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To make D&D's Cosmology/Deities make more sense, they should introduce the idea of a fantasy version of Henads and Seirai
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8433665" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Some gods are perfect ideals (sort of like Platonic ideal forms) who are essentially ideas and concepts without physical bodies who exist in the ideal realm of thoughts and concepts. In 5e DMG page 11 terms greater gods.</p><p></p><p>Emanations of them and reflections of them through lesser forms of reality turn more physical and more individual with multiple influences mixed in and are less perfect so you get 5e lesser gods and angels and such as aspects of the the true gods/forms farther from the source, imperfect copies in more physical medium. Avatars and Aspects and such come from a greater source, but can be individuals of their own and diverge from their source. They are not quite down to the level of full real world fully physical individuals, they still have a strong aspect of spirit and ideal form, but they are not a pure perfect spirit being like the original unembodied source gods.</p><p></p><p>If you think of the Abyss as the source of pure D&D CE, then Demon Lords like Pazuzu are less pure CE individual manifestations that are still really strongly spiritual CE concept beings but also embodied individuals, then smaller down the continuum you can see Vrocks as even lesser emanations that are more embodied but still more CE spirit than animals and people. Also if you squint you can see the winged vrocks as derivative lesser Pazuzus, but also their own thing and so not derivative.</p><p></p><p>That's one way to think of it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8433665, member: 2209"] Some gods are perfect ideals (sort of like Platonic ideal forms) who are essentially ideas and concepts without physical bodies who exist in the ideal realm of thoughts and concepts. In 5e DMG page 11 terms greater gods. Emanations of them and reflections of them through lesser forms of reality turn more physical and more individual with multiple influences mixed in and are less perfect so you get 5e lesser gods and angels and such as aspects of the the true gods/forms farther from the source, imperfect copies in more physical medium. Avatars and Aspects and such come from a greater source, but can be individuals of their own and diverge from their source. They are not quite down to the level of full real world fully physical individuals, they still have a strong aspect of spirit and ideal form, but they are not a pure perfect spirit being like the original unembodied source gods. If you think of the Abyss as the source of pure D&D CE, then Demon Lords like Pazuzu are less pure CE individual manifestations that are still really strongly spiritual CE concept beings but also embodied individuals, then smaller down the continuum you can see Vrocks as even lesser emanations that are more embodied but still more CE spirit than animals and people. Also if you squint you can see the winged vrocks as derivative lesser Pazuzus, but also their own thing and so not derivative. That's one way to think of it. :) [/QUOTE]
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