Where the Greyhawk deities ever detailed in some 2ed product???

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#1

kishpa

Nov 23, 2007 23:38:27
Where the Greyhawk deities ever detailed in some 2ed. product???

Whatever this might have been???
#2

extempus

Nov 23, 2007 23:50:51
In both Greyhawk Adventures and the From the Ashes boxed set... probably other places as well...
#3

Greyson

Nov 24, 2007 12:09:09
Another good source is 1992's Monster Mythology. It has lots of non-human deities for Greyhawk and other settings. Also check out the World of Greyhawk's boxed set, both the Guide and the Glossography offer some details on the human deities of Oerth.
#4

thanael

Nov 26, 2007 12:38:50
In 1E/2E there is unfortunately no single source for the Greyhawk deities like the 3E Living greyhawk pdf. The info was scattered about, with some deities being detailed here, some there.

The 1e Temple of Elemental Evil has Iuz and St Cuthberts' stats. Other sources: World of Greyhawk Boxed Set, Greyhawk Adventures HC, From the Ashes Boxed Set, The Scarlet Brotherhood (suel deities), Slavers (Murlynd). Monster Mythology has many interesting non-human deities.

The true gems though are in the magazines. Dragon and Polyhedron (and Oerth Journal) specifically. Even though some info may be superseded later in the 1E or 2E products the magazine articles are a wealth of information and often carry that unmistakenly 1E flavor.


Dragon #64, p.13
Greyhawk's World: Redefining Deities of the Flanaess, by Gary Gygax
Details on Raxivort, the god of xvarts, and some changes for the Deities and Demigods cyclopedia when used with the Greyhawk setting

Dragon #67, p.23
The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk, by Gary Gygax
Heironeous, Hextor, Iuz, and Saint Cuthbert

Dragon #68, p.63
The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk (II), by Gary Gygax
Celestion, Fharlanghn, Ehlonna, Pholtus, and Tritherion

Dragon #69, p.27
The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk (III), by Gary Gygax
Istus, Time Elementals and Obad-Hai

Dragon #70, p.20
The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk (IV), by Gary Gygax
Boccob, Zagyg and Olidammara

Dragon #71, p.19
Greyhawk's World: Quasi-deities, by Gary Gygax
Heward, Keoghtom, Murlynd and Kelanen are described, along with general notes on quasi- and hero- deities

Dragon #71, p.52
Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk (V), by Gary Gygax
Erythnul, Incabulos, Nerull, Ralishaz and Wastri

Dragon #86, p.30
Presenting the Suel Pantheon, by Lenard Lafofka
Lendor and Norebo

Dragon #87, p.23, by Lenard Lafofka
Gods of the Suel Pantheon
Kord and Phaulkon

Dragon #88, p.8
Gods of the suel Pantheon (II), by Lenard Lafofka
Syrul, Fortubo and Wee Jas

Dragon #89, p.20
Gods of the Suel Pantheon (III), by Lenard Lafofka
Pyremius, Beltar and Llerg

Dragon #90, p.24
Gods of the Suel Pantheon (IV), by Lenard Lafofka
Phyton, Xerbo and Osprem

Dragon #92, p.22
Gods of the Suel Pantheon (V), by Lenard Lafofka
Lydia, Bralm and Jascar

Dragon #263, p.44
The Oeridian Lesser Gods, by Andy Miller
Atroa, Delleb, and Kurell are detailed

Dragon #264, p.46
The Oeridian Lesser Gods (II), by Ander Miller
Raxivort (an Oeridian?) and Sotillon revealed

Dragon #265, p.56
The Oeridian Lesser Gods (III), by Andy Miller
Telchur and Rudd make up the final installment in the series


Vaguely Greyhawk related:

Dragon #155, p.26
In the Frost and the Snow, by David S. Reimer
An article about the snow elves of the Crystalmist mountains
(features a new elven god)

Dragon #176, p.10
Servants of the Seldarine, by Chris Perry
Specialty priests of the elven gods, with notes on their use in the Greyhawk campaign world

Dragon #236, p.12
The Seldarine Revisited, by Chris Perry
More on the gods of the elves, with some Greyhawk-specific notes


Polyhedron also has some real Greyhawk gems in 2E Faiths & Avatars style:

Polyhedron #128, p.28
"Powers that Be: Boccob" (Eric L. Boyd)

Polyhedron #129, p.38
"Powers that Be: St.Cuthbert" (Eric L.Boyd)

Polyhedron #130, p.44
"Powers that Be: Procan" (Eric L.Boyd)

Polyhedron #131, p.??
"Powers that Be: ???" ()

Polyhedron #132, p.??
"Powers that Be: Kurell" (Eric L.Boyd)

...???...

Polyhedron #139, p.20
"Powers that Be: Xan Yae" (Lance Hawvermale)

Polyhedron #140, p.28
"Powers that Be: Cyndor" (Lance Hawvermale)

...???


The old 1E articles and the Oeridian gods in Dragon are all awesome! Go get yourself the Dragon archive!

The Oerth Journal netbook has great Faiths & Avatars style articles on some deities. I remember only Norebo, and Wee Jas though there are certainly more Here's the link: http://www.oerthjournal.com/oerthjournals.html



The deities section from From the Ashes was made available as a free download by WotC at some time. It is still available at canonfire: here

This site has some of the Deity info from the World of Greyhawk Boxed Set: The Greyhawk Compendium also has some great info (and a very nice layout!)

This site has some material from FtA and some of the very hard to find articles on Greyhawk gods from polyhedron magazine.


PS: Here are links to the indexes where i got some of this information from:
Unfinished index to Greyhawk in Periodicals: http://dyx.home.tlink.de/GHList.html
Russ Taylor's Greyhawk in Dragon index: http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/greyhawk/dragon_index.html


And for completeness, here's the LG deities pdf:
http://www.theocracyofthepale.com/downloads/lg_deities.pdf
http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip
(Not sure which one is more uptodate...)