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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9784422" data-attributes="member: 25818">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 battle, but they knew Mars wasn't looking out for Ioannus Q. Publicum, but would grant the unit success or failure based entirely on what he had planned for Rome as a whole.The one exception to not exporting their gods (who, after all, wouldn't care about Egypt or the lands of the Goths, as they were patrons of Rome) was the Emperor Cult, which required regular sacrifices to the Emperor by the people of the cities, to strengthen the magic of the Roman state. It was as much political as religious.As a result, I suspect clerics and paladins of Roman origin would not have a single god(dess) as a patron. All clerics would be generalists, picking one of the domains as representative of their focus in supporting the pantheon as a whole.</blockquote>