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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1862958" data-attributes="member: 9254">I'm running a DL-based game that's been heavily modified.  The timeline is a few centuries after X'aos (Chaos) forbade the "Gods from Beyond" from interfering with Krynn and banished them.  The Dragon Isle dragons invaded Ansalon and Taladas, slaughtering most of the native dragons and setting themselves up as Dragonlords.IMC X'aos is an amalgamation of the divine spirits that existed prior to the Gods arrival.  Spirits are mortal creatures who "grok" a divine truth (domain) and become the focal point for that truth, assuming no one else already has.  (Think Piers Anthony's Incarnations books)  They become like dieties but can be killed or lose their status as spirit if they cease to be a living embodiement of their truth.  Priests follow a spirit but do not worship the spirit.  The spirit is the focal point of the domain, not a creature to be worshiped.   Someone wishing to become a priest goes through a ritual where they find and align themself with the Domain that is most like them.  A good person will not be associated with Evil, nor Evil with good.  The potential priest may go in expecting to become a priest of Justice and find themselves a priest of War because their true nature is more in tune with War than Justice.     Priests of the spirits are fairly rare amoung the Races of Man (demihumans) though the Ogres, Thanoi and a few other elder races have maintained a small priesthood.  The Dragonlords have yet to decide how they are going to react to this potential threat to their power but until they act the priests are gathering converts and The spirits that compose the pantheonic amalgm deity known as X'aos are able to grant 5th level spells.  A handful of independent spirits exist that grant all spells (Chislev spirit of life, Japeth the Bleak spirit of death, Nedrag spirit of plants, O'tarr spirit of scheming and tactics).Clerics of the banished gods are limited to 2nd level spells.  They, and the priests of the X'aos spirits, still have the higher level spell slots for use with metamagics.  Similarly, the bulk of arcane casters are limited to arcane spells of 2nd level after the banishment of the gods of magic.  However any race that uses the forms of arcane magic preceeding the Council of High Sorcery are able to cast spells of any level.  This primarily means Irda (ogres) and a handful of individuals who either predate the Council (i.e. liches) or who was a member of a renegade order of magic.  Those orders are quietly growing but remain quite small.  Dragons retain the ability to use higher level magics though there are rumors they do it in a different manner.   Recently Raistlin was made aware that he was the spirit of magic, explaining how he was able to challenge the gods.  Takhisis was none too pleased someone spilled the beans since the basis of his voluntary exile was that his quest to become a god would destroy the world.  As a spirit he is, for all intents and purposes, already a god and thus won't follow the world-destroying path.   Exactly what this means for arcane magic is unknown.  The Tower of High Sorcery at Palanthus vanished as did a few members of the renegade orders of magic.  Psionics on Krynn have been the target of a millenium-long pogrom to eliminate any who can harness magic not under the control of the gods.  A small and highly secretive cabal of psionics has managed to exist on a demi-plane hiddent on the crystal shell.  There they manage an intercontinental mercantile empire, using their precognitive abilities to gather wealth to try and sway the world to a form more to their liking.  They managed to mitigate some of the suffering during the DragonWars by stockpiling food and distributing it when it would do the most good.     The psions are still highly secretive with less than a few dozen people world wide knowing of their existence.  Though the gods can no longer empower clerical servants to hunt them down, they can still strike their demi-plane if they ever realize its location.  The psions have records of the spirits and are generally positive towards their priests but are waiting to see how the Dragonlords react to them before revealing themselves.</blockquote>

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