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<blockquote data-quote="TwoHeadsBarking" data-source="post: 4874310" data-attributes="member: 82251"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">So, here’s how I would associate the DP domains to the Twelve Gods. When performing this matching, I had three goals in mind, listed in order of importance.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">1) Every domain would be associated with at least one god.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">2) Every god would get three domains.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">3) The domains associated with a god wouldn’t all boost the same powers.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I managed to more-or-less succeed, although I did end up cheating on the first two.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Note: While I’m using the L4W gods, what I really did was match the names to their Greek equivalents, because that’s where the established mythology is. A problem is that, well, the Greek gods just aren’t very <em>nice</em>. Most of them are very strong contenders for Tyranny and Vengeance, and none of the Greek gods are particularly just. Most of them are selfish bullies. As a result, some matches are going to be much stronger than others.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Joven: Justice, Storm, Tyranny</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: So, it’s a little weird having Justice and Tyranny in the same god. The way I see it, Tyranny is sort of like Justice taken too far. And <em>someone</em> had to take Justice, might as well give it to the boss.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Juna: Life, Protection, Vengeance.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Hera was the goddess of childbirth, so Life and Protection seem to fit for her. And she was always taking revenge against Zeus for his infidelity, so Vengeance fits nicely here. Well, technically she targeted the women/resulting children, so she should have the Petty Vengeance domain, but that will have to wait for Divine Power 2.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Lauto: Earth, Death, Fate</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Why Earth? In Greek mythology, Hades was depicted as being beneath the earth. As a result, he had access to gemstones and precious metals, making him very wealthy. Yeah, it’s not a particularly strong match, and I could see it being changed. Death and Fate, however, fit like a glove. A gloomy, fatalistic glove.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Netari: Destruction, Sea, Wilderness</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Not sold on Wilderness, but it seems to be a decent enough fit.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Apoli: Arcana, Poison, Sun</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: In addition to the arts (Arcana) and the sun, Apollo was also associated with plagues.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Peresefa: Hope, Torment, Winter</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Hope and Torment to represent her imprisonment, Winter for her ties to the seasons.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Vulkar: Creation, Earth, Skill</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Creation and Skill for the forge, Earth for volcanoes.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Maros: Strength, Strife, War</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Pretty straight-forward. This one was easy.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Merkari: Change, Luck, Trickery</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Again, this is self-explanatory.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Mireva: Civilization, Knowledge, Skill, War</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Ok, yes, there are four domains, not three. But each one is so very Athena that I can’t bring myself to drop one of them. If one had to go, it would be Skill or War, because nobody else currently holds the other two.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Dayna: Freedom, Moon, Wilderness</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: Again, easy-peasy.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Vena: Freedom, Love, Madness</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reasoning: I’m not sold on Freedom, especially since she wouldn’t really be representing a version of Freedom different from Artemis, unlike how Athena and Ares represent different types of war. I was thinking Life, but Life and Love give similar benefits to their associated At-wills. Maybe Arcana? I dunno.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Hekates: Change, Darkness, Undeath</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">[FONT=&quot]<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Reasoning: Hey! How did she get here? Well, I needed someone to take the Undeath domain, and Lauto seems to be pretty much against that sort of thing. Hekates has enough of a cult following among the L4W players that she can count as a full god. Ditto with Darkness; it fits for her, but not really for others. Change for it’s more disruptive aspects, and because I wanted her to have a domain that wasn’t associated with spooky-badness.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Like the Channel Divinity feats in the wiki, these could be more guidelines then actual rules. Again, many of the gods could take Tyranny and Vengeance, and there are even some who could take additional positive domains.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwoHeadsBarking, post: 4874310, member: 82251"] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]So, here’s how I would associate the DP domains to the Twelve Gods. When performing this matching, I had three goals in mind, listed in order of importance.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]1) Every domain would be associated with at least one god.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]2) Every god would get three domains.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]3) The domains associated with a god wouldn’t all boost the same powers.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]I managed to more-or-less succeed, although I did end up cheating on the first two.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Note: While I’m using the L4W gods, what I really did was match the names to their Greek equivalents, because that’s where the established mythology is. A problem is that, well, the Greek gods just aren’t very [I]nice[/I]. Most of them are very strong contenders for Tyranny and Vengeance, and none of the Greek gods are particularly just. Most of them are selfish bullies. As a result, some matches are going to be much stronger than others.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Joven: Justice, Storm, Tyranny[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: So, it’s a little weird having Justice and Tyranny in the same god. The way I see it, Tyranny is sort of like Justice taken too far. And [I]someone[/I] had to take Justice, might as well give it to the boss.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Juna: Life, Protection, Vengeance.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Hera was the goddess of childbirth, so Life and Protection seem to fit for her. And she was always taking revenge against Zeus for his infidelity, so Vengeance fits nicely here. Well, technically she targeted the women/resulting children, so she should have the Petty Vengeance domain, but that will have to wait for Divine Power 2.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Lauto: Earth, Death, Fate[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Why Earth? In Greek mythology, Hades was depicted as being beneath the earth. As a result, he had access to gemstones and precious metals, making him very wealthy. Yeah, it’s not a particularly strong match, and I could see it being changed. Death and Fate, however, fit like a glove. A gloomy, fatalistic glove.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Netari: Destruction, Sea, Wilderness[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Not sold on Wilderness, but it seems to be a decent enough fit.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Apoli: Arcana, Poison, Sun[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: In addition to the arts (Arcana) and the sun, Apollo was also associated with plagues.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Peresefa: Hope, Torment, Winter[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Hope and Torment to represent her imprisonment, Winter for her ties to the seasons.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Vulkar: Creation, Earth, Skill[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Creation and Skill for the forge, Earth for volcanoes.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Maros: Strength, Strife, War[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Pretty straight-forward. This one was easy.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Merkari: Change, Luck, Trickery[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Again, this is self-explanatory.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Mireva: Civilization, Knowledge, Skill, War[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Ok, yes, there are four domains, not three. But each one is so very Athena that I can’t bring myself to drop one of them. If one had to go, it would be Skill or War, because nobody else currently holds the other two.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Dayna: Freedom, Moon, Wilderness[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: Again, easy-peasy.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Vena: Freedom, Love, Madness[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Reasoning: I’m not sold on Freedom, especially since she wouldn’t really be representing a version of Freedom different from Artemis, unlike how Athena and Ares represent different types of war. I was thinking Life, but Life and Love give similar benefits to their associated At-wills. Maybe Arcana? I dunno.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]Hekates: Change, Darkness, Undeath[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][FONT="][FONT=Verdana]Reasoning: Hey! How did she get here? Well, I needed someone to take the Undeath domain, and Lauto seems to be pretty much against that sort of thing. Hekates has enough of a cult following among the L4W players that she can count as a full god. Ditto with Darkness; it fits for her, but not really for others. Change for it’s more disruptive aspects, and because I wanted her to have a domain that wasn’t associated with spooky-badness. Like the Channel Divinity feats in the wiki, these could be more guidelines then actual rules. Again, many of the gods could take Tyranny and Vengeance, and there are even some who could take additional positive domains.[/FONT] [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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