![]() The reason why gods deliberately concentrated their work on one single world at the exclusion of others was that this way they could shut out deities from other worlds entering and infringing on their home turf. When it expanded its physical sphere of influence, it usually did so at the expense of other pantheons.Īs mentioned above, the Faerûnian pantheon was a single-sphere pantheon. This fractious nature was believed to be the source of the pantheon's adaptability and its ability to expand. The Faerûnian pantheon was a very fractious one that fought among themselves and had no overarching goal. ![]() It was assumed that the exact nature of such arrangements varied with the personalities of the involved deities. The reason they did this, or to be more precise the reason why the highest deity did not just kill the lower-ranking ones and assumed their places, was surmised to be either a bargain where the lower-ranking deity helped the higher-ranking one at increasing its influence in return of protection, or blackmail where the higher-ranking one bullied the lower-ranking ones into giving them their divine energy and servitude. A unique trait of the Faerûnian pantheon was that deities with similar portfolios clustered in a hierarchic relationship. Apart from this, there was little hierarchy in the Faerûnian pantheon except for the one the gods created among themselves. The leadership was a loose matter and was more of administrative nature. The Circle of Greater Powers were the ones who led the pantheon. In the Faerûnian pantheon's case the believers' shared characteristic was a geographic one, people who lived in those parts of the continent Faerûn where other pantheons did not hold sway were the believers. ![]() Pantheons were a group of deities who were worshiped by people who shared one characteristic, for example sharing the same cultural or racial background. The Faerûnian pantheon was a pantheon of deities. The Faerûnian pantheon was the most worshiped pantheon on Faerûn, a continent on Toril. ![]()
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