Greatest God of the Exiled Lands?

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Winston Zedmore would be proud of you Vahlok

Set be with you :snake:

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Nyarlathotep.

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Another exile who thinks like Kurak. So be it.

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You asked a question and got an answer.

Nyarlathotep is the central force behind many things. He is the Maelstorm, the voice within the Staff of the Triumvirate, he helped forge the bracelets, and he is the patron of sorcery within the Exiled Lands. If you dive deeper into the lore thereā€™s also the theory that the Exiled Lands dwell within the Dreamlands, of which his power is even more prevalent.

By comparison all other gods are puny and weak. Thatā€™s objective fact, not opinion.

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Nyarlathotep!

All the others are just very powerful Outer Dark entities, but Nyarlathotep (a.k.a. The Giant-Kingsā€™ Moonbeam Messenger, The Serpentmenā€™s Haunter of The Dark, The Maelstrom of The Isle of Siptah) is an Outer God.

Or maybe itā€™s Ubbo-Sathla a.k.a. Abhoth, a being that made every living thing on Earth? Itā€™s still active, since we can meet The Emissary of Abhoth in the Volcano biome.

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If I could count the times this has happened to meā€¦ even if I caught her, weā€™d just sit there disappointed.

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Derketo.

Just because I love her the most. :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Nyarlathotep is not a fair contestant, considering there is a non-zero chance that all of the avatars in the game are actually just him. Only gods with an associated religion should be compared.

Some of the gods are more well-known than others.

  • Yog: Outer God - possibly omniscient, at least has knowledge beyond the limits of time.
  • Zath: Great Old One - has power in the Dreamlands and can bridge the Dreamlands to the Waking world, possibly ending the world.
  • Set: Great Old One - created serpentmen and gives power to sorcerers.

Some have fewer available details.

  • Derketo: power over life and death.
  • Jhebbal Sag: power over animals.
  • Ymir: father of the frost giants, power over weather.

Some, even less.

  • Mitra: power unknown, seems to be a protector of humanity.
  • Crom: may not actually exist - gives humans courage and will if he does.
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If he didnā€™t exist in the first place, the worship Cimmerians give to him might cause something from the Outer Dark to assume Cromā€™s mantle.

Itā€™s like the one of the early bosses in the Age of Conan: Kothar-Wa, the Bat God. The local Picts worshipped the Bat God - an entity that didnā€™t exist.

The AoC main character was a person possessed by a demonic spirit (implied to be an Acheronian soul) before being exorcized by Kalanthes. The disembodied demon fled into the jungles of Tortage and found the Acheronian ruins, inhabited by aforementioned Picts. So it hijacked their religious beliefs, assumed a corporeal form and became the real, existing Bat God.

Your characted is later called out for it by some locals and sent to ā€œrectify the problemā€ and kill the monster.

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Oh, that takes me back. Good times. Except for the bad times. Oh, Funcom, so much enthusiasm and so little, uhm, else.

If make-belief-gods are ursurped by demons, one has to wonder: Why didnā€™t this happen to Crom? At least so far? There seem to be enough evil spirits roaming around.

Maybe there is an actual Crom preventing that. Or maybe no demon is interested in portraying an absent, invisible god that doesnā€™t take sacrifices.

Either way, the odds for Crom avatars in the Exiled Lands seems low from a lore perspective.

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Well there is Crom Cruach, but he is from expanded works and we currently have no evidence from Funcom that he is canon.

If Crom Cruach is Crom, then he supposedly is a deceiver who promises his followers eternal life in exchange for the sacrifice of human infants.

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