I'm trying to trace the origins of where my deities for my campaign came from. Sounds weird, right? I'm like a third generation DM for this campaign. The campaign was made decades ago by a guy who taught my DM about D&D. We made copies of most of our campaign info and kept passing it on. Now, some 30ish years later, I'm still using the same old faded beat up copies for my campaign and I'm curious where the deities come from? Here are a few of them:
Drecham, God of the Underworld and Undead
Aslyn, Goddess of Magic
Chrysalia, Goddess of Healing
Kailyra, Goddess of Luck
I googled some of these deities and could find almost nothing in relation to them, which made me think the founder of our long running campaign just created them himself. But then I found a weird page on the internet, the Adventure Quest (some online video game) pantheon mentions Aslyn, Chrysalia, and Kailyra in the same context. This can't be coincidence, so it makes me think they must have come from somewhere, but where?
I would guess these were borrowed. The 2001 AQ Flash game doesn't go into much detail: They're not from that world. They, along with many, many others, arrived in the absence of the world's creator (who was asleep). They survived a war caused by the evil aspect of the creator (who was created when the creator awoke and decided that things needed fixing - and it created good, evil, and balance - and evil is as evil does, which it caused wars) which had many surviving deities exiled. A few remaining deities (such as the ones you mentioned) were assigned to their domains by the creator.
...but that's Caelestia, not one of WotC's worlds.
If they're not from the WotC worlds, I would suggest that you do what you will with their origins in whatever world you're using.
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I'm trying to trace the origins of where my deities for my campaign came from. Sounds weird, right? I'm like a third generation DM for this campaign. The campaign was made decades ago by a guy who taught my DM about D&D. We made copies of most of our campaign info and kept passing it on. Now, some 30ish years later, I'm still using the same old faded beat up copies for my campaign and I'm curious where the deities come from? Here are a few of them:
Drecham, God of the Underworld and Undead
Aslyn, Goddess of Magic
Chrysalia, Goddess of Healing
Kailyra, Goddess of Luck
I googled some of these deities and could find almost nothing in relation to them, which made me think the founder of our long running campaign just created them himself. But then I found a weird page on the internet, the Adventure Quest (some online video game) pantheon mentions Aslyn, Chrysalia, and Kailyra in the same context. This can't be coincidence, so it makes me think they must have come from somewhere, but where?
Any help would be appreciated!
I would guess these were borrowed. The 2001 AQ Flash game doesn't go into much detail: They're not from that world. They, along with many, many others, arrived in the absence of the world's creator (who was asleep). They survived a war caused by the evil aspect of the creator (who was created when the creator awoke and decided that things needed fixing - and it created good, evil, and balance - and evil is as evil does, which it caused wars) which had many surviving deities exiled. A few remaining deities (such as the ones you mentioned) were assigned to their domains by the creator.
...but that's Caelestia, not one of WotC's worlds.
If they're not from the WotC worlds, I would suggest that you do what you will with their origins in whatever world you're using.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.