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[Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
Life sucks for those that belive all and any god in faerun is a huge ass that doesn't deserve worship. But what happens when said person want to become a god himself just out of spite? There is any way or he is simply doomed?
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
Well, Lord Ao has a huge say in the matter, so it's not like you can go pick off some lesser deity and take his stuff.
FR also has a history of raising mortals up, though, so all is not lost.
Your best bet is a temporary lip-service to some god with a grudge against another god (there's lots of those) for some power, then hope that you can manage to take some of their power.
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2010-04-30, 10:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
If you do happen to pick off some lesser deity and take their stuff, be prepared to make a case before Lord Ao that the god who you just bumped off wasn't doing their job correctly. If you present a convincing enough case, including reasons on why you think you're more qualified for the job, then he might just give you the chance.
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2010-04-30, 10:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-30, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-30, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
Did you have to mention Sharess again?
They're already gods, though, which is the hurdle the OP was trying to overcome. Once you are a god, as long as you're furthering your portfolio, you're good to go.
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2010-04-30, 11:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
Power of PLOT! Paul S Kemp's trilogy "Twilight War" has a good example of this via plot. But I've already said too much, you'll have to read it yourself.
Seriously, if you're a mortal ubercharging frenzied berserker with a grudge against religion, and you manage to kill a god of healing, or tricksters, chances are you wouldn't be able to step into their divine shoes. Because what that god was about, is not what your entire mortal life has been about.
Now, if your Frenzied Berserker manages to kill a god of chaos, battle, and destruction (all the things the FB does), then you should be able to get his niche.
There are also Epic Destinies for 3.5, via a web enhancement. One of those is Demigod.
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2010-04-30, 11:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-30, 11:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
Find a God of greed, and then kill him and take all his stuff.
When Ao asks you why, tell him you did it because you wanted his stuff. Ask for his powers too. And anything else that might be lying around.
That should convince him that you're well qualified as a replacement.
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2010-04-30, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
You need to ask Ao "please".
Also, the gods of that world care more about their power instead of the well being of mortals.
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2010-04-30, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
There was a tiefling named Volumvax who was for a time the right hand of Shar and eventually was granted divinity (rank 0 or 1 i think). His short history is better described in a sidebar in faiths and pantheons, and eventually shar got tired of him and cast him in a tower in the Plane of shadow to do as he pleases.
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2010-04-30, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
Get epic slight of hand, Pickpocket a deity of thieves divine ranks. Walk away.
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2010-04-30, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-30, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-04-30, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
I know she isn't Shar, who ever that is.
Sharess did steal divinity of anothers:
Sharess was once Bast, a Mulhorandi power who was the patroness of cats, and Anhur's lieutenant.
During the Second Empire, she subsumed the portfolio of Felidae, a beast cult deity of felines, nomads, and sensual pleasure.
Struck by wanderlust, Bast traveled across Faerûn leaving many cults in her wake.During these travels, she also subsumed the divinity of Zandilar the Dancer, the goddess of the Yuir elves. so that she gained the elvish goddess' portfolio of intense passionate love was hers.
She ate three deities. Don't tell me this Shar (what is she god of) ate more.Last edited by Starbuck_II; 2010-04-30 at 02:49 PM.
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2010-04-30, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
"subsumed" in D&D may be less "ate" and more "merged with"
Just because a deity has "subsumed the portfolio of" another deity, does not mean that they ate the other deity.
Bast "subsumed" two deities, and is now called Sharess.
Shar is a Greater Deity of evil and darkness (one of the first 3 deities of Faerun- the others are Selune and Chanutea), has killed her own son Mask, and helped kill Mystra.Last edited by hamishspence; 2010-04-30 at 02:56 PM.
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2010-05-01, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
His history is better described by Paul S Kemp in the Twilight War trilogy. For starters, before he was called Volumvax, he was Kesson Rel: high priest and chosen of Mask. Gaining divinity drove him insane (he might've already been there though), and he shifted to Shar.
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And the ranger Sharantyr, who is frequetly referred to as Shar by her friends...
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2010-05-01, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Forgotten Realms] How to gain godhood?
Wasn't there a "Sharwyn" somewhere too.
As for Sharess subsuming other gods. I figured that was more along the lines of her stealing the other deities worshippers. Though the whole killing a fellow god and stealing his power worked for Cyric and Shar.
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