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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 830815" data-attributes="member: 172">Actually, you might be a little misled then. I think that BotR is a bit MORE dualistic than the standard D&amp;D pantheon. Yes, the deities are distributed through the alignments.However, the non-evil gods are almost universally considered &quot;good by exclusion&quot;; neutral deities have good holy warriors and the great church reqards all of the non-evil deities as holy. The non-evil deities cast off the taint known as corpus infernum, which was thrown into hell and became demons. OTOH, Asmodeus was once among the other deities but did not cast off corpus infernum and becomes the central evil figure of the book. He is outnumbered by the good deities, but he was one of the first deities and is thus very powerful.It's not quite as dualistic as Zoroastrianism, but there is a bit stronger polarization between good and evil than most D&amp;D pantheons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 830815, member: 172"] Actually, you might be a little misled then. I think that BotR is a bit MORE dualistic than the standard D&D pantheon. Yes, the deities are distributed through the alignments. However, the non-evil gods are almost universally considered "good by exclusion"; neutral deities have good holy warriors and the great church reqards all of the non-evil deities as holy. The non-evil deities cast off the taint known as [i]corpus infernum[/i], which was thrown into hell and became demons. OTOH, Asmodeus was once among the other deities but did not cast off [i]corpus infernum[/i] and becomes the central evil figure of the book. He is outnumbered by the good deities, but he was one of the first deities and is thus very powerful. It's not [i]quite[/i] as dualistic as Zoroastrianism, but there is a bit stronger polarization between good and evil than most D&D pantheons. [/QUOTE]

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