The Dungeon Master (5e Deity)
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The Dungeon Master[edit]
| “ | C... Cri... Critical Miss... | ” |
| —The Last Words of Geroland Godfrey, Archmage of Godfropolis | ||
Alignment. True Neutral
Domains. Life, Death, Destiny, Knowledge
Divine Rank. Greater Deity
Portfolio. Creation, Life, The Universe, Fate, Stories
Pantheon. None. At the same time, all.
In the shadows of academies and in the dustiest corners of libraries, academics whisper of the chance that everything in the world is a massive lie. Looking through the history books, some bright but dismissed minds question the inconsistencies in the history and some events that seem almost as if they were completely made up. Some adventurers question their survival after narrowly avoiding certain death for the 1337th time, wondering if luck is the only thing protecting them. Gods, often wonder if, in their infinite omnipotence, they may have possibly missed an entity much larger than themselves.
The Dungeon Master. The words had come to an ancient archmage when he was on the brink of death, and in a fervor he carved the words into his right arm, in order not to forget. The archmage began to look into the meaning of the words, but found only snippets and mentions in the tomes of heroes where they seem to have utter small tidbits which at first seemed like gibberish but after years of research slowly made more and more sense. Skill Checks? Ability Scores? Encounters? PCs? The final straw came when one of the great heroes of legend was said to have had fallen into a coma according to one of the ancient tomes. His words before falling was something about getting an object called "Pizza".
This led the archmage to a terrible but increasingly plausible conclusion.
The world was simply a story told by the entity known as the Dungeon Master, and no one, even the archmage himself had any free will. Even his knowledge of the Dungeon Master was probably a cruel joke by the entity; a simple plot element to keep it entertained...
Dogma. Believers of the Dungeon Master believe life to have no meaning, as everything, including the gods, are controlled by the whims and fancies of the Dungeon Master. They believe the world and its history to be completely fabricated, and people and even continents are added spontaneously to by the Dungeon Master, to create the illusion of a working world. Clergy and Temples
The Dungeon Master is not worshiped as believers believe that if the entity wanted to be worshiped, it would have forced them to worship. Instead, the believers simply submit themselves to their whims and to fate, as they know they cannot escape the machinations of the entity. Avatars
The Dungeon Master appears as everything at the same time. Only certain heroes in history are not controlled by the Dungeon Master, however skeptics believe they are instead controlled by other entities known in the texts as "Pecees."
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