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The cosmologies were created over time, in-house (by staff designers at TSR and later WotC).
Gary Gygax outlined the planes in issue 8 of The Dragon, then in issue 67 detailed the Astral Plane. I detailed the Nine Hells in three issues of Dragon, and have had an...
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//This might seem like a silly question but how much of the cosmos came from your imagination too?
How much of the Outer Planes and Realmspace did you have a hand in creating and tangentially, out of the FR Gods, who is your favourite/who would you personally choose to worship?
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...ongoing hand down the years in detailing planes crafted by others. Stephen Inniss and I co-detailed Limbo, in approximately 360 never-published pages. (That's where Stephen's lillend monster comes from.)
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And if I lived in the Realms, I'd worship ALL of the deities; no sane inhabitant of Toril is a monotheist.
I do have faves: Mystra, Azuth, Eldath, Lurue, Chauntea, Sharess, Eilistraee, but almost all of them are "my children," so I don't want to choose just one.
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Almost all clergy and most paladins in the Realms are henotheists, but almost everybody else believes in, and worships, all the gods--at least of their race's pantheon, or their region's pantheon. (The Realms is not a real world analog.)
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