDG presents the different pantheons as options that a GM might choose among in the course of inventing a setting; whereas MotP (which prefigures Planescape in this respect) treats all the pantheons as existing simultaneously across the planes. Which is the official lore?Then consider 4e D&D. The core books for this system, and various supplements, present a default cosmology, in which the deities defeated the primordials in the Dawn War. But the Rules Compendium also canvasses Athas/Dark Sun as an alternative cosmology, in which the primordials defeated the deities in the Dawn War. And there are multiple 4e Dark Sun books.3E D&D presents the idea of multiple cosmologies linked by the Plane of Shadow; whereas in AD&D the Plane of Shadow is  a demi-plane.I'm sure some rulebook or setting book somewhere talks about the exclusion of gods from some or other setting. There's almost certainly some other book that contradicts that.D&D gods, worlds, cosmologies, etc have always been whatever anyone wants them to be, whether that anyone is a staff writer for TSR/WotC, or an individual group playing their game at their table.</blockquote>