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The Overseers are the Deities of the world in which the Myths of Atalan storyline takes place. So far as mortals can understand such things, they are all knowing and all powerful within their respective spheres, and each has taken unto him or herself a specific section of the year or of the cycle of life to rule over.

Only a few decades past, before The Sundering, the cycle of life and the seasons were intimately connected in what is known as the Concordant Cycle. The Overseer of Spring was closely allied with the Overseer of Birth and Life, as was the Overseers of Summer and Growth. Autumn is a time of of Decay, and thus these two deities held power at the same time. Finally, the year ends in Winter, which is even still closely associated with the power of Death.

However much of these cycles have now been changed and altered.

Some yet believe that the cycles remain whole, though expanded within themselves. Others, believe that some of the newer Overseers are in part separate from the great cycles in some way, shape or form. And yet a few suggest that there is a new, third cycle to be considered.

What is known however, is that the Overseers demand worship of mortals, and they are not picky of the form they receive it in, although it must always reflect their place in the Concordant Cycle and their portfolios. Also, where once all Overseers allowed, and even encouraged, worshipers of all alignments, walks of life, and races, it appears that some will now no longer take worshipers of vastly different alignments since the changes of the Sundering.

All divine casters of an Overseer must respect their place in the Concordant Cycle, and clerics usually devote themselves to two or three of the Overseer's portfolios, as reflected by their choice of domains. Druids worship only the Seasonal Overseers plus two of the new Overseers, and revere the elements of their chosen Overseers and that Overseer's place in nature, while Spirit Shamans follow the Overseers of Birth or Death, with the more recent addition of Lethe.