Gods and Worship

Gods in Alturas are distant entities, only governing over their immediate concerns with any sort of power. Otherwise they rely entirely on their followers to affect the world and do their bidding. However very rarely they can take on mortal avatars, not much is known about what happens to a god when this happens aside from it generally being considered a very, very bad thing.

And so the worshipers are the preferred choice. Most common sorts being druids, clerics, and paladins or antipaladins. They are more common due to it being a learned practice, a sort of tapping into divine will or listening in on it from a distance. As such they all essentially ‘hear’ the same things from their gods and can communicate in some limited form to them, usually in exchange for magical power. Luckily divine magic isn’t only given by the gods but also their servants and even lesser spirits.

It’s actually far more common to see people who are given their power by smaller local spirits or divine agents rather than an actual god. Smaller spirits are far weaker than gods and often need to be communed with in mass to provide spells, usually to worshipers of a god whose interests align with theirs. So forest guardians might grant druids power, ancestral spirits might give it to a dwarf, or trickster fey to an agent of mystery.

Less common are Oracles, they are true blue divine conduits. Most people will never meet an oracle in their lives, only one in every few hundred people are given such power just by virtue of existing and those that do are more commonly tieflings. Compared to a cleric’s eavesdropping on a god’s word an oracle has it ever ringing in their head, rarely perfectly clear but as they grow in power they bring the direct will of their god to the world. And very, very rarely an oracle will be born to channel a spirit, manifesting as an almost schizophrenic sensation of the spirit boring its way into the soul of the person and forcing them into their position.

As a last note as Alturas doesn’t have a planar structure the gods instead rule over a Divine Realm. Typically a planet or solar system ruled over by the deity and infused with magic so that the environment suits their tastes.

List of Gods

 * Aelor
 * Frenn
 * Gul'Ul
 * Kurok Malor
 * Myrikirym
 * Orcish Star Gods
 * Reth
 * Spirits
 * Svelta
 * Uthrak
 * Valin
 * Yggsdral