Originally Posted by 1varangian
Yeah that's just too vague to really mean anything. They wanted to fix something in 5e that wasn't broken. Why create a large pantheon that unquestionably exists and influences mortals just to downplay them when Paladins' use of Divine Magic is concerned? The Oaths should at least be fleshed out MUCH more. Who wrote them down? Who do you swear them to? Which gods oversee said tenets? They are so structured there should clearly be an Order. Or did you find a shopping list of tenets on a piece of paper somewhere and swore it to the wind?


They... and stay with me now... they are left deliberately vague as to who the different tenets belong to, so they can be applied to different deities in different realms as the player/DM wishes, instead of being beholden to the specific deities of the realms.

For example, when I told my DM what kind of character I wanted to play, based on my character selection and where we were in the world, he recommended I make them a member of the Order of Aster, which is part of the church of Lathander. If we had been playing in a different setting, he would have recommended a different order of a different deity that fit with my selection.