Sword of Spirit
Legend
The 5e PHB has some basic info on a few fantasy-historical pantheons, and previous editions of D&D have done a lot more with them. But there hasn't been a whole lot in the way of giving them names that are appropriate for usage in the D&D multiverse (whether in Planescape/Spelljammer context, or just for your own world) where we don't generally assume the pantheon was born from the the myths of earthlings and somehow expanded into D&D land*.
It makes little sense to use terms like "Greek Pantheon" or "Egyptian Pantheon" if you choose to use that pantheon for your own D&D world, or if you choose to have that pantheon hold sway on a bunch of different worlds as 2e presented.
So what we need is just a good in-character name for each of the pantheons that have been presented for people in Sigil to call them while they're having religious debates over lunch.
For a few of them, I'm aware of names that were actually given to them in D&D sources:
Chinese: Traditionally, they've gone with "the Celestial Bureaucracy", which I rather like
Egyptian: 3e Deities & Demigods calls it the "Pharaonic Pantheon" which I'm not really a big fan of
Greek: 3e Deities & Demigods calls it the "Olympian Pantheon" which works well
Norse: 3e Deities and Demigods calls it the "Asgardian Pantheon" which works well
While there are probably others, the D&D fantasy-historical pantheons that still need names from the 2e Legends and Lore and On Hallowed Ground are the following (listed by the names they gave them):
American Indian
Aztec
Babylonian
Celtic
Finnish
Indian
Japanese
Sumerian
Thoughts? Suggestions?
I've done some research on this myself and come up with a few names that are workable, but I'd rather get other ideas before I go with some choices that may not always be the best options.
* Yes, there were occasional isolated flirtations with connecting real earth to the D&D multiverse at times, but that's never really been the norm, and I doubt most people want it to be.
It makes little sense to use terms like "Greek Pantheon" or "Egyptian Pantheon" if you choose to use that pantheon for your own D&D world, or if you choose to have that pantheon hold sway on a bunch of different worlds as 2e presented.
So what we need is just a good in-character name for each of the pantheons that have been presented for people in Sigil to call them while they're having religious debates over lunch.
For a few of them, I'm aware of names that were actually given to them in D&D sources:
Chinese: Traditionally, they've gone with "the Celestial Bureaucracy", which I rather like
Egyptian: 3e Deities & Demigods calls it the "Pharaonic Pantheon" which I'm not really a big fan of
Greek: 3e Deities & Demigods calls it the "Olympian Pantheon" which works well
Norse: 3e Deities and Demigods calls it the "Asgardian Pantheon" which works well
While there are probably others, the D&D fantasy-historical pantheons that still need names from the 2e Legends and Lore and On Hallowed Ground are the following (listed by the names they gave them):
American Indian
Aztec
Babylonian
Celtic
Finnish
Indian
Japanese
Sumerian
Thoughts? Suggestions?
I've done some research on this myself and come up with a few names that are workable, but I'd rather get other ideas before I go with some choices that may not always be the best options.
* Yes, there were occasional isolated flirtations with connecting real earth to the D&D multiverse at times, but that's never really been the norm, and I doubt most people want it to be.