Urban Planescape: Urban Gods

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DeferoGreater Deity Lawful Neutral "You've got mail!" Portfolio: Communication, Information, Knowledge, Collective Thinking. Domains: Community, Knowledge. Every phone call, instant message, email, website, fax and page(as in beepers) is a small tribute to Defero. This self-appointed patron of the net sees to it that calls go through, packets get routed, and servers stay up. Clerics of Defero are often employed by businesses. Every major ISP and phone company has at least one employed full-time to bless and sometimes even directly service equipment. Clerics of Defero are also often trained in professions such as server maintenance and are often employed additionally as members of IT departments.

Although Defero's clerics may be either good or evil (as communication can be used equally to help or to hurt) knowledge often frees people, so good clerics are more common. His holy symbol is often incorperated into the logos of various communication corperations. Since the advent of the net and ubitiquous computing, Defero has very quickly become an immensely powerful god.
Symbol: Globe with wires connecting various points.
Home Plane: Astral - Defero is one of the rare few who makes his domain on the astral plane. The Astral, being both a plane of thoughts and ideas as well as a link between various planes is a natural location for Defero.

NimiumIntermediate Deity Chaotic Evil "Get rich today! Hot sexy elves! Enlarge your... well... you get the idea." Portfolio: Excess Information, Scams, Lies. Domains: Chaos, Trickery. Spam, scams, pop ups, chain letters, and rumors all serve Nimium's dark glory. The goddess of information overload, patron of all the garbage on the net. Clerics of Nimium are uncommon and public ones are even rarer, as worship of Nimium is outright banned in many jurisdictions. Nonetheless, most career spammers and scam artists often keep tiny shrines to Nimium in their houses. Symbol: Armada of letters (as in envelopes) converging on a single point. Home Plane: Carceri - The final destination of liars and cheats, Carceri is the perfect landscape for Nimium.

LoginquitasIntermediate Deity Chaotic Neutral "404 Not Found" Portfolio: Isolation, Disconnection, Freedom. Domains: Liberation, Chaos. There are some people that think the net is becoming all-pervasive, for better or for worse, those people may be right. Loginquitas and his followers aren't too happy about that. Clerics of Loginquitas are often people who have been victimized by followers of Nimium and vowed to tear down the system that allowed it. Others are ageless outsiders, reminiscent of a time once passed when life was just plain simpler. The multiverse is getting too complex, say some of Loginquitas' followers. "The System" is watching our every move and destroying our liberties, say others. Good followers are often members who simply wish for a return to simpler times where people got out of the house and lived. Evil followers are often violent terrorists who fight for anarchy. Symbol: Knife (or scissors) cutting a wire. Home Plane: Outlands (Hinterlands) - Far far in the hinterlands lies Loginquistas' domain, free from the ever-expanding influence of modernization.

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Defero, lol

'Swiftbow' wrote:
"Home Plane: Astral - Defero is one of the rare few who makes his domain on the astral plane. The Astral, being both a plane of thoughts and ideas as well as a link between various planes is a natural location for Defero."

Would that domain be www.defero.com?

The great irony here is that if you actually go to www.defero.com, it's a Nimium (spam) site.

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Defero, lol

Well probably it will have a different ending. Perhaps www.defero.god. Or, www.defero.co.as (as being short for "Astral.")

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Defero, lol

I can just imagine deities having domains and websites of their own. I mean why not? The Vatican has a web page.

I would imagine that Nimium would actually recruit followers with spam and popups among other things.

I also like the idea of TLDs existing for planes.
.ea, .pos, .geh, .out, .ast, .sig, and so on.

We should really come up with a list of TLDs that correspond to planes.

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Defero, lol

"Home Plane: Astral - Defero is one of the rare few who makes his domain on the astral plane. The Astral, being both a plane of thoughts and ideas as well as a link between various planes is a natural location for Defero."

Would that domain be www.defero.com?

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