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The legion of fictional deities in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game covers an extensive range of spheres of influence, allowing players to customize the spiritual beliefs and powers of their characters, and as well as giving Dungeon Masters a long list of gods from which to design evil temples and minions.
Pholtus was one of the first gods created by Gary Gygax as he and Dave Arneson developed the game of Dungeons & Dragons. Pholtus eventually evolved into Greyhawk's Oeridian god of Light, Resolution, Law, Order, Inflexibility, the Sun, and the Moons, and was also used in the Planescape campaign. His symbol is a silvery sun with a crescent moon ...
Acererak first appears in the original Tomb of Horrors adventure (1978) by Gary Gygax as the main adversary. [1] One of the areas in the Tomb is a "Chapel of Evil", described as "obviously some form of temple area - there are scenes of normal life painted on the walls, but the people have rotting flesh, skeletal hands, worms eating them, etc." [3]: 5 The adventure described him as "a human ...
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. [1] [2] Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predated it by about a year [3] —the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972 ...
Vecna's role in the 3rd edition Greyhawk setting was defined in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000). [21] Vecna is detailed in Deities and Demigods (2002). [ 22 ] On the deities of the Greyhawk setting, Matthew Attanasio, for CBR , wrote, "Vecna, a lich who hordes [sic] dark secrets, covets incredible power and holds dominion over the undead ...
Tharizdun's role in the 3rd edition Greyhawk setting was defined in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000). [15] He was a central figure in the module Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (2001). [5] [16] Tharizdun was one of the deities detailed in Dragon #294 (2002), in the article "Beings of Power: Four Gods of Greyhawk." [1]
This is a navigational list of deities exclusively from fictional works, organized primarily by media type then by title of the fiction work, series, franchise or author. . This list does not include deities worshipped by humans in real life that appear in fictional works unless they are distinct enough to be mentioned in a Wikipedia article separate from the articles for the entities they are ...
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