Deity (Instar)

Instar deities are the gods and goddesses of Instar. They are almost always either male or female, although a few unusual exceptions exist (eg a primal pre-division Divinity honoured by Expressors of Agape with Compassion, and the Dlexn, which both is singular and are plural, and whose religion is now extinct).

Properties

Instar deities have been stated (canonically or at least in-character) to have these properties:

• Exist
• Can talk to people
• Have negotiated with, and even hired, the Offwhite City monastic order

Deities are generally thought to be all-powerful. They do not have people's limitations, such as having to be in only one place at a time. They can do things beyond the capability of even a very powerful magician and without any outward sign of how they did it - for example, they leave no magic traces for characters who can detect those.

Nobody has mentioned what happens when two or more all-powerful deities try to work against each other.

Deities appear to know things without having to find them out first, and to be able to tell the future. The Offwhite City order seems to associate knowledge with divinity, so omniscience - or something approximating it - may really be a property of deities. A god or goddess's motivations, however, are very hard to guess.

Deities, especially male ones, are extremely graceful, poised and elegant. They all possess perfect manners.

More on the boards

An in-character conversation in Roofrats, [beginning here], may provide more information (to be extracted and added here in future).

Notable deities

• Jetaujat
• Wiswisel

Other

• Expressors of Agape with Compassion
• Weft's pantheon

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