num_pages: 192
description: From the back cover: What makes a god a god? How are divine powers created and how do they die? How powerful is a greater deity compared to a lesser deity? These questions and many more are answered for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting within Faiths &amp; Avatars. Detailed in this 192-page core supplement are the most prominent religions and deities of the Realms. Each divine power is covered in depth by an entry that includes information about the deity's appearance personality worshipers portfolio aliases domain name superior allies foes symbol worshipers' alignments avatar manifestations church and specialty priests. The information on each religion includes its core dogma day-to-day activities of priests holy days and important ceremonies major centers of worship affiliated orders and the priestly vestments and adventuring garb of members of the clergy. Finally each entry contains spells specific to each of the religions - some new some long unavailable or hard to find and some updated to conform with the current AD&amp;D game rules. Faiths &amp; Avatars includes:  All the greater intermediate and lesser deities of the Faernian pantheon  The honored dead including Bane Bhaal Moander Myrkul and Leira among others  Expanded and clarified specialty priest classes and specific spells for all religions with priesthoods  Color illustrations of priests from every faith in ceremonial dress  Four additional general priest classes now official to the Forgotten Realms campaign setting: crusaders monks mystics and shamans.
language: English
title: Faiths & Avatars
publisher: Wizards of the Coast