Deogenesis

Deogenesis is the birth or creation of gods. The majority of deogenesis has been performed by Fricka or her children during the Age of Tranquility, but unique examples of deogenesis are known up to the modern age.  

Primary Eras

First Deogenesis

The First Deogenesis occurred beyond the beyond shortly after Fricka came into awareness. She divided pieces of her celestial form into companions for herself, creating the elder Titans, in the following order:

• Gnotan, from her second heart
• Prometheus, from her second mouth
• The Fates, from her third eye
• Ýmir, from her third and fourth arms
• Gruumsh, from her third and fourth legs
• Cronus, from her tail

Second Deogenesis

The Second Deogenesis occurred after the Upper Planes had been created and needed permanent stewards. These gods are said to be the product of the sympathetic vibrations of their plane, sung into being by Fricka over the span of thirty years. Gods like Danu of the Wild Dynasty, Odin of the Erden Dynasty, and Osiris of the Young Dynasty are children of the Second Deogenesis.

Third Deogenesis

The Third Deogenesis was an era shortly after the creation of the first life on the Material Plane, during which gods built their dynasties by reproducing with each other. (The exact mechanical process of this is unknown; despite depictions in mortal artwork, it is likely extremely dissimilar to humanoid reproduction.) The vast majority of currently known and worshipped gods were born during the Third Deogenesis.

Later Deogenesis

Confirmed Examples

• Achlys was the first of Fricka's original humans to die. The goddess collected her soul by her last breath and transformed her into a goddess, so as to keep her first creation alive forever. Achlys was worshipped by human societies in the Age of Audacity, but faded from favor during the Age of Anxiety after the destruction of most of her temples. However, she returned to empower Nekrotzar Oakenheart in Y1110, who quickly became one of the most powerful clerics in recorded history.
• Bahamut, the first of the metallic dragons, was offered godhood by the Erden Dynasty at the start of the Age of Integrity. His ascension left behind a new sapient species, the Dragonborn.
• Zeus fathered a number of demigods and other celestial or semi-celestial beings during his rise to power in the late years of the Age of Integrity. Most notably, he impregnated the high priestess Gaia, who gave birth to the three wind gods Notus, Zephýros, and Boréas. Gaia ascended to godhood in the Olympian Dynasty beside her sons after the Litigation of Flames.

Disputed Examples

• Most liches claim that the rites of lichdom are a form of deogenesis accessible by mortals, but this is widely disbelieved beyond the lich and their followers. Of the various liches of history, Vecna holds the strongest claim to deogenesis due to the seeming immortality of eyr Eye and Hand. The Prophecy of Vecna's Demise gave conditions for their destruction, though, which were met by the Dragonslayers of Cantonova in the Triple Defense of Cantonova.
• In the journals of Stanford Hawthorne, he asserts that the Order of the Banished Scholars has husbanded the birth of a new god, the child of the Archdevil Lillith and the Beholder Kuralìma Mílaruk. The aberrant offspring, later named the Face-Stealer, caused a number of uniquely powerful disruptions to its surrounding environment, but was ultimately able to be destroyed by the Heroes of Cape Hildegard.
• Sarastro sought godhood for decades through his work with the Order of Sarastro. Of all disputed mortal contenders, he has the strongest claim to likely godhood, and was even able to briefly capture and imprison the goddess Achlys. Upon his defeat at the hands of the Battalion of Degenerates, remnants of his semi-material avatar remained behind (these were collected and hidden in unknown locations by Nekrotzar Oakenheart).