Religion

Religion is an important feature of life for many Vylgaardians. Many cities have several temples dedicated to specific gods where people can pray or seek sanctuary. Towns and villages will often have just one temple dedicated to multiple gods. Vylgaard also has 5 Grand Temples, each dedicated to one of the five Divines. These temples are said to have a greater connection to the gods as they were built around artifacts that they left behind.

Vylgaardian Pantheon
These 13 deities make up the core of Vylgaard's pantheon. Other gods and goddesses such as those worshipped by dwarves, elves, and gnomes are also permitted but they are usually geographically concentrated or only worshipped by a small handful of devotees. The followers of these niche religions will find it difficult to locate a temple or shrine devoted to their deity outside of their own homelands, but often the established temples will welcome them regardless.

However, there are a few deities whose worship is discouraged in Vylgaard. For the most part these are evil-aligned deities whose cult-like worshippers conduct sacrifices deep in the hills and forests within which they hide. While many deities are informally forbidden, the free worship of several is banned outright. They are as follows

Gnomish Deities
Until 1143 when the Twin's War ended, the Gnomish community of Vylgaard was rather isolated and disrespected by the other races. They predominantly lived in Leefside where they had established their own community and even their own school of magic, but others lived elsewhere in the realm, too. Being so oppressed, many gnomes abandoned their own pantheon and adopted that of the rest of the continent in order to avoid persecution. Again, up until 1143, the Gnomish pantheon was also forbidden. Now that the war has ended and the gnomes of Vylgaard have been become more accepted, both socially and legally, they are free to worship their own deities, with the exception of Urdlen who was banished by Garl Glittergold and serves as an example of how not to behave. Many gnomes tend to combine Vylgaard's pantheon with the Gnomish one when dealing with religion.

Coincidentally, both pantheons contain 13 deities, and as such there is also one Gnomish deity for each month of the year.

Gnomish Pantheon
For more information on the Gnomish deities, please see Mordekainen's Tome of Foes pages 110-112.

For more information on the Vylgaardian pantheon, please see the end of the Player's Handbook.