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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 162767" data-attributes="member: 822">Traveler, sorry if I came across a bit snappish in my response to you, it was not my intent. The Encylopedia Mythica, which you and A2Z suggested is very informative! I'm overwhelmed by all the details.I'm trying to piece together the early mythology for my campaign world using Babylonian and other ancient Mesopotamian/Persian influences. I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who's done similar things. Do you find it hard to quantify all the gods in existence, given the sheer number of them in Meso/Persian myth? Does anybody plan on translating to give them stats using Deities & Demigods?Anyone who's read the introduction to my Story Hour (the link is shown below) will see that much of the Babylonian gods were destroyed fighting the uber-evil god Anshar (sort of my world's version of Tharizdun). Anshar, at least in the mythologies I've read, is not as nihilistic as the Big T, but I thought as a progenitor of many of the gods, could take the role of wrathful, chaotic, and ultimately destructive.I have the recent mythology pretty put into place. It have a more of a law vs. chaos theme to my world, with the forces of Good and Order being intertwined. Thus, LE Tiamat is seen as a guardian of universal order, albeit an oppressive one, rather than destructive chaos. My world now has only a few divine beings, all inspired from ancient Middle Eastern mythologies and the like. Only a handful of gods remain, with Ishtar, Tiamat (Manual of the Planes version), Ramman (an obscure Canaanite weather god), and maybe Bahumat, being the only real, historical gods left. A few homespun gods, with Babylonian sounding names, are also included. In terms of Deities & Demigods rules, most of the remaining deities are no more than demigod status. Ishtar and Tiamat, plus a few homebrew gods have lesser or intermediate status. Using old GH lore as a guide, I've made Anshar, even though he's considered imprisoned and weakened, intermediate deity status.C.I.D.</blockquote>

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