The Gods

In the world of Etiamus, there are many gods, primarily from before life itself. These gods live in their respective realms outside of the Material Plane.

The Gods are often seen as a group term, but are split up into separate ranks of deities. These include the Greater deities and the Lesser Deities.

## History

### The War of The Gods

The gods were seen to have been the first beings, creating everything else there is today. Before the humanoids took over the earth, the world was in chaos. The gods walked the world and shaped it to their will. Their creations were boundless and beautiful. However, some Gods didn't see this as so. They thought that chaos and destruction was the purpose and sought to end all that the other gods had created. These destructive Gods banded together with Tharizdun, their leader and waged war with the rest of the gods.

These battles lasted for many years, even centuries, but remained relatively equal between the two sides. This was until one of Tharizdun's generals, Orcus, decided to focus all of the forces on one god, Ryzbium, the god of death. After a very long and strenuous battle, Orcus' forces managed to break through to Ryzbium and slay him, stealing his crown. Upon donning the crown, Orcus became divinely knowledgeable of the ways of death and undeath, using this knowledge to bolster his armies and raise undead servants and soldiers.

This imbalance lead Tharizdun and his forces to conquer more and more of the world, leading the good gods to fall back. During this time however, a great leader and tactician, The Lady of Ravens rose up to destroy the destructive forces at bay. Using her tactical wit and superior battle strategies, The Lady of Ravens fought through the waves of enemies, focusing her powers on Orcus. As she rode towards Orcus, her armies provided enough distraction so she could steal his crown, removing his power over death.

Retreating as fast as they could, the Lady of Ravens and her forces flow towards the good gods with the crown in hand. Bowing before Helios, she presented him the crown. Helios could see the good in her, with her choosing not to don the crown, but to return it to the gods, he instead gave it back to her, acknowledging her worthiness. With Helios placing the crown on her head, she quickly rose to become one of the Gods, and with her forces, fought back the forces of destruction.

### Ending the War

Although the battle was now even, with the Lady of Ravens ascending to godhood, the forces of destruction were too powerful. The good gods held a council. Many ideas were thrown around, but a depressing agreement was made. The gods made their way to Tharizdun, who had only grown in power . Surrounding him, the gathered all of their power and sent out eight chains, locking him in place his forces rallied against this, but before they could do anything, the gods shattered the world entirely, creating the multiverse.

Each god was sent outwards, into their own piece of the shatter, all of Tharizdun's forces were sent into their own shatter, separated by layers so they cannot work together again, and Tharizdun was sent into a prison shatter, with eight chains restraining him and keeping him from ever leaving again.

This sent the world into a new age. An age where the creations of the gods were left to do as they please. Some of the more devout and powerful creations went with the gods, becoming the first angels, devils and other planar beings. Others sought out power on the material plane, creating cities and empires without the gods interference.

### Divine Intervention

After ages of the Gods leaving their creations to do their own bidding, this soon went awry. The demonic forces were still trying to overtake the multiverse, but were faced with the first line of defence, the nine hells. Asmodeus, leader of the nine hells, sent his devils to fight against the demons, holding them back temporarily, but he needed a more permanent solution. Asmodeus abused the political system of the kingdoms in the world, tempting kings and princes with power, in exchange for their ownership over the civilians to be passed over to him upon their death.

One prince saw this as fair and used his new found power to slay his father, assuming the title of king. This king began a conquest, almost covering an entire continent. His kingdom became so vast, that the nine hells saw many new devil, almost leading to them wiping out the demonic forces entirely. However, the other gods saw this as immoral, and sought out a way to end this.

Melora sought to bring the world back into the wilderness, leaving each man to himself. Erathis wanted to solidify the governing system of the men. Tuelia wished to send angels to the nine hells to thwart the devils. Helios however, had a much simpler plan. He suggested that the gods give power to their worshippers. This would, in turn, allow communities to come out this mega kingdom, overthrowing the current government, and splitting it into multiple kingdoms, each under it's own governing body.

The gods eventually agreed on this motion, some with more reluctancy than others, leading to a new age of kingdoms, with the gods slightly influencing them, but not to the same degree as they used to.

## List of Gods

### Greater Deities

- Helios

- Tuelia

- Zalas

- Melora

- Corellon

- Asmodeus

- Erathis

- Moradin

- The Lady of Ravens

- Io ✝

- Ryzbium ✝

- Zehir

- Torog

- Tharizdun

### Lesser Deities

- Bane

- Maglubiyet

- Gruumsh

- Bahamut

- Tiamat

- Kord

- Archdevils

- Demonic Princes

- Lunaris

## Statistics

Gods are the most powerful beings in the multiverse, therefore, they do not have statblocks. This however is not the case for some lesser deities, including the Archdevils, Demonic princes, Tiamat and Lunaris, who can be killed.