Pathfinder Chronicles (4/?)

(This is part of a series of posts reviewing the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting.)

Chapter 3 is entitled Religion, which as in any D&D Quasigeneric Fantasy setting is really only cursorily about religious practices, and more about the worshipped deities themselves. (A widely-worshipped false deity gets no mention in this chapter, for example.) A discussion of the cosmology of the world is also included, as is de rigeur.

The deities are also the usual eclectic lot, with a few notable divergences from the norm. In reading Chapter 2, I originally believed there was no deity of knowledge; as it happens, that's listed under Irori's portfolio. It's not a large part of his character, though, and I suspect gnosis would be a better description: kudos for avoiding the Boccob/Gilean/Ioun-style blandness which has no parallel in RL myths. (Admittedly I doubt that "knowledge deity" is really a coherent cross-cultural concept the same way "war deity," "thunder god," and "psychopomp" are. But I digress.)

Asmodeus also deserves special mention. (Yes, the named devils and demons dating back to 1e are present.) He's depicted as the god of contracts, which means you can imagine sane (if unwise) people praying for his active favor on occasion, which isn't really true of most evil deities.