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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 4987066" data-attributes="member: 29746">Method 6: ProgenitorThe Progenitor Method requires that the deity undertaking it create a new race of beings unlike anything that has ever existed before in the cosmos, and that those beings all know and acknowledge the deity in question as their ultimate ancestor and progenitor. The beings must spread to every plane of existence (that is, at least one such being must exist on every plane simultaneously, at least long enough for the other conditions to come to pass), and they must reach a legendary status among other creatures of each of those planes.Subraces don't count- to do this, for example, you cannot merely create a new subrace of Dragon; you must instead create "the next Dragon" in the fashion sense. The key words from the above are "unlike anything that has ever existed before." It must be well and truly, obviously a new sort of creature.Upon getting a legendary status on every plane of existence, the combination of quintessence accorded the now-legendary creatures with those creatures' simultaneous adoration of the deity in question as their ultimate ancestor, causes that deity to transform into a truly cosmic force- the deity becomes a living law of physics and a Sidereal.As an example, my game features a being who actually did this one- a Sidereal the PCs know by the name "Lord Io." Pretty much everybody on this forum, I think, knows who Io is- but in my cosmos, he's actually postulated as being the same being as Ao of the Forgotten Realms (among others). Some time in the absurdly distant past of the multiverse, I told my players when I revealed this method to them, Io crafted a new race of reptilian predators capable of flying and using magic in inborn, instinctive ways- which then spread to every plane and became an integral part of legends multiverse-wide. And in so doing, Io (their ultimate Progenitor) became a living law of physics- a Sidereal.Io is specifically the law that states, "Dragons Exist And They Are Gonna Eat You," essentially. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One candidate deity for undergoing this method, if you want plots based on a deity who's trying to get it but not quite there, is Ilsensine the deity of illithids. Think of how far illithids have spread in the canon D&D multiverse, and how fearsome a reputation they have. Hells, they're actually responsible (indirectly) for the creation of two entire planar races, the Githyanki and Githzerai. So they're probably well on their way to according Ilsensine the necessary status, if the god can just get them all to acknowledge him (her? It?) as their creator and ultimate ancestor.Note importantly that the conditions of this method do not require that the race created continue to all acknowledge the deity as the Progenitor- the elevation to Sidereal is permanent and irreversible once accomplished, so after that it doesn't matter how many of the creatures continue to worship the (former) deity. The important thing is that they all do at some point in time before the deity becomes Sidereal, and that once the other conditions are met it triggers the transformation. This explains how it is that so few Dragons in the modern era are actual Clerics of the Dragon gods, particularly of Io himself. He doesn't need them to be worshippers or Clerics of his anymore- he evolved beyond the need for such things ages ago.</blockquote>

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