Polygot

"Polygot" was a term used for someone who worshiped an entire pantheon instead of having a patron deity. A polygot cleric could receive divine power from any of the deities in the entire pantheon.

Polygot religions were common in wildspace cultures and rare in groundling ones. Since not all deities of any given pantheon had a reach that extended beyond their crystal spheres, a spelljamming cleric was more likely to find at least one of that pantheon's deities in a foreign sphere than to find one specific deity. As long as one of the deities in the pantheon had power in a new sphere, the cleric would still be able to receive and cast spells.

For example, the god Tyr was a member of both the Faerûnian and Norse pantheons, and as such, he was able to grant spells to any visitor to Realmspace who was a polygot cleric of the Norse pantheon.

Polygot faiths were not limited to spelljammers, however. For example, the various giant subraces tended to be polygots in practice, worshiping the Ordning as a whole. Even among common human folk of Faerûn, it was easy to find examples of people who worshiped a wide variety of gods rather than focusing on one.

On the other hand, most ground-based clerics did not show much respect for the polygot faiths, because of the intra-pantheon politics involved. A polygot priest of the Faerûnian pantheon would not go over well in Faerûn. Did the priest support or reject the dogma of Bane? Was the priest a follower of law or of chaos?