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[Parmandur]

I’m ok with that. No Zeus but a big Zeus sized space at the dinner table in Olympus.

As a big fan of the show Kaos I can dig it.

Aa and example, Thebestus is present near the river Ma'ar...but the text merely states that it was built by a nameless "god of knowledge"...no mention of Thoth.

 

[Yaarel]

What if Forgotten Realms used Theros to represent the Greekesque gods?

 

[Parmandur]

What if Forgotten Realms used Theros to represent the Greekesque gods?

There isn't traditionally a major Hellenic Pantheon presence in Faerûn, just the Egyptian and Mesopotamian ones in the Old Empires. I doubt that any Egyptian or Mesopotamian deities will be name checked, it will be interesting to see what they do here.

 

[Yaarel]

There isn't traditionally a major Hellenic Pantheon presence in Faerûn, just the Egyptian and Mesopotamian ones in the Old Empires. I doubt that any Egyptian or Mesopotamian deities will be name checked, it will be interesting to see what they do here.

Magic The Gathering also has the Amonkhet setting for Egyptesque gods.

 

[Yaarel]

For the Mesopotamian deities, maybe draw from the "Chaldean" astrologer-priests of Babylon. They worship the seven planets: Sun (Shamash) and Moon (Sin), plus Mercury (Nabu), Venus (Ishtar), Mars (Nergal), Jupiter (Marduk), and Saturn (Ninurta). These gods are impersonal, more like abstract principles of a clock-like universe. The planets are omens revealing the cosmic processes. The Sun is daily and annual properties, and Saturn properties stretch out across three decades.

For D&D, the planets and astrology are already in place, perhaps give them names sounding as if Sumerian, Akkadian, or Aramaic. While the horoscopes are thought to be"inescapable", magic can enhance good ones and contain bad ones. The magic is a divine-arcane blend of theurgy. The horoscopes only refer to nations and geographic regions, not individuals (unless involving the leader of a nation).