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There was so much that could have been done with this article that were completely skipped.  What about a Dead God profile for Amoth?  For He-Who-Was? 

These basically created entirely new members of the pantheon, only ones that don't matter since they're dead, who haven't been mentioned in the Dawn War at all, and thus are only sourced here.  While I appreciate new options, I'd rather see material on worshipping the Dead Gods already introduced, than new Dead Gods I don't particularly care about. 

Now, if Laeris and Aurum became integrated into the flavour material in a Divine Power 2, then perhaps I might start to warm up to this article.

Also, the use of the term "spells" and "spellcasting" really irks me.  ARCANE characters use spells, DIVINE characters use Prayers.  Get it right, please?


• As a side note, I'm back from my island vacation now, so I should be able to start OP'ing these article discussions again.  But thanks to those who did it in my absence

Marhandir: I considered adding some of the dead gods that were mentioned in DP, but in the end didn't include them.
He Who Was, due to his nature, was not suitable to detail, and I was not moved much by Amoth.
I thought about including Khala, but she already had some fair amount of background (as did Lakal), and she fell away when I wrote down Segawehn (another deity who fell in war), as I preferred using something new over rehashing information already known.
So, unfortunately, none of the already mentioned dead gods made it in. Had I had unlimited pages, I would have added them as well, but I already went over the word count.
Feel free to encourage Wizards to use these dead gods in DP2, though

Aug 19, 2010 -- 6:23AM, gomeztoo wrote:

Marhandir: I considered adding some of the dead gods that were mentioned in DP, but in the end didn't include them.
He Who Was, due to his nature, was not suitable to detail, and I was not moved much by Amoth.
I thought about including Khala, but she already had some fair amount of background (as did Lakal), and she fell away when I wrote down Segawehn (another deity who fell in war), as I preferred using something new over rehashing information already known.
So, unfortunately, none of the already mentioned dead gods made it in. Had I had unlimited pages, I would have added them as well, but I already went over the word count.
Feel free to encourage Wizards to use these dead gods in DP2, though

Thanks for the response, Gomeztoo aka Pierre von Rooden.  I understand the reasoning, though I would have liked to see feats related to the dead gods who -were- already mentioned.  That said, perhaps they warrant a separate article, considering they weren't mentioned in this one. 

Considering that anything that makes it into Dragon is part of the core story of the relevant setting, I should hope that these gods and goddesses here get at least sidebar passing mentions in Divine Power 2.  I will press WotC about it as well, as we approach a possibility for more divine options – especially considering the needs of Runepriests and Essentials Clerics and Paladins.

Good article. I have a lot of dead gods in my homebrewed world. So of course, I will use it for my world. Also, it's a good option that could be used in the Dark Sun setting. That is if one wanted to use divine power in that world.

Hrm.   Interesting article, though useful to me only for the crunch.