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* From what I can tell, \\\"Core Deities\\\" refers to the setting\\\'s central twenty and \\\"Inner Sea deities\\\" to secondary gods with less prominent roles. The names may not be the best, but the division makes sense and is one that Paizo products also make. It\\\'s basically like the difference between a work\\\'s main and supporting cast; it\\\'s founded on meta principles instead of in-universe ones, but it\\\'s there.
* \\\"Demigods\\\" is the general page, \\\"Other Demigods\\\" is one of its subcategories. The empyreal lords, archfiends and great old ones have enough material to get their own pages, \\\"Other Demigods\\\" contains the various groups that don\\\'t currently warrant dedicated pages, and the main page also contains a few odds and ends that aren\\\'t part of any broader group. Seems clear enough to me.
* I mostly agree with discarding the deity-demigod-quasideity ranking, because official material also tends to be rather inconsistent about it. However, I also think that keeping distinct areas for lesser deities that are explicitly the \\\"top rank\\\" of celestial/fiend/elemental/fey/etc. races, as opposed to \\\"just\\\" gods, is a good idea. Besides the fact that they form big, coherent groups, it\\\'s also worth noting that they interact with the game as creatures instead of untouchable plot devices -- see, for instance, \\\'\\\'Wrath of the Righteous\\\'\\\' for an example of how the difference between something like Iomedae and something like Deskari is very real and matters.
* However, again, I don\\\'t see much point in keeping deities that are \\\"just\\\" demigods separate.
* Divine heralds are where they are chiefly because they have a connection to the gods, however tenuous, and probably mostly because there\\\'s nowhere else to put them.
* \\\"Demigods\\\" is the general page, \\\"Other Demigods\\\" is one of its subcategories. The empyreal lords, archfiends and great old ones have enough material to get their own pages, \\\"Other Demigods\\\" contains the various groups that don\\\'t currently warrant dedicated pages, and the main page also contains a few odds and ends that aren\\\'t part of any broader group. Seems clear enough to me.
* I mostly agree with discarding the deity-demigod-quasideity ranking, because official material also tends to be rather inconsistent about it. However, I also think that keeping distinct areas for lesser deities that are explicitly the \\\"top rank\\\" of celestial/fiend/elemental/fey/etc. races, as opposed to \\\"just\\\" gods, is a good idea. Besides the fact that they form big, coherent groups, it\\\'s also worth noting that they interact with the game as creatures instead of untouchable plot devices -- see, for instance, \\\'\\\'Wrath of the Righteous\\\'\\\' for an example of how the difference between something like Iomedae and something like Deskari is very real and matters.
* However, again, I don\\\'t see much point in keeping deities that are \\\"just\\\" demigods separate.
* Divine heralds are where they are chiefly because they have a connection to the gods, however tenuous, and probably mostly because there\\\'s nowhere else to put them.
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* From what I can tell, \\\"Core Deities\\\" refers to the setting\\\'s central twenty and \\\"Inner Sea deities\\\" to secondary gods with less prominent roles. The names may not be the best, but the division makes sense and is one that Paizo products also make. It\\\'s basically like the difference between a work\\\'s main and supporting cast; it\\\'s founded on meta principles instead of in-universe ones, but it\\\'s there.
* \\\"Demigods\\\" is the general page, \\\"Other Demigods\\\" is one of its subcategories. The empyreal lords, archfiends and great old ones have enough material to get their own pages, and \\\"Other Demigods\\\" contains the various groups that don\\\'t currently warrant dedicated pages. Seems clear enough to me.
* I mostly agree with discarding the deity-demigod-quasideity ranking, because official material also tends to be rather inconsistent about it. However, I also think that keeping distinct areas for lesser deities that are explicitly the \\\"top rank\\\" of celestial/fiend/elemental/fey/etc. races, as opposed to \\\"just\\\" gods, is a good idea. Besides the fact that they form big, coherent groups, it\\\'s also worth noting that they interact with the game as creatures instead of untouchable plot devices -- see, for instance, \\\'\\\'Wrath of the Righteous\\\'\\\' for an example of how the difference between something like Iomedae and something like Deskari is very real and matters.
* However, again, I don\\\'t see much point in keeping deities that are \\\"just\\\" demigods separate.
* Divine heralds are where they are chiefly because they have a connection to the gods, however tenuous, and probably mostly because there\\\'s nowhere else to put them.
* \\\"Demigods\\\" is the general page, \\\"Other Demigods\\\" is one of its subcategories. The empyreal lords, archfiends and great old ones have enough material to get their own pages, and \\\"Other Demigods\\\" contains the various groups that don\\\'t currently warrant dedicated pages. Seems clear enough to me.
* I mostly agree with discarding the deity-demigod-quasideity ranking, because official material also tends to be rather inconsistent about it. However, I also think that keeping distinct areas for lesser deities that are explicitly the \\\"top rank\\\" of celestial/fiend/elemental/fey/etc. races, as opposed to \\\"just\\\" gods, is a good idea. Besides the fact that they form big, coherent groups, it\\\'s also worth noting that they interact with the game as creatures instead of untouchable plot devices -- see, for instance, \\\'\\\'Wrath of the Righteous\\\'\\\' for an example of how the difference between something like Iomedae and something like Deskari is very real and matters.
* However, again, I don\\\'t see much point in keeping deities that are \\\"just\\\" demigods separate.
* Divine heralds are where they are chiefly because they have a connection to the gods, however tenuous, and probably mostly because there\\\'s nowhere else to put them.
