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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joerg Baumgartner" data-source="post: 8744649" data-attributes="member: 6893976">Other questions:What keeps the gods from interfering personally with the setting?There should be realms where the will of the gods will shape the environment, like a master dreamer or illusionist or holo-deck programmer directing their wishes, and then possibly hardcopy it into the setting, but any realm where humans and similar entities live would have to be a lot less arbitrary.Usually, a deity manifests through either an avatar or aspect if it exerts direct control, or through a natural force which the deity claims as their domain (at least in the region where the deity's context, aka pantheon, is strong), or through the actions of their followers, who could be descendants (or descendants of their creations), or adopted individuals or groups, or just sufficiently powerful magicians able to form a contractual relationship with the deity.What about deities manifest in (more or less ordinary) humans?Divinity was a major criterion in e.g. Germanic kingship (even Christian kings needed to provide descent from pagan deities, at least until "by God's Grace" became the Christian formula, and then that Grace was the divine essence that would be inherited), and e.g. in Japanes polytheism there are people who are both ordinary folk and local deities, or avatars of a deity in some other realm.Do species like Tieflings or Dragonborn carry such divinity?Does acquisition of a deity's Grace or Identity require ancestry, or are there other ways for a mortal to be adopted/coopted as a deity?How can a mortal (or demigod) apotheosize, and what does that mean?If the deities have realms of their own (or shared ones as per pantheon, or as per primal principles), can individuals collecting divine Grace or something similar enter that circle? No matter whether by invitation or by conquest. Can a new deity carve out or even create a domain for themselves? Can a manifest entity (a mortal, or possibly already immortal but still physically manifest) carve out such a realm, by conquest, inheritance, or by actual creation?</blockquote>

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