Gods (AOS)

In Exalted, the Gods were created by the Primordials to serve as bureaucrats and administrators for Creation. Before the Primordial War, the Gods lived on the Blessed Isle and managed everything that made creation run. After the creation of the Exalted and the subsequence defeat of the Primordials, the Gods moved to Yu-Shan, although the majority still maintain domains in creation.

The Gods are organized into a Celestial Bureaucracy, with every God in creation assigned to oversee something, and everything in creation overseen by some God. There are gods of small things, such as minor roads and blades of grass, and there are gods of transient things like caravans or a specific season. These Gods are ordered in a hierarchy, with every God having a superior up to the Celestial Incarna at the top of the heap.

Gods are fed by prayer; prayer manifests itself as quintessence and Ambrosia. The former is composed of prayers to all the Gods of Heaven, the latter at specific Gods. The need for prayers means that Gods tend to be ruthless about exploiting their domain, specialties and talents to extort prayers - as an example, the Salt Gods who oversee coastlines across the Blessed Isle are currently emanding more expensive devotion and tithing in the absence of a Scarlet Empress to discipline them. The Bureaucracy of Heaven is known to be corrupt, and most Gods are bribable with the right favors.

Gods are capable of mating and reproducing with mortals, producing God-blooded offspring. Given their personalities and appetites, God-blooded are fairly common in different parts of creation.