At GenCon they announced that one of the core deities was going to die. What deity do you think it will be and why? Please try to avoid spoilers in your explanation.

  • Thebazilly@pathfinder.social
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    1 year ago

    I am putting my money on Mystra. Even though she only exists in Forgotten Realms, she has to die on every edition change, right?

  • LiquorFan@pathfinder.social
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    Most of the core deities are in Starfinder, so I think we can discard them. Maybe they get revived or Starfinder is an alternate timeline but I’m not going to assume that.

    That leaves 9 deities: Erastil, Gorum, Gozreh, Irori, Nethys, Norgorber, Rovagug, Shelyn, Torag.

    I think some of those have explanations of why they aren’t in Starfinder. Torag I remember reading is guarding Golarion, wherever the planet is. Rovagug is either The Devourer or still inside Golarion. Gozreh is specifically a Golarion deity, so he/she is almost certainly still there. Erastil really doesn’t fit Starfinder setting, so I think he is still around, but probably the people that worship him are not traveling in starships. Gorum and Nethys seem to be like weird choises to kill off, I don’t think they are part of any current storyline and I can’t really see the god of magic that knows everything dying, same with the god of war though he might enjoy that. Similarly with Irori and Norgorber, I don’t think they dying would be dramatic enough.

    So my bet is on Shelyn, it will probably involve Zon-Kuthon. And we already have the perfect replacement for the deity of art I think, Nocticula.

  • AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol
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    Won’t you not be able to make a cleric of a dead god? That means probably won’t be someone like gorum, who is very useful for a lot of builds.

    I also kind of doubt it’d desna, shelyn, or sarenrae, people really like that trio.

    I’m not sure beyond that. Did we know anything about the setting or story?

    • Dabundis@lemmy.world
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      There’s the potential for it to be Shelyn based on starfinder having a deity called Zon Shelyn, presumably some unspecified amalgam of Shelyn and her corrupted brother Zon Kuthon.

      I could imagine Shelyn’s death being the first in a series of events leading to that