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<blockquote data-quote="dark_mage" data-source="post: 5578350" data-attributes="member: 35039"><p>Hi ^^</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, I don't know if you've played AoM before. It features 3 (4 with the expansion) Pantheons: Greek, Egyptian and Norse (and the Titans in the Expansion). The story is essentially: Kronos wants to escape from Tartarus, and the mortla heroes (backed mainly by Zeus, alongside Isis and Thor) try to thwart his plans. What I found interesting is the "secondary Bad" was Poseidon, averting the tired trope of making Hades bad 'cuz he's in the underworld, which I remember beign pretty much on spot, as IIRC Poseidon coveted Zeus' position and power. In this case, Kronos tempts Poseidon if he helps him get free.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What understood from that, is that if Apsu got free, Tiamat would return to beign "just" his consort, and she has grown to have her own agenda. I actually see that working very well with D&D Tiamat.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, in PS it is assumed that the most of the gods are multi-spheric, that is, worshipped on several Prime worlds. So you can have several times the number ot whorshippers to work with.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll add Beory too, since she's Oerth's equivalent to Gaia. Aside from that, those are pretty much the only Greater gods, since most god the appropiate "demotion" in 2E. Also: I think Cyndor whould be back to lesser (he's not widely worshipped) and Lendor ought to be a Greater, since he's supposed to be the head of the Suel pantheon. Also might want to take Zilchus and Procan into account, as they are the two head gods in the Oeridian pantheon.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's pretty much how it was, the myths changed according to which city was the most dominant one, with Marduk coming into beign with Babylon's ascendancy. AFAICT, it was also the case in Egypt.</p><p></p><p>Something I've been meaning ot ask but kept forgetting: using your guidelines for working with pantheons, what about pantheon who are very biased to one side of the spectrum? IE, the very Lawful Egyptians, or the very Chaotic Olympians and Asgardians.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dark_mage, post: 5578350, member: 35039"] Hi ^^ Well, I don't know if you've played AoM before. It features 3 (4 with the expansion) Pantheons: Greek, Egyptian and Norse (and the Titans in the Expansion). The story is essentially: Kronos wants to escape from Tartarus, and the mortla heroes (backed mainly by Zeus, alongside Isis and Thor) try to thwart his plans. What I found interesting is the "secondary Bad" was Poseidon, averting the tired trope of making Hades bad 'cuz he's in the underworld, which I remember beign pretty much on spot, as IIRC Poseidon coveted Zeus' position and power. In this case, Kronos tempts Poseidon if he helps him get free. What understood from that, is that if Apsu got free, Tiamat would return to beign "just" his consort, and she has grown to have her own agenda. I actually see that working very well with D&D Tiamat. Well, in PS it is assumed that the most of the gods are multi-spheric, that is, worshipped on several Prime worlds. So you can have several times the number ot whorshippers to work with. I'll add Beory too, since she's Oerth's equivalent to Gaia. Aside from that, those are pretty much the only Greater gods, since most god the appropiate "demotion" in 2E. Also: I think Cyndor whould be back to lesser (he's not widely worshipped) and Lendor ought to be a Greater, since he's supposed to be the head of the Suel pantheon. Also might want to take Zilchus and Procan into account, as they are the two head gods in the Oeridian pantheon. That's pretty much how it was, the myths changed according to which city was the most dominant one, with Marduk coming into beign with Babylon's ascendancy. AFAICT, it was also the case in Egypt. Something I've been meaning ot ask but kept forgetting: using your guidelines for working with pantheons, what about pantheon who are very biased to one side of the spectrum? IE, the very Lawful Egyptians, or the very Chaotic Olympians and Asgardians. [/QUOTE]
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