God

A deity is a divine being of great power.

“Operas, like the gods they so often portray, are a mystery to me. They are a mystery wrapped in an enigma swallowed by contradiction and covered by a silken shroud of dark chocolate and best served with hot milk before a nap.” — Giogioni Wyvernspur

Aspects

Some deities possessed alternate forms, referred to as aspects. Each aspect of a deity was wholly separate from the others, separated sometimes across different pantheons and event different planets across wildspace. The concept of divine aspects was sometime lost on or greatly misunderstood by a deity's numerous followers.

Classification

There are many ways of classifying deities, so you can view deities by different criteria such as alignment, domain or power level.

Alignment

Lawful good • Lawful neutral • Lawful evil • Neutral good • True neutral • Neutral evil • Chaotic good • Chaotic neutral • Chaotic evil

Domain

Air • Animal • Chaos • Death • Destruction • Earth • Evil • Fire • Good • Healing • Knowledge • Law • Luck • Magic • Plant • Protection • Strength • Sun • Time • Travel • Trickery • War • Water

Power

Divine rank • Greater • Intermediate • Lesser • Demipower
The two factors to determine the strength of a deity were numbers and the devotion of its followers. So it was possible for deities with a small follower base to have a higher standing, when the said followers consisted of fanatics.

Living Status

Deities could be categorized by their living status: alive or dead. This category held because a dead deity wasn't necessarily unable to influence the world.

Dead Deities

“I shall never know my maker for they are so long dead there are none that know where they have gone. What is a god when there is no one to think of them?'” — Metastakixx

Deities, while immortal, were capable of dying. Conflict with other deities, conflict with great mortal heroes, and neglect were the most common causes of a divine demise, though it was also possible for a god to lapse into apathy, drift into sleep on the astral plane, and eventually perish. Ulutiu was a prime example of this last possibility.
Though a deity could die, at least a part of them would always remain. There were instances of worshipers of these deities tapping into these remnants to wield divine magic. Dead deities also had the potential to be resurrected if they maintained some kind of physical or metaphysical presence and a significant base of worshipers. For example, Garagos was thought to have revived himself in this way.

Type

Religious, Special