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Perch
2019-04-03, 09:09 PM
Hello everybody I'm in need of help.

I'm a big fan of Ravnica so when the book came out I had no doubts I would run a game there.

A piece of flavour that always got my attetion was Ravnica Old gods! No, not the Nephilim, the real forgoten gods from the Plane.

I remember reading somewhere that the Orzhov syndicate used to be a real religion, with gods, deities and the divine. Now they use religion as a mere cover for their insidious activities but they used to be a real faith.

After a while these old faiths of Ravnica were explored in some cards.

https://res.cloudinary.com/csicdn/image/upload/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1/Images/Products/mtg%20art/Guildpact/full/Sanguine%20Praetor.jpg
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=457227&type=card
https://deckmaster.info/images/cards/DDS/426629-hr.jpg
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/complete/full/2018/11/28/1549049941822579.png

So there used to be literal gods in the plane but for some reason they were forgotten by the population.

I speculate this is thanks to the Orzhov trying to gain dominion over the faith of the people, but anyway in my games the adventures were hired by the Azorius Senate to investigate someone who is giving away nutritious and healthy food to the poor, everyone knows that's the Golgari Swarm job and such actions even if noble could bring disorder to the guilds balance.

After investigating they found out the responsible for that is a young druid.

He used his magic to create monstrous bees that feed the nectar of some really weird floors that grown in the ruins of some old temple in the undercity.

After some adventures they find out the flowers seem to grown out from the corpose of a forgotten god, the honey created by the bees is imbued with divine essence making the masses powerful and able to go days without having to eat again. Such shift of power could be disastrous so the Azorius judge that hired the players goes to the place and set fire to the flowers. But the Rakdos cult member of the group uses his magic to bring the god back to life!

Now the people who feed on his divine essence form a cult around him and the leader of a failed goblin rebellion (The antagonist of their first section) joined forces to opose the guilds and maybe bring back some new forgotten gods.

So now I need some help to some create lore friendly Gods for Ravnica. Any suggestions?

Man_Over_Game
2019-04-04, 03:30 PM
I'd recommend maybe posting this in the DnD 5e section, or the Other Games section, so that it gets more visibility with people who are more familiar with MtG's lore. If you want to move the post, you can do so by "reporting" it with the triangle to the left of your post and then explaining in your report that you want your post moved.

There's a series of massive MtG threads here, if you're interested: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?551226-Magic-The-Gathering-Thread-XXIII-Modern-is-Dead-Long-Live-Modern