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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irennan" data-source="post: 6986394" data-attributes="member: 6778119">If you want to stick to canon, the only deities that he can kill are demipowers. All the rest, a mortal won't be able to slay, unless he uses an immensely powerful artifact, and unless he manages to do that on their native plane. And even then, he'd have to face the deity itself--which alone is a thing for characters that are far in the epic levels--and all their servants, in a place that the god might even be able bend and mold according to their will. The deity could even get support from their allies. It's basically suicide. Going after a *greater* deity is essentially stupidity, unless you managed to get another greater deity on your side (and Cyric is still trapped in his throne, and will be for another 900 years). Cyric going after Mystra required both him and Shar, and the way it happened was a honestly really far fetched thing, with a healthy does of randomness favoring the two murderers (and even then, they didn't really manage to kill Mystra. They only forced her to hide, weakened, for about a century).If you want to go around canon, then go for whatever you and your players will enjoy the most. If you want to treat greater powers like demipowers (in that they can be killed by mortals) and have an epic battle between your party and that deity+his servants, then totally go for it IMO. I'd however suggest that you at least take the power of Tiamat's avatar that the cult wants to summon to Toril. Idk, maybe devise a way to craft a powerful artifact from its essence that you'd get with 9 lives stealer, or something along those lines. Considering Cyric's personal inclination, I'd have the character go after either Kelemvor or Mystra (yeah, again, lol)--maybe he could get Myrkul's help/try to trick him into helping him against Kel (Myrkul could help you with forging the artifact that I mentioned above, in exchange for the portfolio of the dead, currently held by Kel. Normally, post-Sundering, the portfolios would be set in stone by Ao through the new tablets, but if you are already forgoing canon, then it's not a problem).</blockquote>

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