Editing The Basics (section)

=== List of High Gods ===
Purpose
Creative
Death
Emotion - Emotion turned against the High Gods during the Vitality War. As a punishment, they are now forced to hold up the Cosmic Stack. 
Illusion
Logic
Purpose
Shadow
Sin - Dead
The Lord of Mists - Responsible for justice, balance of the universe, and the domains of dread. Grand violations of universal law or grand evil can summon the Lord of Mists. 
The Primordial - Responsible for the making of things. One of the more mysterious High Gods. 
The Unknown Twelfth
Time

However, there are also interactive gods. These are the material gods. All the gods, to the knowledge of scholars, were once mortal aether souls. Each of the material gods control a certain space within the Rings. A god like Brekendahl controls the area which is the country of Breoa. Each of these material gods does not have a specific domain. They are human, flawed, and biased. The way they treat their followers is as diverse as the people they rule over. 

Additionally, material gods are not omnipotent. While they walk the earth and are extremely powerful, a sufficiently powerful creature can destroy a material god. Usually if beaten, a material god will flee back to their own personal plane of existence but there are tales of gods being so beaten that they are killed. 

If a material god beats another material god in combat or takes their followers, the winning material god claims their land. This is how the Nation of Zell spreads. However, it seems like the High Gods try to limit this. Too much divine fighting in the past has drawn the ire of the Lord of Mists.

“A fool is he who does not fear he who governs the mists. The Lord is beyond the kin of even us child. I dare not wet my ax against another celestial unless absolutely necessary.”
-Brekendahl, discussing the Lord of Mists with his Cleric Gilligan Squall