Editing God (section)

===Forgotten Realms===
The [[Forgotten Realms]] have a truly ridiculous amount of gods, with each race (except humans) having their own pantheon, and each continent is the exclusive turf of a non-racial pantheon. The only one of real interest, however, is the Faerûnian pantheon. That's where you have [[Mystra]], [[Helm]], [[Deneir]], and all the other cool guys. The only time the gods really did anything unusual was that one time they came down to solve their petty squabbles in Faerûn. In terms of religion, the world of the Forgotten Realms may be strict, as people are required to believe and follow one of the many deities in order to be brought into their paradises.

Three particular deities, [[Ilmater]], [[Tyr]] (from Norse mythology!), and [[Torm]] are venerated as the Triad.

Those who have no gods are known as the Faithless - they were atheists or people who lost their patron deity either by being rejected, or their patron god has died. They would face a worse fate, for their souls would be doomed by the death god [[Myrkul]] to be melded into a wall around the City of the Dead. Occasionally, demons would steal souls from the wall to create more demons.

The deities of the Realms are a unique blend of "homegrown" deities and gods from historical polytheistic pantheons, which in older editions is often directly said to be a result of those gods choosing to give up on Earth and go looking for a powerbase in the Realms when monotheism began taking over.