God
Gods are immortal beings that are far above any mortal being in power. Anything could become a god if they are worshipped, as a god's power comes from worship and dedication. When a god is worshipped, it gains power based on how devout the worshiper is. To encourage strong worship, gods often gift their most devout followers with a very small fraction of their divine power. The powers a god has are determined by what they were before they were a god. For example, if a nomadic tribe spotted an albino wolf and starts worshipping it, the wolf could ascend into godhood (if the tribe is very, very large and devout). The albino wolf, in godhood, might gain profiles such as; wolves, the wilds, or snow (based upon that it is a wolf, it is a wild animal, and its snow white). A god has complete power over its profiles, and multipole gods can share the same profile (but this puts a target on their back for other gods of the same profile, as the potential power of a profile is divided among the gods who hold it). Sometimes gods use fear of their profile to gain worship. For example, a goddess of winter may threaten a kingdom with an extremely harsh winter if she doesn't receive enough worship.
Basic Information
Growth Rate & Stages
Gods are divided into 4 categories that determine their power. These categories are determined by the number of followers a god possesses.
- Demigod: thousands of followers
- Lesser deity: tens of thousands of followers
- Intermediate deity: hundreds of thousands of followers
- Greater deity: millions of followers
Dietary Needs and Habits
Gods require followers to exist, for they are the living manifestation of their follower's thoughts and beliefs. Without followers, a god dies and has its remains shunted into the astral plane. Otherwise, gods require no sustenance like food, water, sleep, or oxygen to survive.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Gods sometimes group together in groups called pantheons. Gods join pantheons for a multitude of reasons. These reasons include but are not limited to; protection, more worship from the mortals worshipping other gods in your pantheon, strength in numbers if there is to be a large ideological conflict, favors among other portfolios, access to higher level deities to counter the powers of rival gods, love, etc. A pantheon normally all lives on the same plane and area of that plane together but there are some notable exceptions to this.
Death
Despite their immortal nature, it is possible for a god to die. Gods can die from many means but mechanically anything under a challenge rating of 20 cannot even harm a god in the slightest and creatures under a challenge rating of 30 will find that it is almost impossible to win against a god alone. Normally gods are the ones killing other gods, but they are incapable of killing other gods of a higher divine rank. Additionally, a god can only be killed on their home plane where they are most powerful. If a god dies outside of their home plane their body reforms back inside of their home plane. This can be a nuisance as this can take time and since the god is not answering prayers during this time they lose followers. There are 3 different things that can happen when a god is killed.- The killer of the god takes the portfolios of the dead god as long as they are compatible with their current portfolios and the god's corpse is shunted into the astral plane.
- The god's corpse is inhabited and taken over by the soul of either their most powerful mortal follower or their favored empyrean child.
- The god's corpse is shunted into the astral plane and their portfolios are up for grabs.
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