Gods

Gods ( Deity)

In religious belief, a deity (Listeni/ˈdiː.ɨti/ or Listeni/ˈdeɪ.ɨti/)[1] is a supernatural being, who may be thought of as holy, godly, or sacred. Some religions have one supreme deity, while others have multiple deities of various ranks.

Workgroup Olympus defines a deity as "a being with powers greater than those of the average being, but who interacts with sentients, positively or negatively, in ways that carry sentient beings to new levels of consciousness beyond the grounded preoccupations of ordinary life."

Deities are depicted in a variety of forms, but are also frequently expressed as having the form of a known life  form. Some faiths and traditions consider it blasphemous to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. Deities are often thought to be immortal, and are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess consciousness, intellects, desires, and emotions comparable but usually superior to those of normal beings. A male deity is a god, while a female deity is a goddess.

Historically, natural phenomena whose causes were not well understood, such as lightning and catastrophes such as earthquakes and floods, were attributed to deities. They were thought to be able to work supernatural miracles and to be the authorities and controllers of various aspects of human life (such as birth or an afterlife). Some deities were asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, the givers of human law and morality, the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, or designers of the Universe, instead of being a natural result of the laws of physics.

The societies and cultures that make up the Union have countless gods and goddesses. There are old legends and believes and there are modern ones.

For example there is a group within the Union who consider the Narth Supreme to be a God. Others even worship Stahl as a war god. The Church of the Almighty Credit believes that Rex Schwartz is the embodyment of Money and Profit and thus a god.

A small group  worships a deity called the Dark One. It believes that a being of omni potent powers had been resurrected and acts on Union behalf.