1) 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... #realmslore
Replying to @TheEdVerse
//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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2) ...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.) #realmslore
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3) 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. #realmslore
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What about henotheism as opposed to monotheism? Where you acknowledge the existence of multiple gods but exclusively devote yourself to one? The ancient near East ran on this theology, as did much of Ancient Greece and Rome, and certain sects of Hinduism still practice it now.
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Replying to @JohnMoreyAuthor
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.) #realmslore

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Replying to @TheEdVerse
I wish I could just sit and listen to so much lore :)
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Heh. I do have a YouTube channel where I share Realmslore weekly. And a Patreon. And a Discord: Greenwood's Grotto. (If you go without sleep, you'll have time for them all. That's what I do.)
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