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On a winding lane on the city’s bleak industrial outskirts lies God Street, home to a panoply of nascent, would-be, and has-been deities of hell. Throughout the Material Plane, mortals of all stripes are continually finding new entities to worship. Some are heroes or ancestors around whom great myths have sprung up; others are the imaginary objects of faux faiths that nonetheless attract sincere worship.

Whenever a certain critical mass of devotional energy attaches itself to one of these entities, a new deity is created. If the object of worship is a previously living creature, its soul is retrieved from its prison or devil form and infused into a new divine body. If it is a fictional being, it simply coalesces into ineffable life. Either way, the new deity appears on God Street, usually in a small iron plaza bounded with faceless statues called the Borning Ring. Blazing with divine knowledge, the new deity quickly sets out to rip holes in the malleable fabric of Dis’s reality, constructing temples, shrines, fortresses, and temples to its new magnificence.

Until a deity has achieved the eminence of a Set or Sekolah by gaining worshipers on dozens of worlds, it is likely to while away its time here, scheming for future greatness. Thus, no matter how mighty a given deity might be on a single world, it likely resides somewhere on God Street.

Each deity’s realm appears on the outside as a single structure of immense size. Uncountable numbers of these improbably large and outlandish temples abut one another down God Street’s seemingly infinite length. Some resemble giant statues; others appear as dark, titanic cathedrals. A few are more exotic still, appearing as vortices of gnawing light or hideous, devouring faces.

On the inside, a God Street realm might manifest as the interior of a building, or it can seem like a tiny, bounded universe unto itself. Lesser deities are rarely able to create the illusion of infinite space, so walls, seams, and boundary markers are always visible somewhere.

From any vantage point, God Street seems to stretch to infinity to both the right and the left, and no streets cross it. Thus, no one can find God Street by seeking it out. Although its deities can will worshipers directly into their miniature realms, only divine casters can successfully blunder onto this divine laneway. Any successful seeker who is looking for a particular deity arrives at that godling’s doorstep; others appear in what seems to be the middle of the street, in front of a random deity’s temple.

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