Deity

Deities, also known as gods, are powerful, divine beings. Little is known about them for certain, but it is known that every deity has within them a divine spark that is the source of their powers. While the origins of most deities are unknown, there are a very small number of deities who are known to have come by their divine sparks in modern times, through various means: Kiaransalee was a mortal raised to godhood by Lolth by splitting her divine spark, while Boccob granted his divine spark to Ioun at the moment of his apparent death. So far, Vecna is the only known instance of a mortal becoming a deity seemingly under his own power, but as he is the god of secrets it is unlikely the knowledge of how he accomplished this feat will ever be spread.

Though the divine spark makes the bearer functionally immortal, it is possible - though extraordinarily difficult, and perhaps impossible without being a god oneself - to kill a deity. This was never evidenced more clearly than in the Deity War, in which Nerull and those allied with him killed a large number of deities in order that the Reaper of Souls might harvest their divine sparks. It is unknown what happened to the sparks Nerull had collected when he was finally destroyed, but most scholars believe that they likely dissipated back into the universe (the more optimistic ones believe that they will one day be used in the creation of new deities to replace those who fell, often citing the Raven Queen as a theoretical example). Many among the clergy of Del'Braeth, however, believe their god found a stray divine spark during his travels.

Avatars

An avatar is, essentially, a less-powerful duplicate of a god. An avatar serves as its god’s alter ego, effectively allowing the god to be in several places at once. They are not a separate being so much as an extension of their god, and as such cannot act independently of their creators.

Aspects

An aspect is a powerful servant of a god, created in that god’s image. As opposed to avatars, aspects are distinct individuals possessed of independent thoughts and actions, though they wield considerably less power than the gods themselves. Aspects can in many respects be thought of as more powerful angels, being created in much the same manner and sharing many of the same traits.

Full list of deities

Name	Title	Portfolio	Domains	Alignment	Resident Plane
Aegir	God of storms	Storms, oceans	Tempest, Travel	Chaotic Neutral	Ysgard
Bahamut	God of justice	Good dragons, justice, wisdom	Life, War	Lawful Good	Celestia
Bane	God of tyranny	Conquest, war	Order, War	Lawful Evil	Acheron
Chronepsis	God of fate	Fate, death, judgment	Grave, Knowledge	Neutral
Corellon Larethian	God of elves	Arts and crafts, elves, magic, music, poetry, war	Light, War	Chaotic Good	Celestia
Del'Braeth	God of discovery	Discovery, exploration	Knowledge, Travel, Trickery	Neutral	Varies
Ehlonna	Goddess of the woodlands	Fertility, flora and fauna, forests, woodlands	Life, Nature, Peace	Neutral Good	Ysgard
Erathis	Goddess of civilization	Cities, invention, law	Forge, Knowledge, Order	Lawful Neutral
Evening Glory	Goddess of eternal love	Love, beauty, undeath	Arcana, Death, Twilight	Neutral	Elysium
Falazure	God of undeath	Decay, undeath, exhaustion	Death	Neutral Evil	Arborea
Fharlanghn	God of horizons and travel	Distance, horizons, roads, travel	Knowledge, Nature, Travel	Neutral Good
Garl Glitterold	God of gnomes	Gnomes, humor, illusion, jewelrymaking, wit	Forge, Trickery	Neutral Good	Bytopia
Garyx	God of destruction	Fire, destruction, renewal	War	Chaotic Evil
Grolantor	God of gluttony	Gluttony, hunting, combat	War	Chaotic Evil
Gruumsh	God of orcs	Conquest, orcs, storms, strength, survival, territory	Tempest, War	Chaotic Evil
Ioun	Goddess of magic	Knowledge, magic, skill, prophecy	Arcana, Knowledge	Neutral
Kiaransalee	Goddess of undead drow	Undeath, vengeance	Arcana, Death	Chaotic Evil	Material Plane
Kord	God of storms and battle	Athletics, battle, courage, sport, storms	Tempest, War	Chaotic Good	Celestia
Kurtulmak	God of kobolds	Kobolds, mining, trapmaking, war	Trickery, War	Lawful Evil
Lolth	Goddess of drow and spiders	Darkness, drow, spiders	Trickery	Chaotic Evil	Material Plane
Memnor	God of pride	Cloud giants, pride, honor, mental prowess, control	Death, Knowledge, Trickery	Neutral Evil	Gehenna
Metria	Goddess of music and poetry	Music, poetry, performance	Arcane, Life, Trickery	Neutral Good	Solaris
Moradin	God of dwarves	Creation, dwarves, engineering, smithing	Forge, Knowledge, Order	Lawful Good	Celestia
Nalindra	Goddess of the blazing sun	Fire, magic, retribution, sun	Arcana, Light	Neutral
Obad-Hai	God of nature	Beasts, freedom, hunting, nature, woodlands	Nature, Tempest	Neutral	Ysgard
Pelor	God of the sun	Healing, light, strength, sun	Life, Light, Peace	Neutral Good	Celestia
The Raven Queen	Goddess of death	Death, fate, winter	Death, Grave	Neutral
Sehanine Moonbow	Goddess of the moon	Autumn, love, moon	Knowledge, Travel, Twilight	Neutral Good	Feywild
Semuanya	God of survival	Survival, lizardfolk, propagation	Life	Neutral	Ysgard
Skoraeus Stonebones	God of stone giants	Stone giants, art, crafting	Forge, Knowledge	Neutral
Surtr	God of fire giants	Fire giants, war	Forge, Knowledge, War	Lawful Evil	Ysgard
Thrym	God of frost giants	Frost giants, war	War	Chaotic Evil	Ysgard
Tiamat	Goddess of greed	Conquest, evil dragons, greed	Trickery, War	Lawful Evil	Tytherion
Vandria	Goddess of freedom	Defiance, freedom, restitution	Light, War	Neutral Good	Celestia
Vecna	God of secrets	Intrigue, magic, secrets, undeath	Arcana, Death, Knowledge	Neutral Evil
Yondalla	Goddess of agriculture and halflings	Fertility, halflings, hearth	Life, Peace, Twilight	Lawful Good	Celestia
Zilchus	God of business	Power, prestige, money, business, influence	Knowledge, Order, Trickery	Lawful Neutral

Deceased deities

Name	Title	Portfolio	Domains	Alignment	Resident Plane
Afflux	God of torture	Interrogation, torture, execution	Knowledge	Neutral Evil
Boccob	God of magic	Arcane knowledge, balance, foresight, magic	Arcana, Knowledge	Neutral
Elishar	God of light	Good, light, prophecy, sun	Knowledge, Light	Neutral Good	Unknown
Erythnul	God of slaughter	Envy, hate, malice, panic, slaughter, ugliness	War	Chaotic Evil
Heironeous	God of justice	Chivalry, daring, honor, justice, valor, war	Order, Protection, War	Lawful Good	Celestia
Hextor	God of discord	Conflict, discord, fitness, massacres, tyranny, war	War	Lawful Evil
Hlal	Goddess of entertainment	Humor, storytelling, inspiration	Trickery	Chaotic Good
Nerull	God of death	Darkness, death, murder	Death	Neutral Evil	Carceri
Olidammara	God of rogues	Music, revels, rogues, tricks	Trickery	Chaotic Neutral
Stronmaus	God of storm giants	Sun, sky, weather, joy	Protection, Tempest, War	Neutral Good	Ysgard
Wee Jas	Goddess of death and magic	Death, law, magic, vanity	Arcana, Death, Grave, Knowledge, Order	Lawful Neutral