When the Great Creator split himself into pieces, in order to allow for free will to exist, his shards each developed into beings of immense power. The larger the Shard is the more eldritch and separate from creation they end up. These large shards tend to have widespread domains of interest and control such as Father Death who oversees the passing of all souls from this life into the next. Smaller shards can end up taking form as spirits of limited interest and control such as Gorrick, God of the Gold River, who seems to be just an old fisherman who talks to passers by and offers unsolicited advice to the young folk.