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I would bet money that this is a case of "vibe coding" run amok, with insufficient oversight. And I am not a betting man.

Line will go up.

List fails without "Mopery" as a capital crime.

Oh, absolutely. When I first started noodling with this setting (I don't know, almost forty years ago maybe) a lot of the settings people were making either had real-world analogues for every deity (Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk) or actual real-world inclusions (Bob Bledsaw's Wilderlands of...

These are all good points! Even at the time, there was a definite urge to identify similar gods as the "same" god, but in magical formulae they still bothered to mention each individually. (I mean, you can't be 100% sure they're the same...) I intend to lean into the mess to do what I want...

But... the whole site is about nonsense! Elfgame nonsense! Don't take my nonsense away from me, please! Seriously, though, I can't recommend enough removing toxicity from your life.

sigh OP has been updated. Again.

I just went in and posted links to the maps. Like I said, I think you could make a really dense setting by combining the cities of the various settings; I'm not even sure if any overlap.

Uh, I don't... I don't think this recommendation can be serious...

I've added it, and mentioned that in 5E, it transforms into Kalakeri, a newish version, in case you were unaware.

I had been going with the Ennead of Heliopolis, which are somewhat easier to delineate -- the Ogdoad seem very metaphysical and, as you say, "weird." Not that I mind weird. The Ennead has a good proportion of gods and has the advantage of keeping Set in the mix. In my conception, he's not...

I'll be honest, I'd looked at it and wasn't sure just how "Indian" it was, but I'll add it!

You want a source? Don't you trust me? Is my word somehow not good enough? Why are you so hung up on facts? We all know what's true: Cyborg Commando is the best RPG ever published, and every other RPG including [your favorite RPG] is a travesty and insult to gamers everywhere! Just admit it and...

The Indian subcontinent is so dense, both with peoples and with cultures, that I've often wondered if you could combine the various "Fantasy India" settings into one massive, super-dense, setting. There have been several interpretations in D&D over the years. Journeys Through the Radiant...

So, I want to connect Zeus and Osiris/the Apis bull. Famously, Zeus, uh, "seduced" Europa, a Phoenician princess from Tyre, while she and her friends were picking flowers by the seashore. To do so, he took the form of a white bull. She noticed him among her father's herds and approached him...

Also, a word as to the Muses. You'll notice they're not in my list of Olympians. "But they were the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, right?" Well... Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BCE, states that Osiris first recruited the nine Muses, along with the satyrs, while passing...

A word on the Roman religion: the Romans didn't see the gods as patrons of individual Roman people, they were instead patrons of the Roman state. So, individual Romans would not call themselves "a follower of Mars" or whatever; they would offer sacrifices to Mars before the unit went into...

Oh, my setting has had changes. As I said, I'm trying to hit a baseline to map out where it goes from there. I have a terrible memory, so no names have been changed yet. Fortunately for me, I'm using "mysterious disappearances" which gives me some leeway. Oh, and "mysterious appearances" also...

Yeah, Hermes gets a lot of play in the religious sphere, but Hermes Trismegistus hits his greatest popularity in the medieval area. He's popular on Maya (with Wizards and Sorcerers, naturally), but I'm trying to reconstruct the original cults that traveled to my campaign. Once I have an idea of...