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* The [[Marvel Universe]] has the [http://marvel.wikia.com/One-Above-All_(Multiverse) One Above All]. It's above every other [[Cosmic Being]] and [[Physical God|god-like]] creature in the setting. [[Meaningful Name|Of course]]. Whether he is YHVH or [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]] themselves(as they were the writer and artist of [[Fantastic Four]], the comic series said to start a proper Marvel Universe) depends on the writer. Not surprisingly, Lee and Kirby favoured YHVH, not only to be humble but because of their open belief in a monotheistic God. There is also a third, less popular interpretation that One-Above-All is every Marvel writer, as the power of the [[Creator]] (of comics) incarnated.

** The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting has Ao, who acts as the "landlord" for gods. In that he controls the deities' ''access to'' (and thus ability to function as gods at) Toril and Realmspace in general [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21445&whichpage=5&#499524] and sets the rules as conditions to this access, but normally doesn't interact with mortals or even [[Semi-Divine]] servants of gods at all. Mystra ''is'' a deity (among the other things), but her defining property is being one with the Weave, which means she provides meaningful access to magic - including spells gods grant to their servants, and their very ability to do so; some gods due to their nature try to usurp bits of her power, which can be done more than once mostly because she is bound by the rules as well. Which is part of the reason she ''have to'' invest much of her power in formerly mortal servants (the other reason is having backup "scaffolding" to hold the Weave at least somewhat together, in case she ever becomes unavailable or dysfunctional) [https://web.archive.org/web/20200328130937/http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1901&whichpage=70#65569]. The next is Chauntea, who controls the land itself (the whole, rather than aspects) with all its resources.