#artigan

Critical Role feat. Jester Lavorre's Sprinkle the Weasel and Artigan

GOD. WEASEL. WEASEL GOD.

[Criticalrole Campaign 2, Episode 136]

So Crit Role lore as it were(unless I’m mistaken) is that the gods influence Exandria from the other side of the ethereal plane and can’t actually make it to the material plane themselves, very 5e, but more on that later. If Artigan is powerful enough to make Jester a cleric he might actually be proof that new gods can be made by people worshipping a powerful enough entity to the point that the entity gains an influence over the divine. This means anyone powerful enough could start a cult and become divine in theory. My point here is, Tary might just become a god if he gets enough true believers into his brigade! Wouldn’t that be cool?

Just kidding(or am I 🤨), what this means is hard to know for sure, it’s not my lore so I don’t decide, Matt is a master class lore writer so I won’t assume I have the full picture until he says it. But, in the realm of D&D, canon characters have ascended before. It’s worth noting though that in 5e deities, who have no stat blocks like in previous editions, are described as not being able to enter the world of the players except in the body of a weaker avatar, which have stats that are incredible, but are killable if you got the right number of high level party members. If Artigan ascends and becomes a god, if he isn’t banished to the ethereal plane, he’d become the strongest deity having direct influence on the material plane. He might end up being the big bad 😲