Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
@Garthanos: great observations. In my worlds, Odin and Lugh are definately separate beings, but they also definitely get along. I've toyed with the idea of Lugh being the same being as one of Odin's brothers, though, along with either Thoth, or maybe finding a SE Asian or Indiginous American deity for he third brother.
Odin certainly has distinctions that make him an interesting character in his own right. His great rune spear is Lightning much like Lugh, his enemies are Giants just like Lughs, He is the inventor of runes (poetic spells which connect him to that Lugh is a Bard thing) he is known to disguise in human form but not so much personal transformations, his ravens are thought and memory which could be implemented as a Telepathy or just an animal messenger ritual ... but I am thinking Memory might grant something along the long distance warlording buff like when the thrush told Bard about smaugs vulnerability (I know I just did a myth jump). His sword is the ultimate tacticians weapon and it is said that he who wields it will never loose a fight that he 'could' win. His are the hounds of war. His steed is 8 legged death (4 men carrying a coffin).
There is some reasons to treat both Odin and Lugh as Warlords or Bards but Odin really makes the Warlord angle hit home on many fronts.
Odins seeing the future he cast his eye in to the well of time and it is resentful and only sends him visions of dark happenings.
The Aesir and Tuatha have members of other races including half giants in their midst who have joined them at high hero/god champion level they are capability based "pantheons" not racially exclusive. The Aesir also have very powerful Vanir among them who are full on FAE.
Odin gets mixed up with Christ in some later stories unfortunately which obscures things...
Anyway
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