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Hero
I had this concept of a campaign chase me for some time.It's inspired by discussions about incorporating Magic: the Gathering multiverse into D&D Multiverse/Spelljammer and Planescape. It would happen i9n aftermath of a big event in Magic storyline, March of the Machines, and be set on Theros, ancient Greece-inspried setting that was published for D&D. I've marked this thread D&D 5e because Theros was published as setting for that system, but this is more lore-related/general question, I'm not really married to a speciffic system for this.
Long story short, during March of the Machines, several gods of Theros have been slain. It is left ambigious how many, the only fully confirmed ones are Heliod, God of the Sun, and Erebos, God of the Dead. However, there is enough material to suggest either death of whole Pantheon except Ephara, Goddess of Polis (who canonically survived) and potentially Klothys, God of Fate, and Kruphix, God of Horizons and Time (who work differently from other Gods of Theros so could be unaffected by threat that lead to Gods getting kileld off). We won't go that route. Instead I want to limit the number of dead gods to those who were confirmed or implied to have bitten the dust. Which includes:
So far I was thinking of including missionaries of following Pantheons:
Long story short, during March of the Machines, several gods of Theros have been slain. It is left ambigious how many, the only fully confirmed ones are Heliod, God of the Sun, and Erebos, God of the Dead. However, there is enough material to suggest either death of whole Pantheon except Ephara, Goddess of Polis (who canonically survived) and potentially Klothys, God of Fate, and Kruphix, God of Horizons and Time (who work differently from other Gods of Theros so could be unaffected by threat that lead to Gods getting kileld off). We won't go that route. Instead I want to limit the number of dead gods to those who were confirmed or implied to have bitten the dust. Which includes:
- Heliod, God of the Sun
- Erebos, God of the Dead and the Afterlife
- Nylea, Goddess of the Hunt, the wild and the seasons
- Purphoros, God of the Forge, Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Fire
- Thassa, Goddess of the Sea
- Keranos, God of the Storm
- While he died earlier, we can add Xenagos, God of Revels, to have Seven Dead Gods
So far I was thinking of including missionaries of following Pantheons:
- Gods of Fury and Death Three from Faerun. Gods of Fury consist of Talos, God of Storms, Umbrelee, Goddess of the Sea, Malar, God of the Wild Beasts, which means they could fill three spots (and Auril was there but apparently got fired). We could add At'Ar, lesser-known cruel goddes of the Sun worshipped in Anauroch Desert, who is said to be wife of local incarnation of Talos, as a member of this group (yes, I know by the lore she is just mispresentation of another god, but I've choosen to ignore this part). And since she is beleived to cheat on her husband with God of Death, and that role is assumed by different dieties, we could slot there any or all of the Death Three. This effectively gives us a strong villain faction, the worst of the options for five out of seven vacant spots and few hanger-ons trying to fill in for things that didn't yet have gods.
- Prismatic Ray from Golarion, through only Serenrae can qualify to replace one of the dead gods, being a Sun and Fire diety, but I could see Desna and Shelyn tag along, since they mostly work with domains unoccupied by Theros' pantheon. They would be a supposed good faction, through I suspect with limited oversight it could turn out their followers get a little too overzealous in their efforts to convert the population. It may be an interesting angle if the three dieties do manifest in Theros and player characters have to make case to prove transgression of their own priests to them.
- Finally I was thinking of bringing Astral Giants from 4th Edition, lawful entities that worship more classic d&d dieties, including Erathis, Goddess of civilization and Law, Moradrin, God of the Forge, Pelor, God of the Sun and Asmodeus, who can slide in as God of Death and afterlife if needed. Astral Giants are known to be lawful and seeking to spread order and civilization, but they're also known bullies, so they work perfectly in role of colonizers. Interesting they would be trying to give vacant spots to their secondary dieties - Pelor, Moradrin, Asmodeus - while Erathis' domain is kinda fileld by Ephara, meaning they would probably clash with her worshippers.
- Not a pantheon yet but I was thinking of having cultists of Cthulhu trying to get old squid position of new God of the Sea, dunno which lovecraftian gods could aim for other spots.
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