My homebrewed campaign is mostly based in the way distant past of the Forgotten Realms, based on cryptic mentions of the Dawn War and Days of Thunder. Basically, the players are sent to a time just before the Dawn War – presumably too, before Abeir-Toril were split – and do their shenanigans there to try and get back to their time.
So they're at a time when many of the gods of Faerûn don't yet exist or in any case don't have a presence where they are. But while the players are largely on their own in this world, they do encounter some gods – in their ascendent, still-growing-in-power state – and possibly some mortals who become gods later on. With all the time and catastrophic changes that happen between the start and end of the Dawn War it's easy to play around in this space with lore and such.
That said, I'm trying to keep it somewhat to the universe's telling of gods and when they came about. But the online sources I can find only reference that there were gods in the Dawn War and named a few of them, but I don't know otherwise who was in there. For example, there aren't many towns in the world, but the players do encounter 4 settlements that are led by a demigod or young god – each representing an early version of the "Creator Races" that become mythos later in DnD lore, minus humans. Would it make sense that primitive eladrin explorers brought their Seldarine gods with them, or were perhaps themselves mortals who ascended to Elven godhood?
For that matter, it's not clear when Moradin came about and made the dwarves. There's a plot point where primitive dwarves and gnomes are enslaved by the campaign's big bad and the Players can free them into the world of Abeir-Toril – thereby seeding the populations of dwarves and gnomes – and one of their leaders is Gond, but that might suggest that Moradin was also around at the time?
Toril was originally linked with Earth. Toril split off and was forgotten by those who remained. Hence why it is known as the Forgotten Realms. And why pre-2000 the Forgotten Realms logo had runic letters spelling out "Herein lies the lost lands". So you can go all the way back to that point if you want to. Imagine the players' surprise if they were told to help build the Sphinx by an actual sphinx.
The Forgotten Realms wiki pages contain a lot of references notations you can deep dive in. But I'm lazy. I'd just use whatever gods I thought were the coolest. You legitimately have every deity from Earth's lore to pick from. For example, Tyr is a son of the Norse god Odin and brother to Thor.
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My homebrewed campaign is mostly based in the way distant past of the Forgotten Realms, based on cryptic mentions of the Dawn War and Days of Thunder. Basically, the players are sent to a time just before the Dawn War – presumably too, before Abeir-Toril were split – and do their shenanigans there to try and get back to their time.
So they're at a time when many of the gods of Faerûn don't yet exist or in any case don't have a presence where they are. But while the players are largely on their own in this world, they do encounter some gods – in their ascendent, still-growing-in-power state – and possibly some mortals who become gods later on. With all the time and catastrophic changes that happen between the start and end of the Dawn War it's easy to play around in this space with lore and such.
That said, I'm trying to keep it somewhat to the universe's telling of gods and when they came about. But the online sources I can find only reference that there were gods in the Dawn War and named a few of them, but I don't know otherwise who was in there. For example, there aren't many towns in the world, but the players do encounter 4 settlements that are led by a demigod or young god – each representing an early version of the "Creator Races" that become mythos later in DnD lore, minus humans. Would it make sense that primitive eladrin explorers brought their Seldarine gods with them, or were perhaps themselves mortals who ascended to Elven godhood?
For that matter, it's not clear when Moradin came about and made the dwarves. There's a plot point where primitive dwarves and gnomes are enslaved by the campaign's big bad and the Players can free them into the world of Abeir-Toril – thereby seeding the populations of dwarves and gnomes – and one of their leaders is Gond, but that might suggest that Moradin was also around at the time?
Toril was originally linked with Earth. Toril split off and was forgotten by those who remained. Hence why it is known as the Forgotten Realms. And why pre-2000 the Forgotten Realms logo had runic letters spelling out "Herein lies the lost lands". So you can go all the way back to that point if you want to. Imagine the players' surprise if they were told to help build the Sphinx by an actual sphinx.
In -31,000 D.R. Abeir and Toril split the first time. Abeir was then given to the primordials while Toril was given to the gods.
Prior to the Days of Thunder there was the Shadow Epoch.
Before that was the Blue Age. That's when the Dawn War was fought.
The Forgotten Realms wiki pages contain a lot of references notations you can deep dive in. But I'm lazy. I'd just use whatever gods I thought were the coolest. You legitimately have every deity from Earth's lore to pick from. For example, Tyr is a son of the Norse god Odin and brother to Thor.