Commonly Worshipped Gods

Gods abound in Racedis. A God derives power from the collective faith of their adherents - gods are somewhere beneath the Grand Fable in the overall hierarchy of influence over the Realms.

## The Gray God

Some worship the Gray God - notably, the Revenant Host - but the widest understanding of the Gray God's influence on the Realms of Racedis is that they left, and do not play any part in the goings-on of the Realms. The Gray God disappeared in a lost chapter of history. Little is known about the final days of the First Tower, until history picks back up in the early days of Racedis Towers as a city.

## Commonly Worshipped Gods

### Endor

*Human - god of Bridges, Doors, & Yearning*

### Oxoaco

*Feathered Dragon - god of Mountains, Towers, & Stability*

### Magorian

*Cervitaur - god of Fire, Heart, & Hearth*

### Aphre

*Selkie - god of Painting, Gold, & Stories*

### Ariznosari

*Half-Elf - god of Dancing, Lies, & Empires*

### Penze

*Goblin - god of Ink, Dates, & Foresight*

### Anu

*Halfling - god of Forest, Frontier, & Discovery*

## Paragons

Faith is flexible. It has an insect magnetism - it swarms to whatever light is closest.

A Paragon embodies the qualities of their god so perfectly, so completely, that others may put as much faith in the Paragon as they do in the god. Indeed, if a distant and mysterious god like Anu has ignored your plea for safe passage through a frontierland forest, but a daring ranger that worships Anu guides you safely through, you might have some faith in that ranger too. Thus, the ranger becomes a Paragon of Anu.

A Paragon may get some portion of the power from the faithful. Many Paragons are paladins or clerics, but certainly not all. Ariznosari's Paragons have many bards among them; Anu's tend to be rangers.

## Ascension

1. The Gray God doesn't run things at all! they disappeared in a lost chapter of history right after the building of the First tower.

2. There aren't really any "Other Powers" outside of the deity structure. There may be old and forgotten gods lost to time but maintaining parts of their power in strange ways, but RoR are a bit of a snowglobe in that way. Self contained. (Keeping in mind that the Realms include metaphysical realms like the Realm of Law, etc)

3. All gods are remixes. Put it on a t-shirt! Every god's domain probably contains parts or overlaps with other gods - new ones, forgotten ones, all sorts. Penze's domain includes Dates & Foresight, but those would also fall into the domain of some theoretically-likely god of time, and so forth.

4. Relations between gods: Its entirely possible that Gems's newer, more active god has some domain overlap with some ancient forgotten god. Perhaps they're both fine with this arrangement! Perhaps not!

5. There would be many smaller powers and lesser gods. the Frontier expansion especially has prompted a fair few gods to ascend (remembering that ascension is a gradual and sometimes unnoticed process.)

6. State vs Religion - there is no unified governance over the Towers, simply the interconnected web of Luminaries. You might think of these as something like many tiny kingdoms? Or many tiny council-led states all packed in together! Within that system, there may well be district- or sector-wide mandates about religion, but there is no universal rule over the Towers, and therefore no universal laws about religion.