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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7149720" data-attributes="member: 23751">They are not gods, because they are not gods.  It takes many, many worshipers to be a god and they don't have them.  Could you make a demon lord like Orcus a god?  Sure.  Is he a god?  No.  Is he the same as a god?  Absolutely not.  He's not as limited, nor does he have as much power to spread undeath.  Orcus has a lot, but not as much.  The god of undeath would also have power over the necromantic spells, unlike Orcus.  He would have the worship of necromancers, unlike Orcus(for the most part).  These are the domains of Myrkul in the Realms.  Autumn, Corruption, The dead, Decay, Dusk, Exhaustion, Old age, Parasites, Wasting.These are his worshippers.  Evil mages and cultists, necromancers, and powerful undead.Orcus has......undead.  No.  Orcus is 7-11.  Myrkul was Wal-Mart.  He's small potatoes compared to Myrkul.Donathiel, Xerona, Arithiel are names Solars in D&D.  Planescape gave us those, and there are probably a few others scattered about over the years.As usual, it depends on the edition.  Comparative power fluctuates.There is more evil than good.  The infinite layers of the Abyss are all infinitely large.  That's a lot of demons.  Really, all of the planes are infinitely large, so there really is no upper hand to be had.  And again, the god of death isn't going to march into the abyss to do anything.  He has responsibilities on Toril(or whichever world he's a god in) and is too busy to just put those on hold to go adventuring. These are her portfolios.  Spiders, evil, darkness, chaos, assassins, drow.  You missed the most important ones. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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