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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 3959952" data-attributes="member: 54846">I don't disagree.Gods of the Hunt like Artemis had "the moon, young maidens, childbirth, young animals, and archery" in her portfolio. It's interesting to note that many of the historical War gods had other stuff tossed into their portfolio. Athena had Wisdom and Craft thrown into her portfolio (at least, according to Wiki). The North African goddess <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanit" target="_blank">Tanit</a> "was also a heavenly goddess of war, a virginal mother goddess and nurse, a consort of Baal and, less specifically, a symbol of fertility." To wit, Gods are more dynamic and have more in their portfolio than "Just that one thing I precede over." Hell, Hades, god of the Underworld, was also god of the riches found in the earth!To some extent, just "God of Crops and Makin' Babies and the hearth" doesn't sound exciting. But then you need to jazz it up a little. God of the Crops might have a sect who think you need to sacrifice someone so the crops grow. Crops being stolen or the harvest being prevented by monsters picking on the farmers is Very Important to the Goddess of the Crops. The Goddess of the Hearth might be about the protection of the community's well being, against monsters that sneak into them. Sure, a God of "The places between the points of light" Who's not overtly evil, the guy you whisper a prayer to in hopes you won't get eaten when you go past the city gates, is imparitive. And even the Horned God might not be all that nice a man. He might have some lycanthropes worshiping him, eager to tear into fleshy people. But does that make him the Evil God, or the Wild God?</blockquote>

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