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title: Deity Equivalences
description: Lists equivalent deities. Not to be read by players
published: true
date: 2025-06-22T18:16:01.275Z
date: 2025-06-22T20:58:10.457Z
tags: game-master, deity equivalences, deities, pantheons, gods
editor: ckeditor
dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:53:50.445Z
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<p>Patron deity of metallic dragons and metallic dragonborn</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Law as Moral Ideal</strong></p>
<p>The True represents law not as structure, but as <i>virtue</i> – as moral ideal – the unshakable belief in concepts like duty, justice, righteousness, and moral integrity. It is to be bound not by what is written by law, but by what is felt – and one's inner compass of what is <i>right, </i>even at great personal cost. It is the ideals for the brave, the driven, and the stubbornly principled.</p>
<p>Yet the True is also a double-edged sword – for the reality of virtue is often not a matter of good, but a matter of conviction – of what one believes to be right. A path that can be both noble and dangerous. Tyrants, inquisitors, and zealots have all drawn on his light in the name of their own distorted truths. So long as a cause is pursued with enough loyalty, courage, and moral clarity, it falls under his gaze — no matter how righteous or ruinous its consequences.</p>
<p>A world under the True is a world of endless crusades – where every soul acts with absolute moral certainty. Every wrong is met with swift correction. Every impure thought immediately confronted. Every transgressor punished in the name of virtue. An endless cycle of conflict between every interpretation of <i>right</i>.</p>
<p><i>“To worship the True is to carry a sword of light — and risk burning the world down with it.”</i></p>
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<p>The True God stands not for the law of kings or courts, but for the <strong>law written upon the soul</strong> — a moral ideal – the sacred duty to do what is right, even when it is difficult, even when it is lonely, even when no one else will. He is the ideal made manifest: truth without compromise, justice without exception, loyalty without fear. His realm is not what is <i>permitted</i> – but what is <i>right.</i></p>
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<p>– todo: what is right is not defined. inquisitions and crusaders who wipe out commuityiies (ethnic cleansing) fall underr these tenets just as much as any good interpretation does.</p>
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<p>“To worship the True is to carry a sword of light — and risk burning the world down with it.”</p>
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<p>Embodies personal honor, justice, duty, and righteousness — the <i>spirit</i> of the law rather than its letter. Worshipped by those who strive to do what is right, even when it comes at great personal cost.</p>