I am actually interested in bane, im especially intrested in the dead three, if you want to talk/start a thread about them id love to read it, and start a conversation.
I dont really watch lore videos on YouTube because i browse the forums at work inbetween jobs, so can only read what you have to say, so unless its wrote in the forum im Unlikely able to enjoy any of the content you create
Basically you have a very serious situation: for 30+ years WOTC have been tearing up the cosmology they have created. In 1987 the Forgotten Realms campaign set was released in 1357 DR. Shortly thereafter you have the Time of Troubles, which always seemed odd because they began with a relatively stable world and almost immediately turned it into chaos but back then I had faith that there was a method to the madness and the calamity, which was very interesting, I am the first to admit, as I read the Avatar Trilogy and enjoyed it. When the dust had settled the pantheon had remained much the same but save for those who would come to be called the Dead Three. In conjunction with the original BG series we found out that Bhaal had had a back-up plan to preserve himself should he be slain and this story, first told in a video game, was later canonised. Myrkul had fled to a Netherese artifact called the Crown of Horns and enjoyed a pseudo-existence from it, manipulating foolish mortals who sought to wear it and Bane was initially quiet.
Of course Cyric initially took control of the churches of the Dead Three as the Lord of Three Crowns but as you probably know soon fell to madness and Bane’s son Iyachtu Xvim took over mantle of his father but it turned out that he was just a seed for the resurrection of Bane who rose from the smouldering corpse of his son in 1372 DR and quickly reestablished his church with full authority.
Mystra gets murdered in 1385 DR by Cyric with Shar’s assistance and the whole world is shattered by the Spellplague; other gods die in the aftermath such as Helm and Tyr, among others and WOTC basically tore down the entire deific edifice they had built perhaps because they had thought there were simply too many gods but despite of all this Bane persisted and was one of the few deities who was listed as a Greater God in the terrible 4th edition. Fast forward to the Second Sundering, which is just WOTC trying to fix the mess they created and Bane, who had survived it all and was the de facto deity of organised evil in the Realms, having retained greater godhood throughout his time up until now, well, he gets demoted to glorified quasi-deity status and is basically a mortal.
It sort of makes sense with Myrkul and Bhaal given that they only fully returned after WOTC retconned all the changes they had made but for Bane it makes very little sense and demands an explanation, one which has been less than forthcoming to put it mildly. Some people have put forward the theory that Bane wanted to be mortal because it allows him greater freedom but that seems to be a stretch; the mortal who strove for godhood over two millennia ago now wants to be what he sought to leave behind? I think it is possible that the main plot of BG3 might reveal the truth of what happened and that WOTC has greenlit Larian to take over that story so that it might become canon later. Anyway, my thoughts on the matter.
