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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
** 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񹽄] 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) [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.
** Another Forgotten Realms feature (though it often bleeds into other settings) is that while the standard (read: human) pantheon lacks a "Top god" (at least publicly; Ao and his boss work in the shadows and most mortals don't know about them), the racial pantheons of [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]], [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarves]], [[Our Elves Are Better|elves]], [[Our Giants Are Bigger|giants]], [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|goblins]], and [[Our Orcs Are Different|orcs]] tend to have a designated ruler/leader among them. As ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' holds to the [[Divine Ranks]] trope, the top god in the racial pantheons tends to be the only "greater god" among them, the others being intermediate or lesser deities.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' '''used''' to have Malfeas, Divine Tyrant of the [[Our Titans Are Different|Primordials]], the beings that created the gods, but then the Exalted [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|killed some of them and crippled the rest]], letting the Unconquered Sun become the King of the Gods.
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