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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9385673" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Not at all. What do you think Thor was? Who do you think inspired Kord?Remember that Zeus was the god of rulership, the sky in general, storms specifically, strangers/the guest-rite, honest traders (as opposed to dishonest ones, which was more Hermes' thing), wolves (at least in Arcadia, where he was known as Zeus Lykaios, "Wolf-Zeus"), and many more things.Gods are almost always having purview over a LOT of stuff in myth, which is what the 4e pantheon derives from.* It's quite rare for them to have a narrow, clean, unambiguous focus. That is, in fact, almost always the result of active religious propaganda, suppression of prior worship, or directly inventing a brand-new god with a nice, clean, and most importantly universal origin-myth. Actual, living deities are much more likely to have diverse interests.*Bane is Ares, Kord is Thor, Erathis is Athena, Melora is Poseidon with a hint of Demeter, Moradin is Hephaistos with a hint of Hestia, Ioun is Thoth, Pelor is Ra, Zehir is Sutekh/Set via the Conan interpretation, etc. Most of the deities that weren't inspired by actual mythology are D&D staples or cover fantastical things, like Corellon and Bahamut.Howso? Dionysus could turn people into dolphins, and was deity of all sorts of things: wine, madness, death, nature, (political) power, conquest, fertility, theater. Per what we can translate of Mycenaean text, Poseidon wasn't even a sea deity originally, he was a deity of the "deep," mostly meaning the dark depths of the earth originally (as Mycenaean religion was cthonic), per his "Earthshaker" epithet. If Poseidon can be the god of both earthquakes and the sea, why can't Melora be the god of the sea and the forest?There are two. Sehanine and Lolth. Also, it's just "god." 4e does not use the term "goddess." (The authors considered it to be sexist to need to gender gods this way, since gender is an elective choice for deities. It's a policy I've chosen to adopt myself.)Howso? He-Who-Was is given quite a bit of attention--and the fact that his usurper is Asmodeus of all deities makes for a very interesting plot hook, don't you think?Because the giants weren't created by the gods.They were created by the primordials.</blockquote>

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