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title: Deity Equivalences
description: Lists equivalent deities. Not to be read by players
published: true
date: 2025-05-16T22:31:59.569Z
date: 2025-05-16T22:36:21.394Z
tags: game-master, deity equivalences, deities, pantheons, gods
editor: ckeditor
dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:53:50.445Z
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<p>KLADD NOTES:</p>
<p>Some GPT draftnote for text under runderlying reality. Doesn't fit entirely, but perhaps some phrasings can be of use from it:</p>
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<p>(<i>At the heart of the Nightsinger lies not revelation, but erasure — not truth, but the comforting illusion that truth itself was a lie. Existence is a wound; her doctrine is its closing. Every whispered promise, every veil of wisdom or relief, is merely a stepping stone toward unbeing. Those who follow her, whether by will or manipulation, walk not a path of faith, but of forgetting — until even the memory of their worship is lost.</i>)</p>
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<p>(**The Nightsinger is the opposite of concepts like hope. Not in as the opposite of hope being hopelessness, but an absence of either - apathhy, nothingness)</p>
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<p>The Nightsinger isn’t the “evil” or “twisted” version of concepts like light, hope, warmth, or memory — she is the <strong>void</strong> left when those things are gone. This is what makes her <strong>terrifying and seductive</strong> at the same time: she doesn’t promise pain, but the <i>end</i> of pain. Not chaos, but <i>nothing</i>.</p>
<p><strong>Not hatred, but apathy.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Not despair, but numbness.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Not death, but erasure.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Not lies, but unreality.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Not loss, but un-being.</strong></p>
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<p>While the Nightsinger is typically a deity that manipulates people into worship, some of her concepts — like revealing hidden knowledge/wisdom, secrecy, or of night — can have interpretations where an individual or culture may worship him/her as neutral or even good aligned deity representing said concept. The more nihilistic aspects of the Nightsinger are typically not part of such an interpretation of the deity. Some examples can include:</p>