Lesser Deities

Fel and Dor created the Material Plane and most living things, but most of the facets of life and nature were delegated to dozens of lesser deities. These immortal, supernatural beings have a great deal of cosmic power at their disposal and have the capacity to answer prayers and have direct contact with mortals. They are able to exercise free will, but each of these deities is guided by the tenets of their domain with unparalleled devotion. The number of these celestials is believed to number in the hundreds. Felism permits prayers to and worship of these lesser gods as long as Fel is acknowledged as the principal deity, and most denominations and subsets of the religion are based around a sort of pantheon of Fel and one or a handful of the lesser deities. Dor is similarly ambivalent toward pantheistic worship of sub-deities. Most of the lesser deities have physical bodies and exist somewhere on the planet at nearly any given time.

Etymology and Naming
The formation of the Common language is steeped heavily in Felism and the nature of the lesser deities. For example, the Common word for "revenge" is derived directly from the name of the patron god of justice, so a person that would wish to pray would pray to the god Revenge. Each deity has multiple names, so exact naming is not often required; in the same example, one might pray to Revenge, Retribution, or Justice and invoke the same god.