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Not including the gods of other cities and cultures, the gods in Lankhmar are numerous. It is said that they … must be as numberless as the grains of sand in the Great Eastern Desert.
They start out chiefly … as men, or more strictly the memories of men who led ascetic, vision-haunted lives and died painful, messy deaths.
The proto-goddesses are … generally maidens reputed to have been enslaved for decades by sadistic magicians and ravished by whole tribes of Mingols.
Generally they travel a cruel gauntlet of hardship and tortures at the hands of eastern brigands and Mingol unbelievers before arriving at the Marsh Gate of Lankhmar.
In Lean Times in Lankhmar we learn about Lankhmar’s Street of the Gods, which serves as a further testing ground for proto-gods who have made it Lankhmar. Once in Lankhmar, it’s priest or apostle arrives on the Street of the Gods through the Marsh Gate. It will then make its way up the street either renting a temple here and there or by occupying a few yards of cobbled pavement until it reaches it’s proper level. Essentially, the more popular the god, the further it makes it up the street. Very few make it to the region adjoining the Citadel where they can join the aristocracy of the gods. Even this is transient. Any god who declines in popularity will travel back down the street until it finally leaves Lankhmar through the Marsh Gate from which it came. The only gods who are permanent in Lankhmar are the Gods of Lankhmar as oppose to the Gods in Lankhmar. They occupy a squat black temple at the very end of the street which no one enters.
With a few exceptions, the gods live in Godsland near the Life-Pole opposite of the Death-Pole wherein lies the Shadowlands, residence of Death. Godsland is a crowded place, but otherwise paradisial.
In Under the Thumbs of Gods[?] we learn that …
the gods have very sharp ears for boasts, or for declarations of happiness and self-satisfaction, or for assertions of a firm intention to do this or that, or for statements that this or that must surely happen, or any other words hinting that a man is in the slightest control of his own destiny. And the gods are jealous, easily angered, perverse, and swift to thwart.
If ever a god should lose all or most his believers, he will die or be forced into exile.
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