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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8719464" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>If the problem between settings revolves around the definition of the word "god", then it's not actually a problem. Sure, there are some super powerful entities from halfway across the Multiverse that created some world. Whoopty doo. Doesn't make them a god in that solar system and doesn't make them a god in an unconnected solar system. They're just super powerful aliens that can make worlds. A powerful enough wizard can do that given sufficient time and resources. Eberron has a more Western definition of "gods" where a "god" is an entity that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. None of the "gods" from the Forgotten Realms qualify as that, therefore they aren't gods and the people of Eberron would treat them as they do the Demon Overlords. </p><p></p><p>They aren't gods. At least, they wouldn't be considered gods in Eberron (and if I were to meet Tyr or Auril in real life, I wouldn't consider them gods, either). They're just powerful celestials/fiends that have powerful enough magic to make worlds. </p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure that there is just one Demogorgon. The settings share the Great Wheel, and if the Demogorgon is permanently killed by someone from Exandria, the Demogorgon is also dead for the Forgotten Realms. There are some entities that do have variants in different realities, like Dragons according to Fizban's, but there's only one Asmodeus. Their different version in the different worlds is just a different representation of the same entity (kind of like how Ancient Greece and Rome worshipped basically the same pantheon, but the individual gods were very different between cultures because they thought of them in different ways).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8719464, member: 7023887"] If the problem between settings revolves around the definition of the word "god", then it's not actually a problem. Sure, there are some super powerful entities from halfway across the Multiverse that created some world. Whoopty doo. Doesn't make them a god in that solar system and doesn't make them a god in an unconnected solar system. They're just super powerful aliens that can make worlds. A powerful enough wizard can do that given sufficient time and resources. Eberron has a more Western definition of "gods" where a "god" is an entity that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. None of the "gods" from the Forgotten Realms qualify as that, therefore they aren't gods and the people of Eberron would treat them as they do the Demon Overlords. They aren't gods. At least, they wouldn't be considered gods in Eberron (and if I were to meet Tyr or Auril in real life, I wouldn't consider them gods, either). They're just powerful celestials/fiends that have powerful enough magic to make worlds. I'm pretty sure that there is just one Demogorgon. The settings share the Great Wheel, and if the Demogorgon is permanently killed by someone from Exandria, the Demogorgon is also dead for the Forgotten Realms. There are some entities that do have variants in different realities, like Dragons according to Fizban's, but there's only one Asmodeus. Their different version in the different worlds is just a different representation of the same entity (kind of like how Ancient Greece and Rome worshipped basically the same pantheon, but the individual gods were very different between cultures because they thought of them in different ways). [/QUOTE]
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