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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Lent" data-source="post: 7121135" data-attributes="member: 6798775">I would start from the other end, if I were you. You have a world in which there is only one god who is widely recognized, but a cult is growing around a god that challenges that monotheistic status quo.Questions then become:1. Do the masses KNOW that there used to be a bunch of other gods? If they have heard of those other gods, do the people believe they existed? (what if, say, Johovah wrote a book millennia ago, and distributed it to Zeus and Shiva and Odin and the rest, trapping all of them?  And now, in our current age, most people believe that the Norse and Greek gods and all the other pantheons are just stories people made up and told each other way back when).2. What does it mean to be a god? Why can't the others break out of whatever prison or veil holds them back? Why is the other remaining god so weak?3. How much time has passed since the imprisonment of the other gods? Elves have long memories, dragons even longer, and some creatures don't age at all. How did the knowledge get lost, if it did? And if people know about the other gods, why hasn't any church tried to free them? Or did they try and fail? How widely known is that attempt?I wouldn't worry about the mechanics of how it all happened. As your players learn more about the history of the world, you'll likely arrive at a solution best suited to them and how they think. Their conversations about possible ways it happened will likely inspire a better solution than you would have come up with anyway, and then they get the extreme pleasure of having "figured it out."</blockquote>

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