This is the second installment of the series of articles that are to be published daily.

They focus on different parts of the NWN2 persistent world Cerea Island 2.

The subjects will rotate between the following: the world(cosmology and similar), gods, history, places, custom systems, big events of the past, characters, old adventures, new adventures and organizations.

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Gods

Deities are an integral part of the history and there are countless such beings of various power levels, scope and influence, all over the globe.

A discussion on the nature of gods is crucial as they are not a ‘race’, yet they are physical beings with distinct opinions about each other. Immortal in the truest sense, gods do not age or grow old and they cannot be directly killed, though their avatars may be slain, causing considerable loss to a God.

Gods get their Godly Powers from followers and channel it to their priests and similar to use.

The only way to ‘kill’ a god is if their power focus is destroyed - feat nearly impossible for even another god.

Godly Powers

There is no lack of power on Myaasia, in fact the amount power available is too high, it is available everywhere and in huge amounts. The lacking thing is focus. As every person wanting to do magic must be able to control and focus the power. Most are able to control only small amounts of power. Thus power is not limited by availability but instead by the control.

The way a God gets that controlled power, is that the followers praying are actually focusing their thoughts upon their God and thus directing controlled power to the God. The God then receives this focused power and redistributes this to the followers as divine magic, causing them to not have to do all the focusing themselves, though the power to create divine magic tends to be split among the part from the cleric and the part from the God.

The way the God receives and distributes this power is the focus mentioned before. So a God needs the focus and the followers to be able to help their followers receive divine magic and to survive, as a small part of the power received is used by the God to “be God”