Avatar

An avatar was a physical manifestation of a deity on Toril.

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An avatar was significantly less powerful than the deity it represented, but on par or beyond the most powerful of mortals. The loss of their avatar did no permanent damage to a deity, as could be recorded for Mystra and Tiamat. It could, however, mean a set-back for divine plans and was always seen as an affront.

Depending on a deity's rank, it could possibly have a number of avatars at once. Divine power also determined how long it would take a god to reform an avatar destroyed on the Prime.