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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JasmineF" data-source="post: 7123641" data-attributes="member: 6884161">The majority of the events would have to have happened a long time ago, maybe a few thousand years I think. Also there would have to have been massive amounts of book burning, with the church of Cyric destroying any and all evidence of other Gods they could find. I'm thinking that maybe the party at some point might stumble across some really old ruins that might still have information on other Gods that was somehow missed.  It's generally accepted among the public that there are no other Gods and that only Cyric is the one true God, any other Gods that people speak of are heretical and make-believe. Anyone who openly opposes this way of life is branded a heretic and 'banished'. (Really they just get executed.)The subject of Gods and their power is a tricky one, I feel, because Gods are meant to be far more powerful than mortals, but you would also assume all Gods are roughly equal to one another. That would also mean one God might be able to defeat another God, but for one God to defeat all other Gods would require that God to amass a great deal of power first.All of the other Gods at the time of the campaign starting would be weak because of the lack of belief in them, making it harder from them to break out. The best way I can think to justify them being trapped in the first place is the person trapping them having a very large source of power, either from some kind of ancient artifact or from killing something very powerful. Maybe by killing lots of formidable creatures like Dragons and trapping their souls to use as fuel.As part of the campaign the party will encounter a smallish group of rebels who have managed to encounter Savras in some way, and thus are fighting to try and free the other gods and restore balance. They aren't really known about by the public, but the Church of Cyric are aware of them and actively trying to hunt them down.I am very curious as to what a party might theorize happened, I'm mostly just concerned that I don't want my history to be flimsy enough that it doesn't hold up to questioning.</blockquote>

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