Jon Forel @Jon_4L Feb 21@TheEdVerse can you give some background on divine heritage? Say someone was the son of a god and a mortal, and that son had a son, etc, and they were all adventurers. Would they always be born with enough power to be above level 1, or is there a…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
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…point where a level 1 is born? Most sentients in the Realms BELIEVE the offspring of a god and mortal will be special in some way, yes, but the truth is that everything varies when it comes to the divine. SOME offspring of gods and mortals are “special”…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
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…(are demigods, or have wild talents, or are “better than a mortal” in some way). But not all. (I.e. it’s up to an individual DM or storyteller, not something there can be a hard-and-fast, reliable rule about.)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
Ah, so it’s more or less a DM’s discretion kind of issue. I was under the impression that it was a hard and fast rule that direct deific heritage affected things so they couldn’t simply start as a beginning adventurer. Nope.
However, if it's widely known that someone is the "son or daughter of a god" they may well get treated as special. Which unfortunately all too often means murdered or captured for exploitation.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 24, 2019
