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==Gods and the Rude Pantheon==

The relationship between mortals and gods is fundamentally different in this campaign.

The Grand and High Powers planted their heels firmly on the neck of many deities, great and small, during their increasingly insane reign. 
*Some, who's existence is woven into the make of the world, were supressed into little more than their earthly manifestations [Sun, woods and magic]. 
*Others were enslaved. Some fled and hid, some were killed. All were humbled.

When the Wind Dragon fell and the Winds stilled, the world paused...and one of his semi divine sons took the mantle of his position. The magical and philosophical implications of this are still being fought out in the hearts of mortals and Outsiders alike.

Only the primal forces of Nature and the Middle Way endured unchanged as their existence was the canvas on which the Powers made their marks. The Old Ways, woven into the interdependence of existence, were only in danger near the end, when the Powers began to claw down existence and were flattened by nudging the Wheel. As those priests who have had [oddly frank] divine messages answered can attest to, the Moon's Tear had a number of effects across all the planes, all fatal to the powers and their ilk - and many others besides. Apparently, Hell and the Abyss are pretty much empty.

'''The Gods of the Rude Pantheon'''

This is a religion - a new approach to faith between the devout and the Deities that remain. Inspired by Caeran Twiceborn, who died and lived again after talking with the god of Death, who was a god without a name. Returning to life is not unknown, but returning after a year and a day is.
The story from there is long and involved, but the part crucial to the church is the compact it promises between gods and mortals - namely that gods will strive together to ceate a better world as mortals must. Old emnities are not part of the Church's way, and the
"Rude Pantheon" is called so with understanding of it's possible interpretations.

In practical terms, the Rude Pantheon is a collection of the remnants of the gods of another age...and the few who have arisen since the Moon's Tear.
There are many other Gods and semidivine beings, but they are generally unimportant in the area.

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