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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9395566" data-attributes="member: 7006">Another way we could look at things in this vein (not better, just different) would be to spin things out from the &quot;Are Evil Gods Necessary&quot; threads and rather than make deities for all things good and bad... instead partition the &quot;Gods&quot; or &quot;Angels&quot; into the Lawful Good quarter of our traditional alignment chart of Archbeings, and then use the angels, fey, devils, and demons to be what people have to worship or ask forgiveness on.So you'd have your Archangels in the upper left Lawful Good quadrant, with the angels domains being positive aspects of civilized culture... the orderly organization of things that intelligent beings put into practice...Your Archfey would be in the upper right Chaotic Good quadrant, with the fey domains being positive aspects of natural life, the wild and untouched things that &quot;people&quot; can't or haven't tried to control...Your Archdevils would be in the lower left quadrant, with the fiendish domains being the negative aspects of civilized culture...And your Archdemons would be in the lower right quadrant, with the abyssal domains being the negative aspects of natural (or unnatural) things.This would be for the type of setting where one might desire to remove overlap of extra-planar beings and their innate wants/needs/desire.&nbsp; So instead of having an Archdemon of the Undead and a God of Necromancy / Undeath who are both potentially fighting for the space logistical space, one could just use the Archdemon only and keep &quot;the gods&quot; (or &quot;archangels&quot;) separate from them.When I've dabbled around with this idea... I've always seen it as a monotheistic setting, where there is only a singular &quot;god&quot; (your Ao or equivalent) that sits above everyone and everything... and it is the Archangels, Archdevils, Archfey, and Archdemons that are the actual divine conduits to all the creatures and peoples of the world.&nbsp; Granted this is much farther afield from traditional D&amp;D divinity and the thread's premise for a 'definitive pantheon' so it really doesn't apply to what we are talking about here... but it's a potential other way to look at divinity if one was so inclined.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9395566, member: 7006"] Another way we could look at things in this vein (not better, just different) would be to spin things out from the "Are Evil Gods Necessary" threads and rather than make deities for all things good and bad... instead partition the "Gods" or "Angels" into the Lawful Good quarter of our traditional alignment chart of Archbeings, and then use the angels, fey, devils, and demons to be what people have to worship or ask forgiveness on. So you'd have your Archangels in the upper left Lawful Good quadrant, with the angels domains being positive aspects of civilized culture... the orderly organization of things that intelligent beings put into practice... Your Archfey would be in the upper right Chaotic Good quadrant, with the fey domains being positive aspects of natural life, the wild and untouched things that "people" can't or haven't tried to control... Your Archdevils would be in the lower left quadrant, with the fiendish domains being the negative aspects of civilized culture... And your Archdemons would be in the lower right quadrant, with the abyssal domains being the negative aspects of natural (or unnatural) things. This would be for the type of setting where one might desire to remove overlap of extra-planar beings and their innate wants/needs/desire. So instead of having an Archdemon of the Undead and a God of Necromancy / Undeath who are both potentially fighting for the space logistical space, one could just use the Archdemon only and keep "the gods" (or "archangels") separate from them. When I've dabbled around with this idea... I've always seen it as a monotheistic setting, where there is only a singular "god" (your Ao or equivalent) that sits above everyone and everything... and it is the Archangels, Archdevils, Archfey, and Archdemons that are the actual divine conduits to all the creatures and peoples of the world. Granted this is much farther afield from traditional D&D divinity and the thread's premise for a 'definitive pantheon' so it really doesn't apply to what we are talking about here... but it's a potential other way to look at divinity if one was so inclined. [/QUOTE]

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