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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9785327" data-attributes="member: 25818">I had been going with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennead" target="_blank">Ennead</a> 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 necessarily Evil in alignment; it depends on the priesthood you're talking to whether he is Evil or just acts from aggressive self-interest (i.e., more towards Neutral). Since I'm doing a lot of syncretism here, I like that Set has, in some areas, relationships with the foreign goddesses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anat" target="_blank">Anat</a> (who possibly originated as the upper Mesopotamian goddess Ḫanat) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte" target="_blank">Astarte</a> (a Near Eastern goddess who may have originated as the East Semitic goddess ʿAštar who may have originated as the Babylonian goddess Ishtar who may have originated as the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna). With one of these goddesses he conceived, uh, the crocodile-headed demon-god <a href="https://www.academia.edu/46879153/The_demon_deity_Maga_geographical_variations_and_chronological_transformations_in_ancient_Egyptian_demonology" target="_blank">Maga</a>.Uh, no comment.But that I can probably link to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek" target="_blank">Sobek</a>, the crocodile-god. And, hey, the more the merrier.It's worth noting that Set and Sobek, despite how they appear in D&D, were not considered evil -- they had protective qualities, and there were pharaohs who considered themselves the avatar of each (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seti_I" target="_blank">Seti I</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unas" target="_blank">Unis</a>, respectively). Religion is complex, and deities should probably not have human-comprehensible alignments, even if their worshipers do.</blockquote>

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