Henadic Theologian
Legend
To make D&D's Cosmology/Deities make more sense, they should introduce the idea of a fantasy version of Henads and Seirai.
Henads are the top most level of Divinity in neoplatonism, they are Gods beyond time, being, life, and intellect. They are the points of the Monad where chains of causation begins, called Seirai plural or Seira singular.
From them emanate all Noetic Gods, Noeric Gods, Archangels, Angels, Celestial Archons, Hylic Archons, Diamons, Heroes, Pure Soul, etc...,right into material things.
Adapting to D&D would explain why there are different versions of Gods in different settings,they are all part of the Seira of a higher, Immaterial form of the God in question. As the Henad is beyond time, existence, life, death, being, etc..., it can't be destroyed, so when a D&D gets killed in a setting, it can always come back later, because of its Henad, reforming it later.
All Henads are considered good, but it's a mathematical conception of goodness as self suffient wholeness as opposed to ordinary human conceptions of morality in day to day life.
There are already influences from Neoplatonism in D&D, such as D&D Angels which are functionally eminations of D&D Gods, although in some ways indirectly via Theosphy which draws heavy influences from Neoplatonism.
Henads are the top most level of Divinity in neoplatonism, they are Gods beyond time, being, life, and intellect. They are the points of the Monad where chains of causation begins, called Seirai plural or Seira singular.
From them emanate all Noetic Gods, Noeric Gods, Archangels, Angels, Celestial Archons, Hylic Archons, Diamons, Heroes, Pure Soul, etc...,right into material things.
Adapting to D&D would explain why there are different versions of Gods in different settings,they are all part of the Seira of a higher, Immaterial form of the God in question. As the Henad is beyond time, existence, life, death, being, etc..., it can't be destroyed, so when a D&D gets killed in a setting, it can always come back later, because of its Henad, reforming it later.
All Henads are considered good, but it's a mathematical conception of goodness as self suffient wholeness as opposed to ordinary human conceptions of morality in day to day life.
There are already influences from Neoplatonism in D&D, such as D&D Angels which are functionally eminations of D&D Gods, although in some ways indirectly via Theosphy which draws heavy influences from Neoplatonism.