On gods and angels

There are many gods. No one knows exactly how many, but name a concept and there is probably a god of it. The more universal the concept, the more powerful the god who embodies it. Thus, deities like Viridex (war) and the Raven Queen (death) are among the most powerful gods, commanding legions of angels and other divine servants. There is also a hierarchy of gods, in which lesser deities serve greater ones. Moradin (craftsmanship) commands the gods of metalwork, stonecrafting, woodwork, and other specific crafts. He also holds the loyalty of the gods of architecture, engineering, and other applied sciences. Viridex commands the deities of combat (insofar as combat is distinct from warfare), swordsmanship and other martial disciplines, and shares with Moradin rulership over the gods of weaponsmithing (who, in turn, rules over the gods of specific arts such as swordmaking) and armorsmithing. The Raven Queen rules a host of lesser deities, each of whom hold the portfolio of a specific aspect or manner of death: disease, starvation, overt violence (as distinguished from the covert violence of assassination, which is the portfolio of another of the Raven Queen's servant gods), etc. She also, in her capacity as the god of fate, commands the god of destiny and shares responsibility with Ioun (knowledge) for the gods of prophecy and divination.

The relationships of fealty and rulership among the gods are fearsomely complex, and though many mortal agencies have attempted to chart them, the resulting documents are widely considered apocryphal at best.

Angels are even more diverse than their masters. There are many classes or castes, each fulfilling a different function: observant angels, messenger angels, harbinger angels, warrior angels, and many others. In the larger hosts, those commanded by stronger deities, there will be considerable diversity even within a particular role. The Raven Queen's warrior angels, for example, range from human-sized skirmishers to hundred-foot-tall dreadnought angels, living siege weapons capable of laying waste to a medium-sized continent.