Not all that is worshipped in Khassid was born of belief.
The Elder Four stand apart from the pantheons of mortals. They are not shaped by prayer, nor sustained by devotion, though every culture knows them and none deny their presence. Where other gods rise through the will of the faithful, these four endure as constants—recognized across every land, every language, and every age.
They are not bound to the structures that define other deities. Among them, only Aeru holds authority over the divine itself. The others neither rule nor contend for such power. They do not share a single role, only a shared nature: each exists beyond the cycle of belief that gives rise to lesser gods.
When they act, it is not as gods answering prayer, but as forces expressing the nature of reality itself—subtle or absolute, but never arbitrary.
They are not distant in the way of silent gods, nor present in the way of attentive ones. They simply are—unaltered by belief, rarely moved by supplication, and unchanged by time.
To know them is not to understand them.
But all things exist in a world where they are true.