Who Is the Most Neutral God in D&D? 

I also found that peculiar. Not sure if it's an interesting quirk that she has a repeating tragedy, or if it's just declining storytelling quality.

She really should have reincarnation as a domain.

She knows people will get mad if she just changes how magic works all at once just whenever, she instead uses the excuse of her "death" for a brand new security update on the weave, for "everyone's" benefit and safety of course :v)

@@esperthebard might be a mix of both, as funny it is to me that Mystra has that horrible luck

Gods can take the domains of another god by killing them, and magic is a very coveted one.

I might be reading too into it....but wouldn't that just be the DM?

He answers to the writers.

@@user-zz3sn8ky7zI believe your right

@@godspeedhero3671Who themselves are servants of the DM

@@bluebird3281well, yes and no. If they truly were we would either have all the books with all the lore so we don’t need to make shot up or no books and the dm has to write everything themselves.

One thing 5e does right; but people fight it for some reason.

@@bitharne Agreed!

​@@bitharne100% It also allows to have clerics that don't follow a god but instead more than one or something like a shaman being an intermediary with the spiritual world

Valeu mesmo!

good morning!

​@@alfredobelloni3258morning!

Thank you too, enjoy!

"Tell my wife, hello"

Semuania typical non-lizard behavior.

I think that's what 3e's "balance" domain was going for, but it was not a super prominent domain.

Wouldn't that be the Lady of Pain to some degree

They're from the old "Faiths & Avatars" and "Powers & Pantheons" FR supplements, IIRC.

he did it to combat a threat that was threating netheril, but that doesn't make him nessary a good person. the laws of Netheril empire, and by exstention his city were flawed, as it was an magocracy With an class system that threated non-human and non mages as second class citizens He also was arrogant, believing that the gods were nothing more than people who had mastered magic that wasn't discovered yet and when he casts his spell that he wielded that same magic. Here's a quote about his personality: _"He acted like an excited child most of the time, and his tantrums were to be avoided at all cost. He could be warm and friendly or ruthless and tyrannical; there really wasn't anything in between."_

@@Crazor2000 Netheril was one of the most powerful polities in Faerun and they were being smashed the Phaerimm, who turned fertle land into desert that persists to this day I don't know for certain if the elves, Shou Lung or gods could have stopped them, but the war lasted decades and no one had intervened to resolve this apocalyptic crisis, which leads me surmise they were unable to help rather than unwilling to. So imo this is a world-ending crisis. Therefore if one god has to take an L and reincarnate to preserve the common good then so be it. And yes magocractic tyranny is bad, but being gobbled up or melted by slugs is worse. I'm sure he was an arrogant guy, most powerful people are. But it's clear he acted for the benefit of something larger than himself.

​@@williamhenry8914 yes, but good intentions does not make a good person. actions do matter as much as intention. He spent over an decade developing a 12th level spell, so he could have made many things that could have helped win the war if he spent his efforts on other spells. why did he make the spell so he could get the power of a god? Part of it was because he wanted to stop the Phaerimm, but it was not the sole reason. His second reason was because he was wanted the powers of the gods, and believed this spell would make him an equal. a quote:_"greed for the power of the deities themselves caused the destruction of his home, his family, his friends, and his people."_ It was not soly for just his people, it was also a goal to extend his own power into the realm of the deities. i wouldn't call him a bad guy, and his goal of getting rid of the phaerimm was noble, but i would hardly call him a good person. his actions were reckless, killed a lot of people (although unintentionally), and didn't care for the consequenses for the magic until it caught up with him. heck, he nearly crashed his city before his big spell when experimenting with heavy magic.

​@@Crazor2000 Good intentions are the basis of what makes a good person, that shouldn't be controversial. Good people try to do good, and even if they fail they are not evil for trying to do good. There are further considerations but that's a baseline anyone can agree with. As for him being selfish, I'm sure you can find some people who thought he was. But why should we believe them? Powerful people always have critics, so how do we know they were not themselves simply jealous or misguided? Primary sources can be liars too, or just wrong. As for recklessness, it was indeed but there was a world-ending crisis going on. When your choices are take a reckless gamble and maybe survive or play it 'safe' and the Phaerimm destroy Faerun, then its time to be reckless. And it's great he was because the Phaerimm were defeated and Faerun survived.

​@@williamhenry8914 the part was not from some random npc quote, it was the writers themself calling him selfish. you know the autors of the book that describe netheril. there is a difference between a character in story calling him selfish, in the book, and the people who designed him. I think that is kinda a reliable narrator, since it's people who made him. You have to keep in mind that the is a difference between a primairy source in an historical text, and the authors who made up the character in the book describing his actions as a guide on what he is like and what his background is. they are calling him childish, greedy for power of the gods and a tyrant. You talk about that his intentions were good, but good intentions can lead to horrible actions to justify it for "the greater good" or doing something that seems good in the moment but has horrible consequenses. it leads to a very, "The end justifies the means" way of doing things. sure having good intentions can make it feel less bad, but it doesn't justify always the action. In this case, his reckless attempt to grab at the powers of a god, got thousands of people killed and nearly destroyed the weave. i get giving people benefit of the doubt, but when does a good intention really justify the deaths that he unintentionally created? and you talk about how he was great because the Phaerimm were defeated and faerun suvived, but that was not thanks to him. in fact he made situation actually worse. the phearimm weren't defeated by him, in fact his volly basically ended the empire of netheril forever and killed everybody in the floating cities that crashed down thanks to his choice, and giving the Phaerimm freedom to focus on the next target, which was an dwarven empire they destroyed. all those deaths are because he messed up and lost the war. in fact the once that defeated the phaerimm was the Sharn, basically creatures that hate life draining magic, and the war between them resulted in the sharn sealing the Phaerimm later with what was called the "Sharn wall". I wouldn't describe him as evil, but he has done a lot of things that destroyed peoples life, killed them and let to widespread destruction due to his own recklessness

I've gone back and forth on the best way to do titles. Ended up settling on just "D&D" for more traction and easier for people to recognize what it is, then I put Forgotten Realms on the thumbnail. But I'm still in doubt. Maybe it could be "Who Is the Most Neutral God in D&D? (Forgotten Realms)" My worry there is the title is getting a little too long.

​@@esperthebarddamned if you do and all that. For the casual audience these videos will be most attracting the Forgotten Realms and D&D are synonymous. Your announcement in the video, and perhaps the byline in the description is good enough. Nobody in 2023 is keeping up with Greyhawk for example.

Deities are always setting specific and don't have any overlap unless specifically noted. So covering D&D deities as a whole would still need to be divided up by settings.

The lady didn't let him do it, he would have died

The lady of pain is very powerful but she is not a deity

haha nothing more "good" than deciding your POV is the "correct" one and imposing it universally

@@apokatastasian2831Oh snap, touche

Mystra is not True Neutral. Depending on which Mystra we're talking about (there's at least two) she's either Lawful Neutral or Neutral Good, with the original Goddess of Magic (Mystryl) being Chaotic Neutral

I almost put some partially-neutral gods in this video, but quickly realized it was losing focus and going way too long.

Null is either Lawful Evil or Lawful Neutral.

@@esperthebard Yes his two forms are, Falazure and Chropsis. But Null as a whole seems true Neutral to me.

Spoken by an Evil character attempting to make Neurtal people commit jeansocide.

It certainly can be, in this world we don’t get to sit on the fence. We are called to choose good over evil.

The wolf’s good is the rabbit’s evil@@benrunsacross2935