RELIGION

The gods worshiped in Nehwon are countless and strange. It is said that they “must be as numberless as the grains of sand in the Great Eastern Desert.” However many there may be, they are not all-powerful beings and they do not necessarily take an active role in the people’s lives. This is not to say that they—or rather, their religions— are not a significant part of life.   The gods in Lankhmar (that is, the gods and candidates for divinity who dwell or camp, it may be said, in the Imperishable City, not the gods of Lankhmar — a very different and most secret and dire matter)…the gods in Lankhmar sometimes seem as if they must be as numberless as the grains of sand in the Great Eastern Desert. — Lean Times in Lankhmar