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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7136631" data-attributes="member: 5100">I'll agree with everything you've said, here. Gygax was truly unique in his ability to sprinkle pseudo-setting elements into his books without actually defining them. I honestly don't know how he did it, but you could read every word of the 1E PHB, DMG, and MM, and come away with a boatload of names for NPCs, places, and items that inspired you to want to put them into your games, but almost no actual meat about them. Yeah, if you grabbed the 1983 GH box, you got some concrete stuff (though still pretty broad). Without that, though, it was pure inspiration.Looking at the DMG, the Mace of St. Cuthbert doesn't give any indication that St. Cuthbert is a god. I interpreted him to be just a hero of old, someone the PCs could aspire to be like. There's also no info on the Wind Dukes of Aaqa -- not even whether they fought on the side of Law or Chaos. I assumed they were on the side of Law, but definitely didn't equate them with Elemental Air, despite the name (and actively dislike the lore that made them such).</blockquote>