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<blockquote data-quote="Nahat Anoj" data-source="post: 5106812" data-attributes="member: 25075">It seems to me that gods are the personification of metaphysical and abstract concepts.&nbsp; Bane is the god of war, Ioun is the god of knowledge, Avandra the god of freedom, and so on.&nbsp; In my opinion, gods of natural objects or processes aren't in charge of the day-to-day aspects of that object or process, just the idea of that object or process.&nbsp; For example, Pelor is the god of summer, but in my opinion that's more the metaphysical concept of summer than actual management of the season.&nbsp; The gods are entities that can be battled with and even slain, but these entities are intimately linked to the concept they represent and vice versa.&nbsp; For example, when Tiamat dies at the end of Scales of War, murderous, violent greed is removed from the world (at least for a time). I like to think that during the Dawn Age, the gods helped &quot;solidify&quot; the nascent world by splitting up the universe into conceptual &quot;chunks&quot; they called domains.&nbsp; These eternal concepts helped still the roiling chaos favored by the Primordials.&nbsp; But &quot;eternal&quot; shouldn't be taken to me that domains are static - they can be lost or created over time.&nbsp; It's just that the gods are connected to these chunks and derive a great deal of power from them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nahat Anoj, post: 5106812, member: 25075"] It seems to me that gods are the personification of metaphysical and abstract concepts. Bane is the god of war, Ioun is the god of knowledge, Avandra the god of freedom, and so on. In my opinion, gods of natural objects or processes aren't in charge of the day-to-day aspects of that object or process, just the idea of that object or process. For example, Pelor is the god of summer, but in my opinion that's more the metaphysical concept of summer than actual management of the season. The gods are entities that can be battled with and even slain, but these entities are intimately linked to the concept they represent and vice versa. For example, when Tiamat dies at the end of Scales of War, murderous, violent greed is removed from the world (at least for a time). I like to think that during the Dawn Age, the gods helped "solidify" the nascent world by splitting up the universe into conceptual "chunks" they called domains. These eternal concepts helped still the roiling chaos favored by the Primordials. But "eternal" shouldn't be taken to me that domains are static - they can be lost or created over time. It's just that the gods are connected to these chunks and derive a great deal of power from them. [/QUOTE]

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