The Major Deities

Residing in the outer planes, the major deities, like their predecessors the Keepers, rule certain aspects of the world. They are often worshiped by the peoples of Avern, and they often interact through Avatars. Unlike the Keepers, who rarely manifest on the Avernese plane, they will often appear in one form or another to their followers.

The Primary deities were the second born at the dawn of creation. These deities were born with a balancing opposite. The order of their birth is presented in the chart, born in pairs with their equal and opposite. The neutral and evil nature of the deities determines their place of residence, either the upper or lower planes. Those that are neutral in nature take up their residence in the planes of law and chaos, to either side of the physical, but neither upper nor lower.

The people who follow each of the primary deities tend to align with each other. They group in fellowship, and in worst case it leads to fanatic tendencies among them. Some groups have subgroups and occasionally there are groups that worship groups of more than one god/dess as a group. These groups are looked upon several different ways. Single god/dess worshippers sometimes call these blasphemers, feeling that worshipping more than one god/dess is tantamount to being a traitor to all the gods. Those that worship multiple gods feel that the single god/dess worshippers are missing out on a world they cannot even understand. They often refer to them as single or closed minded and much too narrow in focus. There are pantheists, those that worship the entire pantheon, and are often disliked by the multitheists and monotheists alike because they are not choosing a path at all. They also feel that those that worship the secondary or auxiliary deities are too narrow in focus, because of the specificity of the foci of the secondary deities.