Deities Few folk of the Nentir Vale and other regions devote themselves to any single god. Clerics or paladins might dedicate themselves exclusively to one single deity, but everyone else worships a selection of many deities. No single god encompasses all aspects of the average person's life, and so average people devote their prayers to whichever god seems most appropriate given the circumstances. Likewise, the World's religions are made up of autonomous sects, without monolithic governing entities. There are no "churches," in the sense of worldwide theological authorities that oversee all practitioners of a given faith.
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The Gods Most of the deities reside in Astral dominions located somewhere in the Astral Sea (though some reside in the Abyss, Shadowfell or even just wander the World or the whole cosmos).
The Astral SeaArvandorCorellon & his exarchs Astilabor • Erevan Ilesere • Fenmarel Mestarine • Hanali Celanil • Shevarash CelestiaBahamut & his exarchs Kuyutha • Vivexkepesk • Xerefri • Moradin & his exarchs Berronar Truesilver • Clangeddin Silverbeard • Dugmaren Brightmantle • Dumathoin • Gorm Gulthyn • Haela Brightaxe • Marthammor Duin • Torugar • Vergadain • Kord ChernoggarBane & his exarchs Hruggek • Maglubiyet • Thurkearvaeri • Gruumsh & his exarchs Bahgtru • Luthic • Vaprak • Yurtrus HestavarIoun & her exarchs Athearsauriv • Zuoken • Erathis & her exarch Edarmirrik • Pelor & his exarchs Hainard • The Golden General The Nine HellsAsmodeus & the archdevils TytherionTiamat & her exarchs Chillreaver • Irfelujhar • Kurtulmak • Mornujhar • Namissi • Quanathrik • Virizan • Vraxanault • Vulkur Vaal • Zehir & and his exarch Atlathessk The ShadowfellLethernaThe Raven Queen & her exarchs Achreisis • Chronepsis • The Bleak Guide • The Red Witch • Vorkhesis The WorldAvandra & her exarch Aasterinian Melora & her exarch Sekolah UnderdarkTorog & his exarchs Duon-eel • Jerran • The Abnegator • The Cringe The AbyssThe Demonweb PitsLolth & her exarchs Eclavdra • Lolestra The CosmosSehanine Vecna & his exarch Falazure The Dead UniverseTharizdun Missing Deities Even the most learned scholars can only speculate on what has become of the following deities. Dead Deities Even thought they are called "Immortals", gods are not truly immortal, just ageless. Some have been destroyed in the Dawn War, and others more recently. The Spirits of the natural world The Primal Spirits came into being perhaps as a natural consequence of the world's creation. Or maybe the gods created the spirits —intentionally or inadvertently— when they imbued the creation with permanence.
Spirits of the WorldAll-Spirit • Always Falling • Ancestral Khanate • Biter with a Thousand Fangs • Bitter Eidolon • Blood Cousin • Bone Vulture • Carver • Death • Deep Winds • Earth Wheel • Everflame • Fate Weaver • Four Seasons • Gnaw • Grandmothers • Great Bear • Great Current • Gray Roarer • Great Sky Hunter • Great Watcher • Hunter Twins • Hunter of Winter • Kalka-Kylla • Monster Slayers • Old Grandfather • Old Tortoise • Primal Beast • Primal Ocean • Sandstorm Spirits • Soul Serpent • Spirit of the Chimera • Spirit of the Death Raven • Spirit of the Dragon • Spirit of the Drake • Spirit of the Phoenix • Star-Nosed Rik-Vak • Steadfast Henge • Stoneroot • Stormhawk • Thalassacil • Tree Father • Twin Tempest Spirits • Whisper • Winds • World Healer • World Serpent • World Tree The ArchfeyThe most powerful of fey spirits are godlike avatars of their chosen aspect of nature in the Feywild. Green Fey: Fathaghn • Green Man • Hyrsam • Mother Tree • Relkath • Rheusendrous • Oran • Selephra
Dead ArchfeyEven spirits can die.
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The Primordials The Primordials are elemental creatures of enormous power born from the Elemental Chaos. They shaped the world out of the Elemental Chaos and the gods gave it civility and permanence. When the primordials attempted to destroy it to began again the process of creation and destruction, the gods warred with them for control of the new creation. The gods eventually triumphed, and primordials now slumber in remote parts of the Elemental Chaos, rage in hidden prisons, or float, lifeless, through the Astral Sea.
Known living PrimordialsFree PrimordialsAlu Kahn Sang • Atropus • Iktha-Lau • Murgremir • Ty-h'kadi • Ulctilantilokla Imprisoned PrimordialsBalcoth • Golden Monolith • Heur-Ket • Miska • Mual-Tar • Piranoth • Shangar • Sisanthak • Solkara • Storralk • The Abnegator • Umboras • Vezzuvu • Vorsheen Dormant PrimordialsBryakus • Castanamir • Queen of Chaos • Tziphal Missing PrimordialsNobody knows what happened to them.
Dead PrimordialsLike the gods, many primordials died in the Dawn War.
The ArchomentalsThe difference between primordials and archomentals is thin. Some lore suggests archomentals played little or no part in the world's creation and arose at some point afterwards (maybe they are the firsts creations of the original primordials). Most mortals refer to these entities as the Elemental Princes.
Free ArchomentalsBen-hadar • Chan • Crystalle • Ehkahk • Gazra • Sun Sing • Sunnis • Zaaman Rul Imprisoned ArchomentalsChlimbia • Cryonax • Imix • Ogremoch • Olhydra • Yan-C-Bin Missing ArchomentalsBwimb Dead ArchomentalsBristia Pel • Unnamed dead archomentals TitansTitans have served their own aims since the end of the Dawn War, but some remain loyal to the trapped primordials and see it as their duty to destroy what the gods created. Titan LordsSurtur • Thrym • Xantis • Ysaga Demon LordsWhen the Abyss was created, the first primordials where drawn by promises of dominion of all the cosmos. Their contact with the plane corrupted them, transforming them into demon lords. Sometime after, the Abyss began to spawn "original" demon lords as well. If the demon lords were ever to join forces, the deities and other immortals of the Astral Sea might not stand against the onslaught. Such an alliance is all but unthinkable, and the lords of the Abyss spend as much time fighting each other as they do countering outside threats. Known Demon LordsAseroth • Baphomet (& his exarchs Asterion • The Misbegotten) • Codrichun (& his exarch The Voice of the Storm) • Demogorgon (& his exarchs Kazuul • Thrarak) • Fraz-Urb'luu • Graz'zt • Haagenti • Juiblex • Kostchtchie • Lamashtu • Lords of Woe • Lupercio • Ollomegh • Oublivae • Orcus (& his exarchs Doresain • Elder Arantham • Lord of Zombies) • Phraxas • Rajzak • Turaglas (& his exarch Gargmanethka) • Ugudenk • Veshvoriak • Yeenoghu (& his exarchs Nezrebe • White Ruin) • Zuggtmoy • Other known Demon Lords Known dead Demon LordsAdimarchus • Asima • Mydianchlarus • Rimmon
ObyrithsThe oldest myths and legends tell of a race of vile entities that once presided over the remains of a dying universe. These beings of evil incarnate were known as the obyriths. When the gods won the Dawn War, the surviving obyriths retreated into hiding, and many of them pose as demon lords. Known ObyrithsDagon • Obox-ob • Pazuzu • Queen of Chaos Other Entities The beings from of the Far Realm, and other entities that aren't neither gods, primordials, spirits or aliens from the Far Realm.
Far Realm beingsBizarre alien creatures from beyond reality, they infect the world with madness. Little is known about these creatures. Dhogostho-Attu • Kabu-Athla • Mak Thuum Ngatha • Myst • The Prisoner of Tamoachan • Shoth-Gorag • Xurathon StarsSome stars have come under the influence of Far Realm entities. Acamar • Allabar • Caiphon • Delban • Gibbeth • Hadar • Ihbar • Khirad • Nihal • Ulban • Thuban • Zhudun Elder EvilsThe "stars" of the Elder Constellation are not all associated with the Far Realm as some stars in the sky are. However, those unfathomable stars are inconceivably powerful beings who will survive to time's end. Atropus • Father Llymic • Kyuss • Pandorym • Ragnorra UnknownPowers that aren't classified as gods, primordials or something else.
Blibdoolpoolp • Demiurge • Kaestelaria • Guardian of the Living Gate • Lady of Pain • Primus • Zutwa |