Dead Gods (GAP)

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: "There are islands in the Astral Ocean, once great rulers of the multiverse, now brought low."
: — Feldmaster Rivan Grierr
While matter on the Astral is sparse, occasionally a traveler will come across a mass of rock that was pulled in from another plane when a conduit initially formed. Much less often, however (yet it still occurs), the traveler can look closely at one of these rocky masses and note a peculiar, almost familiar shape or essence about it. Such a floating rock may actually be a power.
A power?
A god?
A deity?
How can a floating rock be a power? Well, sometimes, a god's brought low. Some think that the power's dead, but that ain't really so. The dead-book has no room for a deity. Instead, a "dead" power's sent to the Astral (where no one was supposed to go, remember?), sentenced to float dormant and powerless. A power is a being of thought - of concepts, ideas, and most importantly, belief. It's said time and again that on the planes, belief is power. No greater proof of this chant can be found than the dead gods themselves. Devoid of belief (or nearly so), they are returned to the mental realm of the Astral, where everything is only thought. There they drift like a nearly forgotten memory, empty husks of the awesome force they once embodied.