Template talk:Deity list

This is a great template. We need more like this. Excellent job, Zerak! Fw190a8 20:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Once more, thank you. And yes, I want to do one for each racial pantheon as well, and then slap them all in a Deity article. We could make similar templates for the regions of Faerûn, and other things.. Zerak-Tul 03:28, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

"Current" Year
While I understand that there is no "current" year on the wiki explain to me this. If we're going to include all major deities who have ever existed in the deity template why not include deities like Myrkul or Bhaal? While they were alive they were certainly important and powerful. It seems to me that while it is true that there is no "current" year the deity list, if meant to include all, shouldn't be split between just two eras.

Here's a proposed alternative. We create a template with the deity list of 1479 DR, a deity list of 1372 DR, a deity list of pre-ToT. This may make more sense than simply lumping them together into one template. I understand the desire for the "old" not to be swept away. I just see it as a bit hypocritical to give preference to deities just because they happened to be in 3rd edition.

Also, and more importantly so far as I see it - some deities on the list were never actually deities. Kossuth, Ubtao, and a few others are actually, as it turns out, primordials, and they always were. As such the template should reflect this given there is no "current" year. Niirfa-sa 18:29, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Valid points. I like the idea of different templates for the different eras.  And you're right, instead of "Pre-Spellplague" I should have put "Era of Upheaval", which would have been a bit more accurate.  I would recommend that we don't mention dates though (that we don't mention "1372 DR") and instead that we just mention ages, or eras, or some type of time range.  21:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * A good point about not mentioning dates as the "Era of Upheaval" has more than a few changes within its timeframe (Bane dies, is resurrected, etc as an example) so it might be better to just do a "flat" template for each designated era that ignores any changes within. Also, as an added suggestion, perhaps we should put the era templates that are most current on the pages of the deity in question. Otherwise it might get awfully crowded awfully fast (imagine, for instance, Corellon, who would probably have no fewer than three different era templates). However, if nobody thinks it'll be too much of an eyesore we could put all relevant templates up. Niirfa-sa 23:16, 25 September 2008 (UTC)